BROWN: Well, Iraqi forces are locked in an intense battle with ISIS as they fight to reclaim the final few blocks of Western Mosul. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh is right on the frontlines as the Iraqi military makes critical new gains into the old city, while facing immense danger at every turn.</s>NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From here to the river is all ISIS has left of Mosul and this is the story of how it fell on the streets around the mosque they once held sacred but then destroyed.</s>BROWN: Thank you to Nick Paton Walsh for telling that important story. So, will ISIS come up during the president's meeting this week with Vladimir Putin? All eyes are on the sit-down as we learn the Trump administration is right now holding an emergency meeting on what to do about North Korea after Kim Jong-un launched another missile test. Putin and the Chinese president leaving the US out of their talks on a possible solution about the situation there. John King picks up our special coverage with "Inside Politics" right now.</s>JOHN KING, CNN HOST, INSIDE POLITICS: Thank you, Pam. And welcome to "Inside Politics". I'm John King. Thanks for sharing this special day with us. President Trump is at his golf course in Northern Virginia this Fourth of July. He will welcome military families to the White House tonight and heads to Europe tomorrow for a big global economic summit. There's important news today about the agenda there. Instead of a casual pull-aside, the first meeting between President Trump and the Russian President Vladimir Putin will be a more formal, more extended conversation.
Intense battle for final few blocks of Mosul