have an answer when asked about the incident today. but white house press secretary karine jean-pierre did at least try to come up with an explanation. take a look. the president and the first lady and their family were not here this weekend as you all reported on this and as you also know they left on friday and returned just yesterday. where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house west wing i should be more specific west wing visitors come through this particular area. i just don t have anything more to share. it is under investigation by the secret service. this is in their purview and we will allow certainly the investigation to continue. we have confidence the secret service will get to the bottom of this. for their part the mainstream media found the whole situation a little ridiculous. check this out. i can t even fathom anything like this having been found before in the west wing and i go back to the 70s. this is pretty wild. i wo
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news at night. breaking tonight a live look at a house on capitol hill where lawmakers are close to burning the midnight oil to finalize impeachment articles against homeland security secretary mayorkas. if you are wondering where border security is a top election issue, we have exhibit-a. brand new video showing a mob of migrants beating new york police officers. it gets worse. and kevin cork is live and congress working over time. something else you won t want to miss this video. since the start of the spring 172,000 migrants flooded into the big apple and 67,000 are housed in city shelters and hotels. the train is obvious. the video is the latest example. urged by cops to move along. 4 asylum seekers kicked and punched officers before being caught later. to add insult to injury, after they were arrested, they were released without bail. just another uptick on the thermometer for a city simmering with resentment. illegal immigrants are flooding hotels, and schools and air
it s good to be back with you on this second hour. at this hour, president biden s critical next move. he says he has decided on the u.s. response to the drone attack that killed three u.s. soldiers in jordan but what it is, where, and when, he isn t revealing. plus, cori bush confirming she is the target of a justice department probe over her campaign spending. what we know this hour live from washington. plus, homeland security secretary under the microscope as house republicans hold another meeting moving closer to impeachment. our reporters are following all of the latest developments. let s start with keir simons now. president biden has made his decision clear. at least that he s made the decision clear, but what he s going to do against iran is an ongoing question. what s the latest, keir? secretary of state blinken not saying when the response from the u.s. might come, but saying it would likely be sustained over time, multilevel and could come in stages. as quest
today on inside politics a fateful choice. president biden announced he s decided how the u.s. will respond to a deadly attack on american troops in jordan, as fears grow that retaliating against iranian forces could further ignite a region already on fire. plus, china s promise. xi jinping gave joe biden his word that china will not meddle in the 2024 election. we re going to bring you exclusive, new reporting on their high-stakes conversation. and we can t shake it off. everyone loves to weigh in on taylor swift s relationship with travis kelce, but now a far-right media and even former presidential candidate conspiracy, they re all pushing an absurd theory that the most famous woman on the planet is plotting with the nfl to get joe biden re-elected. talk about bad blood. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we do start with the breaking news. president biden is speaking to reporters at the whi