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And common values," so says emmanuel macron. the president, of course, of france. earlier this evening after the leaders gathered for the phamly photo -- the familiar family photo, they joked about the trade tensions but they also said listen, we are all making progress. >> president trump: justin has agreed to cut off tariffs and all trade barriers. >> nafta is in good shape. >> president trump: we are actually working on cutting tariffs and making it all fair for both countries. we have made a...

>> justin has agreed to cut all tariffs and all trade barriers between canada and the united states. so im very happy. >> nafta is in good shape. >> we are actually working on it. we are actually working on cutting tariffs and making it all very fair for both countries. and we have made a lot of progress today. we will see how it works out, but we have made a lot of progress. >> well, jokes aside, meanwhile, it appeared mostly they rejected the idea of reintroducing russia is after the president...

Justin has agreed to cut all tariffs and all trade barriers between canada and the united states. so im very happy about that. [laughs] we are actually working on that. but our relationship is very good and we are working on cutting tariffs and making it all very fair for both countries and we have made a lot of progress today. we will see how it all works out but we have made lots of progress. it could be that nafta will be a different form. it could be with canada, with mexico, a much easier t...

I am proud of the work thats being done. i am proud of americans helping americans. friends and strangers alike. i am proud of the work that dod, fema and the territory along with first responders are doing. clearly the situation here in puerto rico after the devasta devastating hurricane is not satisfactory. but together we are getting there. and the progress today is very, very strong. the president and i will not be fully satisfied, however, until every puerto rican is back home, the power is...

President trumps trip for the supreme court. >> mr. president, the 60-vote bar in the senate is the guardrail of our democracy. when our body politics is veering too far to the right or to the left, the answer is not to dismantle the guardrails and go over the cliff. but to turn the wheel back toward the middle. >> as that break news unfolds in the senate, over on the house sight the chairman steps aside from the russia meddling investigation because he now faces an ethics review of whether he i...

Representatives on the floor. when will this vote take place? >> well, there is not enough time to take place tonight because wed have to go to rules and move forward. but we will vote tonight on a rule that will allow us to vote tomorrow. well have conference a little later this evening, bring people together about where we are. weve made progress today. and its our hope that wed be voting tomorrow after debate. >> okay. then the obvious question is, do you feel confident that there are the vot...

Happening in your area can you tell me whats going on in dallas right now? >> well good afternoon, alex. dallas getting hit once again with rain. this after the buckets they received yesterday which prompted about 200 swift water rescues in the area. the majority of those people had become trapped in their car from rapidly rising flood waters. now here in wimberley were getting a break in the weather for the moment. more weather is expected today but for now the blue sunny skies and the river le...

Their arms around it. now theyre getting help from state and federal officials and we hope it gets a little more streamlined. i flew back from joplin just this morning and if you were here with us last night, you might remember that i spent some time with a couple whosa neighbors said their son was taken away in an ambulance. >> how long is it going to be before anybody tells us anything about any of the bodies? is it going to be days before anybody knows? theres people sitting down there that...

This is about policy as much as politics. north carolina is a really critical state for the president. he won it narrowly in 2008 by less than 15,000 votes. there are 15 electoral votes in this state. and republicans are starting to see a little bit of an opening here. one of the house seats went red in 2010. so republicans are looking at this state as well. and right now, richard, the unemployment rate here in north carolina stands at 9.7%. it is higher than the national average. so this state ...

Briefly. >> i want to report again to the american people that we made some additional progress this evening. i think the staffs of both the house and the senate, as well as the white house staff, have been working very hard to try to narrow the differences. we made some progress today. those differences have been narrowed, and so once again the staff is going to be working tonight around the clock in order to see if we can finally close a deal. but theres still a few issues that are outstanding...