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
happening now, rescues are under way after another deadly russian missile strike in eastern ukraine. local officials accusing russian forces of deliberately targeting crowded civilian areas right in the center of this city. in russia tonight vladimir putin is attempting to show strength after the mutiny by wagner mercenaries. this, as we have a new satellite image suggesting the wagner chief is indeed in exile right now in belarus. and donald trump is now responding to the audio obtained exclusively by cnn in which he acknowledges having secret documents he did not declassify. stand by to hear the recordings and what trump is saying now. welcome to our viewers here in the united states. and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin in ukraine with the new russian missile strike on a very crowded city center, the death toll now up to at least four, including a baby, and more than 40 injured. cnn s ben wedeman is joining us now live from
Sergey Lavrov, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has arrived in New York, where he will take part in the events organised by the UN Security Council, Sputnik reports.
four days later his critical cabinet member was in the hospital? i was surprised. there s no doubt about it. you should inform your boss if you re no the hospital. it also tells me we don t know what kind of communication was going on. was secretary austin continuing to communicate the whole time he was admitted to the hospital? i don t know. these kind of actions that were taking place, first of all, he could have been in continuous communication with the white house, the national security council. the other thing i ll bring up is the secretary of defense has several deputies. they know to take his place when he s not there. when secretary austin is traveling the world, the deputy secretary of defense or the policy person in dod takes his place at nsc meetings and white house communication events. when he s all over the world, that happens normally. so was i surprised? yes. was i shocked? no, not really. i would have thought he would
somebody who staffs the white house or one of the departments and agencies who attends nsc meetings in the situation room. what are they going to do? that depends who it is, right? again this seems to be a matter of get the tape, rewind, and go to around the time where people are going in and out of that area. not a lot of people do in terms of access to that particular area. if that s the case i would think they would have a resolution now. if they say early next week it depends on who this was and what will the ramifications be. you have to think if this happened once somebody with a staffer, it was probably happening often. they happened to drop it this time. a lot more questions than answers, that s for sure. gillian: there are. i want to ask you about this. the president is continuing to avoid questions from reporters about hunter biden s 4-year-old daughter, who he is estranged from or never had a relationship