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The Fox News Rundown

From Washington: The White House Cocaine Mystery

The Fox News Rundown

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News, Daily News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

It's been nearly a week since a small bag of cocaine was found in the West Wing of the White House and the Secret Service has still yet to identify who the drugs belong to. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is calling on the head of the U.S. Secret Service to give Congress more information about the incident and has demanded a staff-level briefing on the matter by July 14. Many fear that this incident showcases a lack of security to the country's adversaries. FOX News Washington Based Correspondent Griff Jenkins breaks down how the cocaine may have entered the building, what the next steps in the investigation are, and previews President Joe Biden's trip to Europe. The highly anticipated 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania is set to take place this coming week. As the war between Russia and Ukraine rages on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is hoping his nation gets an invite to join the alliance. However, NATO leaders are divided over if and when Ukraine should get membership. Former United States Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor joins to discuss the history of former Soviet states attempting to join NATO, the likelihood of Sweden being accepted into the alliance, and how the Summit could impact Russia's war on Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We think capability, handling, grip and safety should always be full-time jobs.

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That's why every SUV we make has permanent four-wheel drive, a standard.

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Subaru, all-wheel drive, all the time.

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Saturday, July 8, 2023, Omrion Schmelz, the discovery of cocaine at the White House is

0:41.0

raising serious national security concerns.

0:44.0

Where does the investigation stand and what happens next?

0:48.0

This is not an area that we should be joking about anything that shouldn't be there being found.

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I'm Kevin Kork.

0:56.0

A time of peril and promise as global leaders prepare to gather at the upcoming NATO summit.

1:02.0

When President Bush was trying to get Ukraine and the NATO in 2008,

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if the Germans had said yes and the others had said yes, we would not have this war in Europe today.

1:12.0

It would not be happening.

1:13.0

This is the Fox News rundown from Washington.

1:18.0

As Secret Service investigates, Republicans in Congress like Michael Walts of Florida say this is a major security issue.

1:34.0

Cid aside this cocaine, a white powder that could have been anthrax or some other type of chemical or weapon of mass destruction

1:42.0

gets that close to the heartbeat of our government. That is a massive security failure.

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The House Oversight Committee is now launching an investigation of its own.

1:52.0

Let's go back. So it's Sunday afternoon when we know that this bag of cocaine was found.

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Fox News Washington-based correspondent, Griff Jenkins, was in the White House during last weekend's evacuation.

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Now, before the Secret Service and the White House sort of weighed in on the scant details that we have gotten,

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there were rumors that it was in the library.

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People wondered, what is that? Then we finally learned, well, it was in a highly trafficked, highly traveled area.

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