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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 ....
committed. there are a whole host of influences on public policy and i spent 20 years in congress working on such things. i think one of the most important, if not the most important influence on policy matters is evidence. evidence for or against a proposition. a lot of people are skeptical of that these days. that skepticism isn t unwarranted, but i would caution against being too much of a synic. people see the partisan fights and think that nothing can move, knowing can do gone. ideology is not a bad thing, it s not a dirty world, it s a way to order the world in a cohesive cohesive floss philosophy. you work on important policy issues that affect a huge number of people, even in ideological polarizing times, so many good things that can make a huge difference in people s lives actually can get done. and i think that this is very, very important. there are massive areas of policy that were changed because there was almost overwhelming evidence around a policy change ....