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
to keep donald trump off the ballot in 2024, and overseas israel s expanding its ground offensive into refugee camps in central gaza in what it calls, quote, a new battle zone. the government there saying the war against hamas will go on, for, quote, many months. secretary of state tony blinken, and other top biden officials, set to meet with mexico s president in the next couple hours for critical talks about the border crisis happening as a caravan with a reported 8,000 migrants heading towards the u.s. border. hey, everybody, good morning to you, we re going to begin with the latest developments in the israel-hamas war. israeli defense forces saying they have expanded their war effort into central gaza where several refugee camps are located. it is the same area where just earlier this week 70 people were killed in the strike on a refugee camp, the announcement coming with no clear end in sight for the war, israel s army chief saying their operations could last for mo
i don t know what the label thought the first time they heard that song, but if i had been the label, i would have been, like, correct. we ll never be royals thanks so much for joining us. i m alex marquardt in today for fredricka whitfield. we begin with a murder investigation in dallas, texas, where police say that a texas woman was shot and killed by her boyfriend over an abortion. 26-year-old gwas shot in the hed the day after she returned from colorado where she went for an abortion. isabelle gonzalez joins me with more. there was an active warrant from a previous incident involving this couple. what more do you know? reporter: court documents detail a history of violence directed against gabriela gonzalez. she told police, according to an arrest warrant, that she had told police multiple times that she was beaten up by harold thompson. during the time of the shooting, there was an active family violence strangulation warrant against thompson that had to do with
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fredericka witfield. we begin this hour with a murder investigation in dallas, texas, where police say a woman was shot and killed by her boyfriend over an abortion. 26-year-old gabriella gonzalez was shot in the head the day after she returned from colorado, where she went for an abortion. let s go straight to isabel rosales. what more do we know about this investigation? alex, police are piecing this together, looking through surveillance video that captured the shooting and also they re speaking with witnesses, including the victim s own sister who heard the shooting unfolding. this all happened on wednesday. dallas police got a 911 call. they rushed to a parking lot. there on the ground they found 26-year-old gabriella gonzalez shot and killed. court documents indicate that through surveillance video they saw the suspect harold thompson walking with gonzalez. they had been dating. all of this right before the fatal shooting. thompson in the video, the court documents de