well anderson, they conducted an investigation that lasted over ten days, they comb through hundreds of potential visitors to the white house, using visitor logs and surveillance footage and ultimately they were not able to identify a suspect that s partly because. looking at the baggy of cocaine that they found, they were unable to pull any dna evidence from. it there s a inefficient dna on the baggy. they are unable to pull fingerprints. really the crux of this. the fact that the surveillance cameras, apparently there was a blind spot exactly where this cocaine was found. in these cubbies that are right at the entrance of the west wing where visitors to the west wing are asked to place their phones, before going on these tours. apparently, a camera was not directly trained on the cubbies. so ultimately, secret service was not only able to identify a suspect, they were not even able to, according to a source i spoke with. identify exactly when this baggy was actually place there. th
talking about, where this is located, how they even came to be in the white house? there have always been cubbies, lockers to put phones and electronic devices in, before you go to a secure portion of the white house, like the situation room and some of the offices of the national security council. but at some point during the trump administration, these cubbies had been inside the doorways of the situation room. sometime during the trumpet ministration, they decided to put more of these cubbies on the outside of the situation room to try to encourage people to not bring them in even accidentally. it was reinforced after a barroso was caught using a recording device in the situation room to record, i think, when she was going to be fired. and they have been there for several years and the ideas people should voluntary be putting subsidies lockers to avoid accident having a phone in a secure space.
that s partly because looking at the baggy of cocaine they found, they were unable to pull dna evidence from it. there was insufficient dna on that baggy. they were unable to pull fingerprints. the crux is the fact that the surveillance cameras apparently there was a blind spot exactly where this baggy was found. that s at the cubbies where visitors are asked to place their phones before going on the tour. apparently a camera was not trained on those cubbies. ultimately the secret service wasn t able to identify a suspect. they weren t even able to identify exactly when this baggy was actually placed there. so, they had a pool of hundreds of people over the last few days before this baggy was actually found. so, the response on capitol hill, anderson, the secret service briefed lawmakers on the house oversight committee today. and republican lawmakers, of course, were incensed about this. they said that the secret service should have gotten to the bottom of this. they said in one of
let s bring in larry pfeiffer, former senior director of the white house situation room, and director of the hayden center at george mason university, and sophia nelson is also back with us now. i hate to belabor the point, larry, but just the notion that they don t know who brought in something like this, if it had been something else, is cause for concern for many people. but just talk to us for a second. walk us through these cubbies, they are talking, about where this was located, even came to be in the white house. so, there have always been cubbies, lockers to put phones and electronic devices before you would go into a secure portion of the white house, like the situation room and some of the offices of the national security council. at some point during the trump administration, these cubbies had been inside the doorways of the situation room, some time during the trump administration, they decide to put more cubbies on the outside of the situation room to try to encourage
discussion of surveillance footage is because while there was there are surveillance cameras in that area, they were not directly trained on those cubbies where the cocaine was found. another source familiar with the investigation says that the leading theory remains that this was left by a visitor who walked in to the west wing for one of those tours over that weekend. but that is not the definitive conclusion of the secret service. the white house meanwhile in a statement say that they have been briefed by the secret service on the outcome of the investigation and that they are reviewing that information. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. ahead, new revelations on the autopsy report on lisa marie presley. plus a rocket test fails in spectacular fashion. also more clues left in the woods by an escaped manhunt. mo! uuuhhhh. here, i ll take that! woohoo! ensure max protein, 30 grams of protein, 1 gram of susugar. enter the $10,000 powered by protein