>> thank you. >> following a lot of news including the u.s. response to north korea's latest missile launch. let's get after it. >> together we are facing the threat of the reckless and brutal regime in north korea. >> this is likely an icbm. >> we need to know what the strategy is and how we're going to deal with this. >> the president may realize his options in this world are very limited. >> it will take a worldwide effort to get north korea to stop what they're doing. >> any patriot ought to care about foreign affairs. it is very conspicuous that this president has chosen to deny it and not discuss it. >> our relationship is not different from any other country. >> i wish he'd treat putin much like he treats cnn. >> this is "new day."

>> good morning. welcome to your "new day." wednesday, july 59, 8:00 in the east. we begin with north korea releasing new video of its first intercontinental ballistic missile test. the u.s. and south korea responding to the escalating threat with a show of force of their own, conducting a joint military drill to send a message to kim jong-un. >> the north korea threat likely to dominate the g-20 summit this week. president trump is expected to depart for europe at any moment. in fact, you see movement there. during the summit, the president will hold a long-awaited, face-to-face meeting with russia's vladimir putin. cnn has every angle covered so let's get the latest from cnn's barbara starr. she is live at the pentagon. >> reporter: keeping an eye on andrew's air force base outside washington as marine one approaches, the president taking off for g-20, north korea likely to be near or at the top of the list after they fireded that

intercontinental ballistic missile, north korea putting out additional video this morning showing their launch. this is changing the security calculation for the world and especially for president trump because the trump administration just hike the obama administration had made clear they would not allow north korea toll have an intercontinental ballistic missile that could attack the united states or a nuclear war head. kim jong-un, this video, that's his message -- we have one. so that do they do about it now? we saw dueling videos really late yesterday. the u.s. firing its own missiles off the coast of south korea. a 200-mile range missile that could fire into north korea to hit their air defenses, their radars, a message back across the dmz a little bit. but as the president goes to the g-20, the fum question is what does he do now? you have russia and china wanting the u.s. to stop military exercises with south

korea. that's not going to happen. he's got a big item on the agenda and no clear solutions. alis alisyn? >> thank you very much for that. obviously we're keeping an eye on the live pictures as the president gets ready to depart. that's marine one. with looming threat from north korea, president trump does go toll europe for the g-20 summit but all eyes will be on his first face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin. cnn's suzanne malveaux is live at the white house with more on this. good morning. >> good morning. when president trump left the white house this morning, reporters shouted questions to him about north korea. he ignored them, but he did say we are going to do very well. as you know, his first stop will be in poland. it will be a 15-hour trip there, and then on to germany for the g-20 summit. the issues, immigration, climate change, u.s./russia relations and of course all of this taking on much greater significance in light of north korea's missile

launch. >> reporter: president trump departing on his second international tour one day after the pentagon confirmed north korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile. one that analysts say could reach alaska. kim jong-un taunting the united states saying the launch was a fourth of july present to the trump administration. as the u.s. responds with both a military and diplomatic show of force, calling for an emergency session at the united nations security council to be held today followed by a strongly worded statement from secretary of state rex tillerson, stressing that global action is required to stop a global threat. and declaring that the u.s. will enact stronger measures against the north korean regime. tillerson's hard line stance in stark contrast to this terse 23-word statement following pyongyang's missile launch in april. >> the president has made clear

to us that he will not accept nuclear power in north korea. >> reporter: north korea's aggression likely to dominate discussion during this weekend's g-20 summit in hamburg, germany, including his first official bilateral meeting with russian president vladimir putin and his second meeting with chinese president xi jinping. putin and xi joining diplomatic forces and releasing their own plan to defuse tensions with north korea after a meeting in moscow tuesday, calling for a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests while also urging the united states and south korea to stop conducting joint military exercises and specifically condemning the deployment of u.s. missile defense systems in the region. the white house tells cnn there is no official agenda for president trump's meeting with putin. although pressure is mounting for trump to directly address russia's interference in the 2016 election. though officials say it's unlikely.

>> what is the trump administration's strategy for countering all of this russian aggression? they don't have one. >> reporter: president trump also set to meet with skeptical european leaders seeking reassurance about america's commitment to nato after president trump chose not to affirm his support for the alliance in may. >> 23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they're supposed to be paying for their defense. >> reporter: the president's unpopularity in the region already sparking protests with thousands expected to converge on hamburg during the summit. president trump boarding air force one, getting ready to take off for his european trip. this comes as the president apparently delivering a dig not only to the obama administration's approach but also to the president of china. in his latest tweet this morning, saying trade between china and north korea grew almost 40% in the first quarter.

so much for china working with us. but we had a to give it a try. we'll be watching his meeting with the president of china, president xi. alisyn? >> let's bring in the panel. cnn politics reporter brit, david drucker and author of "nuclear showdown: north korea takes on the world," gordon chang. gordon, the president choosing to tweet about this situation going on. with we have the tweet or not, this time the president saying, well, china, north korea, trade grew by almost 40% first quarter, so much for china working with us, but we had to give it a try. we had republican congressman lee zeldin on the show. i said is it as simple as this? he said no. is it a problem doing diplomacy by tweet? this is a bit of a hole the president put himself in. >> this particular tweet not so bad but with ton just after the

missile launch was terrible. it was lighthearted saying kim jong-un doesn't have anything better to do. we have to remember on the first of this year kim jong-un said he would test an icbm. on january 2nd, trump said it suspect going to happen. so it was really wrong for trump on sunday to say this doesn't matter because it does. it also undercuts some very good diplomacy trump ep gauged in last week. he just undercut him with tweets. >> i don't understand. you mean that people like kim jong-un is taking pruch's tweets seriously and responding to them? how is it undercutting the diplomacy? >> i don't think that it really matters what kim jong-un thinks but it matter what is the chinese think. last week trump put sanctions on the chinese bank, he sold arms to taiwan, did a number of things to impose costs on china, which was the right thing to do. then just after the missile launch we had these lighthearted tweets saying maybe china will help us.

that's the wrong tone for the president of the united states. it confuses china and clearly shows the president being less than resolute, which is what we needs to be going into this meeting not only with xi jinping of china but also vladimir putin, who also has a lot of equity in the north korea matters. what trump did was undermine himself with a few 140-character messages. >> also, look, it's about using a blunt force object on a delicate situation. even the chinese sanctions, mnuchin was very care to feel say this is about the bank, not the country. we're going after the bank for what it did, not going after china. trying to be subtle, these tweets are the opposite. david druker, in terms of what the party or support base is expecting out of this trip, especially the face-to-face with china and russia, what do you see? >> i thr for trump there's still so much unknown about what he really wants to do with american foreign policy because you look at what members of his national

security team do and we have a very sort of conventional american and republican foreign policy. putting sanctions on the chinese bank, beefing up security in nato, and yet you have the the president and his rhetoric suggesting otherwise. so i think the interesting thing about this trip will be to see, one, if he finally personally starts to treat the russians as an adversary the way the rest of his administration has, or whether he continues to coddle vladimir putin, and does he send a personal message of reassurance to nato or keep them guessing and leave that sort of thing to other members of his administration. i think it would help him and help his leadership, especially looking at what has happened in north korea, if he would start to embrace what we have seen from general mcmaster, his national security adviser, general mattis, his defense secreta secretary, in terms of backing up the idea that the u.s. is going to be engaged and not

going to ahow these things to proliferate. as with trump, hope may spread eternal. i don't see him changing his tune personally and i think that will continue to create a dichotomy in terms of what the administration does behind the scenes and how the president is leading out in front. >> and we have the joint statement and joint appearance with president xi of china and vladimir putin of russia. they shouldn't seem like they need the u.s., their alliance. >> put the u.s. on even footing with north korea in terms of what each side need to do. >> how do you explain it, chris? >> well, donald trump said that he would deal differently with the world than barack obama and the implication was that barack obama was too deferential, didn't play tough enough. donald trump is coming on six months into his administration, but, yeah, the reality would

suggest it's much more difficult -- much easier to say it than to actually do it. i think at some point the rubber has to meet the road in terms of the era of strategic patience is over. okay. well, what 'cause that mean? david sanger from "the new york times" here in the last hour said there are just not any good options for how we deal with north korea. how do we exert influence over russia and china when they have different scree yo political interests and goals than ours and they are still frankly testing out donald trump to see what they can get away with at some level, to see how he is going to deal with them? i think these trips do matter in that regard and to gordon's point, to start trim off with a series of tweets is, yes, very trumpian, but in some ways is the problem. if you had to isolate donald trump's biggest problem in his first 5 1/2 months in office,

it's donald trump. it'ser his willingness to undermine, go against his administration's attempts both domestically and in terms of foreign policy to keep a consistent message to say this is what the strategy will be. he's are the tactics and the strategy. he undermines that at every turn. >> let's help the people out at home here, gordon. let's upset the premise. the premise is these tweets on the flippancy that the president likes to employ, it's a problem overseas. we've heard that at home. people don't buy it. he's strong, brash, a big talker, unpredictable, makes people sit up and take notice, and depending on your partisan stripe you feel one way or another about it at home. is it any different on the international scale and if so, why? >> in seoul, where i just was, and there is deep concern about trump's reliability, you know, the south korean policy

establishment has always taken the u.s. as a constant and right now they're very concerned about where u.s. policy is going. now, i think that right now we're in a position where every solution going forward is going to be ugly, and so there are no-cost solutions. but at the same time, i think trump needs to be much clearer in laying out the roadmap not only to the keyes and the russians but also to our friend and allies in the region, because if there's a solution, that solution also runs through seoul and tokyo, and we have to remember that our friends have got to be with us where we have no chance of crafting any sort of way forward. >> gordon, you are so steeped in this. you've studied north korea, written a book about north korea, what did you think when it was confirmed that it was an intercontinental ballistic missile? >> well, this changes everything for a number of reasons. first of all, they now can strike the u.s. homeland. they were testing heat shielding, which is very high art. this missile that launched yesterday came from a chinese launching. it was a mobile truck, a

transporter erector launcher. we need to start asking beijing some very pointed questions not only in private but also in public but how come all this chinese equipment and chinese missiles are showing up in north korea's inventory? if we don't ask beijing those questions we'll never get to where we want to be with beijing because we're so far apart from what the chinese want and what we want them to do. >> so the white house is encountering some resistance as it tries to collect voter data from state officials. maryland's attorney general calls the request, quote, repugnant. why? he's here next. david. what's going on? oh hey!

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popular vote. no matter how often they say it they can't prove it to be true merely by repetition. the fact is that it's a fantasy and the information that they seek is very private. it's not just people's address, name, phone number, but they ask for social security information -- >> the last four digits of the social security number so not the entire social security number. they say that it's not -- they say this is all public information. in fact, we just had the missouri secretary of state, jay ashcroft, on. let me just play for you what he says that counters what you're claiming. hold on. here it is. >> we are just going to release that publicly available information that is routinely released to candidates, to news organizations, and anyone that actually makes that request. >> what are you saying, mr. frosh? they're publicly available and they release it regularly. >> some of it's publicly available and some of it is not.

and in combination, it is not publicly available. and the real purpose of is voter intimidation. they want to make sure that people think twice before they vote. that's not what america is about. we want to encourage people to vote, and i think the purpose of this, besides indulging the president's fantasy, is to stop people from voting. if they have a criminal history, they've had a brush with the law, if they're recently immigrated to the united states and united states citizens. they want to make hem think twice before they exercise their constitutional franchise. >> you also hear on the other side is we know there is some voting fraud. there is voter irregularity. we know this. now, no one can ever prove that it's at the level, the vast voting fraud that the president has claimed. no one has any numbers that suggest it's at all in the numbers he has said in ferms of 3 million votes. that doesn't exist. all secretaries of state say not

in their state. however, everyone has a handful of cases. they're trying to fix the system. >> well, they're expending an enormous amount of energy and intruding on private information of hundreds of millions of people to deal with a handful of cases. what's the reason for that? >> they say that all voting fraud is bad and that they're going to try to clean up the system. >> well, you know, we do a pretty good job of prosecuting voter fraud when we find it. we don't find it very often. certainly not organized. occasionally some individual votes who isn't entitled to vote or votes under a name that the person isn't entitled to vote under. but in maryland, i think we had two cases in 2012. that's the last time we found voter fraud. it's not because we're not looking. and i have to say the prosecutors in maryland, most of them are republicans. the overwhelming number of local

prosecutors are republicans. if there were voter fraud in the 2016 election, i'm pretty sure they would have been trying to root it out, trying to show that president trump really did win the vote in maryland. didn't happen. >> one of your congressmen, the republican, andy harris, thinks that if you don't comply that the fed should stop any dollars flowing into maryland. he's going to submit legislation to that effect. what's your response? >> i think that's a silly proposal. we're not talking about a real problem here. we're talking about a made-up problem or a very, very tiny one. and -- >> but what if federal there ares -- if maryland is deprived of those? >> well, you know, i think there are 40-plus states that have declined to provide this information. what are they going to do, cut off aid to every state in the country that fails to comply?

i think that's ridiculous. look, i was out at a series of parades and meetings yesterday for july 4th. i shook hundreds, maybe thousands of hand. there were lots of people who were very upset by the request. there wasn't a single individual who said to me, please, turn over my private information to this commission, i want them to know who i am, where i live, what my social security number is, the last four digits, military, criminal. >> mr. frosh, i guess my last question is what if you don't? what happens? does this voter fraud commission go away or is there some penalty for states? >> you know, i think they ought to focus on real problems. they ought to stop wasting taxpayer money and engaging in this massive effort that is designed only to stop people from voting rather than encouraging them to vote. that's what democracy is about. we want people to participate.

this xwogoes the wrong way. >> brian frosh, thank you for your perspective. chris? all right. so the reddit user who tweeted the video of president trump punching a cnn logo. he's breaking his silence and apologizing. i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. booking.com gets it. and with their price match, i know i'm getting the best price every time. now i can start relaxing even before the vacation begins. your vacation is very important. that's why booking.com makes finding the right hotel for the right price easy. visit booking.com now to find out why we're booking.yeah!

okay. so the reddit user behind the trump cnn body slam video is apologizing and not just for the video. there was offensive content in this man's kind of, whatever, locker box, reddit, his website, and this comes after cnn was able to identify the user, tried to contact him. let's discuss the impact of this. we have cnn politics reporter chris solisa and cnn immediate kra analyst bill carter. so, there are a lot of issues to unpack here, right? cnn is not identifying this man. why? because in part he apologized, said this was a mistake, not this video all by itself. >> no. >> what do we know about what

this man was doing and what do you make of the decision of cnn not to say anything? >> and what he was doing was vile. an awful lot of stuff was anti-semitic, racist. he put up a chart of everyone at cnn that was jewish. he was obviously a -- you know, not a prankster. people are defending it, it was a joke. >> they're saying it's a teen. >> it's not a kid. you can argue that cnn is actually protecting this guy because if you revealed his name what he did was really vile and nasty and i think he would be -- >> absolutely. >> i think we're protecting his safety. >> yes. >> is that our job? >> it's not our job. but i mean it's interesting. he apologized supposedly before cnn -- he contacts then cnn. but he probably had heard or sensed he was about to be found out. but now interestingly, his

apolo apology, which he then posts, gets removed from rhett did. why? pause they don't want people to apologize for this behavior. they want to be able to defend this kind of behavior. ? that's really notable because this is what i thought was remarkable, chris, was that we saw somebody who was a troll apologize, you know? we wish that they wouldn't do it obviously to begin with. the racist stuff is repugnant, obviously. but it meant to the next level where some humanity snuck in accidentally somehow? >> it wasn't accidental. >> it snuck in. however it got there. so here's what he said. let me read it. i would also like to apologize for the posts made that were racist, bigoted and anti-semitic. i am in no way this kind of person. i would never support any kind of violence or actions against others simply for what they believe in nor would i carry out any violence against anyone based on that or support anyone who did. this is important. he talks about his own

motivation. i was trolling and posting things to get a reaction on reddit and i never meant any of the hateful things i said in those posts. this is our world. >> yes. >> people are doing this for sport and fun and i think that when somebody apologizes it's just a moment that we should note. >> i think worth noting as well, though, there's a difference between apologizing and sort of being broadly forgiven for doing something that was not a one-off. as we've talked about on the show. he had done things like this in the past. i think it is a wider lens into a number of people -- i take him at his word -- who do not understand, and some people who understand this, but who do not understand that doing things on the internet for and about people have real implications.

i never knew anyone would be hurt. that's like attacking people and say i didn't know anyone would be offended. do people watch television? it doesn't take away from you make the right point which is apologizing for this kind of content is better than not but at the same time -- >> when they're exposed. and there's a lot of stuff on this person's site. you're not a bigot by accident. but whatever, you want to be big-hearted about it, that's fine, and cnn is not exposing his identity. the president wind up being main story because there are a lot of haters and hateful people and ugly people in our world, unfortunately, when you take what they are and use it as president of the united states. now the white house is saying they didn't get it from reddit. >> right. just very quickly on, that i do think it is notable that the white house has said nothing about where he got it, how he found it, but what they have said is he didn't get it from reddit. they want to distance themselves from this guy for this reason

because he is a bigot and he did come across this way. >> i feel like what we're doing right now is this can't be -- they're not telling the truth. but let's leave it alone because we've got more important things to talk about. >> i don't think you can ever surrender high ground on the truth because let me tell you something, the white house won't surrender it if they have it on the media and they shouldn't. >> with we just know they're not being transparent. >> but don't they have to answer the question? because if they department get it from reddit, fine, where did you get it? >> clearly they proved they don't have to do anything, they shut things down all the time when they don't want to talk. they don't have to do it. it is a commentary on their approach. >> i would argue they do have to do it. >> who's going to force them? they don't have to do it. should they do it? yes. >> and i'm taking it a different way, which is i'm not talking about legally.

i'm talking about the right thing to do for the american people. what are we dealing with right now? we're dealing with a crisis of confidence. we're dealing with politicization of truth that only that is true if i agree with it already. >> yes. >> that need to stop, everybody says it does, except most people are lying when they say that. they don't want it to stop. but i think they do have to address this. >> you have to tell where you say you got it. >> right. in the world of principle they do, but if you just throw that out of the window, which they've done repeatedly on a number of topics, they prove they don't have to do it because they're not being forced to do it. their base doesn't care for them to do it. in fact, they'd be upset in a way if they did it. it would look like a concession to the media. >> the guy who did it, okay, the reddit guy who did it, here's what he's saying that we haven't heard from the white house. this is just again, a strikingly different tone now that it's all come out. here's what he's saying. the meme was created purely as

sati satire. it was not meant to be a call to violence against cnn or any other news organization. i have the highest respect for the journalist community and they put their liveses on the line every day with the jobs they do in reporting the news. you're laughing. >> to me this is the reason they take it down. they don't want people saying that. >> sure, that's different. why is the reddit moderator taking it down? i think that's gross they're taking this down. >> you don't think it's out of convenience he's apologizing? >> i don't care. the words are nice to hear and it would be nice to have the white house say they understand there are consequences to showing violent satire. >> words matter. >> saying fake news or -- this isn't just trolling is what i'm saying and i think you have to be quick to forgive somebody who's coming forward out of convenience because they're worried about being exposed. don't forget, there's a trade. i'm going to be apologetic, don't expose me. >> the statement is worth crediting. >> and also i'm encouraging this tone. i want to encourage the tone. if you do something wrong, it's

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time for the five things to know for your new day. president trump departing about 30 minutes ago on his second foreign trip. he'll head to poland first then the g-20 summit in germany where he'll have his first face-to-face meeting with russia's vladimir putin. north korea releasing video appearing to show its first ever successful launch of an ick k bottom bottom. south korea and the u.s. conducting joint military drills hours after that test. qatar responding to a list of 13 demands for a saudi-led coalition of four arab nations the response has not been made public yet. the country has cut off ties with the gulf nation last month over concerns about qatar's alleged support of extremism. 44 states refewing to provide voter information to the trump integrity chigs.

new york city's police commissioner calling the deadly shooting of an officer this morning quote an assassination. the gunman shot the officer in the head while she was sitting in a police vehicle. nearby officers chased down the suspect and killed him. for more on the five things to know, go to cnn.com/newday for the latest. president trump making his way to the g-20 summit in germany where he'll be talking about the threat from north korea and gearing up for a face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin. we'll have the bottom line with christiane amanpour. first, when a british brick maker suffered a stroke he thought his life was over. then he had a fateful conversation with a nurse and it inspired an entirely new career. dr. sanjay gupta heads across the pond for this week's "turning points." >> reporter: each day in st. helen's, england, he wakes up to his dream job. his path to medicine was unusual. >> i worked in a brick factory

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the president is in the air heading to europe for his second international trip and in a few hours he will land in poland. then on friday he'll take part in g-20 summit and meet for the first time with russian president vladimir putin. let's get the bottom line with cnn chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. great to see you. what do we expect from this first face-to-face meeting with putin? >> reporter: well, of course everybody's agog because last time the president came there were all sorts of drugmaker happenings and this time he's going to meet putin who's been the bete noire of his administration and the main focus inside the united states

politically and legally. we don't know. is he going to come out with any soft talk about putin? is he going to even suggest perhaps that sanction relief might be on the table? is he going to talk about the meddling in the u.s. elections? it's really going to be interesting because up until now, everybody who's watching and analyzing this relationship keeps wanting to know why president trump is not harsher on president putin, not just about the collusion, the interference in the u.s. election, but also his expansionist policies abroad. >> there's certainly a lot to unpack. look at north korea. he tweets this morning, the president of the united states, in a way that seems a fair reading of it to suggest that he's done trying to work with china on north korea. what do you do with something like that as you enter the g-20? >> well, chris, that's a really good question because remember just a few months ago shortly after the inauguration, one of

the center pieces, one of the first things president trump did was meet with president xi and afterwards was very sort of flattering, they were both sort of flattering each oh and president trump believed that xi would be the key to north korea and the denuclearization. since that has not happened you've seen the rhetoric and the action between the two countries develop, get harsher, and more belligerent and not only that, you've seen president xi and president putin ahead of trump's visit get together in moscow as they did yesterday and put out their own north korea solution, and that was to the detriment of the united states policy, basically saying north korea should freeze, didn't even condemn it despite north korea's violation of the u.n. security council, but just freeze its program, but only in return for a u.s. freeze of military exercises with south korea and the u.s. thaad missile defense shield. so that is a no go for the united states so it's very interesting to see how that will work out. then there's very lit that will

we know could actually have an effect on north korea. i tell you why i say that, i've been speaking to former cia and dia analysts at the heritage foundation, bruce clinger, who was one of very few people who recently met for the very first time with north korean diplomats on neutral ground in sweden. this is what he said about the prospects for de-escalation. >> they made very clear, very emphatically clear that denuclearization is totally off the table. there's nothing that the u.s. or seoul could offer to induce them to abandon their nuclear arsenal. they became irritated when we tried various options of suggested things that would get them back to the negotiating table. they said, quite simply, accept us as a nuclear state and then we're willing to either talk about a peace treaty or fire. >> so chris and alisyn, that's drugmaker except just for what we are, we have you over a barrel and we might fight.

everybody's always wondered whether north korea's more bluff and bluser than action, but frankly its action speaks louder than words. it has relentlessly pursued a ballistic missile program that now according to the united states and others could even reach alaska. >> it shifted the onus onto the united states. you had general brooks this morning there in south korea saying only self-restraint stopped a war this time. that sounds like just talk. >> that brings in the u.s. allies and nato of course and as you know, christiane, you know, body language experts had a field day from the president's last trip with looking at the handshakes, you know, analyzing the pushes of, you know, various world lead toeers to get to the front. how do you think president trump will be received by allies? >> well, to be honest, the body language was really interesting because it was the first time he'd met with his allies but the substance was even more interesting. the fact that the line which is fundamental to nato, in other

words, we support article 5, we're on board, an attack on one is an attack on all of us, was removed from president trump's speech and that caused a lot of jitters. and after that, angela merkel said we'll have to start going it alone and looking after ourselves. the canadians are saying the same thing. so it's that, the threat of trade protectionism, the pullout of the climate accord, all those issues are front and center for the allies and they're going to -- we're all going to be waiting to see whether there's any course correction on some of those discordant notes from the g-7 summit last month in italy. >> so much to look forward to in this situation. cnn's going to cover it. we have the best in the business like christiane on it for you. thanks for being with us. >> let's do some good stuff. >> please. ♪

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for 18 years his job has been putting a smile on the face of his customers. >> need some help? >> most say he's thrived as a greeter at this lowe's in york county, pennsylvania. >> the first person i look forward to seeing is chris because he's always here greeting the customers. >> a lot of people feel like that. so co-workers didn't think twice when they saw chris having to use store supplies to repair his wheelchair. instead, they raised $27,000 to give him some new wheels. >> it's a small town and it's very nice for everyone to come together and help me out. i'm glad to help anybody out and they returned the favor and i really appreciate it. >> he says he's so grateful he's going to have tears in his eyes for the rest of his life. just think about that. york county, pennsylvania, you know, they don't have money growing on trees down there, but they came together.

27 grand. >> that's how much a wheelchair costs? >> to get the up withes that have -- expensive, no question, but this was an advanced wheelchair, obviously. but still, really expensive, they came together and made it happen for chris. >> a great story. great "good stuff." thank you very much. time for "cnn newsroom" with poppy harlow and john berman. take it away, guys. >> good morning, you guys. have a great day. we have a lot to get to. let's get started. good morning, everyone. i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman. president trump in the air with the fate of a nuclear showdown in the balance. the president departed minutes ago for key meetings in europe as his administration scrambles to respond to the first ever test by north korea of an ick k intercontinental ballistic missile. >> shortly before taking off, the president