If it's Monday, debt talks and border fallout.

The president prepares to meet with top congressional leaders ahead of the crucial June deadline to avoid a government default,

as the administration breathes a small sigh of relief at the southern border, days after the end of pandemic-era restrictions.

Plus, breaking news, John Durham, the special counsel who's been investigating the origins of the Trump-Russia probe for more than two years now, has just released the findings of his long-anticipated report.

We'll have the biggest takeaways and the latest reaction in fallout ahead.

And two congressional staffers have been hospitalized after being attacked this morning by an assailant armed with a baseball bat at the District Office of Virginia Democratic Congressman Jerry Connolly.

Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Garrett Hake in for Kristen Welker.

Moments ago, Special Counsel John Durham released his long-anticipated Durham report,

officially closing the books on a two-plus-year investigation into the FBI and Robert Mueller's probe into Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election.

In the 300-plus-page report, Durham faults the FBI for even opening the probe in the first

place. Our team's going through that report as we speak and we'll have more in just a minute.

But we begin today with one eye on Washington and the other on the southern border as the White House

contends with two of its most pressing and enduring political issues, the border crisis and

the economy, more specifically, the debt ceiling. Things at the border appear to be improving

in the wake of policy changes late last week as the pandemic-era asylum policy known as Title 42

that once allowed border agents to turn away

nearly all asylum seekers expired on Thursday night. Department of Homeland Security Secretary

Alejandro Mayorkas said yesterday that border apprehensions have actually declined 50% in the days

since. It's a hopeful sign for overwhelmed shelters in the area and overwhelmed government officials.

Over the past two days, the United States Border Patrol has experienced a 50% drop in the number of encounters

versus what we were experiencing earlier in the week before Title 42 ended at midnight on Thursday. It is still early. We are in day

three. But, you know, we've been planning for this transition for months and months,

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