always great to be with you, my friend. lying is so hard and hardly makes people blush. let s go back a little bit of the hunter s laptop and the new jim crow lie or so on and so forth. the lie that the coronavirus could not possibly come from a lab leak in wuhan, china, that was said by many in the media or some in the government. that lie may top of it all. the energy department joined the fbi in saying, yep, the virus spread via mishap at a chinese lab. the white house is hopeful that the obvious made out the truth. there is still no consensus within the administration. the president believes it is important that we continue that work and that we find out as best we can how it started so we can better prevent futures pandemic. the community and the rest of the government is still looking at this. there is not a definitive conclusion. meanwhile, the chinese are pushing back that won t surprise you. if you follow the story at all, here is what they are saying tonight
professional repudiation. even charges of racism from the supposed experts so now what? white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. the department of energy overseas national labs and now reportedly concludes a lab leak in china most likely caused the pandemic albeit that conclusion with low confidence. but, this theory became a political lightning rod after former president donald trump embraced it and top scientists shot it down. now, team biden is holding back of talk about lessons learned and also, responding to china s denials. china has repeatedly blocked the world health organization s covid origins probe and now is swiftly rebuking the reported findings from the u.s. department of energy. china s foreign minister saying in part a laboratory origin of the pandemic was considered to be extremely unlikely is a science-based authoritative conclusion reached certain parties should s
dangerous toxins have been removed and a lot of people saying we don t want them. the president says he has no plans to go to east palestine. but should these developments force him to change his mind? we re going to ask ohio s lieutenant governor, john houston. he s here. i m neil cavuto. the lieutenant governor will be coming to join us right now and we to have these various officials from the epa, fema and others that will address where this cleanup process stands. we should say it was temporarily stored for more than a temporary amount of time. mike tobin is there with the latest. mike? neil, the work is getting underway at the cleanup site here once again. it was halted over the weekend because they had a communication breakdown and ended up with no place to ship the contaminated soil and water. they found a couple of locations here in ohio, a couple of hazmat locations to move the contaminated soil and water so they can do that safely. one thing that people here in ea
firsthand look at the murder scene. alec s defense attorneys called their final witnesses to the stand to try to poke holes in the medical examiner autopsy report. john: is the defense closing strategy working to sway members of the jury, nancy grace has been covering the murder saga from the beginning, join us live from outside the courtroom with her take-aways coming right up. i m really sorry that the lab leak has become such a distraction for so many people. frankly, we still don t know. there is no evidence to say. you said the overwhelming amount of evidence indicates it s a lab leak. i believe most card carrying viral virology and others would disagree with you. i think you are misunderstanding. international investigation led by the world health organization is something we have been pressing for. we need that data, we need that information from the chinese government. sandra: walk down memory lane, remember that, years ago and many years of it, denials from
underway in his federal gun case. it is the first time ever the son of a sitting president will stand trial. we ve had a lot of first time evers, america. hunter is accused of lying about his illegal drug use on a gun buy form in 2018. first want to get to this because on the hill today he was the public face of the government s response to all the covid pandemic matter. now a house panel set to question dr. anthony fauci one hour from now amid allegations of misconduct. app apparently there is a lot there. hope you had a grand weekend. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m glad to be back with you. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we move from one trial to another trial. we have somebody else kind of on trial today anthony fauci. nearly two years since he testified publicly. this hearing could get contentious fast. republicans have a lot of questions. democrats are speaking ahead of the hearing. some of them are preemotion actively defending dr. fauci. today s appear