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🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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President Biden is meeting with Democratic congressional leaders amid a debt fight and a classified documents controversy. In less than 72 hours, a second mass shooting struck California. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	If it's Tuesday, another batch of classified documents is discovered, this time at the home of former Vice President Mike Pence, what we know and don't know amid the growing legal and political fallout from these revelations.
0:14.9	Plus, a gunman kills at least seven people outside of San Francisco two days after 11 were shot dead in Monterey Park, California.
0:22.6	Two very different incidents, but sadly part of the same tragic story of gun violence in America.
0:29.6	And a potentially major escalation as NBC News has learned that the U.S. has decided to send Abrams tanks to Ukraine.
0:41.4	My interview with the top White House national security official ahead.
0:54.9	Welcome to meet the press now.
0:57.8	I'm Kristen Welker on a very busy afternoon in Washington.
1:04.3	The president is huddling with Democratic leadership at the White House right now for the first time in this new session of Congress.
1:11.1	And as the president faces criticism from both inside and outside of his party over his handling of classified information,
1:16.7	news broke this afternoon that another batch of classified material had been found this time at former Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana home.
1:20.0	According to correspondence obtained by NBC News between Pence's legal team and the National Archives,
1:24.8	a small number of documents was discovered last week.
1:28.2	Former Vice President Mike Pence's team is asserting that he had no knowledge of those documents
1:33.1	and is pledging full cooperation.
1:35.4	This new discovery comes despite Pence flatly denying taking classified documents from the White
1:40.5	House during an ABC News interview in November.
1:43.9	Did you take any classified documents with you from the White House during an ABC News interview in November. Did you take any classified documents with you from the White House?
1:48.5	I did not.
1:52.0	Do you see any reason for anyone to take classified documents with them leaving the White House?
1:57.8	Well, there'd be no reason to have classified documents, particularly if they were in an unprotected
2:03.5	area.
2:04.5	A few days after that interview, Pence was also pressed by Chuck on Meet the Press about
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