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WTOP
"energy department" Discussed on WTOP
"Matt Piper, CBS News. The federal government is searching for a place to store spent nuclear fuel. Energy regulators are spending $26 million to find communities willing to house a temporary site while a permanent repository is completed. The money will be divided equally between 13 different groups of industry, non -profit government and community representatives. The Energy Department says they'll each be tasked with exploring the most equitable approach to picking the interim site. The lack of a permanent disposal site has a created problem for the federal government as it seeks a temporary hub to move the spent fuel piling up at 70 nuclear power plants in about three dozen states. The army base in Louisiana, once called Polk, Fort has been renamed Fort Johnson. Previously named for a Confederate commander, the fort's new name honors the memory of Sergeant William Henry Johnson, a black veteran of World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient. Johnson was wounded more than 20 times fighting off a German night raid in France in 1918. Still ahead here on WTOP, egg prices falling, a sign for overall inflation maybe. Stay with us. Kansas City State Company, another AmericanEagle .com success A story. Started in 1932 as a family -owned butcher shop, today they're a leading distributor of superior all -American steaks delivered right to your door ready for the grill and your taste buds. When it came to their website, an average site wouldn't do. They chose AmericanEagle .com to take their website to the next level. With a dramatic increase in competition and a softening market demand, they had two challenges. Improve their brand presence and message and produce a positive return. AmericanEagle .com got to work and executed usability studies and detailed audits of site experience, digital assets, marketing. and The results? An integrated digital marketing and customer experience plan, organic traffic increase of 100 % and a long -term roadmap for success. If you love great steaks, go to KansasCitySteaks .com for website design, development, and online solutions that bring efficiency and results, visit AmericanEagle .com. If you need a results driven website, call the team at AmericanEagle .com at 877 -WEBNOW1. That's 877 The following is a paid commercial message. Waiting for the world to change. Yeah, waiting for the world to change. Hi, this is Lon Solomon and these are the words of John Mayer's hit song by the same title. You know, John Mayer expresses a sentiment that I think a lot of us feel. We look at the world around us and we lament all the wrong we see and we yearn to see it all change. So what's the solution? I mean, is there really any hope that the world is going to change? Well, the answer is yes. The Bible says the that day is coming when the Lord Jesus Christ is going to return and recondition this present world and establish a new world, one where righteousness dwells. Folks, this is the only real hope our world has and it's found in the Lord Jesus Christ. Not a sermon, just not a sermon. For more information, check out our website, not a sermon dot com. That's not a sermon dot com. Good
The Eric Metaxas Show
Kevin McCullough and Eric Catch Up on the Latest NY Subway Menace
"Yesterday I wrote the subway here in New York, the subway is basically no, no. This nonsense. It's basically safe. It's a vast, you know, it's like saying, there's crime in America. Like, yeah, where in America and the news focuses on whatever the horrible incident. And there are every once in a while horrible incidents recently, we did have one. You wrote a little bit about it. You've spoken about it. You want to talk about it. I haven't written about it, but it is the top story here locally in New York. And I think it's important to discuss nationally from this perspective. When you advocate for policies that take police out of cities, and you expect the crime in your city to not change, you're kind of an idiot. Kind of like the energy department secretary, thinking that we could just plug into batteries and have our military go across sandy deserts with no problem. If you're a smart investor, now's the time to invest in crime. Well, that's true. But so there's this big story here locally where on the train the other night on one of the subway lines, there was a man who was menacing people. You know how tight subway cars are. There's two basically rose along the wall and then there's strap hangers in the middle and people that try to get past and so forth. This guy was menacing the people on his car. He made some threatening remarks as though he was going to hurt people. And as was necessary, a young retired marine 24 years of age stepped up and stopped him. In fact, there were two other people that when they saw the marine jump into motion, they helped hold him down as well. And he was pretty strong because it took all three of them to get him down to the ground. And the marine put him in a choke hold. Eventually, he did pass out, like black out, and we train our military to do this, by the way, to put people in choke holds and make them black out without killing them. But later, when he was taken to the hospital, he did die. Now, AOC has come out and called this murder. Mayor Adams has said, wait a minute, we don't know the details of this yet. Do not call this murder if it's not murder. And Alvin Bragg, as much as I've been on his case in recent weeks, has said the same thing as the mayor, which I think is the responsible thing to say. But here's what's gone down. This man that was harassing the people on that train had a current warrant out for his arrest. He'd been arrested 40 times in the last two years, and all of them were for assaulting more or less strangers in public.
The Trish Regan Show
The U.S. Energy Department Wants to Make Our Military 'Green'
"When the chips are down, Americans rally. So I can tell you today, like if we suddenly lost oil and there was no source of oil in the world whatsoever, I guarantee you, Americans would make the switch to green energy like that. Yes, I think it's worth planning for, but you can not turn off energy as we know it, and expect that people are going to be okay with that. I mean, you're going to have massive economic hardship. We've already seen it. Certainly with inflation, you've got energy prices creeping up again. Eric Trump is going to weigh in on this because the economy is a big part of what he talks about. It's a big part of what I talk about. But before we do that, I want you to see right here, our energy secretary, being asked, maybe about a year and a half ago by a friend of mine, I used to work with Bloomberg at about what her plan was for energy independence in America watch. What is the grand home plan to increase oil production in America? Oh my God. That is hilarious. Wood that I had the magic wand on this, as you know, of course, oil is a global market. It is controlled by a cartel that cartel is called OPEC and they debated a decision yesterday that they were not going to increase beyond what they were already planning. So, you know, the interesting thing is the Department of Energy has an energy information agency. And that agency does the forecasting of what oil and gas prices are going to be. It tells you everything you need to know. In other words folks, there is no plan. The only plan they can come up with is, okay, maybe let's try this green thing for our military, which let's be honest. You can do a little experimental stuff. That's fine. But let's make sure that our military is equipped with all of the things that our military should need, right? This is very important. We need to make sure that our military has the best access to everything.
The Trish Regan Show
Biden's LGBTQ Icon Caught Stealing Women's Clothes
"We look at Dylan Mulvaney and transgenders dominating the news and this issue dividing people in many ways, I got to ask, what the heck was the administration thinking hiring this guy? Sam brinton for the U.S. energy department. He was a deputy secretary for nuclear waste. Are you kidding me? The guy's going to jail because he kept stealing ladies close. Are you serious? Forgive me, they are going to jail. It's really funny when you read the articles. I'm like, wait, what? What? What the fuck is with the pronouns? He, she killed babe, the boom bang ball. They are going to jail for stealing women's clothes from suitcases. This happened in Las Vegas, more than $3000 worth of clothing and accessories. And apparently, according to these other allegations, it may not have been the only time, what does that say when the Biden administration was holding Sam up as sort of like the LGBTQ icon and now we learn that they really don't do a very good job hiring people. We got
Mark Levin
Energy Secretary Wants to Ban Stoves Based on 'Oval Burners'
"The gas stoves that would be impacted are high impact high assuming high end gas stoves for the more expensive gas stoves And the reason why they were found to be inadequate is because in many cases they're very heavy greats and the burners can be an oval shape which causes an excess amount of natural gas to be emitted relative to the pot that's on there So it's just it's a wasteful use of natural gas That is Jennifer Granholm who runs the energy department And so they're not looking to ban all gas though just thieves expensive ones that rich people have you see maybe restaurants because you see the the burners are over And any physicist knows you've oval burners there's an excess amount of heat that's necessary to cook that which is put upon the oval burner And it just wastes natural gas I like the secretary who really wastes a lot of natural gas when she speaks but nonetheless and the greats are very heavy The grates The hell's a great I don't know Does she mean the grill tops Anyway the greats are very very heavy Now we can't have that Over here in the energy department We don't want heavy grades so we don't want oval burners So we we are going to regulate the amount of existence We don't need Congress We don't need executive orders Why do you think we have so many people here who are paid so much money It gets such great pensions and medical coverage Because we're here to help We can't expect these stupid parents to buy the right gas stoves
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
John Solomon Discusses China's Treaty Violations and the Wuhan Lab
"Is COVID origin secrets near the classification that in itself is exciting. Wuhan a lab's ties to China military burst into focus, talk to us about the latest things we need to know about our country, our government and the military biodefense lab in communist China, John. It's extraordinary. So no matter where we end up on whether the COVID-19 virus leaked from the lab or not, obviously the FBI energy department House intelligence committee Senate health committee all believe it did and growing other number of intelligence committees believe that. But here's the bigger question. No matter what happened with COVID-19, there is now irrefutable proof that the United States government has known since 2005 that China was violating its own treaties to not do offensive biological weapons they had an offensive biological weapons program. It was based in the Chinese People's Liberation Army at an entity called the academy of military medical sciences specifically the 5th institute. The State Department declared that in a document in 2005. Over the decade after they made that declaration, wide open evidence that the MMS that academy we just talked about was working with the Wuhan institute of virology, the place where we think the COVID-19 virus worked on. What were they working on? On Anthony Fauci's own site. On the NIH, you can find this. There was a study on anthrax. There was a study, a book, a book that said, coronaviruses as a class are going to be the leading edge of a new era of genetic warfare. That's the Chinese words, not mine. Those are the sort of things that were going on between scientists at the Wuhan institute of virology. And the academy of military medical sciences in China, the place that we said was the epicenter of an illicit bioweapons program, despite all that knowledge, despite all that evidence, no one in the intelligence committee, no one in the national Institutes of health. No one in the State Department stopped it. Millions of dollars flowed from U.S. agencies to the Wuhan institute of virology. And now we're hearing maybe also directly to the academy, the
Mark Levin
CNN Boss Stopped Staff From Reporting Lab Leak Theory
"Credibility crisis writes fox dot com Fox News dot com CNN boss ordered staff not to chase down COVID lab leak theory As pandemic unfolded Then seen in president Jeff Zucker considered the lab leak theory a Trump talking point quote unquote according to an insider CNN has long referred to itself as the most trusted name in news And famously launched its facts first campaign during the Trump era But like many other outlets that sentiment fell by the wayside when it came to the COVID lab leak theory I would argue reality In recent days the theory has been embraced by FBI director Christopher wray and a bombshell report indicated that the U.S. energy department believes the virus likely started in the lab He sent him an express by top Trump administration officials nearly from the outside But in the early months of the pandemic then CNN president Jeff Zucker would not allow his network to chase down the lab leak story because he believed it was a Trump talking point according to a well placed CNN insider This is why this unusual looking moron Jeff mother Zucker needed to go a long time ago
Northwest Newsradio
"energy department" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Is this now getting more attention than now seeming more likely that it was an artificial source? Well, because two major intelligence agencies are now saying this, again, we only have a Wall Street Journal report to say that this energy department report exists. They haven't confirmed it nor is The White House. However, the FBI has indeed confirmed that they feel the same way that it came from a lab leak and whereas the energy department assessment on this is low confidence according to this report. It's more of a medium confidence from FBI director Christopher wray, who we had not heard from publicly say this and he gave an exclusive interview to Fox News and saying that the COVID virus most likely originated from a potential lab incident. That's what he called it. In Wuhan, China. Now he wants more specific about what that incident is. But he did employ that these labs are designed for one thing and that is to find ways to either protect against viruses or in perhaps weaponize them. Now, there's no indication that that is what China did that they decided they're going to make this COVID disease as a weapon and send it out into the world because if it did, it ended up killing a whole lot of its own people, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense. So the theory is now that there was something that leaked from this lab, it absolutely dispelled the other theories which four other U.S. intelligence agencies say are most likely. And that is, is that it was animal to human transmission. It could have been animal to human transmission inside that lab in experiments they were doing. So without China's cooperation, it's not clear that we'll ever get to the bottom of this here and certainly China is not cooperating. However, it is crying foul by these assessments that somehow their lab was responsible for millions of deaths around the world. They're saying it's slander and it's not true. The United States and other countries are saying, okay, prove it. So what is China doing then? Obviously, they're denying this. Have they launched their own investigation into that Wuhan center for virology or what are they doing? Well, they might not have to launch an investigation if they know the answer to it. That's number one. And number two, we don't know what they're doing. They keep saying, they're insistence was that it was an animal to human transmission that it spread pretty quickly. And China, its government and its scientists are not to blame for that, but that's not what we're getting from at least two major agencies here in the United States. In the meantime, there are a lot of Republicans and even growing number of Democrats who are very, very angry with China. That's ABC's Andy field talking with Jeff poggio for more subscribe to the northwest politics available wherever you get your podcasts. The NATO expansion agenda uttered by the alliance chief. They Zaire world headlines from ABC News. On a tryptophan, a session for that country was discussed, then this comment from secretary general Jens Stoltenberg that shared a fuel further escalation in Ukraine. Thanks to all of us, have agreed that Ukraine will become a member of our alliance, but at the same time that is a long-term perspective. Ukraine for years has sought to join the alliance, something president Putin is described as a security threat to his country. Rescuers delved through flatten burned out carriages for survivors and bodies after a passenger train and a freight train crashed head on in central Greece, killing dozens. And Iran has expelled due German diplomats over Berlin's alleged interference in its internal affairs. It comes after Germany expelled two Iranian diplomats over a death sentence handed down on an opposition figure. I'm Tom rivers at the ABC News foreign desk in London. Your stock charts dot com money update on news radio 1000 FM 97 7. So called red flag phrases that signal a high stress or toxic culture are on the rise in job ads and Starbucks
The Trish Regan Show
Did China Really Just Threaten Elon Musk?
"Elon Musk is getting a warning. And it's not from Wall Street. It's from China. So Tesla had its big Analyst Day on Wednesday, kind of a big deal. People were a little disappointed. I think a lot of folks expected that he was going to announce a really tricked out cheap EV that the masses could drive, but that didn't happen. He had some sort of grandiose plans for getting us off of fossil fuels in the future. But again, Wall Street wanted that $25,000 car that was going to be on the market next month. And he didn't come through with that, although a lot of people still say, if you look at the plans, if you look at the plans, it is happening. I do think it will happen. I think that this was not the time or the place for whatever reason for him to tell us about this. So Tesla remains to me a very interesting company. He's a fascinating guy, just truly a visionary and has done so much that he really doesn't get credit for. But China, China's getting a little nervous because you see they don't have the FBI there running Twitter anymore and they don't have Joe Biden being able to exercise his power over Twitter anymore. They don't have the Democrats making sure that you only say certain things. So they may just be up a creek without a paddle now that Elon Musk is in charge of the place because now what we all know the truth. I mean, the FBI came out and said it, the U.S. energy department came out and said it forget that I said it, by the way, three years ago. Oh, that was like no go territory. I'd never seen anything like it. It was actually really freaky. And I would say to friends, I'm like, I'm kind of alarmed like I feel like we live in North Korea.
WLS-AM 890
"energy department" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"But this is Hassan Minaj Same exact thing These guys love government died in the world liberals kiss the ass of the man lips to the ass of the man Until the man says something they don't like And they need to protect their Chinese warlords And it goes against the narrative You get it Here's the same guy attacking the Department of Energy too It's like the talking points went out Take a listen How can you conclude something with low confidence That's not a conclusion I think the word you're looking for is yes By the way conclusion with low confidence is such a boy move You know what I mean Like you're dating someone and they go babe What are we And you're like Sarah I can tell you for sure I don't know Now what's really amazing about this again this guy I don't know I can't say he's funny or not I've heard Colbert enough to know he's not this guy That's 29 seconds of him So I don't know maybe he's funny maybe it's not that particular bit I don't think it was that funny But it's really bizarre that the Chinese Wuhan coronavirus lab where the Wuhan coronavirus originated just miles from He seems to need additional evidence of something else based on a low confidence assessment But yet these same liberals were perfectly willing to run with a pee pee tape hoax that Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to steal an election in the crime of the millennia Despite zero evidence and nobody having any confidence whatsoever because there was nothing to back that up
The Dan Bongino Show
Hasan Minhaj Can't Accept Energy Department's 'Low Confidence'
"But this is Hassan Minaj Same exact thing These guys love government died in the world liberals kiss the ass of the man lips to the ass of the man Until the man says something they don't like And they need to protect their Chinese warlords And it goes against the narrative You get it Here's the same guy attacking the Department of Energy too It's like the talking points went out Take a listen How can you conclude something with low confidence That's not a conclusion I think the word you're looking for is yes By the way conclusion with low confidence is such a boy move You know what I mean Like you're dating someone and they go babe What are we And you're like Sarah I can tell you for sure I don't know Now what's really amazing about this again this guy I don't know I can't say he's funny or not I've heard Colbert enough to know he's not this guy That's 29 seconds of him So I don't know maybe he's funny maybe it's not that particular bit I don't think it was that funny But it's really bizarre that the Chinese Wuhan coronavirus lab where the Wuhan coronavirus originated just miles from He seems to need additional evidence of something else based on a low confidence assessment But yet these same liberals were perfectly willing to run with a pee pee tape hoax that Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to steal an election in the crime of the millennia Despite zero evidence and nobody having any confidence whatsoever because there was nothing to back that up
WTOP
"energy department" Discussed on WTOP
"Fake where you breathe. M street bank dot com. This is WTO P news. 6 53 FBI director Christopher wray says the bureau has assessed that the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic was most likely a potential lab incident in one China. You're talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government controlled lab that killed millions of Americans, and that's precisely what that capability was designed for. Reya did that he believes that Beijing has been working to undermine the investigation from the U.S. and other members of the international community. Bearing there on Fox News, director ray says that the FBI's work on determining where the pandemic originated is continuing, but many details related to the investigation remained classified. His comments come a couple days after the energy department released a report that it determined with low confidence that a lab leak was responsible for the start of the pandemic. After a series of missed deadlines of federal judge has ordered Flint, Michigan to replace any remaining lead or steal water lines by August 1st, U.S. district judge David Lawson signed off on an agreement between the city and the natural resources defense council, which represents residents in long running litigation back to 2016 for 18 months until fall of 2015, Flint was pulling water from the Flint river without treating it to prevent corrosion inside old pipes, led contaminated the system as a result, more than 10,000 pipes have been replaced, though, at least 1000 addresses still haven't been inspected. The city blames the pandemic and the shortage of copper pipe and other materials as reasons for any delay. Sports at 25 and 55 powered by maximus, moving people and technology forward. We've got Dave Preston Preston, what do you got for us? Well, the
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dr. Richard Fleming Unpacks the Energy Department's COVID Findings
"Days, a very strange report came from the Department of Energy, that's weird. Why is the Department of Energy issuing reports about the origins of COVID? Well, the Department of Energy finds that COVID Wuhan leak theory is plausible, but with quote low confidence. That's a very deceiving headline. If you actually read the report, they said that it probably came from a laboratory. Why this is so, they're covering this up and there's a reason they're covering it up. To help explain is doctored Richard Fleming. He's a physicist, a nuclear cardiologist, and an attorney with 53 years of research experience. He has spent decades investigating what causes multiple health problems, including heart disease, cancer, SARS CoV-2 and COVID-19. And he is with us right now. Doctor Fleming, welcome to the program. My pleasure to be here. Thank you for the invitation. So doctor Fleming, do you believe that COVID-19 came from the Wuhan institute of virology? So I have no doubt that the virus SARS CoV-2 which leads to the disease COVID-19. We're paid for by U.S. taxpayers through a variety of agencies and between places in the United States like the university of North Carolina and the Wuhan institute of virology that these viruses were put together because the data shows there's probably three of them that we just called SARS CoV-2 or COVID-19 and everybody said, oh, it's one virus, but it looks like there's three of them. We have the data in the book showing where the money's came from, who published what research, what patents were connected with it, but to critical patents. And it just lays it out and chronological sequence so that you can decide for yourself. You can read the data and Americans are not stupid people. Unlike I think the perspective of the vast majority of politicians in bureaucrats, Americans have the ability to read through material and make sense out of it. If that information is just shared with them.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
US Energy Department Assesses Covid-19 Likely Resulted From Lab Leak
"So it appears. Overwhelmingly likely that the Wuhan virus, as it should have been called, was in fact a Wuhan virus. It didn't merely start there. It was started there. There's a difference. I watched Tucker Carlson's take on this last night, and he played the herd, AKA the left, all saying what nonsense and what conspiratorial thinking it was for anyone to say that the virus began in a Chinese military lab. But it is overwhelmingly likely that it did. It was overwhelmingly likely that it did then. However, to me as big a sin as the Chinese killing 7 million people, 1 million Americans, as big a sin is that is the killing of freedom in America by the left. And this is a perfect example of how they lie and lie and lie and lie and only lie.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Author and TV Pundit Monica Crowley Talks the Issues of the Day
"Guys, I'm really delighted to welcome to the podcast a friend. Monica Crowley. She's a prominent media personality. She was assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Trump administration with Donald Trump, and she is host of the Monica Crowley podcast. Monica, it's a pleasure. We W and I tend to run into you at various events and conferences. I'm really thrilled to have you on the podcast. Let's begin by talking about something that's in just popped into the news coming out of The Wall Street Journal that the U.S. energy department now thinks they're not sure about it, but they think that COVID-19 came out of a lab. In other words, was made in the lab and came out of a lab and I just think to myself, you know, for three years, you people have been demonizing citizens who said this, going after scientists, deplatforming that what do you make of this latest twist? In an ongoing story about this pandemic. First of all, dinesh, thank you so much for having me. You and I are longtime friends, and it's such an honor and a joy to join you today. So thank you so much. Look, to answer your question, it really is the biggest question of them all right now because of what the world was plunged into for three years, starting in late 2019. Anybody with a brain or a common sense knew for the last three years that obviously this virus was a bioweapon. And the questions then emerged about its origins. And we were told nonstop a pack of lies, which continued to this day about the origins of this bioweapon. I think one of the main reasons why we still hear the lies coming from Democrats, the Biden regime, and so on. And the Democrats for the last several years have stopped any investigations into the origins of COVID-19
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"energy department" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"We're going to talk about issues of the day. I'll weigh in on the cancellation of Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert cartoon series. And what's going to happen with project veritas? What is its future? This is the dinesh d'souza show. America needs this voice. The times are crazy, and a time of confusion, division, and lies. We need a brave voice of reason understanding and truth. This is the dinesh d'souza podcast. A blockbuster report in The Wall Street Journal reveals. That the U.S. energy department has concluded that COVID-19 and of course the ensuing pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak. Now, this is according to a classified intelligence report that was recently provided both to The White House and the key members of Congress. And it is a remarkable development because the energy department itself had said before that they didn't know how the virus emerged, but now they think and we'll see what degree of confidence they think that it was in fact a lab leak. Now the energy department says, we're not sure about this. We're not even highly confident. They say we're making this assessment with low confidence, which means we think this is what happened, what we would not attach a high degree of surety, being sure to that. But let's remember that this supports the FBI, whose own analysts came to the conclusion that the pandemic was likely the result of a lab leak. The FBI reached this decision in 2021 with quote moderate confidence in the FBI still holds a few. By the way, there are other agencies of the government that have a different view, apparently the national intelligence panel says they think it was likely. But again, with a low degree of confidence that COVID came out of a natural transmission. And the CIA has said were undecided. We're not going to go one way or the other. So now I just saw a little clip with Stephen Colbert making a fool of himself.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Biden's Energy Dept Concludes Covid-19 Likely Originated in a Lab
"A blockbuster report in The Wall Street Journal reveals. That the U.S. energy department has concluded that COVID-19 and of course the ensuing pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak. Now, this is according to a classified intelligence report that was recently provided both to The White House and the key members of Congress. And it is a remarkable development because the energy department itself had said before that they didn't know how the virus emerged, but now they think and we'll see what degree of confidence they think that it was in fact a lab leak. Now the energy department says, we're not sure about this. We're not even highly confident. They say we're making this assessment with low confidence, which means we think this is what happened, what we would not attach a high degree of surety, being sure to that. But let's remember that this supports the FBI, whose own analysts came to the conclusion that the pandemic was likely the result of a lab leak. The FBI reached this decision in 2021 with quote moderate confidence in the FBI still holds a few. By the way, there are other agencies of the government that have a different view, apparently the national intelligence panel says they think it was likely. But again, with a low degree of confidence that COVID came out of a natural transmission. And the CIA has said were undecided. We're not going to go one way or the other.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Marc Thiessen: The Media Dismissed Anyone Who Believed Wuhan Lab Leak
"Have you ever noticed that when the beast is wrong, they never backpedal the beast, you know, as I call the media and academia and Hollywood and all that. You know how they mocked anybody who suggested that COVID came from a lab leak in Wuhan? Mark Titian pointed out last night with Dana perino and Bill hemmer on Fox News. He's a former George Bush speech writer who writes now for The Washington Post. He's a Fox News regular. He said the media, they didn't just downplay the lab leak theory. I mean, they attacked and even mocked anybody who dared to suggest it. But we have to look at our response and why we got it wrong because it's obviously it's going to happen again at some point because China is not going to become more democratic. They're not going to become more open. They're not going to stop doing this kind of research. So what did we do? Why was our response so bad? And then also why did our public health experts go out and say things that turned out to be completely wrong? And then the other big issue that we really need to do some introspection is is the media. So the media didn't just downplay this. They made fun of people who said this was that this was a possibility. They dismissed it. Of course, we're all reacting to the news that the energy department has now joined the FBI, another big federal agency in believing that COVID that the virus was the result of a Wuhan China lab leak.
Northwest Newsradio
"energy department" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Latest quotient poll shows most Americans support the loan forgiveness program. You would think by store shelves in the New York City area last night, there was a major blizzard on the way or hitting right now. I was like looking everywhere. There's no bread. No eggs. No milk. In reality, it was only a couple of inches of snow, but it's the first measurable snowfall of the year for a New York. The same storm that has moved across the country since last week is over New England now. Printed reports are now saying that the energy department believes with low confidence that the origin of the core of the COVID-19 outbreak was that lab in Wuhan, China, ABC chief medical correspondent doctor Jennifer Ashton, on why it's important to find out. I think that when you experience what the world has experienced with SARS CoV-2, we need to learn our scientific lessons from this. So that we can prevent anything from happening like this again in the near future and that we can learn about how this virus does its damage and without knowing how it started. Its birth story, if you will, we're always going to be hampered to that end and that effect. The worst violence in decades is continuing in the Israeli occupied West Bank this week. You're listening to ABC News. Inside a dimly lit room at the LBJ library in Austin, Texas, emotion sensor triggers a recording and a voice fills the room. Suddenly, there was a sharp loud report. He shot. It's the voice of Lady Bird Johnson, the wife of Lyndon Johnson. He walked to get out. There is no way out. Lady bird recorded her entire experience in The White House. Hours and hours of tape that almost no one has ever heard. And those tapes, they end up rewriting history. This is a story about one of the most influential members of the administration. Even if we never knew it. I wrote it out for London about a 9 page analysis of what I thought his situation was. From best case studios and ABC audio, listen to in plain sight, Lady Bird Johnson, available now wherever you listen to podcasts. We're getting a new look at why the government of Afghanistan collapsed so quickly putting the country back in the hands of the Taliban. Maybe she's Brian Clark with the story. The collapse of the Afghan government was years in the making. That was one finding of a report from a government inspector general, which labeled the 2020 Doha agreement as a key turning point. That was the deal where the Trump administration agreed to reduce the number of air strikes and pledge to leave the country in exchange for concessions from the Taliban, but one Afghan army commander said that deal created feelings of abandonment among the Afghan army, paving the way for the Taliban to retake the country, which it did in August of 2021. Brian Clark, ABC News. The U.S. marshal service has been hit by a ransomware attack, ABC News, justice and Homeland Security reporter Luke Barr reports. We don't know exactly what's missing, but what we do know is that the area in which was access contained law enforcement sensitive material among other things. That is all part of the Justice Department's review, which will be ongoing and is being looked at right now. Officials say hackers got into the systems last month. Police in Massachusetts say a sweet potato has helped them solve a 12 year old murder mystery was found at the scene of the crime and now cops say the DNA of the suspect was pulled from the potato, prosecutors say it was used as a makeshift silencer on a gun that yam. This is ABC News. Your morning's first news
WTOP
"energy department" Discussed on WTOP
"Origin of the COVID-19 virus. CBS Catherine herridge has more cameras went inside the Wuhan labs as the pandemic unfolded three years ago. Now two sources close to the U.S. government probe into the origins of COVID-19 tell CBS News, there is new intelligence that points to an accidental lab leak The sources said the energy department has low confidence in the new reporting, though it's not clear whether that reflects weak data or limited intelligence. The CDC says it has detected an increase in infections caused by a drug resistant stomach bug, it characterizes as a serious public health threat. The latest from CBS Alexander Tim. The bacteria often spread through contaminated food and surfaces or through sex, typically results in only diarrhea and fever that doctors can treat with antibiotics, but the CDC is now warning that the share of shigella infections caused by antibiotic resistant strains has begun to accelerate. According to a White House official, government agencies have been given 30 days to delete TikTok on federal devices. There are security concerns about TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance. 5 people, including two UPS employees, are under arrest accused of trafficking drugs, more from CBS match piper. Through men allegedly collaborated with the UPS workers to traffic packages of cocaine on multiple occasions between March and October of last year in Texas, the attorney says fake labels were made and one worker would store the Coke in his house before it was transported. Police seized approximately 60 kilograms of cocaine allegedly trafficked by the group. UPS tells CBS News, it's aware of the charges against its employees and is cooperating. The
77WABC Radio
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"I told your heart to wait. So is anybody surprised and you are listening to the read of Cosby show and a little bit of a snowy night in New York City, by the way, this weather has been so wild and wacky. Speaking of wacky, boy is Anthony Fauci gonna get on the hot seat again soon. I can't wait for what is it like round 30 with Rand Paul and Doctor Fauci because they've been like, it's like the duke and it out every time in the ring and after the new news today, Anthony Fauci's got a lot of explaining to do. I am not surprised to hear this news, but what I am surprised is that it's the U.S. energy department coming out with this new Intel that basically says that the Wuhan lab leak most likely is the COVID origin. And that basically highlights what the FBI report also said. So now you've got the FBI saying it likely came from the Wuhan lab, the leak that caused COVID, and if you look at the whole thing, a million lives lost in America, 6.8 million around the world, and now we've got the energy department and this is the Biden energy department that's saying this. That's what makes this so powerful. This is the energy of the department that they're basically in charge of chemical and biological weapons. They are tied to the Lawrence Livermore lab, which is a biggie. This is very credible. And so you've got these scientists that are tied to the energy department, looking at it with a scientific eye, and now they are saying that likely COVID was caused from a leak at that Wuhan lab down the street from the wet market. We all thought, wait a minute, it's just, it can't be starting by a bat in the wet market. Remember everybody was saying there's no way it's too potent. It's hopping from human to human too quickly. It just doesn't make sense. Even Robert Redfield, remember the CDC director was like, no, this is so potent. This is so strong. This is so toxic. There's no way it's probably more likely from a lab. It is probably more man-made. And remember, Doctor Fauci on all those hearings was like, no way. It's not that. I don't know what you're talking about with gain of function. I have no clue what you're talking about. And then they started presenting these documents that through eco health, and all these sort of secondhand suddenly it trails back to grants that basically came from the NIH and that Fauci was a part of. That sort of circuitously somehow, according to many reports, showed up and were tied to research of gain of function at the Wuhan lab. So you put all of this together and it's no surprise that at this point you say, wait a minute, why was Fauci so quick to discount this? Why was he so fast to basically say, oh, it had to have come from an animal. There's no way. It came from a lab. Remember, he was just so quick to say that. And everybody knew, why is any open minded? I mean, I thought, hey, look, I'm not a scientist. I thought maybe it came from an animal, but it sure seems awfully toxic. And I don't believe in coincidences, and I remember early on thinking that is really odd that there's that lab down right down the street from the Wuhan market that does this gain of function research. And I don't believe again that it just happened to be located down the street and remember some of the doctors that were tied to that lab, suddenly they went missing, never to be seen again, and then remember a couple doctors also came out and said, oh, it could be man-made. It could be research. Suddenly, they're nowhere to be seen again, whether they were tied to the lab or not. So there are some really serious questions and I think it is really powerful that now we are hearing from the energy department who is saying, yes, it looks like potentially it could come from their likely it is. That's sort of the language that we're hearing. Again, it's not a 100% conclusive, and that's what The White House is claiming. They're like, oh, you know what? We're not sure. And what a bunch of hogwash we heard today from President Biden during The White House briefing via John Kirby, his poor spokesperson who has to defend him because he kept saying, you know, President Biden has from day one wanted to get to the bottom of COVID origins. Is there anybody out there who actually thinks that Joe Biden has been trying to get to the bottom of COVID origins? And has been tough on China and saying, hey, could you at least send in inspectors so we could look at the lab? Could you send an inspector to even look at the wet market? How about a bat cave? We'll take anything. We'll take even saying hi to Batman in China, whatever it is. Whatever you can do. But this president has an even really talked about COVID with the president of China when he has talked to him. He's afraid to go after him over a Chinese Bible, and you think he's going to ask him about COVID that was responsible for 6.8 million deaths around the world. And now tonight, China has the audacity to say that America is smearing them. Are you kidding me? Can you imagine if it had started in the United States? If suddenly COVID began in America, China and everybody else would be raising holy heck and demanding that people get in. And we would want to have inspectors come in and try to get to the bottom of it. We wouldn't be hiding it like China is. But yet China tonight still has refused to let inspectors in, there refuse to letting anybody even from the WHO and they've been pretty easy on China. And then we've got Joe Biden who's not even really pushing it either either. This is really a formula for disaster and I feel bad for all of us because we deserve answers. People who lost loved ones. My goodness, you all deserve answers. I lost friends from COVID. You know, all of us had somebody who we knew or relative friend, somebody we worked with, who was touched by it, devastated by it. Don't you think? How about people who lost family members in nursing homes? All of these things. Everybody deserves answers. And yet our president is like, well, doesn't seem to want to get off his butt sort of like Ohio, by the way, with the train derailment. He has he did a zoom. Remember he said, oh, that should suffice. What is he going to do? A zoom with China at some point and say, that's enough? Well, it's interesting because here it is. All this time later, and now we are hearing from the energy department, basically corroborating what the FBI said and now Doctor Fauci sort of nowhere to be seen. What a surprise. But guess who was on it? And let's see if the Biden administration or anybody
WTOP
"energy department" Discussed on WTOP
"Three 15, I'm Sean Anderson, thanks for being with us The COVID-19 pandemic was the result of a leak at a Chinese lab. That is what the Department of Energy is telling The White House and key members of Congress, this new theory for what began the pandemic was reported by The Wall Street Journal. And joining us live to talk about it all, national security reported for The Wall Street Journal, Warren strobel, who broke the story of Warren good to have you. Thank you so much. Good afternoon. Thanks for having me. So the energy department was previously undecided on the source of this. What happened to change their opinion here? Well, the U.S. intelligence community collected some new information that led them to change their assessment, what exactly that intelligence was. We are still trying to find out it's classified and they're not telling us, but it's definitely a shift by one important one important agency. But it's just one important agency, right? There's some disagreement over whether or not other agencies believe this. Yeah, absolutely. We tried to make this clear in our story that the U.S. intelligence community, which is 18 separate agencies, $90 billion a year. Overall, they are still divided and can not divine can not decide on how the pandemic began, whether it was a lab leak or whether it was a natural transmission from an infected animal to humans. And they are still also considering the spread via animals through natural transmission as well. That's still on the table. We don't have anything definitive on this yet still. Yes, absolutely. Our story we think was another piece that in the puzzle, another portion of the picture, but it's by no means, I don't think the U.S. intelligence community or anybody else, except for perhaps the Chinese government. Knows how this pandemic, which killed so many people and was so economically destructive, began. So Warren, what are we supposed to glean from this? The energy says yeah, you know, they think it leaked from that lab in Wuhan, but there's still so much uncertainty in the other agencies. How are we supposed to handle this? Yeah, that's a really good question. Hillary, I think the first point here is this is an ongoing investigation. The question isn't settled. It's not dead. Many agencies of the U.S. government and indeed other entities around the world are still trying to get to the answer, so this may be brings us a little close to the answer close to the answer. But there's a lot of work left to do and some people think we might never know unless the Chinese government shares more of what it knows. And the Chinese government has been very reluctant to share any information, hasn't it. Yeah, they have. They say they have shared information, but in fact, I think a lot of people believe that they limited the investigation by the World Health Organization. They've criticized our story as of yesterday. They're very critical of anything that suggests there might have been a lab leak and I think most people think they have not been as forthcoming as they could be. So bottom line, we still don't know. It could be lab leak. It could be natural transmission, but there's a lot left to learn. Very quickly before we go, is it possible that the government, even if it believed what the energy department is saying if the other agencies don't want to sign on for political reasons, as not to rile China? That's a good question. We haven't found any evidence of that, but obviously if the intelligence community department FBI and others come to the conclusion of elaborate, that poses a very difficult political and foreign policy question for President Biden. Warren, thanks for joining us. Appreciate it. Thanks so much. Thank you. Warren strobel national security reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Traffic and weather on the 8 tiers Dave dildine. And brandy wine, a crash resulted in a
Bloomberg Radio New York
"energy department" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Major problem for the economy, but Paul has asked about it as a news camera and said, I'm not going to talk about it. There's only one solution just raise it. The fun thing going on. What we do. The fun thing going forward is that a lot of the experts think they're going to push the debt ceiling to the end of the fiscal year when they have to pass a new spending bill. And so we will have a debt ceiling crisis at the same time. We have a government shutdown. Wow. You're beaming with good news here. It's Monday. That's Monday news. All right, we're going to leave it on that note. Guys, thank you so much. Really appreciate it. Abigail too little. Oh my God, I'm so depressed. Dead Sunday and government shutdown. Get ready. Abigail, of course, markets reporter at Bloomberg news. And of course, our Michael international economics and policy correspondent here at Bloomberg news joining us in studio. All right, we do want to get to one of the big stories of the day and it certainly was news coming off of the weekend. And I feel like it's something, you know, Maddie that we've talked about before when it comes to China and the coronavirus. Yeah, it's a really critical story. The idea that China's government rejected a U.S. energy department assessment that the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated with a lab leak. The energy department which had previously been undecided on the origins of the pandemic joined the FBI saying the virus likely spread via a mishap and The Wall Street Journal reported exactly that yesterday. Well, our next guest had talked about this back in April of 2020. He came out. Saying that the most likely starting point of the coronavirus crisis wasn't accidental leak from one of the Chinese virology Institutes in Wuhan, great to have back with us. Jamie metzl founder and chair of the global social movement, one shared world and Atlantic council senior fellow. He's worked at the U.S. National Security Council, the State Department, the Senate foreign relations committee so much, you should check out his bio. We're so delighted to have back with us. Jamie, he joins us via Zoom. Jamie, it is good to have you here with Maddie and myself. You saw this headline. You've been front and center for a long time about the virus and where it came from. To see that journal headline, tell me how you're thinking about this to see it once again in the headlines. Well, Carol, it's nice to speak with you again. You and I have been talking about this for years now. As you said, when introing me from the earliest days of the pandemic, it was pretty clear that a lab origin was at least a very serious hypothesis that needed to be fully investigated. And now, with more and more, albeit circumstantial evidence, it seems that the weight of the available evidence, which is imperfect, is leaning increasingly toward a possible lab origin of the pandemic. That doesn't mean a bioweapon, it means a lab accident and obviously then followed by what I've been calling it a criminal cover up, the Department of Energy has an America's leading national laboratories, many of your listeners will have heard of the Lawrence Livermore national lab. They have some of the top scientists in the world, and it's fantastic that they have been continuing to investigate, and they have shifted their perspective toward believing that a lab origin is more likely than not, which is, of course, what I've always believed. What would you say is the single biggest piece of evidence that makes you feel like you said that it was a lab accident and a mistake and not necessarily something more intentional. So it just wouldn't make sense. It's just logic. If China was developing a bioweapon and then intentionally released it, everybody knows that you can't control a deadly pathogen like this. It just wouldn't make sense. And we don't need to bend over backwards. We can use occam's razor in trying to understand what happened because we know that the SARS CoV-2 virus ancestrally comes from a type of horseshoe bats that don't exist in Wuhan, their natural habitat is more than a thousand miles away. We know that the Wuhan institute of virology had the world's largest collection in the laboratory of SARS like viruses. We know that they were doing basically research and experiments attaching cleavage sites able to infect human cells to SARS like viruses. And then in the exact city where they're doing exactly that, we have an outbreak of a virus exactly like what they were intending to create, not to release, but I'm guessing as part of a research program with the intention of developing some kind of pan coronavirus vaccine. And so I don't know if you or your listeners heard that the entertaining rant of Jon Stewart on the Colbert show, but he says, wait a second, the virus and the lab have the same name. I mean, it's very, very funny, but it's an unimaginable coincidence that this could happen in the same place. And the more that we've learned, the more it's just seemed for me more likely than not that this does come from a lab origin. Jamie, why is it important for us to know exactly where this virus came from? It's a really important question Carol, because some people could say, well, it maybe it came from a market, maybe it came from a lab. Let's have better lab
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Lab Leak Most Likely Cause of Pandemic
"Lab leak, most likely origin of COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Department of Energy says that's The Wall Street Journal headline. The New York Times headline. Lab leak, most likely cause pandemic energy department says. Remember the energy department runs our national laboratories, three of them. And they know of which they speak when it comes to big picture science items. And they're not politicized in the same way that CDC is. It's really a hard work and agency run usually by among the best on the business on both parties and they are very serious about this lab leak and I'll be talking with former Secretary of State about this later in the day. Mike Pompeo will join me.
The Ben Shapiro Show
"energy department" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"Department and FBI finally admit COVID-19 probably started in a Chinese lab. Joe Biden still can't answer why he won't go to east Palestinian and left proves that racism is just fine so long as it's against white people. I'm Ben Shapiro, this is the Benjamin show. So you remember that time for like two years you couldn't say that COVID-19 probably started in a Chinese lab. Now, the evidence was there very early on that there was a high probability that COVID-19 started in a Chinese lab. Number one, it was covered up by the Chinese government since the very earliest days. And even people who are considered sort of mainstream establishment COVID figures were saying as much if you go all the way back to 2020. There were people who are looking at the actual genetic coding of COVID-19 and they were saying, there are a lot of hallmarks here that do not look as though this is naturally changing in the bat population. In fact, no one can actually find COVID-19 in the bad population, but the going fury was that it was some rando who ate a bat or something. And that is what generated COVID-19. And in fact, we were supposed to believe that China was so wildly confident that it didn't happen at their lab, but they could find the one bat and one dude Ozzy Osbourne's style have bit the head off of or's eating bat soup or something. And that is the reason why COVID-19 broke out among the population. The thing that we know, by the way, is that the state of China was actually prohibiting information about the virus, which they knew about. In like October of 2019, like literally months in advance, and they're trying to warrant a repressive totalitarian communist dictatorship. Then COVID-19 probably doesn't break out of its borders and it certainly doesn't kill millions of people. Instead, China lied and literally millions of people died because China lied. And it turns out now, of course, that the most likely scenario for COVID-19 is that it was developed in the Wuhan lab and that it leaked outside. Now, this is starting to become sort of a more mainstream idea over the course of the last year and a half or so you had even people like Jon Stewart doing rants on late night television about how there's literally one institute of virology in the entire area. I mean, we're talking about the global area and just happens to be in Wuhan. And this is exactly the epicenter of this pandemic. But you'll remember that from the very early days, if you mentioned this sort of thing, you were considered out of bounds. Well, now here is the breaking news. According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. energy department has concluded that the COVID pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to The White House and key members of Congress. The shift by the energy department, which previously was undecided on how the virus emerge is noted in an update to a 2021 document by director of national intelligence Avril Haines. The new report highlights how different parts of the intelligence community have arrived at disparate judgments about the pandemic's origin. The energy department now joins the FBI and saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese lab. For other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge who was likely the result of a natural transmission to our undecided. The energy department's conclusion is the result of new intelligence. It's significant because the agency has considerable scientific expertise and overseas network of U.S. national laboratories. Some of which actually conduct advanced biological research. Now, the energy department did make the judgment with quote unquote low confidence. The FBI previously came to a conclusion the pandemic was likely the result of a lab leak in 2021 with a moderate confidence and still holds to that view. Now again, the other possibilities seem a lot less likely. Because there is no train of transmission that shows that COVID-19 a version of it existed in the bat population then it sort of gradually became human oriented. And then was transmissible via humans. The national intelligence council, which conducts long-term strategic analysis, and for agencies which officials declined to identify still assessed with low confidence, the virus came about through natural transmission. Now, this was not a biological weapons program per se, but it turns out that when you are scrolling around the viruses and when you are China and you essentially unleash a worldwide Chernobyl, that is quite a bad thing. Now remember, at the very beginning of the pandemic, there were, in fact, scientists who are writing two Anthony Fauci and saying to him, this thing looks engineered. And then Anthony Fauci took a leading role in preventing the information from being disseminated. Because he was of the belief, apparently. That if that information got out, that would endanger our relationship with China, that this would somehow blow back on him because the NIH had been providing, obviously, funding to Chinese laboratories, including the Wuhan institute of virology for what he says was not gain of function research, but was clearly a form of gain of function research. The intercept reported, all the way back in January of 2022, that Republicans on the House committee on oversight and reform released a letter painting a damning picture of U.S. government officials wrestling with weather, the coronavirus may have leaked out of a lab. They were funding, acknowledging it may have, and then keeping the discussion from spilling out into public view. There's a letter signed by James comer of Kentucky and Jim Jordan of Ohio, and was followed by pages of notes on emails that were first obtained through the freedom of information act by BuzzFeed and The Washington Post, but then were heavily redacted in June 2021. Those redacted emails included the agenda for a February 1st at 2020 telephone conference between Anthony Fauci, his then boss at the NIH Francis Collins and several of the world's leading virologists. The communications contained extensive notes summarizing what was said during the call, but their substance was hidden during the time. Apparently on that call, virologist Michael farzan and Robert Gary told Fauci and Collins. The virus may have leaked from the Wuhan lab. It might have been genetically engineered the transcription of Gary's notes suggests, but this now seems unlikely. Another possibility was that it could have been involved in the lab through a process known as serial passage. The two methods represent two different ideas behind the so called lab leak hypothesis. Well, not long. After that particular call, actually the day before the call Scripps research infectious disease expert Christian Anderson had worn Fauci, the virus might have been engineered in a lab and they agreed to have a call. Well, not long after the call, Anderson then wrote a paper in nature magazine titled proximal origin of SARS COVID two. And one of those possible transmission vectors was in fact the lab leak. On February 2nd, Jeremy ferrar and infectious disease expert and director of welcome sent around notes, including the Fauci and Collins summarizing what some of the scientists had said on the call. And apparently, again, this issue came up. And Anthony Fauci was encouraged. Not to actually say anything about the lab leak hypothesis. And in fact, to downplay the lab leak, hypothesis, as they discussed, what to present to the public. The scientists determined questions of potential lab origin might prove more in trouble than they were worth. Ron faucher a virologist at the erasmus MC center for viral science in the Netherlands said, given the evidence presented and the discussions around it, I would conclude a follow-up discussion on the possible origin of COVID-19 would be of much interest. Years earlier, Fauci is gain of function research had brought the discipline under fire, from 2011 experiment in which he infected ferrets with avian influenza virus, allowing it to become airborne, and in fact mammals. But Fauci wrote further debate about such accusations, would unnecessarily distract top researchers from their active duties and do unnecessary harm to signs in general and science in China in particular, harm science. Thus audience would be harmed if he left she talked about this stuff. China would be harmed if people actually talked about this stuff.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"energy department" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"I want to be clear, we are not yet seeing inflation going down to target fast enough. So central banks need to stay the course until we are comfortable that price stability is returning. It is heading now to wrong way. The market indicators start him haggling the wrong way to break events. Now we're seeing actual and survey indicators are heading the wrong way. So I think the market and more importantly, people in the street are starting to doubt whether the fed can deliver the 2%. The IMF's crystalline georgieva and Bloomberg opinions, Muhammad el Arian, with their thoughts on the battle against inflation being waged by central banks around the world. And it looks as if we've taken a leg to the upside on the inflation narrative. Well, the U.S. energy department has reportedly identified an accidental laboratory leak as the most likely origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. That is according to Wall Street Journal, let's get to our senior rapport at Michel Cortes. Michelle, as well as the question I asked myself, is I've heard this before, it's been thrown around as a theory at the start, right the way through. So what is new in the journal story? So the journal has reported that they that the energy department has received additional information that points to the lab leak theory. What specifically it is was not disclosed, but we do know that there is something that three years into the pandemic, there was a new piece of information that changed the perspective of the energy department in terms of what they believe caused COVID-19 to emerge. We do know that other government agencies are not on board in the U.S. that there are competing theories even among U.S. intelligence, agencies, whether they're going to get to some kind of conclusion about that is still to be determined. But the fact that there is new information coming three years in is pretty significant at this point. So how does this affect the course ahead in terms of the belief of U.S. intelligence agencies and understanding the source of an event like this? So the U.S. and the World Health Organization and others are still really trying to dig into this. They are trying to get additional information to find out what could have happened. But of course we are three years into the pandemic at this point. And a lot of the information that we would have needed. A lot of the samples and the studies that needed to be done should have gotten going years ago at this point. So they are still working, they're reaching out to China. They have China has gotten a lot of pushback from the World Health Organization and others for not being more collaborative and we'll see they are actually getting some criticism some skepticism around some of these, the fact that they're not working with international bodies and the argument is is that if they didn't have anything to hide, they would be more collaborative. So people who were originally writing off many of these allegations as conspiracy theories are now starting to rethink it a little bit. So we'll have to see what goes on here in the days and weeks to come. Michelle always fantastic to get you to contribute to our program. That's our senior medical reporter Michelle Cortez. I want to get you back to this part of the world, the big picture overview of Middle East equity markets, where we saw the Saudis that that will post a 6th consecutive day of losses, the one stock that bucked the decline was a 10% rise in Middle East healthcare. We were speaking to the CEO and the last hour, there are annual profit more than quadrupled the EGX up 1.2%, so a lot of anxiety around the Egyptian power mass. Yeah, it's interesting to go back of America a huge note from them that it's called the desert bull. So they are so bullish on GCC bombs and the war and war and surplus dividend here. Quick checkout on the bond market. I mean, the rap sheet for inflation really just grows worse. What is the penalty from the fed is what I ask myself. This is what you're looking at. Both two and ten year yields rise. You're looking at two year yields. I mean, for digits, you're trading through the 2022 peak that we saw last November. Sort of 15 year high. And the market is now pricing beyond the dot plot that we saw in December. Of course, bullet, his comments. We'll hear more of those a little bit later on. Move quickly now, reestablish credibility, more game theory, less econometrics. So bonds are on the move. We'll check in on those thread in the morning. This is. Wake up and 92% of households
Bloomberg Radio New York
"energy department" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Right, thank you very much, Douglas, U.S. says it is still not sure whether China Xi Jinping plans to supply weapons to Russia reports have she traveling to Moscow this week. We're going to see whether that comes off. For Northern Ireland, a deal with a European Union or a trade barriers could be struck as early as tomorrow an announcement coming. A recent spate of mass illnesses at girls schools in Iran indeed was caused by a deliberate poisoning. That is a senior Iranian health official telling Farr's news. A report today, the U.S. energy department is reportedly saying that the COVID pandemic's origin was most likely a laboratory leak mishap in China. This is a Wall Street Journal report to now, joining us live is a Bloomberg global healthcare correspondent Michelle Cortez, Michelle, thank you so much for making the time for us. Now this has not been confirmed by energy yet about the wording of the report according to a Wall Street journalist bit vague now listen to a number of interviews today. It goes from low confidence to moderate to most likely. Any way to break this down to what it really means at this point? Well, it's such a great question. And it is a mystery this report is a mystery and in fact the origins of the outbreak remain in mystery at this point. What we know about this particular report is that the energy department, which does have laboratories that do this kind of research into coronaviruses and other possible weapons of mass destruction, biological, like that type of work. They got some additional new intelligence, and that's why they refined their decision. They had earlier said that they were uncertain. Now they're saying they believe that it's a lab leak that that is makes sense. That's what they're thinking it is. The energy department, according, of course, to The Wall Street Journal. But that they have a low confidence. So they did get some new information. Now they're joining the FBI that also thinks that lab leak is the most likely explanation, but the rest of the intelligence agencies do not agree with them, so we have intra agency fighting as far as what the actual result is, and until we get more information on this, we're just not going to know. And even then, probably, unless we find the source of the outbreak, we probably aren't going to know. Yeah, and I say director Jake Sullivan today was on CNN and he really danced around the thing, saying this is all a part of what President Biden apparently feels is Intel to investigate. So he didn't straighten it out. Well, and of course, China is denying this. China has said right from the beginning that this was not China has said that it was definitely not a lab leak, certainly everyone agrees that it wasn't anything intentionally done on the part of China, especially because of situations like they weren't aware that it was coming and other information that people believe that it was not an intentional and intentional leak out of a lab in China. But we do know that there is additional information that's coming, China has said right from the beginning that it was not from the lab at all. It wasn't an accidental leak. They think it might have come in on frozen food from a different country. And in fact, whenever we see allegations like this coming to the four out of the U.S., they start turning it back and saying, oh, maybe it came from fort Dietrich, which is where the U.S. does a lot of its intelligence research work and so I imagine we might see that in the next couple of hours, something along the lines of China saying, look at yourself, of course, no evidence whatsoever of that. So is it fair to say a very little bit of smoke at this point, but not seeing any flame at all? I suppose. I'll say that. You don't have to. Meanwhile, let's go to Macau and Hong Kong, easing some mask restrictions. The first Macau. So Macau has eased its master restrictions. The two places I believe the only places in the world, it is a topic of hot controversy here in Hong Kong amongst my team. I think that pretty much everyone else is done. Like how dropped outdoor mask mandates at this point, the in Hong Kong, we have outdoor mask mandates and indoor mask mandates, the news out this morning is that they might be getting rid of that by early March, of course, just last week they renewed it for another two weeks in Hong Kong. So we don't know what's going to happen when Hong Kong is going to drop it. They say they want to, fingers crossed, and Macau still indoors, but they have let go of their outdoor mask mandate. And again, and again, let's put qualifier on this. The Hong Kong report, well, at first, I saw it SCMP report last week this week, now it's Ming Powell so far. There hasn't been an official announcement, has her. No, the only thing that officially came was the renewal of the actual mask mandate. So there was an intentional decision made to continue it through March 8th. So that's when we're going to get the news out. They officials have been asked about it. The report last week that said at the end of March, the wording there was, at the end of the season, what Hong Kong authorities say they're worried about is that once we put our masks down, we're going to start getting a surge not only of coronavirus of COVID, but also other viral infections that we haven't had yet. And that's what they're trying to avoid. Yeah, all right. Michelle, you are always terrific. Thank you so much for your time. Really appreciate it. That is Michelle Cortez, our global healthcare correspondent here at Bloomberg. Global news powered by more than 2700 journalists
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"In the U.S. last Friday. We had a hot reading on U.S. inflation. That triggered a spike in yields across the curve and it rattled the equity market quite a bit. The personal consumption expenditures, price index. This is a favorite of the fed we know it as the PCE. It was up 5.4% from last year, and if that were not enough, U.S. consumer spending in January jumped by the most in nearly two years. So if you look at the short end of the curve, the two year rose by more than ten basis points to four 81 that's the highest that we have seen in yield terms in 16 years in the swaps markets now, pricing in three 25 basis point fed rate hikes over the next three meetings. We have some dollar strength, the yen weakness right now the end one 36 28. If you look at the market in Sydney, we are lower with the ASX 200 down about 8 tenths of 1%. We'll take another look at markets in 15 minutes. Let's get to Ed Baxter next for a look at global news headlines at all right, thank you Doug a recent spate of mass illnesses at girls schools in Iran indeed was caused by deliberate poisoning. This is according to a senior Iranian health official and he was telling Farr's news. At least 45 people had died when their wooden boat smashed into rocky reefs and broke apart off of southern Italy, the boat from turkey. U.S. energy department is saying the COVID pandemic's origin was most likely a laboratory leak mishap in China. This is a Wall Street Journal report now. Joining us live, though, as a Tony chuck, Tony, thank you so much. The wording of this report seems to be a bit vague. I've listened to a number of interviews today, watch them, and it goes from low confidence to moderate to most likely, any way to break this down to see what it really means. Well, Ed, I wonder the people have tried to break that down at least from The White House's vantage point was Jake Sullivan, who was President Biden's national security adviser, basically said something that I think we've known, which is that there's a range of views in the U.S. intelligence community on this. And he didn't comment directly or specifically on The Wall Street Journal report. But the point is that Really. right now there is no definitive answer on whether this was a lab leak or a natural. Source for the COVID-19 outbreak. And that's really where this fits in, what that story did say, though, was that the U.S. energy department, which has under its wing, the U.S. national laboratories shifted its position somewhat to arrive at this conclusion that is now being reported today, then again, the energy department is only one voice among several. Is this based on new intelligence or is this just the continuing investigation that Sullivan talked about? That wasn't that clear. I mean, it was presented as new evidence or new intelligence what that really means in detail isn't clear and I think part of the problem I suppose are part of the issue here is that since it is intelligence, it's always hard for the government or a government to come out and say, oh, and here's where laying bare exactly where all of this came from and the sources of our information, which is something that Sullivan also alluded to. But yes, it is, it was presented as a shift based on new unspecified new information. Got it. And of course, we should note that China has in the past tonight any kind of thought insinuation allegation whatever you want to call it. That's right, yeah. I mean, China has bristled at the suggestion that this could have come as has been circulating in various places for years now that it might have come from a lab in China. Now, and this comes as president Xi Jinping is going to travel to Moscow and the United States if I can characterize this way has been piling on trying to convince China not to provide weapons to Russia. We're running a story that says it puts China in kind of an awkward position. Is this all just part of that? It is. And it's been a narrative now coming or a theme that's been coming out of the Biden administration at very high levels for more than a week you'll recall that before that we had the upper over the Chinese balloon that flew over the United States, which the U.S. said was a spy balloon and the Chinese said was whether Kraft on astray, then that led into this meeting in Munich a week ago or so. Where Secretary of State Anthony blinken met China's top link from that Wang Yi and this resulted in this morning to the Chinese that they should not consider arming Russia in so many words. This has been playing out now for days. And I think it's all a matter of the administration trying to ensure that China does not, if you like, open a second front in this war against Russia. And also warning of the consequences of more tension between the world's two biggest economic powers. All right, Tony, well said, and thank you for the perspective and clearing as much up as we can clear up at this point and as
WTOP
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"War. Coming up after traffic and weather, the top stories were following for you this hour. A Maryland teen who was charged with kidnapping after stealing a car with a three year old inside was arrested that same day for a separate theft. The energy department has concluded that COVID pandemic most likely arose from a lab leak in China. That's according to classified intelligence reports. China hasn't yet provided weapons to Russia and Ukraine, but the U.S. says doing so would be a mistake. Stay with WTO for more on these top stories in just minutes. It's one 48. Traffic and weather on the 8s, here's rob stallworth and the WTO traffic center. New problem as you leave the district had an eastbound en route 50 crash at two O two land over road, crowding the right lane in the off ramp is actually blocked so move over to the left because a is the law and if you have a brain aneurysm, you might want to just take your time and move over to the left in order to give people room to work eastbound 50 near two O two land over road. Southbound BW Parkway still delays leaving one 98 headed down toward powder mill row, but that crash is cleared to the right shoulder. You're traveling to open. Northbound has the rubber necking delays as you leave green belt road headed toward powder mill road, north and I 95 delays, headed past the Howard county rest area would travel in open and available there. No issues on the beltway in Montgomery county, seeing some slowdowns on two 70 southbound as your head passed 85 down toward 80 may have a crash within a delay there so watch out for that. Otherwise, in Virginia, the beltway remains pretty cool between Alexandria and mcclain, the issue remains southbound on I 95 with delays, leaving newington headed across the aqa Quan and down one 23 within a delay, crash activity on the right shoulder near route one in woodbridge drawing some attention as well. Further north on I 95, watch with delays leaving thornburgh headed into Fredericksburg once you get past the rapping handling river, you should be much better as you continue toward the Springfield interchange, no problems on I three 95 for now. You guys are pretty safe on the Prince William Parkway northbound near balls Ford road. You may be under police direction for the crash. Thanks to players like you, the Maryland lottery's first 50 years have been golden, so they're celebrating the new gold multiplier scratch offs. There's over $41 million in total cash prizes, so please play responsibly. I'm rob stallworth, WTO traffic. Storm team four meteorologist clay Anderson. For our afternoon, we'll have continued sunshine across the area, temperatures will be rising to the mid to upper 50s, winds from the Southwest
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"With highs only getting into the 30s. We'll stay in that temperature range until the weekend when we will see the 40s again. I'm Kelly bier and that's a look at your northwest news radio weather. Gas prices are down a bit as the end of February approaches ABC's Alex stone reports. Americans are now paying 15 cents a gallon less than a year ago at this time, according to new data from the energy department about a year ago, prices started skyrocketing because of the conflict in Ukraine in the past week, the price of regular unleaded went down one cent to three 38 a gallon nationwide, but that decline hasn't been everywhere in California prices rose 9 cents in the past week. The average price of regular unleaded in California is at four 52 a gallon. Alex stone, EBC news. The Oscars will have a crisis communications team this year after last year's incident when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. The academy CEO says a rapid response team will be on set during the march 12th award ceremony. He told Time Magazine the organization realized it needs to be prepared for events that aren't planned during the ceremony. ABC entertainment news. Stranger Things was one of last year's big streaming hits, and chances are millions watched it without a Netflix account. We can't win this war. 11% of people in a new poll admitted to parroting content that, according to a survey done by yugo for variety, that would equate to 23 million people in the U.S. watching something they didn't pay for. The most popular reason for doing so just under 50% saying the cost of content is too high. But no, it comes with the risks, 37% of content steelers say their devices became infected with malware because of the pirating. Liam Neeson is James Bond. He does Rolling Stone, it could have been a thing. He was approached for the role several times, but his girlfriend at the time Natasha Richardson told him if he said yes, they weren't getting married. He thinks it had to do with bond's philandering lifestyle. He's taking themselves in a world tour starting in June and Tel Aviv ending in Vancouver in October. An actor writer and director Jordan Peele is 44 Tuesday. Jason Athens and ABC News, Hollywood. Let me guess. Unknown caller. You could reduce the number of unwanted calls and emails with online
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"Emergency sale amount to 26 million barrels of crude with a delivery's estimated to happen between April and June. It is part of the congressionally mandated sale lawmakers have proved in 2015 for the current fiscal year. The energy department has sought to stop some of the requirements so it can refill the emergency reserve, which currently has 371 million barrels, and will drop to 345 million after this latest release, The White House decided to tap crude from the oil reserve in an effort to lower prices after Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year. Let's check the markets in the Asia Pacific rally underway in Tokyo, the nikkei up about 6 tenths of 1%. We see the SX 200 in Australia up about two tenths of a percent, despite a dip in consumer confidence. Elsewhere, the cost be is up about 8 tenths of a percent in China, the CSI 300 pulling back about a third of a percent. The hang seng index in Hong Kong is flat. Dollar yen, one 32 O 9, not too much of a change since the announcement of the new BOJ governor. And the yield on the ten year treasury, 3.69%. Global news brought to you by 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. In Hong Kong I'm Brian Curtis, this is Bloomberg. Global market news changes in an instant. So don't miss a minute. Listen to Bloomberg radio anytime anywhere around the world on the iHeartRadio app. Tune in, the Bloomberg business app and Bloomberg dot com. From Bloomberg news and iHeartRadio, it's the big take. I'm West Coast soba. Today, more people are working from home, and that has some cities, very nervous. We've talked a few times on this podcast about the tug of war between companies and employees over flexible work arrangements
Mark Levin
Biden's Policies Is to Blame for High Oil Prices, Not Putin
"I mean we used to import about 5% of Putin's oil big deal But we became energy independent And so Biden says as long as the war is going on with Russia and Ukraine the price of gas will be high No as long as he has his foot on the throat of the oil industry the price will be high The oil industry is saying that it's Biden's policies the policies of his commie radicals at the EPA At the interior department at the energy department and everywhere else that is preventing them from doing what they need to do expanding Expanding refineries expanding drilling locations And so the Putin the butanoic then say effectively Ukraine's fault So Biden's blaming Putin and the pute noids are blaming the Ukrainians Why are we helping them Why are we giving them money Why are we supporting Because they're under attack They're an ally They're being destroyed Morons and on top of that Putin has said he has said in writing last year Intends to go through Ukraine and then what Eastern Europe The rest of Eastern Europe Good chunk of it anyway Duh
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Solar Energy Could Power 40% of US Electricity by 2035
"A new federal report says solar energy could provide as much as forty percent of the nation's electricity in fifteen years but it would require billions of dollars in federal investment the energy department says the US installed a record fifteen gigawatts of solar generating capacity last year it shifts toward renewable dominant power grid to address the threat of climate change solar now represents just over three percent of the electrical supply but energy secretary Jennifer grant Holmes says solar could produce enough to power all homes in the U. S. by twenty thirty five to do that however the department's renewable energy laboratory says the country would need to quadruple its annual solar capacity installing thirty gigawatts per year between now and twenty twenty five double the current rate and sixty gigawatts double again over the following five years Ben Thomas Washington
AP News Radio
Trump Showerhead Rule to Increase Water Flow Being Dropped
"The Biden administration is reversing a drop ever rule on the amount of water that can flow from shower heads so much for Donald trump's quest for perfect hair with president Biden office the energy department is going back to a standard on the amount of water flow from shower heads it reverses a rule proved after former president Donald Trump complained he wasn't getting wide enough so what do you do you just stand there longer you take a shower longer is my hero but you would have to be perfect since nineteen ninety two federal law has dictated that no shower heads should not pour out more than two point five gallons of water per minute the Obama administration redefined the restrictions as newer shower fixtures came out with multiple nozzles the changes being lauded by consumer and environmental advocates who say it'll help people save money while reducing water and energy use the rule change will have little practical effect since nearly all commercially made showerheads comply with the twenty thirteen rule Jennifer king Washington
Cyber Security Headlines
Biden Rushes to Protect Power Grid as Hacking Threats Grow
"Fbi patches server backdoors doors in march microsoft released patches for four newly discovered. Microsoft exchange vulnerabilities. There are being actively exploited by an advanced persistent threat. Group believed to be half him. The attackers were exploiting the vulnerabilities to install web shells that gave them access to the targeted networks. The patches closed the vulnerability but would not remove the web shells themselves so tuesday. The us department of justice announced it received approval from court in houston to copy and remove the web shells from hundreds of microsoft exchange email servers. The fbi conducted the removal by accessing the web shells and issuing a command to the service to remove it. The method only remove the web shells. It did not remove any other mauer that might have been installed through the use of the. Shell iced idea. Looks to fill the imo. Tent malware void. The idea melwert has been spotted in the wild since all the way back in twenty seventeen originally used as a banking trojan also called bach bought similar to imo tech trick bought iced. Id now operates as a malware as a service provider with the shutdown of emo tight security. Researchers have seen a surge in iced idea activity with researchers at checkpoint finding it the second most active where strain for the month of march twenty. Twenty one behind. Drydocks this comes as increasing sophistication mounts as well with microsoft issuing a warning about iced. Id's malware spam campaigns but also seeing abuse of public contact forms use of fake software installers fishing with covid nineteen themes and other vectors. Researchers are increasingly being ide- used by the revival ransomware operators as well draft plan to improve. Us power grid security bloomberg sources say a draft plan to shore up the us power grid. Security would see the government setup incentives for power companies to install new monitoring equipment to detect malicious activity. Share that information with the government identified critical sites that would have an outsized impact on the power grid tact the plan would be voluntary and overseen by the energy department rather than susa