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
the people have it right will be hearing from her in just a moment. welcome everyone i am david asman in for david. we begin at the white house and president biden is putting the spotlight on the economy and authorities are still investigating where the cocaine came from. lucas tomlinson is there with all the details, lucas. what s white house officials say the secret service hopes to have the investigation to this cocaine here at the white house wrapped up early next week. they are tempering expectations or they might not be producing a list of suspects. all week the white house has been dogged with questions about where did this cocaine come from? white house press secretary is a notable she could not rule out the biden family when asked the following question. i am just asking again can you say it once and for all whether or not the cocaine belong to the biden family? what sends a very clear two days ago when talking about this and going over it again as i was being aske
and say that skin color determined. turn hard not to do that. the answer to that has official backtracking today. i will speak to the reverend, al sharpton, about the controversy coming up. we also continue to follow the dangerously putting millions risk this weekend across the country. a billion dollars up for grabs in the next few days as jackpots for the two biggest lottery is in the country reach stratospheric heights. more on the head, as well. more on that and the new york times we ve been talking about back in 2018. former president trump inquiring about pursuing an irs investigation into two fbi officials, lisa stroke and page this is coming from a sworn statement from trump s former chief of staff, john kelly. joining me now the reporter that broke that story new york times washington correspondent and msnbc washington correspondent, michael schmidt. michael, always great to talk to you. thank you for joining us on a saturday afternoon. give us a sense of more of
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service agent found a white powdery substance during a patrol of the west wing. this prompted a shutdown of some of the white house campus in the dc fire department hazmat team identified it as cocaine hydrochloride. there to smash initially said it was found in the library. then, on tuesday afternoon secret service spokesman confirmed the details. clarified that initial reports it was found inside the library where incorrect. also on tuesday afternoon, to law enforcement officials told the associated press that the cocaine was found in an area accessible to tour groups. on wednesday karine john a pair described without cocaine was discovered. where this was discovered in state heavily traveled area where many white house west wing, i should be even more specific, west wing visitors come through this particular area. i don t have anything more to share. it s under investigation by the secret service. yesterday the story changed again. the big change is, where this was f