griff: hour two, here we go, i m griff jenkins. aiming to keep the focus on the latest jobs report amid the fallout. lucas tomlinson is live on the north lawn with the latest. reporter: good afternoon. all week the white house has refused to rule out the biden family from its list of suspects of who brought cocaine into the white house. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre even called it irresponsible to even can th. earlier you had a former justice department attorney asking the question that many americans are asking today. she s the one that s irresponsible in not giving a direct answer. it s very simple to come out and say no member of the biden family had anything to do with this cocaine, and the white house intends to insure that whatever staff member or guest put this cocaine in the white house is fully prosecuted under the law. we ve not heard that from the white house press office, and you have to wonder, why not? reporter: there s the question. now,
suspects or somebody formally charged, that remains to be seen. and one more thing about those clust orer bombs, the reason why the ukrainians so urgently want those cluster bombs is they re needed for the anti-personnel capability because these russian forces have dug over 600 miles of temperature trenches along the trenches in eastern ukraine, and their 155 rounds are running short. they want these cluster bombs to disperse millions of little bomblets, needed to take out the russian fors and get this counteroffensive moving. right now u.s. officials say the war in ukraine has ground to a stalemate. griff? griff: great insight. we ll ask the ambassador about that in moments. lucas tomlinson live9 from the north lawn, thank you very much. aishah: for more on all of this, let s bring in our political panel, matt hewland and jonathan cox, former communications director for senator joe manchin and a partner at capital council