Wimbledon. Andy murray defends his title and Serena Williams is the womens champion but is pregnant and isnt playing. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, july 3rd. From abc news, this is world news now. Good morning to you this half hour. With President Trump stepping up his attacks on the media and pushing back against bipartisan criticism. He took aim at cnn with a mock wrestling video. The New York Daily News headline, wrestle maniac, and the New York Post giving him the wrestle moniker, rowdy gripper. Like rowdy piper was back in the wwe when it was the wwf. I dont know if i should be proud or embarrassed that i now that. But before tweeting the doctored video, the president defended his use of social media as modern day president ial. Reporter President Trump escalating his war on the media, tweet ago mock video showing him outside a wrestling rink, tackling and punching a man with the cnn logo over his face. Tom bossert seeing the video for the first time defending
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