i m victor blackwell. secretary of state rex tillerson is meeting with the president of ukraine there in kiev, poroshenko. in the meantime, president trump is back in washington back to trying to make progress on his domestic agenda. first up, of course, is health care reform. and confirming a new fbi director. the organizers behind this year s massive march on washington has a message for the nra. start protecting black and brown lives. they are frustrated over the nra s silence surrounding the police shooting of castille who was shot multiple times in his car last july after he told the officer he had a firearm. he was a registered firearm owner. the officer was ultimately cleared. an organizer wrote a letter to the nra saying, in part, if the
reporter: congressional republicans have been waiting for years for their opportunity to overturn obamacare and now with it sitting in front of them, they just can t figure out how to get it done. from the republican-controlled senate, a stunning change of direction. majority leader mitch mcconnell will prop up obamacare if his own party can t pass a plain. premiums are going up, deductibles are going up. we have to solve the current crisis and i think repealing and delaying the replacement doesn t work. tonight i am also calling on this congress to repeal and replace obamacare. reporter: cnn has learned the white house was caught off guard by mcconnell s comments coming less than a week after the president s own surprise move when he tweeted if republican senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately repeal and then replace at a later date, but that has gained no traction, even as the republican bill has continued spinning its wheels.
it comes as there s another he said he said for president trump. russian s foreign minister tells journalists that president trump accepted president putin a word that the kremlin was not involved in the 2016 election. a senior administration official denied that claim. and gearing up for what could be a third day of violent protests. these are live pictures right now. demonstrat demonstrates gathered foopeace fully at the moment. last night, though, a very different picture. there were people in the streets setting fires, throwing bottles, and more than 200 police officers have been injured thus far. first let s talk about what happened this morning with ivanka trump. she briefly took a role on a critical role we should say at the g20 summit. she sat in for her father, president trump of course at a g20 leaders working session this morning.
not 4.4%. if you want to get a big laugh in front of an audience, go to pennsylvania, ohio and illinois and tell them they have a 4.4% unemployment rate. on the issue of who deserves credit, yeah, absolutely he stalled in the early months of his administration. but there s no question you saw a bounce in his economy with the stock market and confidence numbers. and i think that is starting to translate into jobs, but he s got to get this tax bill done if he s going to get a continuation of really good economic news. we have to see once everyone comes back from vacation what happens with health care, and of course tax is a huge issue after that. before i let you go, maybe this is another one in the win column for the president, the border crossings numbers, kaitlyn, remaining at the steady and historic low. how much should this be attributed to the president and his rhetoric? well, border security officials have credited this with president trump s ramped-up language saying they r
extraordinarily important for our leaders to let putin know that sanctions will stay, involving their occupation in ukraine, and they might be enhanced, because again, mr. putin is someone who recognizes force and strength. anything else, he sees as an opportunity to move forward unabated. all right. so those are all items to look for move ahead. but before i let you go, congressman quickly, i don t know if you ve heard this. if you turn up the volume during the pool spray of when these two are meeting, you hear president trump say to president putin, it s an honor to meet you, an honor. you know, you, being a democrat, being a member of the house intel committee, and trump s own intel chiefs, and really the majority of the country believe it was, indeed, russia, to use your phrase, attacked our democratic process. when you hear the president say, honored to meet you, what do you think? yeah, i sort of get the notion of diplomatic