happening now, president biden is on his way back to the united states after a final round of talks with allies here in europe. he s touting the nato summit as a success and declaring that vladimir putin and i m quoting him now, already has lost the war in ukraine. also tonight, defense secretary lloyd austin tells me he has no doubt ukraine will join nato after the war ends. stand by for all of my exclusive one-on-one interview with secretary austin here in lithuania. the pentagon chief also telling me that gop senator tommy tuberville s hold on u.s. military promotions is a national security issue. and breaking news we re following right now. donald trump s son-in-law and former adviser jared kushner has testified before the federal grand jury investigating 2020 election interference. our correspondents are working the story. they re getting new information this hour. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in vilnius, lithuani
a ziplock baggy filled with cocaine found just steps from the west wing where guests are often ushered through the white house. now the question who dropped it, setting off sunday s hazmat evacuation. then, the phenomenon unique to the united states, gun violence in america reaching a new level of horror. 356 mass shootings so far this year. a stunning 15 of them just this past holiday weekend. coming up, why these tragic shootings always seem to spike in the summer months and what can be done about it. plus, a federal judge slapping the biden administration with new restrictions on social media saying the biden administration cannot decide what is and is not misinformation. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we begin with something of a mystery in our political lead. who left a baggy of coke at the white house? there was a brief evacuation sunday night after the powdery substance was found in an area of the west wing that is accessible to some tour groups. this
trail. griff. hey, happy 4th, bryan and gillian. voters in those states are getting a healthy dose of old glory, gop candidates for the parades. ron desantis marched today in a parade in wolfboro, new hampshire, and another one in merrimac, he ll be joined by tim scott, doug burgum. only in america could the son of a single mother rise from poverty to be a candidate of president. america is the land of opportunity, not oppression. fire that burned in independence hall, 56 men pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to establish a new nation conceived in liberty. meanwhile out in the hawkeye state. mike pence taking part in urbandale, and francis suarez busy in cedar rapids, iowa, running a 5k race this morning and then making pancakes, noticeably absent from the trail today, former president and front-runner, donald trump, who leads in fox news latest polling among gop primary voters with 56%. desantis trailing by 34%, and single digits down there. we ll next s
good afternoon to you. reporters had their first chance to ask the white house about the cocaine discovered in the west wing sunday. there wasn t much reaction from the white house. instead, they punted to the u.s. secret service handling the investigation. a lot of questions unanswered at this point. listen to what karine jean-pierre had to say moments ago. where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many west wing visitors come through this particular area. i just don t have anything more to share. it s under investigation by the secret service. and the secret service tells fox news that they re actively investigating what was going on behind the scenes sunday. first the alert came in to them that it was a hazardous material. they evacuated the building and decided to determine more later on through testing that it was cocaine that was discovered within the west wing. so still a lot of questions about who may have been in that area and we re waiting to
white house press briefing since secret service agents found cocaine stashed in the west wing. reporters have a lot of questions. bill: gillian, hello. our white house team confirming that agents found the drug in a bag in a personal cubby area used by staffers and guests into the west wing. a secondary drug test confirmed it was in fact cocaine. the first family was at camp david when agents found it in a routine sweep. gillian: and begin there for hour two. bill: bill hemmer. john roberts and sandra have the day off. cocaine is a drug, along with oxycontin and fentanyl, begin all new at 2:00 right now. gillian: a federal judge in louisiana says likely the biden administration censored free speech, and blocking officials from contacting social media companies about content. a lawsuit brought forward by louisiana and missouri, accusing government officials going too far and pressure ling them to censor posts during the pandemic. overreach in doing so and influence ove