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fireworks as they investigate into elon musk and his purchase of twitter. live, president biden will be holding a news conference with the president of the finland that is nato s newest member. cocaine in the white house how it got there and who is to blame, congress looking for answers in a closed-door briefing by the secret service as a biden administration to insist while questions from the news media. welcome to a brand-new wall as america s newsroom. i am dana perino. lindamood and i like it. i like your. your funny. don t you think this he could knows by now, if they are there not telling us because right now that briefings people what they ve learned on the coke from last week last week in the west wing. the presence of illegal drugs raising questions of the level of security maintained in the white house, and a discovery that white powder forcing the evacuation of the entire building. now lawmakers are hoping the secret service can identify the culprit.
president was in helsinki standing side by side with vladimir putin defending the russian leader. we ll take you there live. also, right now, wild weather coast to coast from tornados in chicago to flooding in the northeast, and more than 100 million americans under the thumb of a historic heat wave. we have your forecast. plus, setting the stage for another hollywood strike, first writers, now actors, what it could mean for all your entertainment. good morning, it s 10:00 eastern. thanks for being here. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we begin in helsinki where we are just minutes away from a joint press conference with president biden and the president of finland, nato s newest member. let s go there now with nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba. walk us through the presidents day there in finland so far. reporter: well, ana, this is really a historic cap to a week of critical meetings for president biden overseas, and he s here in finland m
[ banging gavel ] this hearing will come to order. Good morning. We are meeting today to consider the nomination of kirstjen m. Nielsen to be the next secretary of the United States in Homeland Security. I want to thank her, her family. Our senators making introductions later on. I certainly want to call out mrs. Karen kelly, general kellys wife. Shes here also. Showing her support for the nominee. And i know ms. Nielsen will introduce her family in her Opening Statement. Americas facing enormous challenges. Our National Debt exceeds 20 trillion and theres no serious effort being made by either party to significantly reduce the 30year projected deficits that are currently expected to exceed over 100 trillion. Our enemies are on the rise. Russia continues to destabilize its neighbors and is partnering with iran to increase both countries influence in the middle east. The Iranian Nuclear agreement did modify irans behavior. For the worse. North Korea Remains determined to develop the cap
I know there is some concerns about privacy of seniors with the web camera and video monitoring may give challenges to want to ensure the privacy of seniors and their dignity using this technology. But we also want to make sure we are looking now for their safety. I know using privacy techniques such as old the silhouettes on video monitors to ease some of the privacy concerns over adults but the challenge for those is to maximize safety with the minimum invasion of privacy they get to the chairman and witnesses to be here today and i look forward to learning from your testimony. That is an excellent statement. We have been joined by senator perdue, a senator cater and senator casey. Thanks for joining us this afternoon. Now we will turn to the panel and first year from the up Tech Industry veteran and the founder of aging in Place Technology watch. I a understand she also has the of wisdom to have her seventh home in the state of maine. That did not mean that is where you are testifyi