logs for staff and regular visitors into and out of the west wing. president biden for his part not talking about it. deferring all questions to the secret service. listen. [shouted questions] gillian: mark morgan says someone could be intentionally hindering the investigation. he tells the daily mail, quote, they know who comes in and when they come in, they re checked and are video cameras everywhere? are they able to talk to the people they would need to without any roadblocks? let s bring in mark meredith joining us from the white house. tell us what you know. good morning to you. the white house says it is taking this situation seriously but they are also not engaging in hype that calls over who they believe may have brought in the drugs and whether or not anyone should or could face charges. it began on sunday with hazmat teams were called to a lower level of the west wing where they first saw the powder and investigators determined it was cocaine. the white house c
wray. the bidens defendant s exhibit leave the white house and the cocaine appeared two days later. moms for liberty drawing theire of the main-stream media and the left. there is something wrong in our schools, we should ban together and do something. the national slirpie day, july 11, 96th birthday. breakfast of champ knowios. i did that pretty well. ainsley: right now president biden and other nato leaders are holding high-stakes talks in lithuania. steve: it is 3:00 in the afternoon. he also has a meeting today with turkey s president. brian: what will happen there? mark meridith joins us. mark: cameras captured president biden meeting with nato leaders just moments ago. you see all the leaders lined up and smiling. sweden s prime minister was there, as well. turkey will work to allow sweden toin jo the alliance. president biden praising the move and speaking to the nato secretary general. president biden: adding finland and sweden is consequential. i still
donald trump in a defamation lawsuit. we ll explain why the doj is backing off its previous position. plus two months worth of rain in two days. vermont is just starting the recovery process from that disaster. we ll get an update from one of the state s top lawmakers. all right, good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, july 12th. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. we begin with the major developments out of the nato summit in lithuania. the alliance says it will invite ukraine to join but only when allies agree and conditions are met. the group did not give a time line or details on what those conditions might be. vague wording is in line with what president joe biden said last week, calling a pathway to membership for ukraine, quote, premature while it is at war with russia. as the new york times points out, it appears the president and like minded allies have prevailed over poland in baltic nations that wanted a formal invitation for ukraine t
good afternoon. two hours and counting until david weiss has to meet this deadline for house republicans to answer questions about the hunter biden probe. i think we can say with confidence he won t meet the deadline. the reason we can say this with confidence, he said so himself in a letter to republican house judiciary chairman jim jordan late last week. i want to read party of it. this is from weiss to jordan. he said in his letter last friday to jordan, the donald trump appointed u.s. attorney quoted a prior letter from june where he wrote clear cheer. a few weeks later, trace, how judiciary chairman jim jordan wrote to weiss asking him who told him to sign that letter. jordan doesn t believe that weiss called the shots in the probe. he think us it was doj. jordan believes this based off of the testimony of irs whistle-blower shapley who investigated the hunter biden tax probe since 2020. he s been on the record numerous times say he saw weiss complain that he was
fox that it was found in a cubby used by guests and west wing staffers. reporters absolutely bombarding her with cocaine questions, as they should. she gave essentially no information but the repeatedly state that the president and first family were out of town when this happened. where exactly inside the west wing was the substance discovered who would have access to the west wing. have you done interviews with law enforcement. are you doing testing? would there be consequences for that individual or if they were a guest of a white house staffer. can you give any more details where the secret service found the cocaine in the west wing and how it got there? i would have to refer you to the secret service on all of this. one thing i can share that i will share a little bit more information as you know, the president and the first lady and their family were not here this weekend. julie: the president yesterday during a meeting with sweden s prime minister. [shoute