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tonight the justice department is releasing more videos never seen before of the violence of the january 6th insurrection. at the capitol, slo showing pol officers being beaten. the fbi director saying 500 people have now been arrested. republican senator mitt romney and democrat joe mansion saying tonight the bipartisan group of ten senators has reached an infrastructure deal with the white house. but do they have enough votes to get a bill passed? and britney spears pleading with the judge to end the court-ordered conservatorship she lived with since 2008 saying the situation is quote abusive. i want to bring in cnn senior legal analyst ellie. good everyone to you. we have a lot to discuss. these videos are horrific. they re going to keep coming possibly for years. how important is this evidence not just in court but exposing the truth about january 6th? don, legally these videos are going to be the heart of the prosecutions of these capitol insurrectionists. as a prosec
fair that says a state department team started asking questions about why some u.s. entities were collaborating with the wuhan lab. the doors began to close. one official reportedly warned that he feared it would open up a can of worms. rich edson with the new details that he reported and uncovered today. rich? good afternoon. some former state department officials say others in the bureaucracy were stone-walling an investigation to whether the virus leaked from a lab. vanity fair is reporting a memo from thomas denano, a former acting assistant secretary. he s accusing others in this memo, others at state warning his bureau not to pursue an investigation into the origins of covid-19 because it would open a can of worms. other former officials have pointed fingers at former acting undersecretary for arms control, chris ford. he seemed disinterested. he said even if we came to it, how do we know where it came out of, what lab. i would rarely say that i encountered disgrace
john: about we begin this hour with the bilateral dr. found cheese emails walk back their dismissals of the lab leak theory. now some republicans are wrapping up calls for dr. fauci s resignation. welcome to the first hour of america reports. i m john roberts in washington. sandra: i m sandra smith in new york and i cicadas for breakfast. dr. fudge s emails meanwhile appear to show top officials contradicting what they ve been saying publicly throughout the pandemic about the source of the virus. kentucky senator rand paul is calling for dr. fauci to now step down. dr. fauci still denies it to this day but in his private emails he puts in the subject line, urgent. we must discuss this gain of function research. so he knows it s gain of function and he needs to be pinned down on this. he admits in private what he won t say in public and that s a big deal because of he would at least say you made a mistake but he still denying that he funded the wuhan lab and gain of fu
down. state department correspondent rich edson tonight much of the opposition to the lab leak theory is fading. there are still questions to be answered. good evening, bret. tell fox news there was intense debate last year over exploring whether this pandemic began in wuhan research lab. that argument is still ongoing. especially over assessments from last year, including from dr. anthony fauci that the data indicated that the virus came from nature. that statement was completely wrong. it was obvious to be antagonistic to president trump and to the administration. chinese government research lab studying bat coronavirus in the same city as the first reported outbreak of covid-19. and now charges that u.s. government officials tried blocking efforts to examine whether the virus leaked from the wuhan institute of virology. sometimes the simplest explanation is that. we do have lab leaks. they have happened multiple times. i really think data like people getting ill in