i m john roberts. the risky business of human smuggling is reaching far beyond towns along the border. numerous interceptions of smugglers with migrants shoveled into vehicles to get into america. it doesn t always end in a bust or in the migrants getting through. dramatic scene in houston. f.b.i. agents rescue migrants kidnapped for ransom. two hostages were safely rescued by the f.b.i. and no agents were injured. dana: we re live in mission, texas with more on that kidnapping horror. hi. hi. that was a tense situation there in houston. you could see that those migrants were kidnapped after they crossed into the united states illegally according to authorities and held inside that motel in houston, beaten badly and held for ransom and told if they didn t pay they wouldn t get out. the f.b.i. went in in houston, texas, a tense stand-off situation that went on for a few hours. they rescued them coming three days after investigators say the migrants were kidnapped while d
night. john: iran is the junior partner in an axis that includes russia and china. the president has been teasing that he will talk to president xi about all of this at some point but karine jean-pierre s briefing yesterday didn t seem to indicate a firm timeline. do you have any updates on a possible biden/xi call? that s something we are looking forward to doing and working on. i don t have anything to confirm or lay out or preview at this time. does it seem logical that all the recent developments regarding china would seem to increase the need for contact between president biden and xi? well, it does. this week s summit between president putin and chinese leader xi in moscow underscores and reinforces the no limits relationship between those two powers, adversaries of the west and the united states. in fact, general secretary xi
and said wait a minute, you know, 3, 4 years after you left the white house the former vice president apparently has not returned all the documents he received when he was in office. i don t know. but lots of questions to be answered. john: nara seemed to know right away what president trump had not turned over to them, why didn t they know after five years what joe biden had not turned over to them. karine jean-pierre at the briefing yesterday didn t have a lot of answers to the sort of questions from the press corps. listen here. i would refer to department of justice or my colleagues in the counsel s office but again, i m just not going to go beyond what the president said. i m not going to go beyond what the president said. i m not going to go beyond what the president said. again, i m not going to go into the particulars or the specifics of what the department of justice did. again, ongoing process, it s being reviewed, don t have more to share. again it wasn t because
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