today on inside politics, red, white, and blue political theater. republicans pound the pavement, put on their best every man polos, and look for votes between burgers, dogs, and fireworks. fourth of july provides a 2024 test, one donald trump bets he s fine just skipping. plus, a first amendment victory or a green light to conspiracy theorists? a judge calls a biden effort to stop disinformation from running wild orwellian while telling top biden officials to cut off contact with social media companies. and just in, cocaine at the white house. a positive lab test prompts an obvious question for the secret service, whose was it? i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, a white house crime scene. a source just confirmed to cnn that cocaine was discovered inside the west wing. i want to go straight to the white house and cnn s priscilla alvarez. what are you hearing from your sources on this? reporter: dane, a source familiar tells
the white house while a hazmat crew came in. president biden and his family were at camp david at the time. bill: meanwhile, at the same time a federal judge issuing a temporary injunction against the administration barring many officials from contacting social media companies like twitter and facebook. they include the surgeon general, hhs secretary and the press secretary karine jean-pierre. dana: former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe is here. let s speak to mark meredith at the white house to give us an update. good morning. president biden welcomed thousands of visitors to the white house last night for the annual fourth of july celebrations. a beautiful night in the nation s capital. today there are growing questions about who and what is coming into the people s house after cocaine was found in the west wing. the secret service said it s investigation is still ongoing. investigators discovered the substance sunday. the building was briefly evacua
we have lots of news to cover and questions to answer. and so let s get started. supreme disappointment, the conservative-leaning highest court in the land dishing out serious setbacks to affirmative action, lgbtq+ rights, and millions of americans crushed under student loan duct. we are going in-depth on the real world impacts of these rulings in the future of the supreme court. plus, there is a take. the smoking gun that could be the most damaging evidence yet against the twice impeached, twice in the one term ex president and this is not the only legal trouble for trump this week. we are breaking it all down ahead. and later, let s take a joyride. i talked to the api team behind the movie critics already calling the funniest comedy of the year. all of this and much more coming up. and a good saturday morning to you, i am katie phang. the supreme court wrapped up its turn by rolling out a series of blockbuster decisions. the super conservative 63 majority getting camp for
jon: donald trump drew a massive crowd in south carolina where he criticized president biden and his son hunters legal troubles his rivals trying media this weekend to react. senior correspondent steve harrigan live with details for us. steve. reporter: john pickens south carolina population just 3,000 more than 50,000 people came on saturday for independence day to hear that former president trump speak. many arrived before dawn and then midday sun and heat, they heard the former president speak for 90 minutes at times trump taking credit for recent supreme court decisions. somebody that hasn t done nearly as well who perhaps has not workeds nearly as hard will not be taking your place on a school, college or at a university they re not going to be we re going by merit back to old merit stham built our country. trump s competitors in the meantime attacking him on multiple front seat nikki haley former south carolina governor said she expected trump s high poll numbers
currently suspended from practicing law and unable to make money that way, but mr. giuliani is earning very little income from his podcast and his radio show, making him exactly almost every other podcaster in america. now, technically, today was a very small procedural victory for giuliani. the bankruptcy judge granted giuliani an exemption. and that exemption allows mr. giuliani to try to challenge the $148 million in damages that he owes georgia election workers ruby freeman and shaye moss for publicly and repeatedly defaming them. the exemption does not mean that mr. giuliani can challenge the fact that he defamed them. that has been settled in court. it just means he can apply to challenge the cash amount he owes in damages. the fact that this is considered a victory for rudy giuliani shows how much his fortunes have changed, both literally and figuratively. the speed of justice in this country is sometimes frustratingly, aggravating-lu slow. but justice does come. late