senator rand paul respond to tonight s top story. they ll be with us in just a minute. now we begin this monday night with a fox news alert. the department of energy, they are now finally admitting the obvious truth, covid-19 was apparently developed by chinese scientists at the wuhan institute of virology likely through gain of funk shun research. the deadly disease somehow leaked out of the lab and infected the entire world and by the way, china knew it the entire time. side note. sloby attempt to cover up and then that all ensued from the communist chinese and of course their corrupt propagandists in part we fund for china and that would be the who. and maybe even dr. fauci himself. and yet no one has been held accountable. they ve why et to this point even wanted to admit the truth which was obvious. a message from president reagan is more relevant than ever. quote, the nine most terrifying words in the english language are, i m from the government and i m here to help.
jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we re learning that they re hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of where u.s.-china relations stand. chinese spy balloon lifted from the ocean store from south carolina. quantico. we learned a lot already from the balloon by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we re going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it. but u.s. officials are warning we may not learn much more about the three likely harmless objects sho
he s back in delaware for another weekend of rest and relaxation. we have full coverage of his latest cognitive malfunction. it was pretty bad. that s coming up tonight. also, england s own piers morgan will weigh in on meghan and harry. [applause] the royal couple are reportedly struggling to cope with a cartoon that made fun of them. these are people who say they want privacy, but they show up on oprah, on netflix, they write books. didn t want privacy, they want money. they are just lying to us. anyway, first we begin tonight with something really deadly serious, and america is now suffering from what is a severe violence and murder crisis. in fact, countrywide, the murder rate is at the highest point in more than 20 years and it s going higher, it seems, every day, with a 4.3% increase in 2021 alone. now, of course, you won t see any of these statistics on other networks, because they hide for example, in 2020 we had 574 riots, and they refused to call riots riots. we h
across the world marking the brutality of russian aggression, as the fight for democracy continues. then, how one lawsuit in texas could overturn access to across the nation for abortion pills. what the consequences could look like and our friday night cap is in-house, breaking down the major headlines and biggest winners of the week as the 11th hour gets underway right now. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening in ukraine, where it is now six a.m. on saturday morning in kyiv. a deadly and brutal war is now entering its second year officially. february 24th, 2022 was day one of russia s unprovoked invasion. for the past year, ukrainians have endured relentless attacks from russian forces. thousands of people have been killed and injured. millions were forced to leave the country, while entire communities were destroyed. today, president zelenskyy marked when you re of war with a ceremony honoring those who have died fighting to defend ukraine
world that he is interested in having this conflict settled. right? he just had a major diplomatic victory by having iran and saudi arabia resume relations. he s portraying to the world that no, it is not the united states that can actually be the broker and the honest deal maker of peace in the world, it is actually china. underneath, there is very, very different goal and that goal is just to keep this war going because china is the biggest winner in this war. todd: washington post said it best, china is trying to rewrite the global landscape, we got to make sure they don t do that. rebecca, thank you very much. pete buttigieg getting praise from president obama s former transportation secretary over his response to the east palestine train disaster. i give him an a, he s done a good job. after the train wreck are