platforms. >> need to protect freedom of the press. there is a responsibility on everyone, including the president of the united states. >> the fake media is trying to silence us. but we will not let them. >> let's hope he grows into this job. >> preparing for the g-20 summit and face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin. >> everyone wants to know whether president trump will bring up russian meddling in the election. >> the president unwilling to talk about the russian role in the election last year but very willing to look into what they see as voter fraud around the country. good morning, everyone. welcome to your "new day" monday, july 3rd. 8:00 in the east. chris is off this morning. john berman is here to celebrate the preholiday with me. >> all day today and tomorrow. >> fantastic. great to have you. president trump ramping up his personal vendetta against the media. backlash for posting a strange

wrestling video of himself attacking cnn. >> despite attacking morning cable hosts the president is still finding time to prepare for this week's g-20 summit in germany. he says he will not bring up the kremlin's interference in the united states election. let's begin our coverage with suzanne malveaux at the white house. good morning, suzanne. >> reporter: good morning, john. it is here where he will be hosting military families on july 4th for the celebrations. but he spent much of the weekend using his bully pulpit not to push forward the republican health care legislation or polishes but rather to ramp up his attacks at the media. >> the fake media is trying to silence us. but we will not let them. >> reporter: president trump escalating his ongoing war against the press, tweeting out

this doctored video of himself pummeling a man with an edited cnn logo over his face. the video, drawing sharp, widespread condemnation. >> it is an incitement to violence. >> it is very disturbing. there's nothing lighthearted about it whatsoever. >> we need to protect freedom of the press. there is a responsibility on the part of everyone, including the president of the united states. >> reporter: homeland security adviser thomas bossert first shown the video on abc. >> i don't think no one would perceive that as a threat. i hope they don't. he is beaten up in a way on capable platforms that he has a right to respond to. >> reporter: the president tweeting a barrage of anti-media tweets over the weekend. trump unleashing a veshl verbal tirade at an event meant to honor america's veterans ahead

of the fourth of july. >> the fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house but i'm president and they're not. >> reporter: this, with the white house already on defense for the president's crude attacks on two msnbc hosts last week. >> the president, in no way, form or fashion, has ever promoted or encouraged violence. if anything, quite the contrary. >> reporter: cnn responding directly to the latest attack. it is a sad day when the president of the united states encourages violence against reporters. clearly, sarah huckabee sanders lied when she said the president had never done so. instead of preparing for his overseas trip, his first media with vladimir putin, dealing with north korea and working on his health care bill, he is involved in juvenile behavior far below the dignity of his office.

we will keep doing our jobs. he should do his. >> the fact of the matter is they can do more than one thing at a time. >> reporter: but some republicans say his behavior could have serious consequences. >> people are begging the president not to do this. he ought to stop doing it. >> there's an important distinction to draw between bad stories or crappy coverage and the right that citizens have to argue about that and complain about that and trying to weaponize distrust. >> reporter: the president has a critically busy week ahead. this morning, he is tweeting about it, saying he will reach out to the leaders of france, italy as well as germany. and he has also said he spoke with the king of saudi arabia, regarding middle east peace yesterday. this, all ahead of an overseas trip. he leaves wednesday. head to poland first then to the g-20 summit in germany. he also has a face-to-face with russian leader vladimir putin. >> suzanne, you've given us a

lot of food for thought. let's discuss it with analyst april ryan and alex burns. he said you guys in the media, you keep falling for these things. the president tweets out. just don't cover it. just don't touch t he would not spell out -- i asked him which of the president's statements we are to take seriously and which we're supposed to dismiss do. we have an answer to that? >> no, i don't. and i think the way you sort of prosecuted that question with the congressman and the way you just outlined it now points to the inherent disingenuousness of the argument made on the other side, this idea that the president can say whatever he wants and then pick and choose which elements we're supposed to take seriously. that's not how it works when you're the president of the united states or candidate for the president of the united states. i do think, look, republicans have done a masterful job so far

of picking and choosing what they want to respond to that the president says. laughing off certain kinds of things, condemning the tweets last week about mika brzezinski, saying very little over the weekend about the video that was tweeted that was, in some ways, much more violent. but that's not a luxury that the media has. frankly, i don't know that it's a luxury that republicans have indefinitely. when you see poll after poll showing voters think is this is harmful to the president, bad for the country you need to draw a line. >> the president almost on cue has been writing about what he's doing today almost as if to send the message i'm working, doing the nation's business. i'm going to be speaking with italy this morning, germany and france this morning. he spoke with leaders in saudi arabia over the weekend, april ryan. they're trying to say look at all these things he's doing. it's hard to separate when what he does with who he is. part of the problem is that we get a window to who he is, the

president of the united states, the leader of the free world, with some of the other statements he has been making over the last 48 hours. >> john, yesterday i guess he was modern presidential with that tweet and today he was traditional presidential. john, we have peeped into or peered into this president's mind-set behavior for a very long time. since he was running for president and even before. for some it does not surprise them. even last week when the tweet came out about joe and mika, you know, the rationale from the podium in the white house briefing room of sarah huckabee sanders was people knew who they were getting. what is really at stake and i haven't really heard this in the conversations today or yesterday. you know, you have so many people talking about the constitution and the writes of the constitution, but no one is getting at the point that this is challenging the democracy, challenging the first amendment. and now you're throwing in violence.

and it was shocking to see what the homeland security adviser said yesterday to martha radditz. it's clear it's violence if you hit someone, pummel someone, that's violence. and it had a cnn logo it was violence against a media outlet. and people are listening. and i just pray that it does not crescendo into something bigger than this. this president has influence, even though he has very low poll numbers and his disapproval rating is very high, he still has influence over that certain sector that believes he's genuine and feels like they are him. >> you're in the halls of congress every day, as we discussed. for all the congress people who were so rightly appalled and sickened with what happened with steve scalise and opening fire at that republican baseball game, is this the unity that they called for after that

event? is this the lowering of the rhetoric? >> clearly not. this goes to the difference between what members of congress were feeling very genuinely because it was an attack on their fellow members of congress versus what the president seems to have said and then forgotten about several hours later. but going back to another point you were just discussing with april, i think that this is -- the president is doing this and he's directing his fury at the media with punches in this video, as we've seen. we're criticizing him because of that. at the same point, we are not spending the same amount on the air criticizing various details of the policies being debated in congress right now, health care bill that the president is pushing, we didn't talk about the travel ban last week because we're talking about these tweets. in that regard, yes, it is something that clearly is needing to be scrutinized but it plays better with his base than we might otherwise be doing with this time. in that way, yes, it's shocking

what he's saying. it's shocking to members of congress. it's shocking to washington, d.c. it's not what anybody wanted. it might be what the president wants, less negative coverage for what he's doing as president, take the negative coverage what he's doing as a person. it doesn't play that poorly with his base, as it didn't during the campaign. >> it's an interesting strategy if, in fact, it is a strategy and if it is, in fact that, deliberate. who knows. i want to remind people what the president of the united states did say after the steve scalise shooting, welcomed healing remarks in that moment. take a listen. >> we may have our differences but we do well in times like these to remember that everyone who serves in our nation's capital is here because, above all, they love our country. we can all agree that we are blessed to be americans, that

our children deserve to grow up in a nation of safety and peace and that we are strongest when we are unified and when we work together for the common good. >> a lot of people would point out that as journalists, we are working together for the common good, testing the systems in place and testing leadership. and that's what the president was calling for there but not here. >> no. that spirit is clearly gone from the president's public remarks. and including his tweets. i do think that in addition to just the substantive shift away from trying to promote that tone fo promoting something like the opposite, it's a huge political sacrifice for the president and i think a lot of people would say a huge political error to give up the kind of high ground that a president with achieve in that kind of moment. you've seen it over and over in recent history. president clinton after the

oklahoma city bombing, president bush after 9/11, so many mass shootings where the president seemed to rise above everything that was divisive and it made the country small. and president trump in that moment, i think you have to say, was one of the most pitch perfect of public appearances of his presidency. and if he had been able to extend that into other elements as his performance as president and conduct in his office, i think it would be harder for his critics and opponents to go after him. >> a big week for the president. he will be meeting with various world leaders at the g-20 and first face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin. the white house is not planning to bring up election meddling with putin. it's hard to imagine he wouldn't bring up the elephant in the room. what do you think we can expect this week? >> well, one thing about this president, as people are saying,

he's genuine. i believe he will be true to himself and he doesn't necessarily follow the scripts that they offer him. we'll see what he says. but i can definitely say that national security, as they have in the past, and those who work with intelligence, are briefing him. we know that in the past there are always three topics that the president and the president of russia would talk about. these side bar conversations would have three topics and we assume right now the three topics that they are prepping him for would be syria, north korea and the ukraine, especially since he met with the leader of ukraine recently. who knows what this president will talk about. when he was in the oval office not long ago with the russian ambassador, he talked about -- this president does not have

filters. we'll see if, indeed, the topics we believe should be on the table and are said to be on the table will be on the table. we'll see if he brings in some other side bar comments t remains to be seen at the end of the week. >> panel, thank you very much for all those insights. another story to tell you about. passengers flying from abu dhabi to the u.s. can now bring their lap tops into the cabin. on flights from eight countries lap tops were banned from the cabin fearing bombs could be concealed in them. they were lifted from that airline because apparently the carrier put tighter security measures in place. in denver on sunday, left engine caught on fire forcing the ookee vac wags of more than 60 on board the plane. tweeting photos of the emergency responders using foam to put the fire out. he also tweeted his thanks to the pilot and crew for getting passengers out safely.

thankfully, there were no injuries. >> that's scary. russia's election meddling will not be a focus. a democrat on the house intel committee will join us to discuss what the president should be talking about with putin.

this morning, cnn is learning about the president's agenda at the g0. he plans to talk about syria, ukraine but not the russian meddling into the 2016 election. do you know whether president trump will bring up russia's meddling with president putin? >> trying to predict president trump is a fool's errand. i have to assume there will be a lot of discussion about syria, which will be very important, referencing the situation in ukraine, also pretty dire. i have very little confidence that the president will bring up the russian attack on our voting system last november. he denies it considered then

blames on democrats. and vladimir putin is saying i got away with that if the president dos doesn't lay down a tough marker we'll see this again. >> if he doesn't bring it up, whats to that tell you? >> he has had a blindfold on when it comes to russia. he will criticize the cast of hamilton, your show and other countries but not russia. this is a question many of us involved in the investigation have, why is there this blind spot? with respect to the hack he has been all over the place on it. it didn't occur. it's a big hoax. then he seemed to acknowledge it occurred. i have no idea how he will approach this with vladimir putin. i'm pretty sure if he doesn't

completely change his tune the message to putin will be we got away with it. >> it's possible if they want russia's help in syria and fighting isis that they don't want to, obviously, poison the well with talking about bringing up russian meddling. >> well, yes, but these meetings have been going on for as long as we've been a country. whenever you sit down with somebody like the russians, like the chinese, there's an agenda and a couple of tough things on that agenda and a couple of areas where we work together. it's certainly true of the chinese and true of the russians. russians are critical in helping us enforce the iran nuclear agreement. the russians were critical to that deal and it took a major national security threat off the table. this is not a new thing.

there are tough discussions in these meetings and then areas of common ground. >> we understand that you may be interviewing michael caputo, former communications adviser to the trump campaign. can you tell us anything? >> we're working hard to keep the actual day-to-day activities quiet. we want toem poo come in front of us voluntarily. we think it's important that they be able to come and speak frankly behind closed doors unless we do open hearings, which i expect you'll hear more of. i don't want to get into individual witnesses other than to tell you, alison, the pace has picked up dramatically. interviews are happening every week. we are getting good information, reviewing documents. so, things are going pretty well. where this all leads, you know, still early to say.

but the investigation is proceeding well. >> do you have any response to what the president tweeted where he retweeted this video of wrestle mania where he's punching somebody with a cnn logo on his head to the ground? >> we approach the fourth of july, our national holiday where we celebrate the freedoms and liberties that we have. pretty much every other president before this one has understood that the media is absolutely essential to our liberty. the media is tough sometimes, is unfair. look how they acted in the turn of the century. absolutely. but every other president has understood that the first amendment and freedom of the press is the first amendment for

a reason. which is that media is an important thing. dictators attack the media. just the outrageous, divisive, quasi nra video we saw come out, i question where is this country going? does it have any leadership that has any idea what the real meaning of freedom and liberty is? >> have the calls for unity so prevalent after the terrible steve scalise shooting, the calls for ratcheting down the rhetoric, have those gone way in congress? >> they haven't gone away in congress. remember, when the president put up his tweets criticizing mika on morning joe, you saw most republicans saying that kind of language and that kind of disgusting personal attack has no place in our politics. actually, congress remains sort

of partisan and divide place. but when it comes to sort of the basics, we're pretty united. why the president can go from calling for civility shortly after the shooting of steve scalise to disgustingly characterizing mika brzezinski and then, of course -- i feel like i'm in a roadrunner or bugs bunny cartoon, putting up that video. this man is the most powerful person in the world, president of the united states and this is what he is doing? i'll tell you, that unites congress more than it divides it. >> congressman jim himes, have a nice holiday. thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks, allison. >> you heard it right there. the president is ramping up his attacks on the media. he posted that video, showing him body slamming cnn. did it go too far? does that make america better? we'll discuss next.

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destroyed themselves because they went too far. instead of being subtle and smart, they used a hatchet. and the people saw it right from the beginning. >> that was a veterans' event over the weekend, by the way. not long after the president accused of media of using a hatchet, he showed himself a video as part of the escalating war on the media. how far is too far? ben ferguson, media stars in their own right as far as pro wrestling officials. i'll start with this question, ben. how does what the president is doing, these tweets about the media, wrestling video, how does it make america better? >> i think, one, you've got to

look at this specifically from one issue. was it worth it? are these tweets worth it when it comes to pushing your legislative agenda? certainly you could make the argument that it's not worth it because it takes the focus off the things that the president has been accomplishing over the last week. i will say this. sometimes people actually need to have a little bit of a sense of humor and not take themselves too seriously and overreact and try to turn this into a bigger issue than it really is. let's look at the tweet. takes seven seconds to tweet it out. it's a little self depricating, showing donald trump doing fake wrestling, which everyone knows is fake. he saw it, thought it was funny. after a week when he thought people at cnn were being unfair to him that had to resign, therefore, he tweeted it out. people are trying to overplay this saying he's inciting violence. it's a fake wrestling video. don't take yourself so seriously. have a little fun with it. enjoy the holiday weekend and not try to make this into something much bigger than it

really was. >> bakari? >> the problem with that is that not everyone sees it as just some funny video. like ben may see it or even myself may see t you can't look at this in isolation. have you to look at this in a totality. this is not anything new. this is the same donald trump that was campaigning, doing his rallies saying knock them out. if you accidentally hurt them i'll pay your legal bills, having people punched at his rallies and saying in the old days we used to take them out back. this is the same person. he hasn't changed one bit. this isn't some coordinated distraction from a legislative agenda, which is stalled, which has no major victories. this is just who he is. the problem, though, is that of his 35% of support there may be one or two people who go out there and act at this behest. this is beneath the dignity of the office and donald trump has to be extremely careful with his words, something he doesn't know how to do. >> ben ferguson you, yourself, say this may not be helping to

promote your agenda. what's your advice to the president on this? >> i've always said this. i've worked on campaigns. simply put, is it worth it or was it worth it, what you just said or what you just tweeted out. last week was a great example. the "morning joe" distraction unfortunately took away the focus of some laws that the majority of americans were unaware that he got passed. kate's law is a perfect example. it was not talked about because they were talking about the tweets. that tweet probably wasn't worth it. the president has to look at this and say, hey, are these tweets really able to keep me focused? i'm not talking about him personally. i think he can do both at the same time. are they keeping the focus on the agenda that i'm pushing and people elected me to be the president to push forward? i'll also say this about this last tweet. there are so many people that have such disdain in the media for the president and assess very clear. he's going to say little fun with them. they don't like him and want to destroy them. when you send out something like this, some of the media take

themselves too seriously, think they're more important than the average american person. the fact is this was actually kind of just funny. and people need to learn to have a sense of humor in politics. dial down the crazy and not overreact to something that is fake wrestling. that's what it is. it's literally fake wrestles. >> it did stem, this video, with the doctored thing, with the cnn logo stemmed from an account, a man or woman with anti-semitic tweets, anti-muslim tweets. that's where the video came from. >> right but i don't think he got it from him. i think it was going long before -- >> it doesn't matter. >> that's the source. that's the source. is it just fun, bakari, when the source of it is someone who also posts anti-semitic and anti-muslim things? >> that's crazy part of this entire conversation. sometimes you feel like you're in the twilight zone, whether you're talking to a president trump supporter or anyone on the street. he took the post from an

anti-semitic punk on reddit and took it out there from the world to see from his presidential handle. let's play the what if this was barack obama game. people had a fit because the man used dijon mustard because he wore a tan suit. they made up these little fake media spectacles. now you have a president of the united states who is literally out there, pummeling the media, using a military backdrop to actually blast the media, when the media are the group of people who dig deep into the va scandals, who make sure that our military men and women get the coverage and care that they need. i'm trying to figure out why it's okay for donald trump to have a bar of expectation that comes up to my knee when we often times, as we should, hold the president up to a higher standard. it's just unjust. >> bakari, i love you, but this is one you're stretching. people tweet things all the time and retweet them and copy and paste them. now you're trying to -- >> we're not talking about people. zblet me at least just -- let me

finish, okay? there are many things i'm sure you have tweeted that probably started somewhere, from someone that maybe you wouldn't agree with politically because people copy and paste things and then they try to make their own -- >> hang on. i want to say one thing. then you can finish. this is the official white house twitter account. yes, he did it from real donald trump but also from the white house twitter account. >> correct. >> official governmental account that we're seeing from an anti-semite. go. >> this is the perfect example of what i'm saying. you're overplaying something that when the president saw it, probably thought it was just funny for a moment and literally spent seven seconds of his life to retweet something that was fake wrestles. now people trying to make it into some sort of conspiracy theory or some sort of -- he got it from somebody that was sending it out that was anti-semitic that was way down the list there. don't take it so seriously. have fun on the fourth of july

weekend. not everything has to be world war iii in vegas. >> i'm on my way to vegas. i'm content. i'm happy. i'm going to enjoy this fourth of july. >> have fun and relax. >> let me tell you something, the fact of the matter is we're not talking about my twitter account or yours. we're not talking about some average joe. we're talking about the president of the united states and, you know, you're talking about seven seconds. he retweeted an anti-semite. i don't think this is some big personal conspiracy theory. i don't think he's smart enough to participate in a conspiracy theory. the fact of the matter is that we have to hold him to a higher standard. >> scott taylor, congressman from virginia earlier today told us you guys are all getting played, republican congressman telling the media, you're getting played because you're focusing on the tweets and not other things. your response to that, bakari? >> i think that's actually true. i love these conversations but i also love the fact that we have these local newspapers out there. i look at the local news from around the country on sunday. each senator that was in a swing

state, in a state that matters were faced in the morning with coverage about medicaid cuts and the fact that whatever the united states senate is trying to do to their health care will be devastating. we have to spend more time on that. i think we can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. russia is a valid story, inciting violence is a valid story but we have to focus on those bread and butter issues that sometimes we lose focus on when the president goes into those assitwitter rants. jersey state parks and beaches are being shut down. some people can still sunbathe. governor christie is soaking up the sun. the response to this photo next. it's hot.

president trump ramping up his war on the media, facing a backlash, posting a video of him attacking a man with a cnn logo

over his head. g20 summit in germany this week. sours tell cnn he will focus on syria and ukraine. is he not expected to bring up russian election meddling. driving isis out of m sochlt ul. fierce fighting under way to pry the final few blocks from isis control. qatar has another 48 hours to comply with with demands from neighbors who have isolated that country. president trump called leaders in the region sunday to express concern about this dispute. new jersey governor chris christie under fire at spending sunday with his family at a state beach he shut down to everyone else because of a budget standoff. the governor had told the reporter he did not get any sun this weekend. when told about the picture, a rep from the governor said that's because he was wearing a hat. >> indeed, he was. cnn.com/new day. what kind of fourth of july

will you have? meteorologist jennifer gray has a look at the forecast. how is it looking around the country, jennifer? >> we could see a wet, wet start to the celebrations across portions of the south. you can see the texas/oklahoma border. flood warnings and flash flood warnings in effect. a little bit of trouble down there. we could see scattered storms for the fourth across the plains. sunshine for the west, including the pacific northwest. weather looks nice. extreme portions of the northeast look good. could see some scattered showers across the southeast. for today, though, this is the area we're watching, dodge city, damaging winds, large hail. doesn't look like tornadoes will be likely. you can never rule that out, of course. and temperatures will be feeling very hot across much of the country, especially the south and the west. john? >> thank you very much. a big week ahead for the white house. can the president stay on message? we'll get the bottom line, next. whoa!

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face-to-face meeting with vl vladimir putin at the g20 summit. how will he stay on message? senior congressional reporter for "the washington examiner." david, great to see you again. the senate bill that was scored by the cbo that senator dean heller of nevada says he won't vote for, where are we with that? are they still tweaking it, going back to the drawing board or what? >> it's a little of both. looking for ways they can bring conservatives and moderates along, satisfy a lot of concerns about the medicaid expansion. some people want more money to fight opioid buchlts have you conservatives on the right that want a more aggressive repeal of the obamacare regulatory regime, believing that is what is required to reduce premiums and deductibles. i think that they're spending the week exploring all of their options. allison, i would expect these negotiations and this effort to extend for most of the month of july. i don't expect any major

breakthroughs next week. that doesn't mean that all is lost. >> look, stuff is happening behind the scenes among the leadership perhaps, but it's right out in the open for a lot of senators who are home this week, holding town meetings. we' can the senators stand up to the pressure they're really getting from both sides? >> i think they're in a bind. one hand they have pressure from the right to repeal obamacare. that is part of the pressure, whether we're seeing it or not, it exists. on the other side, we have a very troubled health care system. regardless of who republicans and democrats want to blame, the truth is health care needs fixing. and republicans are in a bind because either they fix current law, which is politically untenable with their base, or propose something new to solve the problems of access and pricing and all of that. and so they're in this position, john, where they have to do something. i think that's part of the pressure that's going to get them to a final solution. they will get beat up all along the way because there's so much

opposition to the bill and because liberals are so energized but they don't really have any solace on the right who won't be forgiving if they don't get something done. >> president trump is going to be meeting with vladimir putin for the first time. i mean, after all of this talk, you know, for all of these months about their relationship, which basically is nonexistent and they will be meeting face-to-face for the first time. to be a fly on the wall, what do we expect? >> the anticipation is killing me. you know, this is a really, really interesting meeting. donald trump has treated putin with kid gloves even as he has beaten up our allies left and right. on top of that, we have something to go on here. president obama, a democrat, tried to reset relations with vladimir putin. it failed. president george w. bush thought he looked into putin's eyes and saw his soul and he was a good guy. that failed.

you think by now maybe people mo live in the white house would learn something, dealing with vladimir putin. it's possible that trump could surprise us. he has shown, at times, an ability to act rather conventional. he did that on his middle eastern trip. so, maybe he gets into a room and says what you're doing in ukraine is a no go and you've got to start calming down in syria. but i don't know if that is what we should expect based on how he has talked about russia and the way he seems to have his own ideas about a russian reset three. but this is probably the biggest news of the week. because russia continues to be our biggest geopolitical adversary on the political stage at the moment. >> all kinds of preparation for the middle east and trip to europe, which was not quite as, you know, controversy free as the middle eastern trip. we don't know if there's quite as much preparation for this. we'll have to wait and see. one of the questions is, david, can the white house, can the president stay on message this

week? i suppose the subquestion to that is what is the message this week? as we're entering the week it seems to be we're attacking the media. that can't be the message we're taking to europe. >> i bet he and vladimir putin -- >> you joke but the fact that there's any similarity there is deeply disturbing because putin goes after the media completely. >> if i don't joke maybe i'll cry. >> right. >> you raise very good points. i think the question here is, is donald trump, is this president going to sort of stand up for the west, the west that we have led since the world war ii period and throughout the cold war and post cold war period and defend nato, defend western europe against, in a sense, russia's attempt to undermine it. or is he going to try to forge a deal with vladimir putin that, in a sense, loosens all of that? these are the big questions

here. part of that will depend on trump's real view of putin, whether they're able to form some sort of relationship of any sort. and what the president's ultimate goal here is. they've been very quiet about that. we don't know that. that would tell us a lot more about what we can expect. >> stay tuned. it is independence day eve. go hang your stockings. david druker, thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> "the good stuff" is sneks. next. ♪

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>> time now for "the good stuff," out of nebraska, where teammates are helping jackson forget about his cancer. the lead-off hitter and recently he smacked six home runs in a single game. >> what? >> six home runs is just good. >> yeah, i think that's good also. even the opposing team took note by creating and signing a special bat for him and everyone takes pride in their jackson cheer. players and coaches called jackson inspirational, saying it's a two-way street. it goes beyond baseball. it is about friendship as well. >> fantastic. so meaningful for him. i bet it's meaningful for every

kid on that team as well. >> absolutely. that is a lesson they will carry with them the rest of their lives. it's time now for "newsroom" with fredricka whitfield. >> have a great holiday day. we'll consider this part of the holiday. >> indeed. yes, we are. fredricka whitfield in for poppy and john. high-stakes week for president trump on the world stage. this morning it appears he knows it before jetting off to the g20 summit in germany where he will have a face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin. this hour he is speaking with the leaders of germany, italy and he has tweeted out as much. these calls come on the heels of conversations with the leaders of the gulf states yesterday as well. but all eyes will be on that trump/putin meeting later on this week. officials telling cnn that the president is not expected