john , i have fun. great show tonight. all all right.graham angle from i am laura ingraham. this is ingram angle fromon a washington tonight. and wend w begin the hour with a scandal of monumental significance. charge finally, with republicans inthe charge of the house, the rocks are being lifted on the covide cover up and the rotth that we see underneath is what we warned you about long ago. rank corruption at the heart of our federal response. now, the former cdc director under trump, dr. robert redfield, was questioned about anthony foundry s mad scramblee s mad to conceals the role he and others playeditr with green lightineeg funding to the juhan lab in china. so what did redfield think ofhep the paper that fauci pressured scientiscientist to write backa february? 2020. 020? c that wouldon conclude ultimatel that covid most likely did not escape from a lab. this whole approach that was taken on its antithetical to science . i thank you. need t science has to be and t
lab in chiwuhan, china. and in east palestine, the new technique to track contaminated water from that city. and the growing concern to other cities taking in truckloads of contaminated soil. and an image in oklahoma, cnn is on the scene. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start with the groundbreaking assertion with the u.s. energy department that the covid-19 pandemic likely began from a lab leak in wuhan, china. this all comes after the energy department updated its 2021 report with this claim, saying it made the new conclusion, based on new evidence coming to light. two sources telling cnn the department is issuing the report with, quote, low confidence. that s a term that doesn t mean that they don t believe their own conclusion. it means that the evidence as of now is only circumstantial. the new assertion reveals that the u.s. intelligence community is more divided than ever on how the pandemic began. four other agencies in the u.s. government said the outbr
conspiracy. now president biden s own energy department finding evidence covid likely leaked from that lab in china. i m harris faulkner. you are in the faulkner focus. presoutlets reporting that the energy department is joining with the fbi in supporting that lab leak origin, based on classified intelligence. the intelligence agency reportedly shared with both the white house and key members of congress. republican lawmakers want answers. we need hearings on this. the chinese used their coercive economic activities to shut people up. we need to extensive hearings. i hope our democrat colleagues in the congress can support that. i know the republicans in the house are certainly supportive of that. they didn t just shut them up. they shut them down. they discredited. even journalists asking questions. i was stickered all over the place for asking the question, along with dr. segal on our team here at fox news. the subselect committee on the pandemic in the hands of house
white house press briefing for reaction from the white house, as well as john kirby, actually, the spokesperson. china is pushing back, accusing the u.s. of a smear campaign, so how will the white house respond? we are going to first start with this fox news alert. john: america s crime crisis continues to plague residents in democratic-led cities from coast to coast, including here in the nation s capital, innocent civilians fight off violent felons and brazen teens who face no consequences for terrorizing america s streets. sandra: the latest incident, 82-year-old grandmother trying to make her way to receive chemotherapy, forced to fight off a vicious juvenile trying to carjack her. john: what a brave individual that guy was. but not stopping the d.c. far left city council overhauling the criminal code, critics say will put more criminals on the dangerous streets and supposed to be the crown jewel of american exceptionallism. sandra: jeff flock on a new bill in ill
no problem coming out and lying the world. we just saw that with this chinese spy balloon. it s the nature of a communist dictatorship to lie to their own people, to lie to the world. that s republican senator dan sullivan of alaska responding to a new report from the energy department on the origins of covid. we ll take you through the latest developments in just a moment. plus, ukraine says it needs more fighter jets as the war entered its second year, but the pentagon and president biden do not appear ready yet to make that commitment. and meanwhile, the first lady seems to give away the president s plans for 2024. we ll show you what she said. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, february 27th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll start with the new report on the positives of co-vichltd according two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, the federal energy department says it has, quote, low confidence th