and no leads in that cocaine mystery at the white house. the secret service just briefing lawmakers on their investigation. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin with that update on the cocaine discovered at the white house. nbc s ryan nobles is up on capitol hill, where it looks hot and the heat was on those investigators. what did they tell those lawmakers? reporter: not very much. at least when you talk to republicans, chris, they seemed very unhappy with the information that the secret service was able to provide both the oversight committee and homeland security committee. republicans believe that this is something that secret service should be able to figure out, that they shobe t narrow down the list of suspects, question those suspects and come up with an answer. they were given the strong impression from secret service officials today that when the investigation concludes, they ll not ultimately come to that answer. an
belonged to any member of the biden family, including hunter biden. those questions are not allowed. they were not here friday, not here saturday, sunday or monday. they come back tuesday. so to ask that question is incredibly irresponsible. so they were there friday actually, which we have reported here. so this as we re also told that despite more and more substantive information that comes out about biden s business dealings, shakedowns, bribes, the fbi director said you can t ask me about that. that s an ongoing investigation. can t talk about the intensity, the focus of it. can t talk about anything. so merrick garland, the attorney general face as deadline, which is now less than two hours away to allow congress to interview, to talk to the u.s. attorney, david weiss. you know, what is going on with this investigation. there s a lot of conflicting stories. can you tell us a little bit about what is happening? in moments,ly speak with the speaker of the house, kevin
into this barbenheimer, organically made through the social media channels. however, they both embrace it, and i don t know if we ll ever see something quite like this again. reporter: long live barbenheimer, we should also say, of course, this is happening in the midst of an actors strike and a writers strike, and i think the people that are striking are hoping the studios aren t seeing the success of these movies and saying we have more time to come to the table, instead saying these movies don t write themselves, and they certainly don t promote themselves as we saw, you know, so voraciously with actors promoting both movies, leading up to the hype and the success with the hope that these strikes will end for both sides equally. and steve showing his dedication to his work by being out there to report for us, not inside with his wife and the pink painted nails. i m going to say, i saw barbie with my nieces last wednesday,
and how you re balancing that. we are known as the media capital of the world. we are a lot of studios in the city, but at the end of the day, i have to remember that the studios don t vote. the workers who live here, the employees of the studios who are residents of the city of burbank, they re the constituents. so, yes, absolutely, we are a very pro business city. we do a lot of work with the studios. we help them in their needs for transportation, and in their needs for production, but at the end of the day, if the studios aren t showing up to the bargaining table and paying the workers the wages they deserve, that money is not going to stay mere in burbank. it goes to ceo pay. it goes to corporate pay, which leaves the local economy. if they pay the workers fair wages, you have local mom and pops, dry cleaners, restaurants, people getting their car worked on. the school district.
that means that press appearances stop. that means people can t do red carpets. actors won t appear at san diego comic con. there s a lot of ripple effects and, yes, it is international as well. often when i m walk to and from work, i see those trucks set up for either dressing rooms for actors or catering and all of that obviously goes away. you realize how much depends on that industry. disney ceo bob iger, jennifer, spoke a little bit earlier on our sister network, cnbc, about the impending strike. here s what he said. there s a level of expectation that they have that is just not realistic, and they are adding to a set of challenges that this business is already facing that is quite frankly very disruptive. they re not being realistic? no, they re not. the other side would argue that the studios aren t being realistic. you ve got three enormous movies coming in just the next couple of weeks. you ve got mission impossible,