
Biden says access will be provided to border facilities, but doesn't give timeline
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President Joe Biden said plans are underway to provide journalists access to border facilities, but didn't provide a timeline on when that would happen.
"I will commit to transparency and as soon as I'm in a position to be able to implement what we're doing right now," Biden said Thursday, when pressed if journalists would be provided access to facilities where children have staying in crowded conditions. "This is being set up and you'll have full access to everything once we get this thing moving," he added.
It was after midnight in Malaysia when Secretary of State Marco Rubio dialed into a call between President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. The topic was Ukraine and Rubio, on his first trip to Asia as Trump’s top diplomat, had just met face-to-face with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press.