Trump admin updates: Trump wants Senate to cancel August recess to work on nominees

The White House confirmed that President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed whether Ukraine would be able to strike Moscow and St. Petersburg with U.S.-supplied weapons, but the White House is taking issue with the framing of the conversation in news reports.

"President Trump was merely asking a question, not encouraging further killing. He's working tirelessly to stop the killing and end this war," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to ABC News.

Leavitt said that a report from The Financial Times was taking the discussion "wildly out of context." The Financial Times reported that Trump had signaled his backing for the idea of striking deep inside Russia, including Moscow and St. Petersburg, citing two people briefed on the call.

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily barred President Donald Trump's administration from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Afghans living in the United States.

The appeals court’s move comes just as the work permits and deportation protections were set to expire today for nearly 12,000 TPS holders from Afghanistan.

In May, the Department of Homeland Security announced that they were ending the protections for Afghans as well as Cameroonians. The announcement sparked anger from immigrant advocates who said many Afghans who helped support American troops during the war would be forced to return to Afghanistan.

The appeals court has paused the termination of TPS for seven days and has ordered the government to file a response no later than July 16.

-ABC News' Armando García

FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche were all spotted on the White House grounds Monday afternoon.

Sources told ABC News that Patel, Bondi and Blanche spent hours at the White House for meetings amid backlash from Trump’s core supporters following the decision by the DOJ and FBI to not release any additional information from their review of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

It was not immediately clear who the group met with and whether they saw the president.

Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino wasn’t present for the meetings, but sources tell ABC News that Bongino did come to work on Monday.

Patel was spotted arriving at the White House slightly before 3 p.m. and Blanche and Bondi were seen leaving just before 5:30 pm.

-ABC News’ Katherine Faulders and Lalee Ibssa

President Donald Trump was asked whether he'd continue to negotiate with the European Union to try to get a tariff rate lower than 30% before Aug. 1. Trump seemed to indicate EU negotiators would come to the U.S. soon.

While Trump said he was open to continuing discussions, he also indicated that the letters he has sent to other trading partners are deals "already made."

"No, we're going to be talking to people. We have -- you know I watched a show this morning, they were talking about, well when's he going to make the deal? The deals are already made. The letters are the deals. The deals are made. There are no deals to make. They would like to do a different kind of a deal and we're always open to talk. We are open to talk, including to Europe. In fact, they're coming over, they'd like to talk to us," Trump said.

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart