Welcome to meet the press now.

I'm Melanie Zanona in Washington, and right now, President Trump is holding an event to highlight his affordability agenda, amid dismal new polling on his handling of the economy,

and as the war with Iran drags on, threatening to drive prices even higher.

These are some live pictures from the Oval Office of President Trump, who has repeatedly denied in recent days that he's under pressure to make a deal with Iran,

holding a health care affordability event.

He could take questions for the first time on camera since he extended the U.S.

ceasefire against Iran earlier this week.

It comes after President Trump posted on social media this morning that he is ordering the U.S.

Navy to, quote, shoot and kill any boat putting minds in the strait of her moves.

He also said the strait is, quote,

sealed up tight by the U.S. until Iran makes a deal. It's a remarkable 180 from his prior demands

that Iran must open the strait. The Pentagon releasing this video of its third maritime

interdiction of what it says was a sanctioned stateless vessel transporting oil from Iran.

Iran's state media, meanwhile, releasing its own video of what appears to be two ships being

seized in the strait by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps earlier this week.

You can see men in masks climbing up the ladder to board that tanker.

Amid the tensions, oil prices have ticked up and are now higher than

before the ceasefire was extended indefinitely. The head of the International Energy Agency

warning today, we are facing the biggest energy security threat in history. Meanwhile,

public support for the president continues to erode. According to the latest CNBC survey, President Trump's net approval has fallen to a new

low for him in either term, minus 18 points.

The president's net approval on his handling of the economy is even lower, minus 21 points.

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