News Wrap: Transcripts show what Trump said to world leaders

[0:00] In other news, The Washington Post today published the transcripts of conversations [0:04] President Trump had with the leaders of Mexico and Australia during his first days in office. [0:10] Their contentious nature is at odds with the official White House report of the exchanges [0:15] at the time. An excerpt from the call between Mr. Trump and Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto [0:21] showed a significant focus on the president's campaign promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico [0:27] border. Here's the exchange read by our NewsHour producers. [0:31] The fact is, we're both in a little bit of a political bind, because I have to have Mexico [0:37] pay for the wall. I have to. I have been talking about it for a two-year period. [0:42] If you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the wall, [0:45] then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore, because I cannot live with that. [0:49] You have a very big mark on our back, Mr. President, regarding who pays for the wall. [0:54] But my position has been and will continue to be very firm, saying that Mexico cannot pay for that [0:59] wall. But you cannot say that to the press. The press is going to go with that, and I cannot live [1:04] with that. This is an issue related to the dignity of Mexico and goes to the national pride of my [1:09] country. Let us, for now, stop talking about the wall. OK, Enrique, that is fine, and I think it is [1:15] fair. I do not bring up the wall. But when the press brings up the wall, I will say, let us see how it [1:20] is going. Let us see how it is working out with Mexico. A second phone call, this one with Australia's [1:27] Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, centered on an Obama-era deal for the U.S. to screen and take [1:33] in refugees who had been imprisoned after trying to enter Australia by boat. The 24-minute exchange [1:39] came just one day after the president had signed his original travel ban, barring people from seven [1:45] majority Muslim countries from entering the U.S. Again, the voices of NewsHour producers. [1:52] This is a stupid deal. This deal will make me look terrible. [1:55] Mr. President, I think this will make you look like a man who stands by the commitments [2:00] of the United States. It shows that you are committed. [2:02] OK, this shows me to be a dope. I'm not like this. But if I have to do it, I will do it. [2:07] But I do not like this at all. I will be honest with you, not even a little bit. I think it is [2:12] ridiculous. And Obama should have never signed it. I'm going to get killed on this thing. [2:17] You will not. [2:18] Yes, I will be seen as a weak and ineffective leader in my first week by these people. [2:23] This is a killer. [2:24] JUDY WOODRUFF [2:25] Earlier in the conversation, the president referred to himself as the world's greatest [2:30] person. And close to the end of the conversation, he told Turnbull it was his [2:34] quote, most unpleasant call of the day. He has met with both world leaders in person [2:40] since both those phone calls. [2:42] Separately today, President Trump kept up his criticism of Congress after reluctantly signing [2:47] into law new sanctions against Russia. He tweeted this morning, [2:52] our relationship with Russia is at an all-time and very dangerous low. You can thank Congress. [2:58] The Republican chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Corker, [3:02] later retorted and defended the sanctions, which lawmakers approved overwhelmingly. [3:07] DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States, The United States, The United States, The United States, [3:13] What he's done is an affront to the American people to try to have an effect on the election [3:19] outcomes here. It's had to be spoken to. I think we did it in a very appropriate manner. I'm proud of [3:26] the legislation. [3:27] JUDY WOODRUFF.: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke on the phone today with his Russian counterpart, [3:32] Sergei Lavrov. The two men agreed to discuss U.S.-Russia relations in person at [3:37] a meeting in the Philippines next week. In Brazil, embattled President Michel Temer has narrowly avoided [3:45] suspension from office for a bribery charge. The lower house of Brazil's Congress voted last night [3:51] against sending Temer to trial before the country's highest court. Still, Brazil's attorney general [3:57] may bring additional charges in the case, which involves allegations that Temer took bribes from a [4:03] meatpacker. China is welcoming some recent comments from the U.S. about North Korea. [4:09] On Tuesday, Secretary of State Tillerson said the administration is not looking for regime change [4:15] in Pyongyang. Speaking to reporters in Beijing, the Chinese foreign minister urged all parties to find a [4:21] peaceful solution. [4:23] TILERSON, Chinese Foreign Minister, Secretary of State Tillerson, Chinese Foreign Minister, [4:30] forward together and, through equal dialogue, find fundamental solutions that address everyone's [4:36] reasonable concerns over security. [4:38] JUDY WOODRUFF.: President Trump has expressed growing frustration over what he says is China's [4:43] reluctance to rein in North Korea. [4:46] One soldier from the NATO-led military mission in Afghanistan has died in a suicide attack [4:52] north of Kabul. [4:53] Five other troops and an interpreter were wounded. [4:56] And a sad update to a story we brought you recently. [5:00] A man who died in an attack in Western Afghanistan this week has been identified as the father [5:05] of a girl on the country's now-famous robotics team. [5:10] The all-girls team won a silver medal in a U.S. competition last month after being denied [5:15] travel visas to the United States two times. [5:18] We will have more on the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan later in the program. [5:23] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency now says that it won't delay rules on reducing [5:28] emissions. [5:29] EPA head Scott Pruitt originally said that he would hold off on enforcing an October 1 [5:35] deadline for states to start meeting new ozone pollution standards. [5:39] But after 16 Democratic state attorneys general sued Pruitt over the change, he reversed course. [5:46] The Pacific Northwest is enduring one of its most prolonged heat waves in years. [5:51] The temperature was expected to hit 106 degrees in Portland, Oregon, which would be just shy [5:57] of a record. [5:58] Meanwhile, smoke from wildfires burning in British Columbia, Canada has snaked into Washington [6:04] and Oregon, causing breathing problems for people with asthma. [6:09] There are new questions about President Trump's plan to hire 15,000 more Border Patrol agents [6:14] and immigration officers. [6:16] That is according to a recent report from the Department of Homeland Security's inspector [6:21] general. [6:22] It said that officials are quote facing significant challenges in identifying, recruiting, hiring [6:28] and fielding the number of law enforcement officers that the president mandated. [6:34] Canada, meantime, is making space for hundreds of asylum seekers who have crossed the border [6:39] from the U.S. in recent weeks. [6:42] Montreal opened the doors of its Olympic Stadium to hundreds of Haitian newcomers in the country, [6:48] as temporary housing options filled up. [6:50] In the first half of this year, some 4,300 asylum seekers have arrived in Canada from the U.S. [6:57] Many are unsure of their status under the Trump administration. [7:01] On Wall Street today, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 10 points to close at 22,026. [7:07] The Nasdaq fell 22, and the S&P 500 dropped five.