Its wednesday, may 26, 5 00 a. M. Here in new york. We begin this morning with the most significant news to date in the criminal investigation into the former President Donald Trump. The Washington Post reports manhattans District Attorney has convened a grand jury thats expected to decide whether to indict trump or other executives at his company or the Trump Organization itself. The key for prosecutors now, gaining cooperation from Allen Weisselberg the longtime chief Financial Officer of trumps company. Last week his former daughterinlaw who has turned over documents to investigators offered her prediction. As far as im concerned there has been nothing legal going on in the past 21 years. Allen weisselberg, will he flip on trump . Yes. So if weisselberg flips that would be major, of course, and devastating for trump. So what is he saying this morning . Cnns Kara Scannell reports. Reporter the Washington Post reporting that the manhattan District Attorneys office has convened a special grand jury to hear evidence in its longrunning investigation of donald trump and the Trump Organization. The image of the grand jury marks a significant turn and suggests prosecutors believe they have some evidence of a crime. According to the post the grand jury will sit three days a week for six months, it will also hear other cases and its not exclusively focused on the trump investigation, but the sitting of a special grand jury is a sign that the investigation is advancing and prosecutors are closer to deciding whether to seek potential criminal charges. The das investigation has been under way for several years, prosecutors are investigating numerous potential crimes including tax fraud, insurance fraud, also whether the Trump Organization inflated the value of Certain Properties to get loans, falsified Business Records or broke the law when reimbursing Michael Cohen for facilitating Hush Money Payments to stormy daniels, the woman who said she had an affair with trump which he has denied. Late tuesday trump said the investigation is purely political, adding, it is a continuation of the greatest witchhunt in american history. Christine, laura . Kara scannell, thank you for that. Mounting questions this morning about the origins of coronavirus and who knew what and when. Cnn has learned there was a secret effort at the State Department to prove the virus originated in a lab in wuhan, china. The mission started under the watch of former Secretary Of State mike pompeo. So why did the Biden Administration shut the project down . Our kylie atwood reports from the State Department. Reporter this was a closely held inquiry at the State Department which was launched in the final months of the Trump Administration to look at the likely possibility according to sources who were involved in the effort that the covid19 pandemic could have come from a chinese lab and possibly had connections to the chinese governments biological Weapons Research and development program. Now, i am told by the Biden Administration that they reviewed this effort, but they had concerns about the quality of the findings. A state Department Spokesperson told me that the effort was shut down recently after the findings were reviewed in february and march of this year. Now, this was quite a dramatic effort here at the State Department because there were those who supported the effort saying that the rest of the u. S. Government as far as they knew were not probing the lab leak theory, the possibility that covid19 came from a lab and this needed to be done at the State Department, but then there were those who were opponents of this effort, saying it was secretive, saying that those involved were sharing their findings in interagency settings before sharing their findings with folks at the State Department and that they were chasing a certain outcome here. But this revelation and the fact that the shut this down comes as there has been renewed interest in the lab leak theory. Now, the u. S. Government still says they do not know when, where or how covid19 originated, began spreading, but there are renewed folks who are saying that the lab leak theory, that possibility, deserves some new attention. Laura and christine . Kylie, thanks for that. Another sign of trouble for the tokyo olympics, one of the official partners of the games is joining calls for cancellation. Cnns selina wang live at that companys headquarters with more. Hi there. Reporter christine, the symbolism is whats key. The first major newspaper in japan to call for a cancellation and also an official olympic sponsor. The real question is whether this leads to a Domino Effect allowing other major sponsors to speak out n this editorial that this newspaper wrote was scathing, it asked the question of what is even the point of the olympics if its being held against the will of the people and if its putting peoples lives in danger. It wrote, quote, we dont think it makes sense to hold the olympics and paralympics in tokyo this summer. The distress and opposition toward the ruling government, the tokyo government and olympic officials are widespread as they havent tried to address peoples doubts and concerns. Christine, as we spoke yesterday, this follows the u. S. State Department Warning americans to avoid travel to japan, you now have u. S. Public Health Experts adding to these concerns saying that there needs to be an urgent Risk Assessment of the risks associated with the games, they say its not just the risk of getting covid in japan and spreading it here, but also spreading new variants Around The World when these athletes return to their home countries and that concern tracks with what doctors are saying here, just 2 of the japanese population has been fully vaccinated. Doctors in some parts of the country are calling that there could be a system collapse. Potentially further adding strains to this already overstretched medical system in japan, a new report from the British Association of sustainable sport is saying that the intense heat and humidity during the summertime in tokyo, which is getting worse because of climate change, could put olympic athletes in the danger zone. Now, in 2018 more than 1,000 people died in japan because of a heat wave so real concerns here and its not just covid, christine. Selena for us in spoke joe, thank you for that. Here in the u. S. Theres a vaccination milestone. Half the countrys Adult Population fully vaccinated against covid19. According to cdc data almost of 60 are vaccinated if you include people age 12 and up. Moderna says its vaccine is safe and appears effective in adolescents, it will apply for fda authorization in early june. Young americans are not lining up for their shots, at least not so far. The cdc says under 8 of 18 to 24 year olds have done so thus far. Experts say young people still need to get vaccinated and warn even if the risk of serious illness from covid is low they face longterm symptoms if they get infected. If theyre going on to koomp us this fall in many colleges they will be required to. Cleaning up and heading out, vaccinated and emerging from our covid bubbles the masks are coming off and the lipstick is back on. 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Five days, five days, thats how long it took for House Republicans to finally speak up about what is going on with congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene. On this program our aim is to get you the information you need to start your day. We do not fall for the outrage trap where minor members of congress try to get attention by saying something absurd orrist or crazy and try to fund raise off of it, but this is different. We feel compelled this time to be on the record that Republican Leadership taking five days to address greenes blatant antisemitic comments is something you need to know. Greene, greene is the one comparing Nancy Pelosis mask mandate to the holocaust and then, by the way, shes doubling down on t shes comparing the minor inconvenience of wearing a mask to protect your health to the yellow star which to be clear nazis used as a way to publicly identify, humiliate, isolate and exterminate 6 million jews. Five days for leadership to come together and figure out how to respond to this minor member of congress, Kevin Mccarthy couldnt just say greene was wrong, did he that other thing we dont like to do in this program, he invoked the false equivalency, he blamed pelosi and democrats for ignoring a rise in antisemitism. So why did the house gop leader finally speak . Money. Cnns jamie gangel reports republican donors urged him to speak up and some want greene expelled from the congress. At least one House Republican publicly agrees. What we can do sz a party is take a stand and say you dont belong in our conference. Thats what i think we should do. I think we should kick her out of the conference. If there was a kind of organic within the Conference Movement to oust liz cheney certainly we can have the same kind of movement to oust somebody that, you know, is trying to compare wearing a mask to the nazis. So why wouldnt mccarthy just expel her . Thats easy, donald trump. Mccarthy wants to stay on trumps good side and the former president supports greene. How did mccarthys push back g