family members who are not allowed to enter the united states for 90 days. the ban bars travelers for the six muslim majority countries you re looking at them right there that president trump put in place earlier this year but that hasn t stopped opponents of the travel ban from fighting back on social media. check this out. a new instagram account that shares photos of grandmothers who have been unable to visit their families in the united states, hashtags like banned grandmas and grandparents not terrorists have gone viral in hopes of putting a universal face on the impact of the travel ban. let s bring in one of the leaders of this campaign, the outreach director for the national iranian-american counsel. your grandma, straight-up, became a u.s. citizen five years ago. this travel ban could have easily affected her but your uncle has been impacted by this travel ban this year. talk to us about how so. sure. thank you for having me. well, first off, i want to say my colleagues and
fly them up the north korean coast like 13 or 14 miles off sh shore, that would intimidate him but really not. whether we brought the carriers to the sea of japan, that probably was a message to kim jong un, but this one is more to south korea. as i mentioned just a minute ago, president trump addressed the issue earlier today during a meeting with japanese prime minister shinzo abe. we re talking about the problem and menace of north korea. and the prime minister is, i will say this, very, very focused on what s going on with respect to north korea. you know, the president, president trump speaks in generic terms about this. we re going to be focused very hard, this is a very serious threat. is his outreach to other world leaders, prime minister abe, china president xi, is it helping? is it hurting? what s the sense in yeah, with abe, i think that it certainly is helping, because he does like the face time with
the entire summit. today, the president said the meeting was tremendous but russia and the united states have put out these conflicting accounts of the meeting. russian foreign minister lavrov tells us that president trump accepted that russia went interfering. what s the deal? who s right? well, russia meddles. russia meddled about russia meddling in our elections. that s what hthey do. they meddle in afghanistan where there s a relationship there between russia and the taliban. i guess i m sorry, congressman, i guess my question is, should the white house be pushing back more aggressively on sergey lavrov s statement that the president seemed to accept what vladimir putin said, that he didn t meddle. the short answer is yes. and i think with regard to any of the meetings that the president has and any of the conversations that took place, where there s a public account contradicting what actually happened, it s always important to push back on that narrative, to ensure that t
instagram is? i don t believe so. i ll have to fill her in the next time i see her. i think it s extraordinary what you re doing. your grandma looks amazing just from the pictures we ve been look at and i want to thank you for taking the time to come here on a saturday. thanks a lot. thank you. i m not going anywhere. you shouldn t either. ahead in our next hour, much more on the g20 summit, which just wrapped up in germany hours ago. what are the big takeaways from president trump s first meetings with the fellow g20 leaders? more on that when we come right back.
putin. we ve had really great meetings with a lot of people. reporter: we also heard today from nikki haley, the u.n. ambassador for the united states. she was speaking on cnn and she said, for an interview that will air tomorrow, in fact, that everybody knows that russia meddled in the u.s. election. of course, president trump asked about this on this trip, when he was in poland, says, nobody knows for sure. nikki haley, druuring that interview, said you ll have to ask the president himself why he won t answer that question more declarityively. it s notable as they wrap up this g20 summit, as the president heads home, jacob, that it s tradition that these heads of state, presidents, prime ministers, will hold news conferences in the last several hours. we heard from vladimir putin, angela merkel, ma kron of france, trudeau in canada, but president trump himself left without holding a news conference so that question couldn t be posed to him today. i don t think anybody s surprised