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abc's karen travers has the latest from hamburg. karen, what are you seeing? >> reporter: good morning, diane and nick. president trump will sit down with nearly a dozen world leaders at the g20 summit but his meeting in just a couple of hours with russian president vladimir putin, his most critical diplomatic test, and, nick and diane, the white house strategy seem tos downplay expectations. fiery scenes overnight as with german police who unleashed powerful water cannons and pepper spray. one banner summing up the atmosphere. g20, welcome 2 hell. authorities were prepared expecting around 100,000 demonstrators on the streets. officials say the crowd size thursday was only about 8,000 and president trump and russian president vladimir putin in just a few hours sitting down for their first face-to-face meeting. tensions between the u.s. and russia, the highest since the end of the cold war. president trump is expected to push putin on russia's involvement in ukraine and syria. but one topic he will not likely raise, russia's meddling in last year's presidentia

here's abc karen travers. >> reporter: trump wrapping up the g20 summit with more meetings with world leaders, but he was talking about his two-plus hour conversation with vladimir putin. >> rex and i had a tremendous meeting with president putin. it was the russian president who had the last word. putin held a press conference where he denied inference in last year's election. he said the two leaders talked at length about the thorny issue and ultimately president trump was satisfied with and accepted putin's denial. the white house disputes the statement, but when given the chance to respond today he didn't comment. on air force one en route to washington, no white house official would go on the record to refute the claim. north korea topping the again with japanese prime minister and china's president. no public push for china to take a harder line. the white house said that took place behind closed doors. blowing up on social media, this image of ivanka trump taking her father's place at a g20 working session when he stepped away. the white house saying ivanka briefly joined the m

abcs are karen travers has more from hamburg germany. >> reporter: they spoke for so long today that even the first lady tried to get them to end their conversation but at that point they still went on for another hour. at the top of president trump's agenda, russia's election interference. president trump and russian president putin sitting side by side. >> we look forward to a lot of very positive things happening for russia, for the united states its an honor to be with you. >> reporter: a flurry of questions from reporters about russia's election meddling. neither leader answering. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: and then a lengthy intense conversation two hours 15 minutes more than four times as long as scheduled. secretary of state rex tillerson telling reporters neither president wanted to stop. >> the two leaders i would say connected very quickly. there was a very clear positive chemistry between the two. >> reporter: right out of the gate president trump repeatedly pressing putin on the issue of russia's election interference despite much speculation he would avoid the

karen travers live from hamburg, germany.g to fight the gop health care bill here at home are fighting the health care law and taking the argument right to the senators' doorsteps. >> ally roggin looks at the dramatic confrontations. >> hey, hey, ho, ho, trumpcare has got to go. >> reporter: for senators who aren't holding town hall meetings, protesters brought the town halls straight to them. staging sit-ins at offices around the country. a nationwide display of opposition to the republican health care bill, like one outside the phoenix office of senator jeff flake. the property manager barring them from entering the private building. >> this is just his excuse to be able to pull what he's pulling today, not allowing his constituents to meet with him. >> reporter: protesters also filled senator tom cotton's office in little rock, arkansas. >> this is what democracy looks like. >> reporter: and chanted outside mitch mcconnell's office in kentucky. >> don't get sick, please die quick! >> reporter: most didn't get a meeting wit

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