If it's Wednesday, President Trump tries again to twist arms and push his sweeping agenda bill over the finish line,

meeting at the White House with leadership and a key group of hardliners in a last-minute push to de-escalate a Republican revolt.

Plus, President Trump confronts the president of South Africa, forcing the leader to watch a video in the Oval Office about what the White House alleges is genocide against white Afrikaners, despite official denials from the South African government.

And the Justice Department moves to end civil rights investigations in cities with high-profile killings by police officers.

It's pulling back federal oversight of police amid major changes at the Justice Department.

And welcome to meet the press now. I'm Aaron Gilchrist in Washington. We will get to that highly unusual Oval Office meeting today in just a moment. Let's start with another piece of

breaking news from the White House right now. For the second day in a row, President Trump is

getting personally involved in trying to push his massive tax and spending bill over the finish line in the House.

Republican leadership was hoping to vote today, but with a very narrow majority, right now Speaker Johnson doesn't appear to have the votes.

At this hour, members of the House Freedom Caucus, along with Speaker Johnson and Majority Leader Scalise, are meeting with President Trump at the White House.

That meeting comes after hardline members of the Freedom Caucus said earlier today, they're making progress on the bill, but they're not on board just yet.

And they want more time to push for additional spending cuts.

So we're going to work with the president today. We're going to work with our colleagues to deliver.

But there's a long way to go.

I want to be very clear.

We've got to deliver on what we're talking about,

or we're not going to be able to get the bill done.

And that's what we're trying to achieve.

The leadership will have to figure out, you know, what the timeframe of this is. As you know, I've come and I've spoken to several of you in the past few days, I'm not sure this could be done this week. I'm pretty confident can be done in 10 days,

but that's up the leadership to decide. We just want to emphasize we want to deliver the president's

agenda. While we don't know the specifics of the Oval Office meeting, President Trump earlier

today said they were close to a deal. In contrast to the Freedom Caucus, House Republican leadership wants this bill

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