always great to be with you, my friend. lying is so hard and hardly makes people blush. let s go back a little bit of the hunter s laptop and the new jim crow lie or so on and so forth. the lie that the coronavirus could not possibly come from a lab leak in wuhan, china, that was said by many in the media or some in the government. that lie may top of it all. the energy department joined the fbi in saying, yep, the virus spread via mishap at a chinese lab. the white house is hopeful that the obvious made out the truth. there is still no consensus within the administration. the president believes it is important that we continue that work and that we find out as best we can how it started so we can better prevent futures pandemic. the community and the rest of the government is still looking at this. there is not a definitive conclusion. meanwhile, the chinese are pushing back that won t surprise you. if you follow the story at all, here is what they are saying tonight
:[the star-spangled banner] [the star-spangled banner] will: here we are. welcome to fox and friends weekend on saturday morning. these are checkered flags, not the real ones but we are here because tomorrow at 2:30 the daytona 500 kicks off. this is one of my favorites. rachel: it has been amazing so far and hasn t even started. will: it hasn t. there have been some preliminary races. we know what the lineup is. pete: you have been doing more than just being here. will: i m not the other one. daytona 500 is one of my favorite races because it s not only the adrenaline filled event of nascar. on the beach, we get to go out into the infield, hang out with people and do fun things. while i did some things, i don t win the crown for going fastest. the most adrenaline filled event of the week. that would be rachel campos duffy. rachel: we were here yesterday at the track and they were practicing and it was pretty spectacular. i got to go fly with them. i will say i mad
media interview on the disaster and downplayed what happened. rail city telling that that has evolved a lot over the years. but there s clearly more that needs to be done because while this horrible situation has gotten particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly one thousand cases a year of a train derailing. but a judge also said that he hopes to get to know some of the folks who were impacted by this, but claims the reason he hasn t visited is that he wants to respect the investigation. e palestine mayor trent conaway, thanks for staying away is a good idea. was just a dog and pony show. they ve they ve sort of let us hang hang out to dry here. as far as mayor pete is , people like to call him. i would rather he just stay away. he is just going to cause a circus. and unless he s going to bring a shovel and shovel some dirt and get rid of this contaminated soil, that s that s the only reason he would need to come to this town . we have a town of forty one hun
covid-19 pandemic. that s according to a newly updated classified intelligence report from the u.s. energy department. according to two sources energy officials have low confidence in this latest assessment. that means the information is either not reliable enough or it s too fragmented to know for sure. it only adds to this big divide within the u.s. government over whether the pandemic began in china 2019, as a result of a lab leak, or whether it emerged naturally. president biden specifically requested that the national labs which are part of the department of energy be brought into this assessment. because he wants to put every tool at use to be able to figure out what happened here. we need to do extensive hearings. i hope our democratic colleagues in the congress can support that. i know the republicans in the house are certainly supportive of that. but this is a country that has no problem coming out and lying to the world. steven jiang live from beijing with the
here we go. one house. two of them. yeah, hit two houses. wow. right? good morning, everyone. good monday morning. good weekend? good weekend. monday though. arg. you ll get there. we re glad you re with us. we start with weather. there is a dangerous winter storm dumping quite a bit of snow on southern california. that s right. southern california. and unleashing tornadoes as it heads east. we re tracking the severe weather threat. also this we re confident that the chinese leadership is considering the provision of lethal equipment. there s growing concern this morning that china may be ready to provide weapons to russia. could it be a game changer on the battlefields in ukraine? what s ahead the cia is saying. house republicans taking aim at the biden administration s handling of a toxic train disaster in ohio. what we re hearing about investigation ands hearings on capitol hill. but we begin with the winter storm tearing across the nation right now.