happening now, new fears that russia s war against ukraine is about to get a very serious boost from china. i ll acquit white house national security official john kirby whether beijing is actively considering sending lethal aid to putin s forces. also tonight, a new assessment on the origins of the covid pandemic is stirring up major controversy. we ll tell you why the u.s. energy department now believes the virus likely emerged from a chinese lab. and breaking news, new legal filings in the dominion voting systems lawsuit against fox news. the fox chairman rupert murdoch admitting underoath that popular tv hosts endorsed false claims about the 2020 presidential election. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with the war in ukraine. the deepening alliance between russia and china sending chills throughout the u.s. intelligence community. our senior national secur
in which the tucker carlson s of the world conceded this was a problem. what s new today is that the top level executives also knew in realtime this was bad, and they did nothing to stop it. in fact, fox s chief legal and policy officer is quoted in the deposition basically saying that fox had a responsibility to stop these election lies from being peddled, and it still acted anyway. so oliver, button this up for us. where does this lawsuit go from here? this lawsuit looks like it s going to trial, wolf. next month it s supposed to start and, you know, fox i should note, too, is pushing back against what we re reading right now, and they re saying that dominion effectively has a very weak case. but legal experts i have spoken to have suggested complete otherwise in that they have said that this evidence that we re seeing presented now for the first time in these filings is really quite damning. is there a strong legal case here? wolf, i do think it is a