secret service is reviewing visitor logs and checking security footage. they say the probe will wrap up early next week. mike: james comer calling for more details while blasting the discovery as a shameful moment for the white house. let s get right to mark meredith live at the white house. what do we know about the location where the cocaine was found? mike and jacqui, good afternoon to you. drugs were found in the lower level entrance of the west wing, an area officials have been saying is heavily traveled but also area that vip guests, as well as staffers, use to get in and out of the west wing. secret service says it is investigating who brought the drugs into the building, however they believe where he may not get a definitive answer. and they have done fingerprint testing and dna testing on the container the cocaine was found in. president biden has yet to comment publicly and no indication he plans to weigh in. the white house has been sending most questions to
hello from london. i m califhristiane amanpour. welcome to the amanpour hour. up first this week, california s first partner talks gender equality in davos and how surviving trauma shaped her mission. we won t achieve gender parody unless we address this culture where women and girls are victims of both physical and sexual abuse in their lifetime. also ahead, would the rest of the world makes of donald trump s landslide in iowa. they look ed a at this with sense of dread, put not surprise. then a shocking eyewitness account from a volunteer doctor just back from gaza and israel s reaction. looking around the emergency department, my overwhelming passion was why are they saving children here. from archive, 33 years ago this week, u.s.-led forces launched the first gulf war. my report from saddam hussein, a warning about gaza today. welcome to the program, everyone i m christiane amanpour in london. 131 years, that s how long it will take to close the gender gap
smerconish starts right now. is it over before it begins? i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. before a single primary vote has been cast, has donald trump already sewn up the gop nomination or is it still up for grabs? everybody has an opinion. but the data tells a pretty compelling story. peggy noonan writing that i refuse to see the story as over. voting begins now. after chris christie dropped out, nate kohn wrote the christie vote alone will probably not be enough, but haley has been steady gaining in the polls and historically there is a lot of precedent for urge is being candidates to keep gaining especially over a contest s final days. and new hampshire will be a wild card. independents can vote in the gop primary and according to data released yesterday, 43% of americans, look at that graph, 43% of americans consider themselves to be independent. rs and ds are tied at 27. it tie as record for an independent showing making them the largest political bloc in the c
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pennsylvania held a press conference about it. shapiro announced that authorities decided to set the chemicals on fire. that was a good thing. no one should be unduly alarmed. the burning of the chemicals, shapiro said, had gone, quote, as planned. officials on the scene, meanwhile, declared the burn, quote, perfect. mike dewinn, the governor of ohio agreed with all of this. the people in charge, the railroad s jer engineers, and se officials overseeing them, had everything under control. two days later, evacuation orders were listed. in the subsequent days, a lot of people have wondered out loud was it a wise decision to light vinyl chloride on fire over a populated area. if it was safe, how do we know that? is anyone in charge actually monitoring with any accuracy the level of did deadly chemicals ie air, ground and water in and around east palestine? apparently nobody is. that s highly upsetting when you think about it. talk about a failure at all levels. the first duty of