If it's Friday, President Trump heads home after his first major overseas trip to major problems facing his agenda.

As House Republicans on a key committee vote to tank that sweeping bill containing the president's top priorities.

Plus, after days of confusion, Ukrainian and Russian officials finally meet face-to-face

for the first time since the war began, as President Trump doubles down on his vow

to eventually meet with Russian President Putin and shell shock.

Former FBI director James Comey is under federal investigation by the Trump administration after posting a picture of seashells on a beach that the president and his allies say was meant as a threat against the president's life, which Comey denies. Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington, where President Trump is on his way back to the Capitol

after the first major overseas trip of his second administration.

We'll get to some of the big foreign policy developments from his trip and the Ukraine-Russian

negotiations in Turkey in just a moment.

But first, when the president lands tonight, he will be greeted by the reality that his so-called

big, beautiful bill, may be in big trouble on Capitol Hill.

His massive tax and spending agenda failed to advance

through the Republican-controlled House Budget Committee this morning on a 16-21 vote.

A group of Republican hardliners defected, voting down the bill for essentially not going far

enough on spending cuts. Congressman Lloyd Smucker changed his vote from yes to no in a procedural move to bring the bill back up for another vote,

which we are hearing will be late Sunday night.

Here's what we heard from some of the Republican holdouts today.

We are writing checks we cannot cash, and our children are going to pay the price. So I may know on this bill unless serious reforms are made today, tomorrow, Sunday. We're having conversations as we speak, but something needs to change or you're not going to get my support. Unfortunately, the current version falls short of these goals and fails to deliver the transformative

change that Americans were promised. Substantative improvements are needed. And I look forward to

working with this committee in our House Republican conference to make sure we deliver.

This business of writing checks and having no income to pay for it, it's smoking mirrors again.

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