the second world war or new assessment of the worst pandemic since 1918 china is front and center tonight. on ukraine members of the administration spoke today and over the weekend warning beijing that arming russia would be a mistake. we are confident that the chinese leadership is considering the provision of lethal equipment that would be a very risky and unwise bet. bill burns, the cia director. on covid we learned yesterday that the department of energy has assessed in a newly updated intelligence report that it most likely originated from a laboratory leak. cnn has just learned the reason for that updated report. three sources telling cnn that the department of energy shift was based in part on information about the research that the chinese centers for disease control, the chinese cdc in wuhan, was doing around the time of the outbreak on a coronavirus variant. cnn has previously reported that the lab was studying coronaviruses m bats but it is unclear how closely
sandra: house lawmakers signing off on china, recently uncovered spy program, targeting u.s. military bases as well as beijing alleged cover-up of the origins of the covid pandemic. john: is congress finally taking seriously the national security and economic threat that china poses to the united states? nikki haley and ashley hinson are here to weigh in coming up. sandra: potentially historic day at the supreme court as justices hear arguments in a pair of challenges to president biden s student loan handout. great to be with you, john. john: good to be with you as well, sandra, especially, rather, on this busy tuesday. john roberts in washington. this is america reports. the court s looming decisions on the two legal challenges to the president s plan will test the limits of presidential power. also have widespread implications for the tens of millions of americans who could see their loans reduced or completely wiped away. sandra: critics of the handout say the
that night and yesterday, murdaugh changed his story to admit he was at the dog kennels where his wife and son worships slade something that he did not tell the police at the time. . the last time you sell supposedly your wife and child and all of this detail, you as a lawyer and a prosecutor didn t think that was important to offer? i think it is important here in and al murdaugh helped l.a. about being at the kennels, he left his wife and son minutes before slaughtered, no one else was around. you hear the dogs barking, caring on and they sent somebody was around? no, they weren t. there was nobody around and the dogs didn t know. there was nobody else around. good. for him to sense. jesse: but the most explosive moment of the day murdaugh putting his own theory who murdered his family. he believes it is revenge over a vote accident involving his now deceased son paul. paul was driving the family vote drunk when he crashed and killed one of his friends. i
ifi if i can have the attorneys approach for a moment. they just cut the sound feed theyjust cut the sound feed there in the courtroom as some discussions are taking place, if you re just joining us, we are awaiting moments away the verdict in the depp heard defamation case democrat child that s been going on for six weeks, thejury has that s been going on for six weeks, the jury has reached a decision and we are waiting to hear that in this courtroom in virginia in the us any moment now. all right, ladies enjoyment of the jury, what i need is to give the forms back to you. when you fine for a defamatory statement, one or more, you need to fill out the comments of tory damages, it has to be at least $1 and up to whatever you feel the damages should be. for punitive damages, you can put zero orfill that out there as well, but i need those filled out. if i can have you retire back to the deliberation room and do that for me. so we will be in recess until we hear back from them
Think theres a very interesting day fascinating. And i just want to thank well, the lawyers because theyve been really working hard well, if the goal today was to please the client, well, consider them. Pleased. Welcome to a special day. Mishnah lara codes live on day 18 of Donald Trumps criminal trial. A trial is that a lot of numbers to keep up with, right. I mean, 34, the number of felony counts, again, and trump for falsifying business records, 130,000. The amount of dollars Stormy Daniels was actually paid to keep quiet, but the number that might be sticking with the jury tonight is 96 than seconds of a critical october 2016 phone call it is now in question. On monday, cohen testified that he made that october call to trumps bodyguard man by the name of Keith Schiller to try to talk to trump. Whole point of that call to tell trump that he was planning to pay off Stormy Daniels now from tuesdays transcript here was the question, why did you need to speak with mr. Trump at that poin