and millions more worldwide. now new revelations about the mysterious origin of covid. mark esper is here live. f-16s are not the key capability of that offensive. sean penn pleads with president biden to send fighter jets to ukraine or the actor says there will be, quote, blood on our hands. sean penn joins me and president xi and his military leadership have doubts today about whether they could accomplish that invasion. and china, russia and the united states reach a critical point in the ukraine war, the cia says beijing is having second thoughts about potentially invading taiwan and a significant admission from the head of fox news, acknowledging the host on his network promoted election lies. what this means for the billion dollar lawsuit against fox news. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and this is a special edition of t the situation room. tonight, new questions around the center of the co
doubts today. about whether they could accomplish that invasion. as china, russia, united states reached a critical point in the ukraine war. the cia says beijing s having second thoughts about potentially invading taiwan. and a significant from the head of fox move. rupert murdoch acknowledging the hosts on his network promoted election lies. what this means for the billion dollar lawsuit against fox news. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the. world i m wolf blitzer and this is a special edition of the situation room. tonight, major new questions right at the center of a deadly coronavirus pandemic. that may change so many lives. where did covid-19 come from? the white house weighing in the same thing on the u.s. energy departments assessment. that the lethal virus most likely came from a lab leak in china. emphasis on the caveat here. cnn sources tell us that the assessment comes with quote, low confidence. tonight they say withi
manhattan courthouse yesterday pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records that is typically a misdemeanor. alvin bragg s strategy for elevating those charges appears to be a stretch legally and the case may not make it to a full trial, even the liberal media are seriously questioning the strength of this case. watch. if i had to characterize it it s disappointment. in terms of a case this being brought against a former president, it s a little underwhelming. there is not more to it. this is even weaker than i feared it would be. and i think it s easily subject being dismissed or a quick acquittal to trump. the fact the in the law, what is the crime that prosecutors are alleging escalated this from a misdemeanor to a felony? if this is the only pebble that gets thrown at donald trump, it s a very small pebble. and i do think it could the backlash against this pebble might cow other people who might otherwise have been courageous enough t
and that is one side power grabbing from the other. i mean it is the nature of politics, this could be more permanent than what some on the right might believe. many of that city s residents are furious with the development of a new obama presidential center. it s costing the city a staggering $500 million. and leaving many of them worried it will send rents and housing crisis higher. much higher. one chicago resident and activist telling the washington post this, this is the community that sent him to the white house and we should be the community that gets to stay and benefit from the presidential center. emily. what s your take? right, that was the founder of not me we. and that was in response and part to the former president who said, it feel the natural for michelle and me to want to give back to chicago in the south side, the obama
you have called the russian president vladimir putin a creepy little bully. what will it take, do you believe, to convince him he s fighting a losing battle? i haven t understood his decision to do this from the beginning. i can t claim to have any understanding of it. short of evil power grabbing or attempted power grabbing. i think that he has to understand that his generals have been lying to him about what he had in the military and that everybody has been scheming and now he s found out that, you know, this might not have been such a great idea, but i don t know what his backout position is. thanks so much for joining us. thank you very much, wolf. and coming up, explosive new newly revealed testimony in the dominion voting systems lawsuit against the fox news channel and the fox corporation. you are going to hear what the man at the top rupert murdoch