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The 7

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

The 7

The Washington Post

Daily News, News

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Wednesday briefing: Americans kidnapped in Mexico; Dominion lawsuit; Oklahoma marijuana vote; International Women’s Day; and more


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0:00.0

We have a tragic update on the recent kidnappings in Mexico.

0:05.0

I'm Jeff Pierre and this is the 7th from the Washington Post.

0:10.0

It's Wednesday, March 8th.

0:12.0

Let's get you caught up with today's 7 stories.

0:15.0

Two of the Americans kidnapped in Mexico were found dead yesterday.

0:22.0

The other two victims are alive and back in the

0:24.6

U.S. although one is injured. They were in a village about 15 miles from

0:29.1

Matamoros where they were kidnapped on Friday, a suspect has been detained.

0:33.7

The four friends were from South Carolina and one of them was planning to get a cosmetic procedure.

0:38.8

Victor of Villa, a retired ICE agent, spoke to the post about the kidnappings.

0:44.8

He said it's in line with a shift that we've been seeing with Mexico's cartels.

0:49.2

They no longer operate the way that they used to just 10, 15 years ago.

0:54.5

They have shifted to more violence.

0:56.5

They have shifted to control and they show it by doing these horrific events of violence against people in this case U.S.

1:04.9

citizens.

1:05.9

This situation will probably put more pressure on Mexico to do more to crack down on

1:10.4

organized crime. Number two, more documents were released yesterday in a lawsuit against Fox News.

1:21.0

Dominion, a voting systems company, is suing the network for airing false claims

1:25.6

that the 2020 election was stolen and that Dominion was part of the

1:29.9

election plot. Here's an example of what that sounded like. This is Fox News

1:34.2

host Maria Bartaromo interviewing Sidney Powell, a lawyer for President

1:38.7

Donald Trump. We talked about the Dominion software. I know that there were voting irregularities. Tell me about that.

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