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🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Kristen Welker previews the stakes ahead of President Biden's State of the Union address. A U.S. army sergeant is charged with transmitting sensitive military information to a co-conspirator in China. Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) discusses Democrats' efforts to win 2024 Senate races. White House Communications Director Ben LaBolt talks about the messages the president will look to convey during his address.

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0:00.0	If it's Tuesday, crisis and controversy at the border, as President Biden
0:05.3	weighs the return of a family detention policy that's been criticized as
0:09.3	inhumane by some immigration advocates and members of Congress. Plus two
0:14.0	Americans are dead after a case of mistaken identity leads to a kidnapping by
0:18.6	the cartel in a dangerous part of Mexico and it all happened just across the
0:23.2	border from Brownville, Texas. And the battle over reproductive rights ramps up
0:27.9	in Texas as a group of women is filing suit, alleging the state's abortion
0:32.3	restrictions put their lives in danger.
0:46.3	Welcome to Meet the Press. Now I'm Kristen Welker. We begin today with multiple
0:49.6	developments surrounding the issues of immigration and the border.
0:52.8	As the Biden administration weighs changes to its embattled border policies,
0:56.8	amid shocking violence against Americans in Mexico.
1:00.0	Two Americans were murdered and two more have just been returned to the US.
1:04.1	After being kidnapped after they crossed the border in northern Mexico last
1:07.7	week, we're going to have more on that in just a minute.
1:10.4	But the politics of the border were already front and center today after the
1:14.1	New York Times first reported. And NBC News now confirms the Biden
1:18.1	administration is considering restarting the controversial policy
1:22.0	of detaining families with children after they crossed the border legally.
1:25.8	White House press secretary, I'm just not I'm just not going to comment on
1:28.8	rumors that are out there. I'm not saying it's being considered. I'm not
1:31.6	saying any, but I'm not saying it is. I'm not saying it is not. I'm saying that
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