president biden didn t seemabou to have an answer when asked about the incident today. but white house press secretaryr karine jean-pierrey did at least try to come up with an explanation. take a look come up wit. > the president and the firsn lady and their family were not here this weekend. as you all reported on this. u o and as you also know that they left on friday and returned jusknow tt where we this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house west wing, i should be even more specific. i sha west wing visitors come through this particular areavi. i just don t have anything more to share. it is under investigation by the m. secret service. this is in their purview. and so we re going to allos inw certainly the investigation to continue. and we have confiden t that the secret service will get to the bottom of thio ths. fr for their part, t the mainstream media found the whole situatioamn a little ridiculous. check this out. chi can t even fa
to this and that little cubby that they re now saying where it was found is right on the left. as you walk in the wes l walt wa lobby, there s a little cubby right there. usually, though, it s manneds by a secret service uniformed division officer. and so when you go in and youd s hand your phone, you hand your possessionses t to them, you don t put it in the cubby yourself. you give it to the secret servicy. e. so i cannot imagine a secret i service uniformed division officer being handedmagi bag of cocaine for him to store on the little cubby. for so the question is, ate i what time of day did somebody go in there to put it therntpue and who could that have been? and i do think we re goingto to get the answer to who could that who have been? there are no cameras in that area, or at least there certainly weren t when i was thert when is the. ill ru but i think the secret service is going to be able to run this down. now, havin .g said all that, i will also add the fact that it s not
missing that, there s something missing. it s another lens to laugh about some of the things going on. it s been painful. there s a sense in which you can bring somebody in to do something else. if i could only bring somebody in to do my jokes and i could do the serious part. we try to flush the jokes away. we talk about race and class and gender so much, if we joke about it, it s seen as another thing. we are frustrated as social critics. all three of us focus on policy and not just the servicy stuff and wish we would be brought in more to be the color commentary. you do it all the time. like, we are happy to do it and talk amongst ourselves all the time. how do you cut through it and go, you know, here is a short boom the three of us, like the mod
this case are no longer able to speak publicly about any of this. the information we ve been getting is going to slow to more of a trickle as the hearings go on. people here got a bit of a surprise when christian bale, the actor who plays batman showed up here. it was a surprise to just about everybody. he visited patients in the hospital at the bedside. after that he came to this make shift memorial here and joined a prayer circle and prayed with people. it was all unannounced, they had no cameras with him and didn t want media coverage. our affiliate happened to be there and caught him. and it exploded on twitter and facebook, people pretty excited he took the time to come and visit. i ll bet that helped folks trying to recoup rate in the hospital. thanks, jim. the rest of the day s top stories, let s get right to christine romans. good morning. good morning, soledad, syrian forces stepping up attacks to regain control of aleppo, targeting rebel strong holds in syria s
i was there. our cameras were there and we ll bring you that emotional video at the top of the hour. and i m rob marciano in the cnn severe weather center. if you re icing down and preparing to watch the masters tomorrow, a little rain for them, but more record-breaking heat for the east coast at the top of the hour. i love how you listen to that, rob. i know you won t be icing down, but i know you ll be watching the masters. one city s budget crisis leads to dire sacrifices. servicy are slashed and parks are closed and you ll be surprised who is arguing for similar cuts in the police and fire departments. are these tough choices coming to your neighborhood? client comes in and they have a box. and inside that box is their financial life. people wake up and realize i better start doing something. we open up that box. we organize it. and we make decisions. we really are here to help you. they look back and think, wow. i never thought i could do this. but we ve actually done it