restrictions on abortion access, to a key defense bill. what that can do to the chances of getting it through congress. later, without being able to say who left a pack of cocaine in the west wing. the secret service still says case closed. the question is why. good evening and special counsel jack smith decides to charge the former president for his role in trying to overturn the election. being able to show his intent will be critical. and showing intense could hinge on whether or not he really believed he had one. tonight, new evidence that smith is thinking along those lines, and is looking for evidence from people who would know, or might have heard him indicate that he had known he had loss. sources tell cnn that jared kushner, and former top aide, hope hicks, have both gone before the grand jury. and some questions asked whether the former president was told he had lost the election. this adds to the picture given by testimony from other members of his inner circle. in
defense today. the lead starts right now. might there be a breakthrough? after months of tuber vville blocking military promotions. the secretary tells cnn in an exclusive interview this blockade by tuberville has become a threat to national security. and major questions for the secret service today as the agency says it s closing it s case and that they could not figure out who dropped a baggy of cocaine inside the white house. plus one of california s premier hospitals facing a new federal civil rights investigation into its alleged treatment of pregnant black women. welcome to the lead i m jam tapper. we re going to start with our world lead. president biden today made quite the bold statement about putin s bloody war against ukraine. putin s already lost the war. putin has a real problem. how does he move from here? what does he do? there is no possibility of him winning the war in ukraine. he s already lost the war. that stunning assertion from biden at a new
plus his mattress is gone. fourth of july weekend someone woke up and realized i lost my coke. where is the coke? the guys showing up to the white house in hazmats might have an answer for you. we have a yellow bar stating cocaine hydrochloride found in the library. jesse: on day one we were told the white house cocaine was in the library. sounded like a game of clue. but then that story changed three more times. this was found in a cubby off of the lobby area of that pathway in. now the investigation has progress sod they are saying the west executive entrance, which as you noted, is closer to the situation room. the situation room is not in use and has not been in use for months because it is currently under construction. the only people going in and coming out of the sit room in this period have been workers who are getting it ready to go. jesse: first it was the library. then it was in the little cubby locker in the west wing. and then it was by the situation
happening now, president biden is on his way back to the united states after a final round of talks with allies here in europe. he s touting the nato summit as a success and declaring that vladimir putin and i m quoting him now, already has lost the war in ukraine. also tonight, defense secretary lloyd austin tells me he has no doubt ukraine will join nato after the war ends. stand by for all of my exclusive one-on-one interview with secretary austin here in lithuania. the pentagon chief also telling me that gop senator tommy tuberville s hold on u.s. military promotions is a national security issue. and breaking news we re following right now. donald trump s son-in-law and former adviser jared kushner has testified before the federal grand jury investigating 2020 election interference. our correspondents are working the story. they re getting new information this hour. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in vilnius, lithuani
married her. [laughter] that s going to hurt. get him. if someone gets caught with cocaine it s usually a slam dunk case but when cocaine is found in the white house, the secret service can t tell us where they found it. and we re starting to believe that the reason they won t tell us where they found it is because that would tell us whose coke it was. instead the secret service isn t telling us anything. in response to a freedom of information request put forward by bloomberg. the secret service is saying they can t release any records about the coke found at the white house. why? they said it would interfere with an ongoing investigation but what s the investigation? police charge people with cocaine possession all the time when they find it in someone s house. today we learn the fbi is a part of a cover-up. does the fbi assistant the secret service in the investigation into how cocaine wound up at the white house? yes, i want to be a little bit careful what i can