agent found a white powdery substance during a patrol of the west wing. this prompted a shutdown of some of the white house campus and. the d.c. fire department s hazmat team identified it as cocaine. and their dispatch initially said it was found in the library. then on tuesday afternoon, a secret service spokesman confirmed the details, but clarified the initial reports that it was found inside the library were incorrect. and then also on tuesday afternoon to law enforcement, officials told the associated press that the cocaine was found in area accessible to tour groups. but on wednesday, karine jean-pierre clearly appeared flummoxed when describing where the cocaine was discovered, where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house west wing. i should be even more specific ,a 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. and yesterday, the story ch
monster rival, the threads app now live and millions are signing up. we re going to begin this hour with that surprising announcement regarding the potential location of the man who led an uprising in russia last month. in a rare news conference this morning, belarusian leader alexander lukashenko said the head of the wagner group yevgeny prigozhin is in russia, not in belarus, despite saying last week he was in his country. nbc news cannot verify that claim. it is raising new questions, though, about the supposed deal that ended the attempted rebellion. joining us now from the presidential palace in minsk is nbc chief international correspondent keir simmons. you attended the news conference. you spoke with lukashenko, what did he say? reporter: yeah. yeah, as you can see, we re not at the presidential palace anymore. we were there. nbc news one of the few international news organizations invited to that conversation. and after an incredibly unpredictable almost two week
all the cameras, all the surveillance, everybody coming in and out, they know exactly who s in there, at what time. they know who it is. they know who had the cocaine. they just don t want to admit it. and 99.99% chance that it was hunter with cocaine in the library. and they just don t want to admit it. well, and you remember that after hunter biden s gun got tossed into that dumpster, he blamed it on two workers who he claimed may be illegal. so is certainly a pattern of a narrative that they ve had. but, you know, we re all learning. those of us who don t know much about this, more about what this actually means, the secret service has been working to find out who they are. the culprit is allegedly. but the other media outlets, including msnbc and, cnn, are seeing this as a learning opportunity for viewers when comes to what cocaine in a bag actually looks like. the plastic bag. it is not the size of a dime, as in the coin. dime sized is slang for what would cost $10 back in the
administration believes they re not getting enough attention for that. turning to the investigation on cocaine, a small plastic bag is not the size of a dime, as in the coin. dime sized is slang for what would have cost $10 back in the day. it s just a tiny plastic bag with a ziploc type feature. it contains cocaine. it was found in an entrance area of the west wing on sunday night by a uniformed officer of the secret service. and investigation is ongoing. today that sample is still in the lab being tested for dna, fingerprints, a chemical analysis of what was in its brick taken from cocaine, but they wanted to do a full analysis of the content. with the hope there will be evidence that would point to the individual who left it at the white house. we are told it s unlikely that