a ziplock baggy filled with cocaine found just steps from the west wing where guests are often ushered through the white house. now the question who dropped it, setting off sunday s hazmat evacuation. then, the phenomenon unique to the united states, gun violence in america reaching a new level of horror. 356 mass shootings so far this year. a stunning 15 of them just this past holiday weekend. coming up, why these tragic shootings always seem to spike in the summer months and what can be done about it. plus, a federal judge slapping the biden administration with new restrictions on social media saying the biden administration cannot decide what is and is not misinformation. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we begin with something of a mystery in our political lead. who left a baggy of coke at the white house? there was a brief evacuation sunday night after the powdery substance was found in an area of the west wing that is accessible to some tour groups. this
one item that made the cut restarting those student loan payments. if they just keep coming back to haunt. does all have all you need to know about the pause ending, and the long term impact that borrowers having to cough up the money again. plus, its pride month and we re talking to chasten buttigieg, his new book i have something to tell you about young of. outside the right-wing campaign to ban lgbtq books and schools and libraries. i m symone d. sanders townsend, and i have something to say. now that the president has signed the debt ceiling bill into law, it s becoming clear just what s in it. and today democrats and republicans are defending how they voted on the bill. now the bill is a far cry from the 843 billion dollars in non-defense discretionary spending initially proposed in the presidents 2024 budget. the steel cap spending at 704 billion dollars. according to the congressional budget office. and now here s an exchange for raising the debt ceiling until
know, that there are millions of people out here, the majority of american support either. the majority of americans, data tells, us that they believe in lgbtq equality, a the majority of republicans today believe in lbgtq+ equality, just right now we re experiencing a political climate where it is advantageous for these people to continue attacking vulnerable people. because it requires nowhere. when you sat down to do the children s, the young peoples versions of this book. this was prior to the widespread bulk ban, the don t say gay laws, and now there is one creeping through the legislature in texas. most notably, the law that s on the books in florida. you have a book tour, i find a very interesting that you re on washing, ten b c, you re going to florida, tennessee, listings intentional some of the stops on the book to our. did you think about aligning your tour stops, and telling these stories based upon what s
takes a step forward towards equality, towards our values of we the people and equal justice under law. there was always backlash. did i think it would happen this quickly and this dramatically? no, maybe i was being foolish not to think that. but in the time since marriage equality was affirmed, our right to marry the person we love was affirmed, the world hasn t come to an end. our nation hasn t ground to a halt. in fact, our nation has become better. it has become stronger. so, i m devastated that the opponents of marriage equality and lbgtq equality just will not give up. they are determined to tell us without doubt that we don t matter in their concept of we the people in their concept of the united states of america. so now you are running for a seat in the ohio house. is this an issue that other
now that roe v. wade and a woman s right to choose is under threat and under assault. that lbgtq equality is under threat and under assault. that mitch mcconnell has made it his life mission to pack the supreme court with conservative judges to undermine rights. i think too often we who believe in those rights have taken for granted that those rights have been protected. we now see an assault on the judiciary, and if we don t win this next election, many of the rights we care so deeply about are really threatened. i believe it s going to be a huge issue in the 2020 election. i want to turn now to your work in the house of representatives. the chairman of the judiciary committee, jerry nadler, has asked four other house committees to share any documents that could be relevant to the judiciary s effort to decide whether to impeach the president. you sit on one of those committees. the house oversight committee. what do you hope to share with chairman nadler? well, brianna, i hope we