Republicans Visit Southern Border, Nicaragua Cracks Down On Dissidents, Tesla Recall
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🗓️ 17 February 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Republicans are promising to improve border security, something they claim the Biden administration |
| 0:07.3 | has failed to do. |
| 0:08.7 | Republicans have been taking action. |
| 0:10.6 | We've got a lot of ideas inside Congress. |
| 0:13.2 | So what are the GOP's ideas? |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Asma Khalid, that's Laila Faddle, and this is up first for MenPR News. |
| 0:21.3 | Nicarag was president is stripping his political opponents of their citizenship. |
| 0:25.4 | It's another step in the president's years long effort to consolidate power. |
| 0:29.6 | The UN Rights Groups call it a violation of international law, and PR's Ada Peralta on |
| 0:34.1 | what's behind this crackdown. |
| 0:35.7 | Antesla is recalling more than 360,000 self-driving vehicles over software issues that may cause |
| 0:42.1 | crashes. |
| 0:43.1 | It's got investors even more jumpy, so stay with us, we'll give you the news. |
| 0:46.6 | You need to start your day. |
| 0:57.6 | For the first time as House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy led a group of Republican freshman |
| 1:01.8 | lawmakers on a trip to the southern border in Arizona. |
| 1:05.0 | McCarthy talked to reporters at a private ranch next to a border wall, and he praised his |
| 1:09.6 | fellow Republicans for tackling an issue. |
| 1:11.6 | He claims the Biden administration has not been doing enough on. |
| 1:14.9 | The freshman member that I brought here, they have done more in four weeks of looking |
| 1:20.7 | at the border than the president has done in 40 years. |
| 1:23.9 | Democrats of course dispute that claim, but with Republicans now in control of the House, |
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