at all. what i am doing is very serious. it s very important work. nope, not a game. that was fulton county d.a. fani willis last summer talking about her probe of trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and there are new indications tonight of precisely when any indictments will be coming this summer. also tonight, ron desantis gets set to formally launch his presidential campaign with the baggage of a four-plus year record of attacking the personal freedoms of the people and businesses in his own state. including his economically destructive fight with disney. plus, my conversation with chasten buttigieg who has a message for young people amid the growing threats to lgbtq youth. but we begin tonight with seven battle ground states that president biden won in 20202020. arizona, georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. not only will these all be states to watch in next year s presidential election, but all part of the failed plot by donald trump and his
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
released without proper es to democrats during the 2022 midterms. one republican was one of 11 affected, saying what happened goes way beyond dirty politics. doing identity theft with our social security numbers to get this. they paid for this. did they get the information, know it was done illegally? we want to know this. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel on this one. hi, mike. two powerful house chairmans set a deadline for today to be notified for how widespread the problem has been. mike rogers is the chairman of the house armed services committee, james coleman of house oversight. they wrote to secretary austin, quote, the recent broad release of records, highlights the inadequacy to secure military personnel files but raising concerning questions of possible illicit motive or political partisanship. they were released to a private research firm with ties to the democrat congressional campaign committee. one of the republican congressman told his understa
and odd and frivolous behavior and showing disrespect for the norms of society. in the haight ash bury district illegally smoked illegal substances threatened to make love and not war and let it known they trusted no one over 30. jesse: haight ash bury one place in the country where you could get high and flaunt it in public. over a half century later san francisco s hippy generation gave birth to this. excuse me, ma am, you know there is a drug rehab here, right? can you use drugs somewhere else. she ain t doing drugs, man. she got a meth pipe in her hand. stop your drug habit maybe you wouldn t get evicted. come on, you have got to do that somewhere else, bro. get up with that, bro. you are out in front of a building right now. this is where people live. we got this business we are trying to run here and you are making it look kind of bad over here. can you guys clean it up a little bit and go somewhere elsewhere w. this stuff? because it s getting a little out of
policies. bragg s investigation of alleged financial crimes. we will talk live with chairman jordan shortly on this program. first, correspondent david spunt has our top story tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, quite a rare moment to see such a public fight between a local district attorney and the chairman of the house judiciary committee. this all spilled out just hours ago in a federal lawsuit filed in the southern district of new york in federal court. now, alvin bragg, of course, the district attorney in manhattan, he made history last week by indicting the former president, donald trump, on 34 felony counts. he says republican house judiciary chairman jim jordan needs to stay in his own lane and stay out of the donald trump prosecution. bret, the lawsuit is aimed at strong former assistant district attorney mark pomerantz from complying with the house judiciary committee subpoena to spill the beans on the inner workings of the office and