U.S. official: Americans likely mistaken for drug smugglers

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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We have new information about the armed kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico after two were found dead and two survived. We have a live report on how the four friends from South Carolina were apparently mistaken for drug smugglers. Plus, Sen. Dan Sullivan of the Armed Services Committee joins to discuss China’s new foreign minister warning of conflict with the U.S. and defending China's ties to Russia. 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	Two Americans kidnapped in Mexico are back on U.S. soil.
0:06.2	Two others are dead.
0:08.4	The lead starts right now.
0:09.4	A tragic end after a mother's trip to Mexico with friends to get a medical procedure.
0:14.0	Now two in the group are dead.
0:16.2	Two others found alive.
0:17.2	How the group got lost and ended up in the hands of armed criminals.
0:21.0	Plus...
0:22.0	Since I'm taking over this plane...
0:27.6	He says terrifying moments on a cross-country flight.
0:30.6	When a man threatens to hijack the plane, the video, as freaked out passengers, tried to react.
0:35.6	Plus...
0:36.6	A not-so-open invitation.
0:37.6	CNN's up close.
0:38.6	Look at the great lengths that Chinese Communist Party will go to control its country's messaging.
0:47.6	Welcome to the lead object taper.
0:49.6	And we start today with our world lead and new details in the investigation into those four Americans
0:55.6	kidnapped in Mexico last week.
0:57.6	Local officials say one person has been detained after two of the U.S. citizens were found dead in the border town of Matamoros.
1:04.6	The two others are thankfully alive, although one is severely injured according to a U.S. official.
1:09.6	And those two have returned to the United States for medical treatment and observation.
1:12.6	Family members say that the four were a tight-knit group of friends traveling from South Carolina to Mexico
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