responsible for the disposal of waste materials. now disposal sites in the transfer of contaminants will be subject to epa oversight, a live report straight ahead. but first the wall street journal reports the u.s. energy department has joined the fbi assessment that covid-19 most likely originated from a lab leak in china. the department was previously undecided on how the virus emerged. all of this as fox pulling shows president biden underwater when it comes to the job performance. lucas tomlinson live in the white house with details on the stories. president biden s national security advisor jake sullivan refusing to confirm or deny the classified report, he spoke earlier. there is a variety of views in the intelligence community, some of the religious community have reached conclusions on one side and some on the other and never have said they don t have enough information to be sure. house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccaul releasing a statement a s
coronavirus overtaking wuhan, china. what do we do? oh, you know who we could ask? the wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. the disease [laughter] is the same name as the lab are. [laughter] that s just, that s just a little too weird, don t you think? howard: here s i stewart on his apple f the show reflecting on the backlash. i thought it was a pretty good can bit that expressed kind of how i felt. and the two things that came out of it were i m racist against asian people and how dare i align myselfs with the alt-right. howard: unreal. i bring this up, of course, because parts of the biden administration now believe the kid thely virus did originate from that wuhan lap lab. we don t know for sure, but the media and social media played a key role in stifling any debate. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, brian kilmeade on his interview with ron desantis and the house investigating george santos. one politician who got beat up pretty badly
self-imposed deadline for the justices to decide what to do with mifepristone. the question is why did he extend are there strong feelings about what the courts should do? is one of the justices writing a fiery dissent? laura jarrett is back with us to explain what we know and what will it mean for health care, specifically women s health care mifepristone is not just used for medicated abortion it s also used to help manage miscarriages, and this is not just a theoretical conversation. we have concrete examples of what happens when politicians and the courts start making the rules on health care after more than a year of fertility treatments and a day after she made the guest list for her baby shower, amanda zarorwski found out her 18-week fetus would not survive. she was then denied a medically necessary abortion in texas because her doctors were too scared to do anything that would put them in jail she joined us to explain how near death she had to get before doctors would
former england captain michael vaughan is appearing at the hearing into racist behaviour at the cricket club. it follows allegations made by azeem rafiq in august 2020. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the former health secretary, matt hancock, has described the leaking of thousands of his whatsapp messages written during the height of the covid pandemic as a massive betrayal and breach of trust . he says the messages were released in a biased account to suit an anti lockdown agenda . but the journalist, isabel oakeshott, who revealed the messages, insists she s acted, in the public interest. the messages suggest mr hancock pushed to close schools during the pandemic, while the education secretary at the time, sir gavin williamson, wanted them to stay open. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, has more from westminster. the impact of the pandemic on education. we the impact of the pandemic on education- the impact of the pandemic on education.
elon musk who provided the internal documents to journalists is objecting to a serious attack on the constitution by a federal stitute. as the wall street journal reported federal trade commission asking twitter to identify all journalists granted access to the company s records and has committee report says there s no logical reason why the ftc needs every single internal twitter communication about elon musk. at a hearing jim jordan the other day more diplomatic language. effectively news media became an armed of the state sponsored thought policing system. there were angry clashes between jordan and making democrat stacey plaskett. the republicans and two of elon musk s public scribes to release cherry pick out of context e-mails and screenshots designed to promote his chosen narrative. elon musk chosen narrative. the first ftc letter to twitter after the first set of twitter files, the first question was, who are the journalists you are talking to? and you guys do