EMERGENCY WH Meeting On Russian Plague Lab Leak As Patients SCREENED

Good morning everybody. Happy Tuesday. We have an amazing show for everybody today. It's good to see you. Emily, do we do we do a a pound? What do we do? All right. >> We still haven't locked down the fascist points. >> Yeah, it's like a little bit of >> I've been listening to this

>> hearts go out to you. >> You Sager was sending his heart to >> Yeah, I was just sending my heart out to everyone. Uh so what do we have here on the show today? We're going to start off with a lab leak update. Uh Annie Jacobson joined us yesterday, expert commentary uh considering her new book

which details a lot of the scenario. So we're dig into more of the details multiple border shutdowns uh around some of this uh surrounding areas um from so Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and other countries either closing or monitoring travelers of a complete information shutdown coming inside of Russia. They are denying officially plague quote rumors which many people joked is

absolutely uh confirmation that all of it is true. And the uh secretary of state and other highle US officials uh kind of sounding not officially the alarm but calling out Russia uh considering and pressing for more information. So obviously if we've lived through COVID we're going to monitor these signals very very closely and

we'll give you all of the information that we have so far. Uh next we're going to talk about all the developments that are currently happening in the Middle East. Specifically though, we're going to start with Yemen where it appears overnight that the Houthis did retake much of the territory which was taken from them from Saudi Arabia, Saudi

Arabia's back forces in the quote Yemeni government. Additionally, more signs that the US government is heavily backing both intelligence and the military campaign of Saudis against the Houthis in addition to some increasing crunch in the oil markets and some at least current uh signs that the East West pipeline from Saudi Arabia has been