logs for staff and regular visitors into and out of the west wing. president biden for his part not talking about it. deferring all questions to the secret service. listen. [shouted questions] gillian: mark morgan says someone could be intentionally hindering the investigation. he tells the daily mail, quote, they know who comes in and when they come in, they re checked and are video cameras everywhere? are they able to talk to the people they would need to without any roadblocks? let s bring in mark meredith joining us from the white house. tell us what you know. good morning to you. the white house says it is taking this situation seriously but they are also not engaging in hype that calls over who they believe may have brought in the drugs and whether or not anyone should or could face charges. it began on sunday with hazmat teams were called to a lower level of the west wing where they first saw the powder and investigators determined it was cocaine. the white house c
president. people are interested here in investigating whether the president of the united states was implicated in any of the younger biden s financial crimes. i want to state that. that s a very important point that gets lost in all of this. that s why folks are interested in this. i m so glad you said that. you are so exactly right about that. that s what is so frustrating, frankly, about what we re seeing coming out of the republican-controlled house. okay, they only have a small majority but they are in control of these committees. i m sure they re doing their best but it is not good enough. we do have evidence that joe biden was actually involved in these corrupt business dealings. we have lots of evidence, for example, that when he was in charge of ukraine policy back in the day when he was vice president, and his son was on the board of that energy company, biden, joe biden was pushing congress to send u.s. taxpayer money to the ukrainian
there s no talk from any western country of sending troops to fight to defend ukraine itself, but a small contingent of british troops is in the country, here helping train ukrainian forces to repel any attack. we ve supplied anti tank missiles, defensive weapons. we re giving support to the ukrainian navy, we re giving support to the ukrainian energy sector to help them become more energy independent, so we really are giving every possible support we can to ukraine and we are one of the leading donors of lethal aid to ukraine to make sure that they are in the best possible position to defend themselves. these are ukrainian troops on the border of russia, preparing for the worst. they will be the ones on the frontline if russia does invade. but alongside the deterrents and defence this week, expect a flurry of diplomatic activity, too, to try to prevent a war that no one says they want. a war that would have consequences
by russia against ukraine. and so we need to work hard for the best but be prepared for the worst. and this is why there are fears for the worst. over the past few days, there have been russian military exercises by land, air and sea. moscow still insists it has no plans to invade ukraine, accusing the west of fuelling tensions. but this level of military build up has caused international alarm. there s no talk from any western country of sending troops to fight to defend ukraine itself, but a small contingent of british troops is in the country, here helping train ukrainian forces to repel any attack. we ve supplied anti tank missiles, defensive weapons. we re giving support to the ukrainian navy, we re giving support to the ukrainian energy sector to help them become more energy independent,
to defend ukraine itself, but a small contingent of british troops is in the country, here helping train ukrainian forces to repel any attack. we ve supplied anti tank missiles, defensive weapons. we re giving support to the ukrainian navy, we re giving support to the ukrainian energy sector to help them become more energy independent, so we really are giving every possible support we can to ukraine and we are one of the leading donors of lethal aid to ukraine to make sure that they are in the best possible position to defend themselves. these are ukrainian troops on the border of russia, preparing for the worst. they will be the ones on the frontline if russia does invade. but alongside the deterrents and defence this week, expect a flurry of diplomatic activity, too, to try to prevent a war that no one says they want. a war that would have consequences far beyond ukraine s borders. caroline hawley, bbc news.