debt to get an education. that is how we actually solve this problem. >> republicans ask why people who repaid their loans should cover the bills of others? aishah. >> aishah: chad pergram live for us. thanks. >> bill: federal judge's injunction is now being hailed as a free speech victory. members of law enforcement are warning it could hurt their ability to fight crime. interesting twist on that. brand-new hour begins now. dana has the day off today. summertime in the city and i'm bill hemmer. >> aishah: hot and humid, we love it. good to see you out there. i'm a aishah hosni the justice department is appealing the finding of government talking with social media companies. the white house said this having

the judge saying it was the most massive attack on free speech in u.s. history. >> we disagree with this decision and the d.o.j. is reviewing this. i won't get ahead of what their evaluation and options they'll take on moving forward. >> bill: next we can chris wray will publicly testify at the house judiciary committee. republicans on that committee are investigating allegations of political bias within the f.b.i. and d.o.j. meanwhile, law enforcement agencies bracing for a legal battle that may ultimately reach the u.s. supreme court. d.o.j., david spunt, picks it up from there. >> it is picking up as we await an appeals court hearing on the social media order. several federal law enforcement sources privately told me there are serious concerns about this injunction that on the surface would block them from talking to social media companies. d.o.j. is appealing that ruling from u.s. district court judge based in louisiana who issued

the injunction on tuesday on july 4th stopping top biden administration officials and other agencies, including the f.b.i., a.t.f. and d.e.a. which fall under the umbrella of the d.o.j. from talking to social media companies about content containing protected free speech. the problem for federal law enforcement agencies, those agencies talk to social media companies about drug trafficking, human trafficking, other types of crimes. while it does appear there are carve-outs for illegal activity and for those conversations to continue between the agencies, there is still a concern as this process plays out. as you mentioned f.b.i. director wray will be on capitol hill in front of an oversight hearing. translation, expect a kitchen sink atmosphere where multiple topics will come up. this one included. also possible the case will elevate to the u.s. supreme court. a lot of these big hot button cases go.

it depends how the appeal court rules. this is a major test of the first amendment. sources i spoke with declined to speak on camera or be named as this process plays out in the courts. it is something those who wear the badge are watching closely. we'll follow it. >> bill: we shall. early days even, too. thank you so much david spunt, d.o.j. >> dana: kitchen sink congressional hearing sounds right. some thread users are calling the new social media platform a twitter rip-off. elon musk and twitter executives agree and threatening legal action against zuckerberg and his parent company meta in a social media showdown. kelly o'grady is live in los angeles with the latest on this. >> hi. you already had twitter threatening legal action. hours after launching the twitter legal team sent a cease and desist letter to zuckerberg

accuse him of stealing trade secrets and they enforce their property rights. they said meta has hired dozens of former twitter employees, meta deliberately assigned these employees to develop in a matter of months meta 's copycat thread app that they use twitter's trade secrets. never one to stay silent elon musk tweeted competition is fine. cheating is not. meta responded with no comment to our inquiries. reports of some meta employees sharing on the threads platform that no twitter employees did work on this project. when you look at the apps there are a number of similarities. the look and feel of twitter. it is a direct competitor. i spoke with a number of legal experts and they say any court battle is likely going to be upheld for twitter. u.s. copyright law doesn't protect ideas. twitter, if they did decide to

pursue a suit, would have to prove that its own intellectual property was taken in this case. the big headline is this threat of legal action shows twitter is worried. they have had a lot of small competitors before but nothing with the strength of meta behind it. still early days. because an app has hype doesn't mean it has staying power. one in four of existing instagram users to match the twitter user base. tough but not impossible. >> aishah: thank you. >> bill: it is less than two days old. our next guest says there is secret censorship taking place on a new platform designed and built by meta called threads putting warning labels allegedly on some accounts that have been flagged. those profiles can be removed for violating any guidelines with no way to challenge or appeal the decision. michael shellenberger is the author of a book and why

progressives ruin cities. good morning to you. zuckerberg found an audience. call for one. 30 million users in less than 24 hours after the launch. they are still adding up right now. the allegation here is about censorship. give me an example. >> that's right. at least two users that we discovered were being secretly censored. meaning they moved to the platform and they were not told that there would be warning labels attached to their profiles when people attempted to follow them. and that's exactly what happened. one confirmed to me yesterday that indeed that was happening and the censorship was carried over from instagram. people can block whoever they want to block and there is a lot of misinformation out there, including by mainstream news publications. we pointed out an example yesterday where "the new york

times" suggested the covid vaccine prevented transmission and infection, which i can testify personally is misinformation. i got sick after getting the vaccine. >> bill: your allegation, does this apply to some sort of political position or medical position, which, or both? >> well, i cannot say for certain but this man is famous because he actually sued the social media companies a couple of years ago after he had been censored for his election skepticism, which i would add i do not share or agree with his views, but, of course, that's what the first amendment and freedom of speech is about is we are allowed to people we don't agree with have equal rights to the platforms. they're private companies but taxpayers give them special, very powerful legal liability through section 230. if you get section 230 you are

supposed to be a free and open platform. zuckerberg promised but not delivering in this case. >> aishah: this new app is the first real threat for twitter and the new ceo talked about this. i want to pull this up, call for number three. on twitter everyone's voice matters whether you are here to discover history, share opinions or learn about others. on twitter you can be real. you built the twitter community and that's irreplaceable. does this sound a little desperate to you? should twitter be worried? >> i think should be extremely worried. you just discussed this huge july 4th freedom of speech lawsuit is probably going -- ruling will probably go to the supreme court. congress must act to clarify the rules of engagement by the internet platforms if they are going to engage in this kind of

censorship they should be transparent and some sort of right to appeal it. it is all being done secretly behind the scenes. the things you would see by the east german secret police. this is not what we do in the united states. it is unamerican. mark zuckerberg doesn't care about freedom of speech but selling user data and they are sweeping up including financial and personal sensitive date yeah. they want to sell it to advertiseors. that's not okay. we need to put our foot down on this. supreme court needs to weigh in. congress ultimately needs to reform section 230. >> aishah: congress is probably not going to be quick to respond. i'm wondering elon musk is facing a lot of backlash for some of his moves and limited how many tweets you can see per day. some of the biggest haters out there like aoc haven't quit. they're still on twitter. twitter is not going away anytime soon, right? >> no, i don't think so.

i'm on threads as well. you want to be on all the different platforms if you try to get your ideas out there. bottom line you can't engage in censorship or tell private companies what they can and can't have on their platform. the only solution is transparency, supreme court between the supreme court and congress, we've got to get this sorted out. there is too much censorship online. >> bill: we reached out to meta. when we get a response we'll pass it on. i was on there this morning, looks a lots like twitter to me. see how well it does in time. having instagram linked to this app really helps zuckerberg's chances of succeeding. michael shellenberger, thanks for coming on today. >> thanks for having me, bill. >> bill: thank you. >> aishah: a deadline comes and goes. the federal attorney in the hunter biden investigation fails to comply with the house judiciary committee in its

request for documents. there is also this. >> bill: this is an awful story. he escaped from afghanistan. he left philadelphia but could not survive the dangerous streets of washington, d.c. this is an interpreter who worked with our american military in afghanistan. he is now dead. that story in a moment. >> a lot of danger in afghanistan, so yeah, for him to come here and in less than two years after arriving in the states, it's really devastating. lower your monthly payments with the three c's: pay down your credit cards, pay off your car loan, consolidate your debt with a va home loan from from newday. i brought in ensure max protein with 30g of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks.

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it is unfathomable how senseless this is. >> aishah: an army special forces veteran on a death of a interpreter he served with in afghanistan. that man right here escaped after the taliban took over the country only to be shot and killed in our nation's capital. can you believe that? he was working as a lyft driver when it happened. the tragic and deeply disturbing details. alex. >> aishah, it's terrible. he was hard at work bringing his american dream to life. earlier this year he started a tow truck company. sunday and monday decided to put in a few hours driving lyft to pay drills. he was shot and killed. the 31-year-old grew up in afghanistan becoming a long serve interpreter for the u.s. military. he fled during the u.s. chaotic departure in 21 and fled

philadelphia after the post reported he was robbed at gun point there. he and his wife and four children settled in alexandria, virginia. he deserved to live out a long, safe, and happy life there. he was shot instead and killed in his car less than a mile from the u.s. capitol building monday. the alleyway, security video. four young people ran off after a single gunshot is heard. the suspects are heard saying this. listen. so then the other person in that video responds that he was reaching, bro. police offered a $25,000 reward. so far no arrests in this case have been made. police say they have made progress on this. gofundme benefiting his widow and children has already raised $98,000. it reads he was immensely proud to be in the u.s. and grateful

for the safety and opportunity that would be afforded to his four young children. aishah, those children range in age from 15 months to just 13 years old. absolutely tragic story. >> aishah: it gets worse and worse. it is shameful is what it is. alex hoff, thank you so much. >> bill: more to come. we'll learn more. 19 past the hour. new investigation and developments in the hunter biden legal saga. an attorney for hunter biden said this about the whistleblower. he said this is a tried and true tactic of aggrieved agent who no better than prosecutors and disagree to seek to pressure prosecutors to charge by leaning to the media. hunter's attorney cites a "washington post" piece from last october as a possible example. attorneys for the whistleblower gary shapley are asking the post to confirm their client was not a source for an article

published last year. they also said this. >> these attacks are meritless, baseless, and we're watching to defend our client. we wish the press wouldn't cover these attacks when they are baseless and they know they are baseless. >> bill: let's bring in jonathan turley. nice to have you on and good morning to you. i just want to remind viewers from a week ago weiss, the prosecutor out of delaware, sent a letter to jim jordan and he seemed to outline his defense in four different parts. you have seen that letter. do you have questions about the letter or do they satisfy you? >> no, there is nothing to be satisfied with because there is no answers in the letter. what weiss is saying i was given this authority but doesn't deal with the specific allegations of these whistleblowers. we have numerous witnesses and other witnesses who are named in these accounts who were present at a meeting where weiss

allegedly said he tried to become a special counsel and was decide and told that the charges were attempted in california and d.c. but rebuffed by those u.s. attorneys. that's in direct and irreconcilable conflict what has been said by attorney general garland. weiss is saying i was given this authority. so he has to answer to these discrepancies. the problem weiss has is that the case itself is just a glaring mountain of contradiction. the justice department seemed to let the statute of limitations run. some of us wrote columns before that date and said why are you doing this? the statute is about to run. the whistleblowers are saying it did appear to be intentional. that there was an agreement that more serious charges could be

brought against hunter and those were scuttled. >> bill: you have weiss, you have merrick garland and you have the whistleblower shapley. he was on with bret on the 28th of june. listen here. >> we weren't allowed to ask questions about that. we weren't allowed to ask about the big guy. we weren't allowed to include certain names and document requests and search warrants, so we were precluded from following that line of questioning. >> bill: two government officials and a whistleblower that went public. weiss said i have been granted ultimate authority over this matter including the responsibility for deciding where, when and whether to file charges. i guess, professor, to you, who is lying? and how do we figure that out? >> that's a good question. the whistleblower is referred to named wolf and she supposedly told them don't ask about the

big guy. and resisted efforts to look into storage units and even accused of tipping off the biden team. we don't have any confirmation of that. we haven't heard from that ausa. i would find it strange an ausa would take it upon herself to set the parameters. they had to come from someone. congress has every reason to get the answers. weiss didn't answer them. they need to force those answers. he missed this deadline. i think congress will give him a little time but congress is not going away. these questions need to be answered. it could not be more serious in terms of what is being alleged here, a deprivation, abridgement of the rule of law if these allegations are true. >> bill: hunter biden is in court at the end of july, right? july 26th, not sure of the date. do you think republicans in the house can bring shapley for a

public hearing and/or force weiss to appear prior to that date? >> well, the question on the whistleblower is yes, they probably can bring the whistleblowers in. the department of justice will resist and keep on saying it is an ongoing investigation, which is highly ironic because they extended this investigation so long they ran out of time. so the statute of limitations ran on some of these crimes. now they are doing it again saying it is ongoing, give is more time. after the plea comes down it will get harder and harder to convince a court because the congress is investigating them. it is not trying to relitigate this case. it is investigating the f.b.i. and the i.r.s., it's investigating the biden administration. >> bill: that's a bigger deal. sir, thank you so much. we'll go through it together throughout the entire month. jonathan turley, thank you. >> aishah: still to come secret high-level talks to end the war in ukraine. reportedly hitting a brick wall with neither side willing to

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>> aishah: today marks 100 days since "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovitch was detained in russia on espionage charges. last month the court denied his appeal for release, which means that he will remain behind bars until at least late august. the u.s. calls the charges ridiculous. the journal, which is owned by the same company that owns this network, says journalism is not a crime.

a top spokesman for russian president vladimir putin claims they are in touch with the u.s. over a possible prisoner swap that could finally bring evan home. to show your support for evan share a photo of yourself holding up today's "wall street journal" print edition with the hashtag i stand with evan and post the link to wsj.com to spread awareness. we all pray that he comes home soon. >> bill: yep. the more word gets out the better chance we have. with age emerging as a major issue candidates on both sides showing off fiscal fitness. have you seen some of these videos making the case for generational change at the ballot box. rich edson has more from d.c. on this. rich, it's work out, brother. >> go to the health club. you know, you have the two oldest presidents in history leading in their party's primary polls. president biden is 80. former president donald trump is

77. some of their challengers are making the numbers an issue. robert kennedy junior who doesn't turn 70 until january post evidence the video hitting the bench press and push-ups getting in shape for his debates with president biden even though biden probably won't debate him. former u.n. ambassador nikki haley argued a second biden term means a kamala harris presidency and calling for age-based testing for politicians. >> americans are done. they're tired, they're done. they want term limits. they want mandatory testing for people over the age of 75 for competency. they want to know that we are going to start getting d.c. in shape. >> other politicians are showing they're in shape. miami mayor suarez posted of his recent 5k time finishing sixth in the race. he admitted that he finished sixth in his age group.

but ever finish is a win. south carolina senator tim scott has a new ad throwing a football. as president he will fight back and win. another gop challenger ramaswamy chose the tennis court to show off his fitness displaying tennis skills in a in you video. 2016 and 2020 challenger bernie sanders objects to this talk about nikki haley's competency test. he notes there are lots of 40-year-olds out there who aren't particularly competent. >> bill: okay. see you in the gym, rich. it sounds good, brother. thank you, have a good weekend. florida governor ron desantis putting rumors to bed whether or not he will participate in the first debate coming up later this summer. he told fox news last night he is in no matter what. >> i'll be there regardless. i hope everybody who is eligible comes. i think it is an important part of the process. i look forward to being able to be on the stage and introducing

our candidacy and our vision and leadership to a wide audience. >> bill: big viewership, too. bret and martha moderate in milwaukee, wisconsin on august 23rd. >> aishah: the white house is denying any role in peace talks. three former u.s. national security official eaves met privately with russian foreign minister in new york earlier this year to lay the ground work for possible war negotiations. >> i want to make it clear these discussions were not encouraged or engendered by us and not supporting them in an active way. as the president said nothing about ukraine without ukraine. >> aishah: let's bring in a former assistant secretary of defense, co-founder of the marathon initiative and author of "the strategy of dinel." i want to ask you off the bat why

deny this? why not support it back channel conversations, are they wrong trying to end a brutal war? >> look, i think you are right there, aishah. this war, as with almost any war, a war with a nuclear power like russia, will end with negotiations. the counter point is you want to make sure you are doing it from a position of strength and communicating to the other side in in case moscow that they are not giving them further confidence that they can pursue unreasonable and aggressive goals. i do think that there are going to have to be talks. the ukrainians will have to have input needless to say. but the format and the style, if you go back to vietnam peace talks. arguments about the size of the table and its shape. these things are delicate and important and understand why people are critical of what happened. >> aishah: isn't this the moment to have conversations especially with what just happened in moscow, in russia recently? i guess the question is do you

think this administration is doing enough to end this war? >> well, i think we should be looking to talk. i think that seemed to me to be the administration's position and seems to be what blinken and sullivan have communicated. i do think eventual negotiations will happen. unfortunately we'll probably have to assume those negotiations will not end quickly. it's possible they would. if you go back to the korean war the negotiations lasted for two years. as the famous line goes you can talk while fighting and certainly the russians historically and their all aisles have been very good at that. >> aishah: i want to switch gears quickly to what janet yellen said today while she is in china. she criticized the chinese government's harsh treatment of companies with foreign ties and it's export controls on some really important minerals here. i will play the sound bite and get your reaction on the other side. >> i am communicating the concerns that i have heard from the u.s. business community.

the u.s. seeks healthy economic competition with china. but healthy economic competition where both sides benefit is only sustainable if that competition is fair. >> aishah: strong words? >> not really. i'm confused, aishah. the concept of a healthy economic competition, competing while cooperating doesn't make sense. the chinese don't believe it. they think that even a left wing administration like this one is trying to strangle china. they saw as yellen was going over there additional semi conductor sanctions imposed. what really wore eaves me the administration seems to think these optical meetings and saying nice things in beijing will turn down the temperature. really 0 evidence. if fact in the contrary xi was down at the eastern theater command opposite taiwan telling

the troops to be ready for an actual war. naval intelligence is briefing the chinese are getting ready by later in the decade with the military. who are we kidding? i worry the administration might be holding back things especially on the military side that are necessary to provide that shield to make sure the chinese don't get the wrong impression they can strike out and get out of what they think. we have to be very clear they think we're trying to strangle and hold them down. >> aishah: thank you so much for being on with us. appreciate it. >> bill: 22 minutes before the hour. want to go to vegas. police investigating an altercation that involved britney spears today's news. serious topic today. it happened when spears tried to approach the number one nba draft pick victor wembanyama. he have is out of france and he is tall. she apparently tapped him on the shoulder for a photo when she alleges a member of his security team slapped her with the back

of the hand. tmz publishing pictures outside the restaurant where it allegedly happened. we have yet to figure out what truly happened there. that's the allegation out there from vegas. >> aishah: i believe her. i think he doesn't know who she is. the young kids these days don't know. >> bill: he is a good basketball player. see how it ends up. maybe an apology if that's in order. meanwhile and update on the murder of a young mother and heiress abducted on an early morning jog. triple digit heat driving americans indoors. hope the a.c. works. find out if there is relief for you, too, coming up. >> i'm glad i work inside. >> i enjoy coming out here. >> it's hot but bearable. when i take the dog out we walked tree to tree, shade to shade.

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>> bill: if you haven't noticed summer is here and scorching start with triple digit heat in some spots. check the expected highs across the u.s. a lot of red on the map there. for weeks parts of the south have been dealing with scorching temps. brandi campbell is live in key biscayne, florida. we're jealous of you. how is it down there? good morning. >> well, good morning. it's beautiful out here bust hot. the national weather service issued a heat advisory starting at 11:00 from here to the keys as well as northeast florida. meanwhile we're seeing people out on the beach enjoying it, relaxing. some coming to work out before the sun even came up. i spoke with one trainer saying

they start early to beat the heat because it has been so hot in florida lately. she was just saying they are grateful we're at least close to the ocean to get that breeze. she also mentioned if anyone is planning to be outside or work out in places with high heat to aim for early in the morning or in the afternoon to avoid heat exhaustion over worse. now unfortunately we have had over a dozen reports of deaths this summer that could be potentially related to the heat. that's in places like texas, most in texas. we have that unfortunate news out of it. but we do have some relief coming going into the weekend. most of the u.s. will get out of the heat with the exception of florida, as well as the desert southwest. people in texas should expect it to return coming next week. back to you. >> bill: thanks, enjoy it, right? it's right there for you. nice to see you. >> i know, it's tempting. >> aishah: prosecutors are announcing they will seek the

death penalty for the man accused of kidnapping a tennessee mom during an early morning run and killing her. the district attorney saying this. i am very clear on this as a policy matter i am opposed to the death penalty. if i were a legislature i would vote against it. however, as d.a. i have to follow the law. so the mom is eliza fletcher who went out for a jog in the early morning september 2nd and forced in the back of an s.u.v. and murdered. the next day police arrested the suspect. joining us now is emily . in tennessee the crime has to be >> does this hit?

>> there are always catchalls for prosecutors to use their discretion. the district attorney has said i don't believe in capital punishment but this crime is so heinous i will seek it here. i said that clearly the facts warrant it. i have to point out the fact that as heartbreaking as this tragedy it, is it made more heartbreaking by fact it was preventable. this perp had served 20 years for aggravated kidnapping. just got out three years ago and also charged with kidnapping and aggravated rape in an unrelated case that should he have been arrested at the time would have meant he was incarcerated and unable to kill more eliza fletcher. devastating all around. >> bill: 4:20 surveillance footage. >> it is footage of him

furiously scrubbing it out later behind the home where her body was later found. i point out, too, in tennessee they just reinstated the death penalty in 2018. the last person they executed was 2020. this is a right time. a tragically right case for this to apply here. the d.a. spoke with the family, the fleschers. they support this 100%. they support capital punishment. >> bill: you said two things. is this a slam dunk case? >> it should be. in addition to dna evidence that led to the original link in the first place. this defendant left his shoes at the scene. dna linked them to the shoes where her body was found. >> aishah: it puts added pressure on prosecutors. harder case to go through, right? >> the standard of evidence is the same. first there is the guilt phase and sentencing phase.

what this means, they still have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt and subsequent to the guilt phase a sentencing phase where the capital punishment will be put on table and the jury will decide. >> bill: first arrested 11 years old for theft and racz at age 14. sentenced to prison at age 16 for abducting an attorney forcing him to take out money. >> in addition to the rape and kidnapping. a brutal rape in the back seat of a car after kidnapping a woman. the media keeps calling it a career criminal. i don't think that's accurately describing the heinousness of this monster who clearly needs to be kept off the streets and potentially off this planet forever because it is obvious he will continue to rape and murder should he be free. >> aishah: is there anything that his team can try to do to

slow this down to get him out of this? >> they will file motion after most on procedure and substantive and evidentiary levels. they will say maybe he is not competent. mitigating factors. he was abused, etc. making sure every t crossed and i dotted in the procedure. maybe they'll try to throw out some of the evidence. maybe they feel it is particularly damning for him but bottom line this guy is a monster. >> bill: true crime podcast. see you at noon on "outnumbered." have a great weekend. in a moment here hiring cooling down a bit as the economy added 200,000 jobs last month. we're learning about a surge in bankruptcy filings. what does it mean for us? new life coming to abandoned stores. the pickleball courts have taken over. how some companies are looking to cash in on the growing trend and doing it pretty well.

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>> aishah: u.s. bankruptcy filings surging in the first half of 2023 compared to the same period last year. according to epic bankruptcy chapter 11 filings are up 68% and for small businesses they're up 55%. epic blames rising interest rates and inflation. no-brainer there. >> bill: all right. so now on the topic of some business, pickleball craze spreading across the country. pickleball courts are filling space in vacant shopping malls. companies looking to cash in on the growing trend. you knew they would find a way eventually. madison all worth. how is your game? >> you're about to see it. it is pretty good. this used to be a sax fifth after knew. now pickleball america opening monday setting to become the largest indoor pickleball court

in the northeast. i will jump into this game and interview jay at the same time. you outfitted this space. why take a mall and turn it into a pickleball arena like this? >> it was such a great space in terms of size and location and to activate it to the community was what we wanted to do. it's perfect. >> when you think about malls brick and mortar is on the decline. pickleball is more popular and becomes more popular. why make that connection and what does the mall say when you said we want to put pickleball in there? >> they were ecstatic in terms of what we were doing. we have 250 members before we even opened. we can host 8500 people here a week with our eyes closed. >> tell me about the actual space. for two years this sat empty. then you come in and how quickly are you able to turn it into this? >> we came in, evaluated it.

the space was amazing, a warehouse type effect. took us four months to get it going. we got all 13 courts ready to go and people playing. >> amazing. people will be playing on monday, bill, when it officially opens. 250 membership before they open the doors. 150 pickleball courts open in the u.s. and can't keep up with demand. now you are seeing mixed use, amazing. >> bill: 2-0 the other team now, madison. >> i'm a little busy, bill. >> bill: you are doing great. it looks wonderful and have a blast, okay? well done, madison. stanford, connecticut. before we go, we have this for you, a runaway pig leading police on a wild chase in kentucky. here is how it went. ♪

the big is mr. bacon bits. they got him in a dog crate and now back with his family. so mr. bits is back. >> aishah: he needs a diet. needs to play some pickleball. >> bill: just saying. good to be with you. have a good weekend. here is gillian, harris is off today. >> gillian: thank you, bill and aishah. information is coming up in drips and drabs about the cocaine the secret service found at the white house five days ago. i'm in for harris and this is "the faulkner focus." let's get into it. it was first the drugs were slept up in the library but now in the west wing outside the situation room where the nation's most sensitive secrets are tracked every hour of every day. the secret service is reviewing camera logs as well as