cocaine is in the library, in the residence. then, the white house suggested that it was found in a heavily traveled area in the west wing where many visitors come through, but now, third change. fox was told it was found in a cubby by the west executive entrance not far from the situation room, where the nation s most sensitive secrets are tracked. every hour of every day. that s hardly an area where the average joe walks by. the secret service is reviewing all cameras and access logs of staff and regular visitors. they are expected to conclude their investigation early next week. president biden, as he has done all this week, is again refusing to answer any questions on the matter. reporter: mr. president? [inaudible] kayleigh: not a word. now, the house oversight chairman james comer is demanding more details about cocaine found, once a briefing with the secret service, and fired off this scathing letter. the presence of illegal drugs in the white house is unaccepta
white house deals with the fallout over that cocaine found inside the west wing on sunday. secret service officials expect to wrap up their investigation in ex week, but are downplaying expectations of those findings. and the white house is trying to pivot attention off the probe and onto today s jobs report with what they say is bidenomics working for the american people. correspondent mark meredith is following it all, joins us live from the north lawn with the latest. good evening mark. reporter: bret, good evening to you. tonight top white house aides say they do not believe national security was compromised after someone brought drugs into the west wing but tonight the white house says they re still looking into this. like the secret service and the rest of us, trying to figure out how those drugs ended up here in the first place. mr. president, any update on the cocaine. president biden once again ignored reporters questions about cocaine found in the white house.
readout on the florida governor s standing in the 2024 race and the uphill fight to catch donald trump. new reporting this hour on why he said what he said. plus, mike pence is doing it today, tim scott is doing it, so is ron desantis and francis suarez, but donald trump is not. most are walking in parades, but not the former president. he s giving more evidence he s running a very different kind of campaign. no labels says they want to give voters a third-party alternative, but some critics wonder if what they really want is to deny joe biden the presidency. i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start today with that old saying, honesty is the best policy. at first blush, that might seem like what an operative for the ron desantis super pac is doing, stating the obvious, that things in the desantis campaign are not going so well. listen to steve cortes and his assessment of how his candidate is doing. look, right now in national polling
jesse: i made bret give me one. bret: good evening. i m bret baier. a damning federal government report about local law enforcement failures during the uvalde, texas school massacre. neither side is willing to budge in the border standoff between texas and washington. over land along the southern border. we will bring that you story. and we talk live to the founding chairman of the no labels group about how democratic groups are allegedly trying to undercut attempts to construct a unity presidential ticket, get on ballots. we will talk about where that effort stands tonight. we begin tonight with an update in the ongoing threats from china. hazardous materials team from the environmental protection team is removing dangerous chemicals from a warehouse in california turned to unlicensed bio lab by a chinese national. it s raising new questions and concerns tonight. national correspondent william la jeunesse shows us from reedily, california, good evening, william. bret
latest on all of it. hey, alex. reporter: hey, griff, good to be with you. yeah, this debut re-election rally, this is an appeal to american workers, to union workers in particular. in about an hour, the president will crease this room. this event is hosted by the afl-cio, a powerful collective of about 16 unions, they represent about 12.5 pearl million americans. no surprise that the endorsement went the a democrat as it always has. and while the stage was being set earlier, president biden was actually in the sky surveying the damage of last sunday s deadly tanker crash that led to the closure of i-9 a 5 in northeast philadelphia. the president did provide an update on how his administration will be aiding in that reconstruction effort that has paralyzed one of the most critical roadways. listen. there s no more important project right now in the country as far as i m concerned. i m directing my team, not figuratively but literally, to move heaven and earth to get it do