captioning sponsored by cbs >> mason: on the eve of a critical vote... >> there is still time to do the right thing. >> mason: the president urges senate republicans to keep their promise to repeal and replace obamacare. also tonight, jared kushner defends himself. >> i did not cloudy with russia. >> mason: and his father-in-law. >> donald trump had a better message and ran a smarter campaign, and this is why he won. >> mason: princes william and harry remember the happy times with diana. >> our mother was a total kid through and through. >> mason: and their regrets about their final phone call. and his job isn't work, it's a day at the beach. >> this is your office. >> this is my office. >> not bad.

this is the "cbs evening news." >> mason: good evening. i'm anthony mason. president trump is trying to resuscitate the biggest item on his domestic agenda, repealing and replacing obamacare. the senate votes tomorrow on whether to bring a bill to the floor for debate, and the president urged republicans today to keep their campaign promises and his and, as he put it, do the right thing. to help make his point, the president went before tv cameras this afternoon with a gathering of americans he described as victims of obamacare. here's major garrett. >> we as party must fulfill that solemn promise to the voters of this country to repeal and replace what they have been saying for the last seven years. >> reporter: president trump was talking about repealing the affordable care act, the promise that he and senate prince hammered on 2 campaign trail.

over and over again they said repeal and replace, repeal and replace. >> reporter: but a repeal bill is stuck in legislative limbo. after failing to move the bill to the floor last week, a divided republican conference will try again tomorrow, with democrats unified in opposition, three republican no votes would scuttle the legislation. >> any store who votes against starting debate is telling america that you are fine with the obamacare nightmare. >> reporter: frustrations are surfacing within republican ranks. texas congressman blake blake farenthold raised the specter to have an armed duel for recalcitrant senators like senator susan collins from maine. >> there are some female senators from the northeast. if it was a guy, i might ask him to step outside and settle this aaron burr-style.

>> reporter: when the white house passed the bill many may, the president had a rose garden party brimming with optimism. >> we'll get this passed through senate, i feel so confident. >> reporter: but by late june, the president recognized senate republicans might have reached an impasse. >> if we don't get it done, it's just going to be something that we're not going to like, and that's okay. >> reporter: the white house has privately discussed retribution against any republicans who vote against proceeding to debate on repeal and replace legislation. now, senior advisers here know that senate passage of any healthcare bill is a long way off, but defeat on this elemental question would mark a new low in the president's factious relationship with the republican-controlled congress. anthony? >> mason: major garrett at the white house. thanks, major. the president's son-in-law, a key white house adviser, answered questions today on russian meddling in the u.s. election and whether anyone in the trump campaign was involved. jared kushner appeared voluntarily before the senate

intelligence committee behind closed doors and made a rare public statement. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: mr. kushner, how was your meeting. kushner told congressional investigators he met with influential russians four times during the campaign an the transition, but those meetings, he said in a public statement, were brief, part of his incoming contacts from people from across approximately 15 countries. in fact, he said, until recently he did not recall at all a 2016 meeting at trump tower with donald trump, jr., and a russian lawyer offering dirt on hillary clinton. kushner said he arrived at the meeting a little late and quickly decided it was a waste of our time, e-mailing an assistant, "can you please call me on my cell. need an excuse to get out of meeting." >> i did not collude with russia. nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. >> reporter: kushner disputed reports he tried to set up a secret back channel with russia

during the transition but said he did ask the russian ambassador if there was an existing communications úhannel at his embassy he could use to discuss the syrian crisis. the ambassador said that would not be possible, so nothing else occurred. kushner met that same month with a powerful russian banker named sergey gorkov after being told gorkov was someone with a direct line to the russian president who could give insight into how putin was viewing the new administration. >> i have not relied on russian funds for bymy businesses. >> reporter: mr. trump's son-in-law normally avoids the spotlight. >> mr. kushner, will you sign my russian flag? sign my russian flag, please. please sign my russian flag. >> reporter: kushner was confronted by a protester in full view of cameras. >> they all have connections to russia. why is that? >> reporter: kushner says he wants to be fully transparent. he'll have several more chances to prove it. he goes before the house intelligence committee tomorrow,

and the senate committee that met with him today, anthony, is already eager to have him back. >> mason: nancy cordes. thank you, nancy. then there is the investigation by the special counsel. the president blames his attorney general for that. robert mueller was appointed after jeff sessions recused himself from the russia investigation, angering the president. here's jeff pegues. >> reporter: the president was dogged again today by questions about whether the attorney general should step aside. >> mr. president, should jeff sessions resign? [laughter] >> reporter: that follows a sharply worded morning tweet in which he referred to sessions as "our beleaguered a.g. " the justice department insists that sessions is not preparing to resign, despite the apparent rift with the president, and new reports of an alleged conversation with russian ambassador sergey kislyak during the 2016 election campaign at a previously undisclosed meeting between the two.

cbs news has confirmed that u.s. intelligence intercepted electronic communications in april of 2016 between kislyak and moscow in which kislyak reported that he and sessions had discussed campaign matters. kislyak and sessions had attended a trump speech at the mayflower hotel in april. >> let me be clear... >> reporter: sessions acknowledged in march there had been two meetings with with kislyak during the campaign, and last month he was adamant that there wasn't a third. >> i did not have any private meetings, nor do i recall any conversations with any russian officials at the mayflower hotel. >> reporter: sessions initially said that he never met with any russians, but when it became clear that he lad, he recused himself from the justice department's russia investigation. that angered the president, who has been at odds with his attorney general ever since. anthony? >> mason: jeff pegues, thanks. a truck driver is facing federal charges of illegally

transporting immigrants in what amounted to a deathtrap and could face the death penalty if convicted. ten of the undocumented immigrants died, many of the others are in the hospital. the broiling tractor-trailer was discovered early yesterday in san antonio, texas. mark strassmann is there. >> reporter: around 100 people were crammed inside this tractor-trailer, sweltering in 100-degree weather. they had no air conditioning, food, or water, some people took turns gasping for air through a hole in the wall. during the 15-hour drive into south texas, it got much hotter inside the truck, like an oven on wheels. san antonio police chief william mcmanus said a wal-mart employee spotted the parked truck. >> he was approached by someone from that truck, who was asking for water. he came back with water, called the police. we arrived on the scene, and we found eight people dead in the back of that trailer. >> reporter: in federal court

this morning, federal agents said the driver, james bradley, told them he parked the truck and heard banging and shaking in the trailer. he opened the door and was run over by spanish people, 30 to 40 of them scattered. he then noticed bodies just lying on the floor like meat. but bradley himself never called 911, and he admitted knowing the truck's refrigeration system did not work. police found 29 people alive, all of them still hospitalized. one survivor said his group had help rafting across the rio grande from the zetas cartel, one of mexico's most violent criminal gangs. >> this tells us the immigration system needs to be fixed. >> reporter: gerardo menchaca is an immigration lawyer here. >> we're going to continue to see what we saw with this truck today. more and more people will put their lives at risk in order to come to the united states. >> reporter: we called pyle transportation, a company in iowa who registered the truck.

a woman who did not give her name told us the company sold that truck last month, and then she hung up the phone. >> mason: mark strassmann with tragedy in san antonio. thank you, mark. there is a court battle in kentucky over the right to protest outside the last clinic in that state that performs abortions. anna werner is in louisville. >> reporter: the protesters are organized by the group operation save america which calls roe vs. wade a covenant with death but wants boring outlawed. >> we're talking about the killing of an innocent human being. >> reporter: evangelical activist jason storms and his wife sarah came with their eight children from milwaukee. >> little baby girls are also being murdered in these abortion clinics. >> reporter: kentucky only has this one clinic left, down from 17 in 1978. its new republican governor wants the take that number to zero, and the protesters agreed. >> we pray for the day... >> reporter: in may nearly a dozen of them associated with

the group were arrested for blocking the entrance to the clinic. the events in may prompted a federal judge to order a buffer zone be temporarily placed around the clinic's entrance so patients with get past the protesters. are you frightened of them? >> it's intimidating. >> reporter: anne ahola is the clinic director. >> when are you going to stop killing children? >> reporter: protesters are more aggressive now. -scare tactics have escalated, so the patients come in more upset, more scared. >> reporter: storms insists they're not violent and points out he and key leaders of operation save america have never committed violent crimes, but their group calls women who have abortions murderers. >> a mother who has knowingly, willingly chosen to kill her own child out of pure selfish motives, she's guilty as a murderer in the eyes of the law. >> it's disturbing for patients. it's intimidating. it is discrimination against women. it's their choice to exercise

this reproductive freedom that we have. and we should continue to have it in this country. >> reporter: protesters here this week will have to abide by the buffer zone. that's the striped tape along the pavement in front of the clinic's entrance here. anthony, in september a judge will hear arguments on whether the clinic can stay open under state licensing rules. >> mason: anna werner western in louisville, thanks. in california a teenage driver was arrested after she was involved in fatal crash while life streeming on instagram. 18-year-old abdula sanchez was arrested. she was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter. in london today, the parents of charlie gard gave up their legal battle to get experimental medical treatment for their

gravely ill infant. more now from jonathan vigliotti. >> reporter: charlie gard's parents called their son an absolute warrior at london's high court today, but they said time had run out for him after new medical tests showed irreversible brain damage. >> his body and soul may soon be gone, but his spirit will live on for evernty. >> reporter: charlie was diagnosed with rare genetic disease that left him blind, deaf, and unable to move or breathe on his own. doctors treating him in london said he could not be cured and went to court to argue he could be taken off of life support. his parents fought back and asked to take the baby to the u.s. for an experimental treatment. but after five months of bitter legal wrangling, the u.s. doctor agreed with the london hospital, there was no hope. for charlie's father, it was difficult to accept. >> a whole lot of time has been wasted. we're now in july, and our poor boy has been left to just lie in

hospital for months without any treatment whilst lengthy court battles have been fought. >> reporter: debate over charlie's future became so heated that his doctors and hospital staff received death threats. hundreds of protesters, known as charlie's army, supported sending him to the u.s. but in the end, charlie's parents said they accepted they must say describe to their son. >> sleep tight, our beautiful little boy. we love you. >> reporter: it's unclear how long charlie gard will survive off life support. anthony, his father says his son won't live to see his first birthday next month. >> mason: jonathan vigliotti in london. coming up next on the "cbs evening news," princes william and harry remember the last conversation with their mother. and later, hikers stranded by floodwaters are rescued. i tak but with my back pain i couldn't sleep and get up in time.

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>> mason: at the 20th anniversary of princess diana's death approaches, her sons have given a very candid interview about their mother. here's elizabeth palmer. >> a special picture. >> reporter: present meets past in this homage to diana the mother through the eyes of her royal sons. >> believe it or not, you and i both know. you were in the tummy. >> i know. >> reporter: the memories of the pictures are inevitably bittersweet. >> there's not many days that go by that i don't think about her. her 20th anniversary year feels like a good time to remember all the good things about her and hopefully provide maybe a different side to her that others haven't seen before. >> reporter: the last time william and harry spoke to their mother, she was in paris hours before she died. shay were on vacation in scotland with their father, prince charles, and anxious to hang up the phone. harry and i were in a desperate rush to say good-bye, william

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elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >> mason: the documentary film "diana, a mother, a life, her legacy" debuts tonight on hbo. when we come back, summer showdown, man versus blood.

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sake. seaver, who learns his living as an artist assistant, will occasionally sell a photograph of his work here and, there but money has never been his motivation. >> i want to do something all the time, and be creative, and if nobody ever knew about it, i would still be bidding a sand castle. >> reporter: summer or winter, calvin seaver is a constant present an rockaway beach. his creations may disappear, but not the beautiful memories given to those lucky enough to see them. don dahler, cbs news, long island. >> mason: there's only enough sand in the hour glass to say, that's the "cbs evening news." i'm anthony mason. thanks for watching. good night.

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