If it's Tuesday, President Biden hits the road trying to hit Republicans on domestic issues like health care as he navigates a web of foreign threats and growing bipartisan concern over China.

Plus, a rare look inside Russian-occupied Crimea as war rages in Ukraine.

NBC's Kier Simmons and his team are the first Western journalists to report from that

hostile region since the Russian invasion. And the fate of hundreds of billions of dollars in student

loan relief now in the hands of the nine justices, as the Supreme Court hears arguments

challenging the legality of the White House's sweeping loan forgiveness plan.

Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington. President Biden just wrapped up an address in Virginia Beach on the issue of health care as he tries to turn the focus back to his domestic agenda while looking ahead to 2024. In his remarks, the president took some shots at Republicans, specifically so-called MAGA Republicans, and he criticized the GOP for its years-long efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

They continue to fight to cut the Affordable Care Act and make health insurance more expensive for millions of Americans.

Republicans have been trying to undo the Affordable Care Act since it passed 13 years ago.

They voted to change and repeal the Act.

It's the fact.

It's on the record.

More than 50 times in four years.

Let's be clear about the consequences.

If you get rid of the Affordable Care Act,

it would mean that more than 100 million Americans

with pre-existing conditions would lose the critical protections

they have now.

As the president tries to go on offense against Republicans on domestic policy issues,

he also faces an array of complex challenges tied to U.S. national security and foreign policy

from an expanding war in Ukraine to a

deteriorating relationship with China. Both were in focus today in Washington with U.S. officials

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