they know it? a u.s. intention report is raising new questions about the origins of the covid pandemic in china. the director of the wuhan national bio safety lab called the intel a complete lie. cnn s steven jonge joins me live from beijing. how is responding about this? reporter: well, rosemary, the chinese government has officially responded to the latest u.s. intelligence report with a foreign ministry spokesperson quoting a statement by the wuhan institute saying that institute had never come in contact with covid before december of 2019. up until larch, the employees researchers, no one among the people had contracted the virus. that s a very strong denial. the spokesman actually went on to give the usual spiel about the growly likelihood of a multiple origin theory the virus could have emerged from multiple locations around the world at the same time. and without any concrete evidence pointing a finger at a u.s.-military run lab in maryland. this is to the going to s
and watch it later today. sandra: this fox news alert, exclusive at the southern border. 23 known or suspected terrorists were caught at the border last year. according to c.b.p. records. hello, welcome, i m sandra smith in new york. and welcome. thank you very much. bill working for john roberts. you ll see these types of encounters across the entire southern border in nearly every border patrol sector. each of the 23 migrants were on a list of terrorist screening center. sandra: more than 220,000 migrants were encountered at the southern border in march. it is the highest monthly number of the biden presidency and the highest total in 20 years. texas governor greg abbott making good on his pledge to drop off bus loads of migrants in washington, d.c. all of this just weeks before the biden administration plans to end title 42. that the policy that makes it easier to quickly turn back migrants at the southern border. bill is live for us, he s in eagle pass, texas, with
17th, i m marissa kumar, subbing in for velshi. he is off, deservedly. another explosion is heard, in the outskirts of kyiv this morning. this marked the third straight day that the capitol regions attacked, following the sinking of the russian naval vessel, stationed in the black sea. russia is keeping its focus on mariupol, on the brink of russian control. moscow has been bombarding the eastern port city for most of the war. ukrainian forces in mariupol have put up tougher forces in this time. , cutting off ukrainian troops, and a falls if mariupol is taken by city, it lies between the peninsula and donbas, under russian control. capping the city, allows them to contain a land bridge, to the rest of russia. earlier today, that kremlin demanded that the remaining forces in mariupol surrender. the deadline has passed, with no indication that ukrainians are willing to give up the fight. local officials have acknowledged the grim situation in the city. the governor of the donba
such courage there. meantime, russia is negotiating but also refusing to allow evacuations today. one ukrainian official pleaded for a humanitarian corridor to allow women, children, and wounded fighters to get out. not so far away where preparations are under way for a russian onslaught in the eastern donbas region in coming days. officials are urging civilians to evacuate now to avoid forced deportation to russia. some arrived in romania today. it s hard to live there because sometimes they send people to russia and they didn t ask what they want or what they don t want. sometimes if you go somewhere, some people disappear. so we decided to try to cross the front line and leave kherson. new video released today by the russian military shows a tank here with the letter z and the words for donbas painted on. nbc news cannot verify when or where the video was made. but even as air raid sirens and air strikes hit several cities where russia withdrew ground forces, new
the immigration at the capitol. beto o rourke joins me with his response. i am jonathan capehart, happy easter, this is the sunday show. y easter, this is the sunday show. this sunday the desperate fight to retain the battered port city of mariupol continues. deadline by the russians demanding ukrainian troops in the city lay down here arms have come and gone with no signs of surrender. in a video message president volodymyr zelenskyy says negotiations are underway. the russians can t be trusted and that citizens blocked from evacuating are facing, quote, inhuman conditions. joining me now live from lviv, nbc news ralph sanchez, thank you for coming back to the sunday show. any news of those remaining ukrainian soldiers? reporter: jonathan, they have fought literally to their last bullet. this is a group of ukrainian marines and fighters that, that far right group who have been leading the defense of mariupol. they outnumbered and surrounded in the remains of w