Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker. We are keeping a close eye on developments out of Arizona and the search for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of our friend and NBC News

colleague Savannah Guthrie. Our hearts, our prayers are with the whole Guthrie family.

As authorities say, no suspect has been identified four days after her disappearance.

We will have much more on that coming up shortly. But we do want to begin here in Washington with

President Trump sitting down for an exclusive interview with my NBC News colleague Tom Yamis,

as the White House faces backlash over its immigration crackdown and its handling of the economy.

The president reacting to his administration's announcement today that it is withdrawing 700

federal officers

from Minnesota and making a rare acknowledgement that his approach in Minneapolis may have missed

the mark. Take a listen to part of that conversation. Okay, let's drill down into the news today.

That big change on immigration, 700 officers leaving Minneapolis. Did that

come from you? Yes, it did. But it didn't come from me because I just wanted to do it.

We are waiting for them to release prisoners, give us the murderers that they're holding,

and all of the bad people, drug dealers, all of the bad people.

We allowed in our country, I say 25 million people with an open border policy for four

years under Biden and that group, the autopen group, I call them, we allowed to come into our

country, people, the likes of which no country would accept, and we're getting them out.

But we've gotten a lot of them out.

So crime now in Minnesota, crime now in Minneapolis is down.

Crime in all cities is down.

Speaking of clear.

And you know why it's down?

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