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🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean President Kim Jong Un sign a mutual defense pact as North Korea provides Russia with weapons and ammunition to aid their war efforts in Ukraine. The Biden administration denies Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu's claims that the U.S. is withholding weapons to Israel. Senior attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity Jean Su explains her decision to co-author a petition urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency to recognize heat as a "major disaster."

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0:00.0	If it's Monday, Blinken in Beijing, America's top diplomat meets with Chinese President Xi
0:06.2	Shimping pledging to stabilize U.S.-China relations in the administration's most significant
0:11.2	effort yet to ease tensions and strengthen economic ties.
0:16.2	Plus on the road again, President Biden ramps up his reelection effort holding his first
0:20.2	campaign rally while Pulse show a federal indictment has not put the brakes on Trump's
0:25.0	dominance in the Republican primary field.
0:28.9	And June Teeth and the fight for freedom, as America celebrates the newest federal holiday,
0:33.8	commemorating the end of slavery.
0:35.3	We'll look at this country's ongoing fight for racial equality.
0:51.0	Welcome to Meet the Press.
0:52.0	Now I'm Kristen Wilker in Washington.
0:53.8	We begin with the high-level high stakes meeting today in Beijing between U.S. Secretary of
0:58.0	State Antony Blinken and Chinese President Xi Shimping.
1:01.7	Secretary Blinken's trip to China was the first by any U.S. Secretary of State in five
1:06.3	years, and it comes after months of escalating tensions between the two global superpowers.
1:12.2	Following his 35-minute meeting with President Xi, Secretary Blinken characterized discussions
1:16.5	as candid and substantive, and yet there were no major breakthroughs.
1:20.1	Blinken said both sides agreed on the need to stabilize relations, but he acknowledged
1:24.8	the complicated geopolitical circumstances.
1:28.1	We have no illusions about the challenges of managing this relationship.
1:33.4	There are many issues on which we profoundly, even vehemently, disagree.
1:40.1	We will always take the best course of action to advance the interests of the American people.
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