Sources: Senate will still hold vote to block DC crime bill

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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The Washington D.C. Council is attempting to withdraw a criminal justice bill which is headed for likely failure in the Senate. D.C. Council member Janeese Lewis George joins to discuss the D.C. Home Rule Act and reforming Washington D.C.’s criminal code. Plus, four Americans have been kidnapped in Mexico and now an international rescue effort has been launched to find them. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	4 Americans kidnapped in Mexico and now an international rescue effort has been launched
0:07.8	to find them.
0:09.2	The lead starts right now.
0:11.9	A trip across the border turning into terror.
0:14.6	4 Americans taken to Mexico, the car crash, the confrontation and new images offering a glimpse
0:19.2	of the frightening encounter.
0:20.4	Plus, in a twist, DC backtracks withdrawing its controversial crime bill, but that's not
0:26.7	stopping the U.S. Senate charging ahead with its vote to override what the DC City Council
0:31.8	wants.
0:32.8	Plus, scary moments on a Southwest flight when a cabin filled with smoke and forced
0:37.2	an emergency landing.
0:44.2	Welcome to the lead.
0:45.2	I'm Jake Tapper and we start today with our world lead four U.S. citizens missing in
0:48.7	Mexico after officials say they were likely targeted by armed criminals mistakenly.
0:54.4	The FBI says the four drove from Texas into the Mexican city of Matamoros on Friday.
0:59.0	We're gunmen fired at their car, assaulted them and then abducted them.
1:02.8	A U.S. official says the Americans were in Mexico for medical procedures.
1:07.0	Video obtained by CNN appears to show individuals being forcefully loaded into the back of a
1:11.1	pickup truck in Matamoros on Friday.
1:14.2	The border city has been racked by violence and organized crime since the Mexican drug wars
1:18.4	broke out in full force in 2006.
1:20.9	It's home to the one's powerful gulf cartel that is blintered into competing violent gangs.
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