The lab tests are back from the White House.

It's cocaine.

The lead starts right now.

A zip lock baggy filled with cocaine found just steps from the West Wing were guests

are often ushered through the White House, but now the question, who dropped it?

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Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin today 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 afternoon.

The U.S. Secret Service confirmed the lab tests indicate that the substance is cocaine.

Let's go to CNN's Jeremy Diamond at the White House Force.

Jeremy, this afternoon's White House press briefing just wrapped up, what a Korean

Jean-Pierre, the press secretary, have to say.

Well, listen Jake, the White House isn't saying that this was a visitor at the White House

who dropped this baggy of cocaine, but she certainly is insinuating that that seems

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