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>> this is the greatest journalistic challenge of the modern era, to report on a malignant presidency and what it mean and where it's going. this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good to be with you. president trump attacking one of his favorite targets in a speech in washington. taking a swipe at news media speaking at an event meant to honor veterans. >> the fake media is trying to silence us, but we will not let them, because the people know the truth. the fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house, but i'm president and they are not.

>> now on the agenda for the president today, back-to-back phone calls with the leader of china and japan. no word on specifics that they will discuss but it comes after the president declared america's patience with north korea, quote, is over. >> with the campaign promise to repeal and replace obamacare impasse in the senate the white house is working through the weekend putting calls into lawmakers. the question is can he strike a deal? >> the president's renewed attack on the media came with two tv news hosts. here is ryan nobles. >> reporter: the president of the united states starred his weekend off by continuing his feud with the hosts of msnbc "morning joe" joe scarborough and mika brzezinski. he tweeted the following.

this feud continues to distract from his agenda. this as he has an important week in front of him. a week that involves a trip to europe for the important g20 summit and continuing negotiations over health care. we know republicans are trying to come up with some sort of a deal that will appeal them to repeal and replace obamacare. this is separate from a replacement. still the president is involved in those negotiations. his aides say he is working on health care from new jersey where he is spending the weekend and he will likely reach out to lawmakers during the july fourth recess. meanwhile, the president did come back to washington saturday night to headline an event honoring veterans. >> antily me say to the hundreds of veterans with us tonight, that for my very first independence day celebration as president. there is no place i'd rather be

than with you. d le >> went to new jersey to spend time with his family and back to the white house this weekend. his first stop next week is poland and germany before heading to the g20 summit. sarah, you got a piece fresh this morning about the president's role in trying to pass this senate health care bill. what are you hearing from senate leadership? do they see the president and his role here in this process as a net positive? >> president trump's involvement with this bill has been something of a mixed bag. he really stayed on the sidelines as it was being put together in that senate working group behind closed doors over the last month and during the

week that it's been publicly released. president trump has kind of dived into the whole debate. he has invited the entire senate gop caucus to the white house and working the phones and publicly pronouncing his support for the bill. the problems came friday when he took to twitter and strayed a little off message, encouraging republicans to on repeal, delay and work on a resolution on the resolution they are working on now and not the approach the leadership wanted to take. the leadership doesn't want conservatives who are relucketantarelucketant to hold out. so that kind of showed the challenges that are involved when president trump puts his hands on any kind of political situation. >> julian, the gop leader there, mitchell mcconnell, say they are going to stay on path of trying to pair these together in the

same bill. i want to hear from him that passing this is tough. watch. >> i'm sitting there with a rubik cube trying to figure out how to twist the dials to get to 50 to replace this with something better than this. stabletizing these markets are important. middle class families are getting hammered. they say we elected a republican senate and house and president and we want to some results and i can't say anything other than i agree with you. but it's not easy. >> he's got this rubik cube and trying to to get to 50. to what degree, julian, did the process of getting to this point and how put this bill together play into the difficulty of getting those 50 votes? >> there is an argument him doing this secretly and not involving more lawmaker in the gop actually did hurt his

ability to achieve a compromise, once this bill was announced, once the proposal was announced but i don't think that is at the core of the problem. core of the problem is the bill, itself, that they have right now. it's simply a bill that doesn't have full support from the republican party and given that the democrat will not vote for this, you need that. it's hard to see with the medicaid cuts, with the limits on the deregulations, how you're going to achieve the votes that republicans will need and that is why mcconnell is playing with this rubik cube. it isn't just the bill. it's his own caucus and i can't put all of the colors in the right place. >> sarah, there is not a lot of time to get this done and there is a lot on the agenda before the fiscal year. ten republican senators have written a letter to leader mcconnell requesting he cut or eliminate the august recess. let's put up the five they say

they have to get done here. what are the likelihood of the august recess cut or going away? >> this is a request that came from the member of the freedom house caucus and conservative lawmakers and sort of an idea that remained on on the fringes of republican congress, but now that we are seeing mainstream republican senators press leadership to truncate the august recess or cancel is altogether the likelihood of this would happen went up. mitch mcconnell risks looking like he is avoiding his duty if he allows the august recess to continue even though he is facing press from his caucus to cancel it. when they return from the august recess, they not only will have health care if they have kicked the can down the road that far, but they will have to put together a budget by the end of september or else they will face a government shutdown. so knowing that they will have

all of of this kind of legislative pressure and just the pressure of the passage of time, they know that cancelling or truncating the august recess is one way to avoid a potentially disastrous situation for them. >> thank you both. we will continue this political conversation at the half. we remind our viewers that senators ben sasse and bernie sander are on "state of the union" this morning. don't forget to watch it at 9:00 a.m. eastern on cnn. china claims these waters and the u.s. disagrees and thises comes hours before president trump speaks with the leader of china. rick franco nna is joining us n. this will surely come up in that conversation that the president is going to have later today. do you think? >> actually, i'm not sure that it will. we conduct these operations all the time.

we try to make them fairly routine. any time is there a claim we don't recognize we generally send aircraft or navy warships into that area. but we are very scrupulous about maintaining the proper international protein tols koop. we don't sail into waters we don't recognize. we are telling the rest of the world and the chinese we don't recognize your claim to these waters and we are going to demonstrate or right to be there. not only our right but anybody's right to be there. we try not to make these provocative but they can be. at times it has led to military confrontation. >> the second time that this has happened since the president took office. i understand this is a guided missile destroyer based in japan and it was trailed by a china warship. is that common? >> of course. yes. but, you know -- i say this. we try to make this routine but, you know, the timing of this cannot be overlooked. you know? we are having these conversation

with the chinese right now about north korea and the president is about to engage in some conversations with the chinese president. one has to think are we coordinating this together or one big master plan we are doing? one would hope so. >> rick francona, lieutenant crimin colonel, we appreciate it as always. >> president trump will meet with vladimir putin. what can we expect to happen from that meeting in former trump adviser jack kingston has some idea. we are learning about the man charged with kidnapping a missing university of illinois university student who got his masters from the same university. his former professor is going to weigh in. >> in a cnn exclusive we take you to the front line in the fight to drive isis out of mosul. we are speaking to the people finally being freed and the soldiers facing possible enemies

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vladimir putin. the two set to meet on the sidelines of the g20 meeting in hamburg. the first time the president is meeting with putin since taking office but this is unclear whether this is the first time they have actually met. watch this. >> i don't think i've ever met him. i never met him. i don't think i've ever met him. >> you'd know if you did? >> i think so. i think so. >> have you met vladimir putin? >> yes. >> you have? >> one time, yes, long time ago. >> joining us is jack kingston. hat president met vladimir putin or not? simple question. >> victor, i am not certain and i can't tell by those answers. i have a feeling if he's met him it's in passing in a large group

and not one-on-one. i think in hamburg they will have the opportunity to sit down and it would be actually negligent if they do not. the important is being at the g20 and i think president trump going in there with a to do list of items he wants to accomplish. >> why should the american president go into a meeting with the president of russia considering all that on the table without an agenda? >> well, there are going to be things in the background but he is not going in there and saying this is what we want. absolutely they will talk about nato. trump is talking about increasing the nato budgets from the 28-member nations. a concern to putin and that will probably be discussed. sanctions, while trump is looking at different trade agreements around the globe, putin is concerned about sanctions and i can tell you having gone to moscow in december that the american businesses over there such as proctor and gamble or

caterpillar or 3m would love to see the sanctions addressed. >> the two things you're talking about sanctions and nato are things that are in putin's bailiwick and things he is most concerned about. should the president go into this meeting and talk about the 2016 meddling in the election? should he offer a clear and concise warning and acknowledgment to the russian president? >> yes, and i think he will. these are two people who can do a lot of things at once. i think he is going to say, but in addition to that, we can talk about sanctions because what i want to see out of you is something in syria where we can work together in the world community to bring peace to syria and also let's continue those talks started by john kerry about fighting isis together and terrorism around the globe. let's find some common ground and then let's work on the -- >> you're pairing the sanctions that are related to ukraine and

whoped what happened in crimea. i want to get to the question what is your degree of confidence? you had you think the president will talk about the 2016 election meddling when the president, thus far harks not come out and said i believe that absolutely as 17 intelligence agencies in the u.s. government believe, that putin led this russian meddling in the election. he hasn't said that yet but do you believe he'll say it to putin hims? >> actually, i think ed it on january 11th. he has not made the biggest deal about it because i don't think he really has to. i think there has been plenty of acceptance in the intelligence community in his administration and outside of it on a bipartisan basis in congress that there was russian meddling. i think what the president wants to do is say, you know, this is an issue. we are going to deal with it but these other issues world peace, peace in syria dealing with refuges and dealing with terrorism these are important issues as well and we should be able to deal with all of them somewhat at once.

i think that is why this is going to set up a very, very meaty summit and not substance probably in the near future and that is why this meeting this week is so important. let's get this ball rolling. >> so the president headlined an event last night with veterans. it was built as celebrate freedom. it was a rally to celebrate freedom. reconcile the president's headlining this event about freedom with his attacks on a free press. how can you do those two things at the same time? >> well, i think in term of the free press, you know, the back and forth between this administration and the press is unprecedented. i think a national outgrowth of social media that for the first time in history the president can get to millions of voters on his own through this new device called twitter and we don't know what direction it's going into. to some degree almost good for both parties because i think it add a little action and pizzazz to policy. >> pizzazz? >> i would say so. >> you think what the president

tweeted over the last 72 hours, you describe it as pizzazz? i think it has, overall, added to the livelihood and interest and pizzazz, victor. let's look at this nont month oe the president did 160 tweets and 120 on policy substance and 40 were media and political-based. unfortunately, that attracts more attention than those about policy. i frankly think not necessarily anything with you things that bring interest to the american little system with good. dwight eisenhower -- >> i can't check your numbers on 120 out of 160 being about policy you about for the sake of this discussion, we will go about wthose numbers. let's go with a july tweet. president tweeting my use of social media is not presidential. it's modern day presidential. make american great again. what is the distinction? >> i tell you what, i do remember when president clinton went arsenio hall show and

played the saxophone and love people particularly in the republican party looked down on it and how crass and crude of the president to do that. yet you had a newer generations of politicians coming on with bill clinton and it was a new and novelty thing. >> these are different things. you look at the president last 72 hours has used his twitter account. fdr didn't use radio to go after reporters in the fireside chats in the '30s. he talked about policy and helping people to understand nap was a new medium and something had he to the opportunity to use to speak to the american people and million as the president does with his twitter account but he is using this in a different way. is there a difference from your perspective in what is presidential in the trump era? >> you know, i do think, though, that the pushback is something that may be is going to be productive to the process, because i can tell you when national commentators get on the news and they say, well, the president is mentally ill, what the heck are they talking about

and where do they come from saying stuff like that? and they think they are above pushback? i think a case among the elected class of politicians, democrat and republican, that, you know, if the press is just going over the line bullying you and saying are you kidding irresponsible things, yeah, maybe you have a right to be push back or not. >> i hear you on that. jack kingston we have to wrap it there. you make a point about talking about the president's mental health. people should tread lightly as they go in that direction. nice to have you. >> thanks, victor. >> the president has controversy about his tweet as we just talked about. congress is trying to take back the white house on national security issues. also, we are learning more about the man charged with kidnapping a missing university of illinois student. turns out he just got his masters from that same university. his former professor weighs in. with the travelocity customer first guarantee... your only worry... will be that one... rogue... cloud.

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morning. we are glad we are not alone. thanks for being here. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. the health care bill that stalled is in the senate, the white house is doubling down now. >> a senior administration official says the president will work through the weekend. he is even planning to lobby members of congress over the fourth of july recess. >> as for the upcoming august recess, there is a group of senators and congressmen calling for it to be cancelled to give them more time to work on their legislative agenda. >> apparently satisfied with his accomplishments so far, president trump told supporters that campaign rally his administration is making progress and, of course, this. >> their agenda is not your agenda. you've been saying it. i will never stop fighting for you. i am delivering on trade, on the

economy, on the supreme court, on the second amendment, on our military, for our veterans, and on our borders. >> meanwhile as president trump soak up the spotlight there congress is working to take back power from him when it comes to national security matters from russia policy to the pentagon's budget. they are proposing new checks on the president even in some cases, ignoring what his administration wants to do. let's talk about this with julian zeleny, cnn political analyst and sarah westwood, white house correspondent at "the washington examiner." there were similar efforts to curb president obama's national security powers we should point out including blocking the closure of the u.s. military prison in guantanamo bay, rolling back surveillance authorities. so, julian, what is the role of congress when it comes to national security?

>> well, very often, their role is to do exactly what you're seeing. their role is not simply to support the president or to just give a blank check, but to start to raise questions or put pressure on the president to move in a different direction. it's often very hard to do this. often a lot of what they do is symbolic and take votes on amendments and hold hearings about issues and propose legislation that might not pass but the point is to make a statement as they are doing on russia sanctions, for example, that the president is not moving in the right direction. this is a vital role for congress historically. >> is there any way that congress could be successful, sarah, in trying to curb the power of the president? >> well, there may have been some symbolic efforts to exert their authority in the national security sphere but despite those efforts from congress, president trump still has incredibly broad powers to exert

his national security agenda and that is what we have seen him doing. you know sunny launched a missile strike against syria in april. he approved the detonation of the moab in afghanistan where by the way, he is considering sending an influx of troops and escalated troops militarily with north korea by sailing navy vessels near the coast of north korea and things president trump has been able to do that congress, for better or worse, is not effectively able to stop him. so even though congress is taking these small steps toward putting some structure around president trump's national security agenda, trump still has this very broad authority to do what he wants when it comes to national security. >> julian, what do you make of this move by congress considering the fact that we have a republican president and a republican controlled congress? >> well, that is not totally surprising. during the 1960s, democrats in congress pushed back against the democratic president lyndon johnson on vietnam and started to push for cuts to spending on

the war. so often, you have united government and still the congress and the president find themselves at lawinger head. some of the tension is stirred by democrats as well. i believe it's a democratic amendment to force a vote on reauthorizing more power that is currently being debated in the house. but look. often parties fight amongst themselves and when you have a president we have today who is not conventional and often not helping his own party on the legislative front, and who often causes more problems than he does helping his own party going into the mid terms, you're going to see congress respond and this is one of the ways in which a party will take onity own president. >> jared kushner and ivanka trump gave an interview to "the washington post" and i want to read you what was written about the g20 summit. apparently it says one morning

last week ivanka convened around a long table in the situation room and talking about her father's remarks of the g-20 summit in a session relating to the economic empowerment of women. given the remarks on twitter, sarah, this past week, how much credence does president trump's voice have when it comes to the empowerment and how does ivanka help or hurt that? >> well, ivanka trump has taken the empowerment of women, child care, some of these issues you wouldn't typically think republicans would champion and she has made that the focus of her role in the white house. so it's not surprising at all that she is in her father's ear trying to steer him in the direction of echoing those priorities, that she has taken up at the white house. >> do you get a sense how influential her voice is with her father? >> we have already seen that in some cases when she presses her father to go one direction, he goes another. for the paris climate agreement, for example, she encouraged

president trump to stay in the deal and ultimately he sided with his epa director scott pruitt and withdrew the u.s. from it. in case where she has tried to use her influence to steer president trump one way or another, it's not always been successful but clearly she does have a place at his table. he is willing to consider her advice so she definitely has some influence in the white house. >> julian zeleny and sarah westwood, thank you. >> thank you. the front lines of the war against isis. this is a cnn exclusive and we are taking you to mosul and talking to people who are finally walking free after being held hostage for years. ♪ hey, bud. you need some help? no, i'm good. come on, moe. i have to go. (vo) we always trusted our subaru impreza would be there for him someday. ok. that's it. (vo) we just didn't think someday would come so fast.

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christensen will be in court tomorrow. >> zhang they believe she is most likely deceived. she was a graduate student. a professor says these accusations are a surprise to him. >> i've received many, many e-mails from faculty and students expressing shock that happened. those who knew him are quite surprised. there was no hint of something like this. >> again, they were both from that same university and christensen is expected to be in court tomorrow morning. iraqi force are locked in an intense battle to retake the last few block of mosul from isis now. look at the images we are getting in here to cnn. around every corner, they are

faced with snipers, boobytraps, sued bombers. >> this now is a cnn exclusive. we are taking you to the front lines where soldiers are working to free the area around a mosque where the last isis fighters remain. here is cnn's senior international correspondent nick paton-walsh j forty-two here to the river is all isis has left of mosul and this is the story of how it fell on the streets around the mosque they once held sacred but then destroyed. bristlian photographer gabriel chain is on foot with the iraqi special forces. every foot they could hit a boobytrap. and eerie silence hold in just about everything endless soot. the street is empty. each human they meet is either desperate to escape from the

enemy. in the alleyways two men approached them. one is carrying a bomb. they rush in to help their wounded. the second man carrying a much larger device, gabriel struggles to breathe. the dust also means they can't if there are any other bombers whether three dead or wounded colleagues lie. the advance continues up to and around the mosque. and civilians, human shields for weeks, stoop under gunfire or even oblivious to it. some never leave the

underground. loud constant blasts in the darkness. unable to walk, the first man faint ignorance and issuing sis on the roof and the entire street. the interrogator tells the team the man himself is isis. the past week they rush for life. u.n. estimated 150,000 people trapped here but in the end nobody had any idea or how many lie left behind them in the rubble. water, water! i'm dying, she screams! in crippling heat and panic, you never know a first like this. or what is it like to carry your family out lifeless on a cart. this is his mother.

for god's sake, help me carrying him, she cries. they try running to the nearest point in the street a vehicle could reach. stop the blood loss, they plead. it's unclear if the boy survived. even when this dust is cleared in isis. the private hell of memory will suddenly be washed away. nick paton-walsh, cnn, mosul. when i received the diagnoses, i knew at that exact moment ... i'm beating this. my main focus was to find a team of doctors. it's not just picking a surgeon, it's picking the care team and feeling secure in where you are. visit cancercenter.com/breast

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>> reporter: the chase in the air. >> on our way. >> reporter: capture teams at the ready. this is conservation on its absolute largest scale. not just a single elephant. entire herds. we need to take a group from the ole matriarch to the smallest baby. >> here she come. hold on. >> reporter: for the continence most iconic species, the stakes couldn't be higher. >> look on the left. large herd of elephants. this is how elephants should be in their habitat. >> reporter: tens of thousands lost each year, but not here. there may be 20 herd of

elephant. they have been so successful in this park in protecting the elephants that there are too many here. >> humans and elephants are competing for space. humans are approaching elephants for their ivory. the view doesn't exist any more. >> take a straight run. >> we can link areas across africa and moving elephants from these areas has been effective into areas where elephants have been defeated and what we are doing here now demonstrates that scale is not a limitation. >> reporter: but the operation isn't without risk. and an adolescent stops breathing. >> oxygen on board? >> reporter: every time an elephant goes down, it's massive weight becomes a danger to itself. this is just one of 500 elephants they hope to move on.

but with the very survival of the species at stake, each one is precious. you are doing everything you can to try to revive that animal? >> yeah. at the try to recuss -- resuscitate the animal but we were too late. >> reporter: they are pioneering new methods less to the danger. you're trying to keep the space on the animals as low as possible and wake them up as quickly as possible and produce time under anesthesia and reduces the risk. >> reporter: the pepic journey north starts the same day too and it will be repeated several times the next six weeks for each new herd. what do you see over there? >> an elephant in there so we brought in six elephants in here last night. >> reporter: there used to be 1,500 elephants in this area. poachers slaughtered all but 70. as the gate opens for the new

arrivals, sam is confident. is the future bright for elephants in malawi? >> the future looks bright, indeed. this animal will travel a long distance and find out they are going out into sort of freedom. there is hope now that we can save this species. >> reporter: his team has secured the park for this very moment. it's rebirth. david mckenzie, cnn, malawi. >> the river. all isis has left of mosul. they rush in to help the wounded. >> we are learning more details about the man charged with the kidnapping of yingying zhang. the visiting chinese scholar at the university of illinois. >> quite surprised there was no hint. ♪ the fake media