♪ >> we had a fantastic meeting. now we're capping it with being in finland and hospitality has been fantastic. >> breaking news this morning. president trump just meeting with the president of finland ahead of his historic meeting with russian president vladmir putin which is set to begin just two hours from now. we have complete coverage this hour. as we monitor the president's movements in helsinki, finland. >> exciting morning. we're watching these markets. the dow hitting one-month high on friday as trade tensions ease and strong earnings took center stage. >> the nasdaq hitting record high on friday h friday.

big earnings news. after the bell we'll get numbers from netflix. >> let's check in on the stock market futures. >> in europe stocks opening lower on news from china economic growth slowed down in the last quarter. right you no the footsie barely in the record. cac and the dax are in the green. >> stocks edge lower in shanghai and hong kong. stocks close in japan for holiday. complete coverage of these markets with president's summit meeting with vladmir putin. "fbn:am" starts right now. ♪

>> it is 4:01 a.m. in new york on monday, july 16th. good morning everybody, we're up an hour early for you, i'm cheryl casone. >> we hope you're up with us, i'm gerri willis in for lauren simonetti at. >> that is why we're here early this morning a lot of breaking news overnight from europe. president trump holding a breakfast meeting with president of finland hours ahead of that summit with russian president vladmir putin. >> here is what the president said. >> thank you very much. be very much appreciate being in finland. we very highly respect your country. our relationship is a good one. our personal relationship has been very good. i enjoyed being with you a couple days ago. nato, i think never been stronger. and it was really, it was a little bit at the beginning. it turned out to be love.

it really was a great meeting that we had. brought everybody together. i think, very worthwhile. but i appreciated your support and your help and i will say again, you treated us beautifully, thank you very much thank you. [shouting questions. david: melissa: >> you're seeing him in a little while. we'll do just fine, thank you. [gnaweddable -- inaudible question. >> we had a fantastic meeting. some of i were there. fantastic meeting. nate tow has never been more together. people agrowing to pay. we were having a lot of problem with a lot of people not paying as the president will tell you. they're playing more rapidly.

nato probably never been stronger than it is today. we had a fantastic meeting. we're capping it in finland with the hospitality been fantastic. thank you very much, everybody. >> that of course was the president effusively wrapping up the breakfast meeting a few moments ago. he is now back at his hotel. cheryl: we're now two hours away from president trump's historic sit-down with russian president vladmir putin. the world watching closely to see how the u.s. president will handle several critical agenda items with election meddling at the top of that list. >> blake burman is live in helsinki, blake? reporter: gerri, cheryl, i know you've been joking how dark it is stateside. it is 11:00 in helsinki. it has been bright seven or eight hours today. you showed president meeting with the president of finland.

he will sit down with vladmir putin one-on-one in couple hours from now here in finland. the president very much downplaying expectations as he heads into this meeting. for example, over the weekend he tweeted out following, write, quote, our relationship with russia has never been worse thanks to many years of u.s. foolishness and stupidity and now the rigged witch-hunt. the president setting a low bar what he thinks could come out of this meeting with the russian leader. >> i go in with very low expectations. i think getting along with russia is a good thing, but it is possible we won't. i think we're greatly hampered by the whole witch-hunt going on in the united states. >> after the indictments the newest round of indictments from bob mueller on friday and special counsel, many democrats were calling for the president to cancel his meeting with vladmir putin. there is also some concerns from democrats that this will be a

onebe -- one-on-one sit-down. secretary of state rex tillerson was in the room as well. here is the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee, mark warner. >> i'm concerned about a one-on-one meeting with vladmir putin and donald trump. trump doesn't do a lot of prep work for these meetings. he kind of goes in and wings it. we saw what happened with kim jong-un. reporter: but this meeting very much going forward. so here is the schedule. a one-on-one couple hours from now, after that, a more expanded bilateral meeting, top officials on both sides sit down alongside each of their presidents to discuss. then we get a press conference between president trump and vladmir putin. questions from western journalists we are led to believe heading into this for the russian leader. 11:00 here. i will send it back to you.

we're close to lunchtime. i'm not sure you had breakfast yet. >> we're still waking up across the pond. blake, a live report from basically sunny finland. president trump bringing deal-making skills to the first summit with the highly-calculating russian president. remember this is vladmir putin. joining us now is former united states u.n. mission spokesman jonathan wachtel, foundation for defense of democracies ben telibu. >> good morn. >> i want to start with you, who is vladmir putin. a lot argue that the president is going in at a disadvantage. because of u.s. meddling and inadults on friday he should not holding this summit. what do we know about vladmir putin the man. he president with president obama. he met with george w. bush.

this is the third time sitting face-to-face with a u.s. mr. what do you expect in general from this today. >> i like the president have low expectations what comes out of the helsinki summit. what we know about vladmir putin the man he has his eyes on the prize. looking to reassert russian dominance in eastern europe. we know he is looking to get relief from financial sanctions. and lock in russian gains from key theaters of conflict. thwart u.s. plans elsewhere specifically in iran. cheryl: i think crimea is off the table from a u.s. perspective. i know there is disagreement on syria. i can't see president trump backing down on those two issues. the sanctions, john that is the big thing, 200 companies all under u.s. sanctions. that is economic hit to vladmir putin. if anything he would like to come out of the summit with news on that. do you think the president would be willing to give anything on

sanctions? >> you hit it right on the nose. the sanctions really do hurt russia. russia could use foreign investment to keep them floating. president putin is facing issues within pensioners within the country and shifts in the agenda on government taking care of pensioners, which is one of the ironclad things all russian and soviet leaders enjoyed popularity whenever they take care of people, their pension ages are much younger than ours. among other difficulties that russia is facing economically. it is still a strong country. it is carrying on all sorts of machinations as he mentioned in ukraine, crimea, syria, and elsewhere, but, yes, to be able to get relief on those sanctions would be a game changer for russia. it certainly propped up their economy. cheryl: in total 700.

in the trump administration 200 individuals and countries. in total 700. this game is going on a long time. look at "fox news poll," as far as who believes will get better deal out of the meeting, vladmir putin, 31% say vladmir putin is going to get a better teal out deal out of this summit. only 24% president trump will get a better deal. >> the "art of the deal" may be meet the art of the possible. there is very little short term i think president trump and president putin can agree on. i don't even see a framework for a deal happening. maybe this is exercise in threat reduction or high level diplomacy. all the issues mentioned were main sticking points. i don't think anyone will get a substantive deal. i certainly do hope the president sticks to the financial sanctions that the other guest mentioned. those are based on bad russian behavior.

they're not punitive for the sake of being punitive. cheryl: jonathan, leave will you, remember at the g20, president trump and putin had a two-hour sit-down already. these conversations have been on going. this is something that president trump continued to want to do this summit, despite friday's news again of indocuments of russian individuals. >> yeah. this summit is really arguably more important for vladmir putin. it puts him in the same room with the evil united states. if you watch russian media, you read russian newspapers which i follow, it's nothing but a litany of anti-americanism. the united states has been the bogeyman and in so many ways has propped up vladmir putin, made him popular because he is standing up to the big giant, the big bully. in this case he has different sentiments toward president trump than he has had with other leaders. this is, a big deal for vladmir

putin. cheryl: again what he says to the president and what he says to his own people might be very different. we saw that with north korea. jonathan, benim. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> coming up we're hours away from the historic summit meeting between president trump and russian president vladmir putin. we'll look at politics behind the meeting. democrats wanted the meeting canceled. how does president trump's base view the meeting. ahead of the summit, look at stock index futures. the dow poised to open 41 points higher. you're watching "fbn:am." >> only by force, brute force will putin understand anything. we should give the president room to do that.

gerri: president trump may be tamping down expectations for his meeting with vladmir putin but there could still be political risks. many members of his own party called for can sell islation of this summit but how does the base feel? let's bring in a democratic strategist, and john jordan of the hoover institute. i want to show clinton tweets. this is from hillary clinton this morning. she said it last night. great world cup. questions for president trump as

meets putin, do you know which team he plays for. the question, john, the sheer fact of the summit, does this give incentive to critics who say the russia tipped election in favor of the president? that is big mantra, what they say all the time. john? >> no, not at all. you will see continued collusion of facts of selective amnesia which passes for merry-go-round on the left. president trump hit syria twice, drawing red line, when the russians threatened to shoot down cruise missiles and airplanes. shipped arms twice, the javelin anti-take system to ukraine. a little-reported story, american forces inflicted massive casualties on russian mercenaries in syria. much the facts don't squash -- gerri: putin has a track record which is not good if you're american. i want to get to the politics,

mustafa, getting direct criticism of his negotiating chops. listen to new york senator chuck schumer. >> every time the president met with a leader, whether xi of china or kim jong-un of north korea, they have gotten the better of him, he seems to be more interested in the photo-op. this one is to serious for a photo-op. gerri: mustafa do you buy the ad that the president isn't serious about the negotiations. >> president's track record in north korea is something that worries many people. he walked in, he claimed victory. he said, we've accomplished denuclearization, when none of those things were done. north korea is now escalating its program. we're seeing more intelligence coming from north korea that they're using for fissile material. that their missile tests are likely to continue. so, what we need is the

president to focus. look, he is already there. the summit's already happening. we're hope is that he doesn't come out of his meeting with vladmir putin and give away the farm because -- gerri: so that is one of the questions we have on the table heres right? john, to you, the president tweeted this. i think this is really to the point that you were making earlier, he wrote, unfortunately no matter how well we do at the summit, if i was given the great city of moscow as retribution for all sins and evil by russia i would return to criticism it wouldn't be enough, i should have gotten st. petersburg in addition. what do you say to that? can he not put a foot right according to democrats. >> inin that knows anything about donald trump he doesn't give away for tree. missile tests were halted. no missile detonations. denuclearization will be in a process. >> they don't need to test

anymore. not because of a president trump. they don't need to test anymore. gerri: let john finish. >> maximum pressure on sanctions is why. nobody took obama seriously. gerri: mustafa. >> look, you know, president trump talks about, bringing back americans. 17 americans returned during obama's term. talk about facts rather than alternative facts. president trump is not prepared for this. he was out playing golf the day before. he has not met with prince millions at all. gerri: i will wrap you here. i want to remind our viewers here that 53% of voters say trump is not tough enough on russia. watching summit, very, very closely. >> unbelievable. gerri: thank you so much. >> my pleasure. cheryl: we're awaiting for historic summit between president trump and vladmir putin to begin. how should investors view what could be a change in russia-u.s.

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report results. let's bring in kadena group president, fox news contributor, gary b. smith. good morning. >> good morning, cheryl. cheryl: shocking news, the president has been tweeting. he has been very active talking about the summit and expectations and very clear. why don't you look what the president just tweeted a few moments ago about the market. stock market hit 25,000. jobs all-time record, before we fix some of the worst trade conditions and deals we've seen by any government. trade is big worry for the market. trade is a concern. with historic summit. came off heels of nato. a lot of changes with nato. what do you make of the relationship between the stock market and president's movements overseas? >> i tell you what, cheryl. i think market is a lot more correlated to his economic actions. you know his cutting of red tape. cutting of taxes. i'm not sure trade is a positive

for the market but at least he is showing it is america first. so i suppose that's good. as far as market linked to meetings with north korea and russia, i have a hard time finding any correlation there. if something dramatic happens, if someone storms off, or threatens war, which is unlikely to happen, that could rattle markets. other than that it is interesting, but i don't think it will drive investors one way or the other. cheryl: certainly created extra volatility. we've seen that over a few weeks. if you look at overall bull market. we're in the ninth year of this bull market. we may, if things go strongly, a lot of that is the president's economic changes since he took office, this could be the second longest run we've had since world war ii. can you believe that, gary? >> it is hard to believe it could be my lifetime, someone

who lived through all the various crashes, downturns for last 40 years, nice to get positive momentum. you talk about the volatility, at least from last week or so volatility has shrunken a little bit. we're back at highs we achieved back in june. cheryl: that's true. >> in march i think. kind of like a triple peek. if i watch market wise, break through the highs and move up back to the highs we saw back in december and january. cheryl: real quick before i let you go, tomorrow, unitedhealth group, j&j. amex, we'll hear from netflix and bank of america. out of all the names, gary, which ones do you watch the closest? >> netflix of course. who is not going to be watching netflix? it is disclosure i own netflix. i love netflix. i think the interesting thing about netflix they have 100 million subscribers. they have pricing power. they could tomorrow increase everyone's subscription by a

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♪ >> we had ha fantastic meeting. now we're capping it with being in finland. and hospitality has been fantastic. thank you. gerri: breaking news this morning. president trump meeting with the president of finland ahead of his historic meeting with the russian president vladmir putin less than go hours away. we'll have complete coverage and analysis of the president's trip. cheryl: we're watching markets. dow hitting one-month high as trade tensions ease. gerri: nasdaq ahead of big earnings news today, after the bell we'll get numbers for netflix. cheryl: looking at u.s. stock market futures ahead of the u.s.-russia summit of course all the earnings reports coming out this week.

s&p up three. nasdaq up 14. gerri: over in europe stocks opened lower on news from china, that economic growth flowed during the latest quarter right now. cheryl: taking a look at china's economic news hitting stocks in asia. china's gdp fell to 6.7%, from 6.8%. stocks closed in japan for a holiday. we'll have complete coverage of your markets and president's summit meeting with vladmir putin. special edition of "fbn:am" continues right right now. ♪ cheryl: it is 4:32 a.m. here in new york. it is monday, july 16th, good morning everybody, i'm cheryl casone. gerri: we're glad to see see you bright and early. i'm gerri willis in for lauren

simonetti. cheryl: we're two hours a way from president trump's historic sit down with russian president vladmir putin. the world watches closely to see how the president handles critical items with agenda meddling at top of the list. gerri: blake burman is live in hello sing ski. good morning to you, blake. reporter: president trump has been up and at it for a little while, having breakfast with the finnish president before the sit-down with vladmir putin. ending that, as cameras were brought in the president was asked about the upcoming meeting with putin. he gave very brief remarks saying," we'll do just fine. in the-up the president is down playing any sort of expectations that might come from today. listen. >> i frankly don't expect, i go in with very low expectations. i think getting along with russia is a good thing. it is possible we won't.

i think we're greatly hampered by the whole witch-hunt going on in the united states. reporter: president also leading tweeting our relationship with russia never has been worse thanks to many years of u.s. foolishness and stupid and now the rigged witch-hunt. president trump is set to meet with vladmir putin in about two hours from now. after that it will be more expanded bilateral meeting. it will be a press conference between the two leaders. a host of issues to get to today. among them, russian meddling, syria, arms treaties, crimea. that is just, i think four i listed. there was a lot on the plate for the president and vladmir putin here in finland today. gerri, cheryl, back to you. gerri: thanks, blake. president tried to temper expectations ahead of one-on-one sit-down with russian president vladmir putin many hope progress can be made on key issues.

here to break down the points of tensions, international politics michael santo, and christopher swift. meddling is one of the big issue, taking fire from his own side. trey gowdy saying hey, the president has to deal with this today. here is what he had to say. >> your first request of vladmir putin needs to be, tell us which airport we can pick up the 25 russians that tried to interfere with the fundamentals of our democracy. if you really claim you had nothing to do with it, then you should be as shocked as we were that your military was being used to impact our election. gerri: is that even possible, chris? i mean, can we do that? we don't have extradition treaty with russia? >> no, we don't but in vladmir putin's russia, vladmir putin can do whatever he wants. look, congressman gowdy is 100% right here. this needs to be top of mind for

president trump going into the meeting this morning. election meddling is not a matter of domestic politics. it is a matter of national security and if the united states doesn't take a hard-line on this, and isn't cans tent, not just going to hurt us here in the upcoming elections, including president trump's re-election campaign in 2020, it will have broad implications for our allies in western and central europe who have been subjected to this kind of meddling for better part of a. gerri: go to michael. i want to talk about this idea what is going on in syria. seems the administration, trump in particular wants help from russia in syria getting iran out. is that possible? what kind of role could russia play and what's realistic here? >> well that is actually realistic. the russians do seem to be helping limiting the role in

iran. iran and russia are allies of convenience. the reason we have to be very, very careful i think that russia's primary agenda is to weaken american power globally and syria is just one of their fronts. so their primary mission is to mess with the united states. they don't want to get involved in an iranian-israeli war. that is why they're kind of limiting iran and their agenda is against the united states and more global in nature. they don't want to get diverted by iran. gerri: pardon me for breaking in there, but there are a couple other issues we need to get to, and one is annexation of crimea. none of the europe talks to russia right now because of this. relations even with our country are at a post-cold war low. what can happen on the topic? the russian president is eager to have trump sign on to

whatever policy he wants to use when it comes to crimea. what do you see happening today in. >> like with the elections, it is essential president trump take and maintain a hard-line on crimea. vladmir putin is the first head of state in the 21st century to intrade another country and annex its territory. the last time that happened it was saddam hussein who did it in kuwait. the international community doesn't allow that. it is against the rules and norms of international law. so look, there is probably not much that president trump can accomplish on that front. aside from to be consistent with past u.s. policy and back up allies in europe. gerri: michael, i want to get to the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty. this is could happen and expectations are driven low by the administrations. this deal is important for the safety of the planet. it expires in three short years. could this be renewed at this

meeting? >> it might but many experts feel that the russian is got upper hand and only applies to strategic nukes. tactical battlefield nukes, russia has great advantage. they have four times as many as us. putin is violating imf treaty which is the most important treaty president reagan was able to achieve with gorbachev. putin is not a good faith negotiator. nuclear strategy is complex and president trump is new to this game. if you look what is going on in ukraine and syria. gerri: that is well-put, a new cold war. you make a important point. big question for both actors, can we trust putin to make good whatever he promises today. michael, christopher. thanks for coming on. >> thank you. gerri: thank you so much. cheryl: we have a lot more

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cheryl: election meddling expected to take center stage at helsinki summit days after dozen russians were indicted by the national security council. john bolton says the indictments give the president an upper hand. >> i would say in fact it streetens his hand, shows the justice department are aware of russian efforts at election meddling. the president can put it on the table, say it's a serious matter. we can talk about it. cheryl: president's critics are convinced he will not president putin on this. let's bring in our panel. guys, good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. cheryl: patrice, president trump spoken out about the issue of

meddling and of course what happened in 2016. i use the word 2016. listen to what the president said. >> this was during the obama administration. they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration and i heard that they were trying, or people were trying to hack into the rnc too, the republican national committee. but we had much better defenses. i think the dnc should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacked. cheryl: patrice. gerri: his critics say he should have canceled the summit. look, this was not under my administration, patrice. >> of course critics will say cancel the summit, they are fearful there could be some good coming out of president trump meeting with the head of russia. i mean, i think, it was important here that cybersecurity needs to be a important part of our conversation. our organizations, whether those are political organizations or our government really taking

that seriously. i think that is important. when we look at his supporters. whether 59% of americans want this meeting to happen. cheryl: right. >> 81% of republicans do too. cheryl: we talked about that earlier. robin, chuck schumer leading the charge on the democratic side against the summit. listen. >> it is inescapable, you can't deny it, that putin tried to influence our elections. he can do it again. and by meeting and business as usual, just asking him a question, did you do it, he says no, that is not good enough. putin has to pay a price for doing this. cheryl: robin, in august of 2017 we should down sip low mat tick facilities from russia -- diplomatic facilities. new york, desee. this president put more sanctions on russia than the previous president. why the criticism from schumer? >> you know, look at what donald trump said and done about this he literally tweeted out he wants to work with russia to

establish a cybersecurity unit. cheryl: president obama tried to work with putin. george w. bush tried to work with putin. they all did this after the first six months of their presidency. >> with mixed results. so i'm skeptical. especially since there will be no one else in the room. he is up against a former kgb agent. that is concerning to me. i want this president to come from position of strength. of course as a veteran i want a successful outcome. i just want, a, for him to acknowledge russia did in fact do this, b, if it continues there will be consequences. cheryl: you want putin or trump to acknowledge it? president trump already said, yeah, the russians, he acknowledged that. he acknowledged that a year ago. putin is never going to acknowledge they meddled in our election. >> not putin. donald trump. he still, look, he said, not that long ago, it could have very well been a 400-pound man.

he still somewhat of denier of this. still calls it a witch-hunt and conspiracy. this actually did happen. i want him to in plain language say that say it is wrong. it will not be tolerated. cheryl: we'll see how the meeting goes. less than two hours away. really quick, new fox news poll, patrice, as far as trump handling russian involvement in the presidential election 2016, 36% approve, 54% disapprove. those numbers changed. not favorable to the president, why? >> people wonder what is really happening with the investigation, whether less favorable on the president, they feel like he may be not taking it seriously as he could be. but i think the concern here though is, that he wants to insure this will be done fairly. coming out of last week's interesting investigations and testimony from some of the people who led this investigation, that leads them to hillary clinton scandal. there is a lot to be concerned about. cheryl: meddling a big topic

today. guys, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. gerri: coming up, how should investors view the president's foreign policy moves? are trade issues off the table for the markets? we're looking at higher move on all three major indexes. the dow up 50. s&p 500 up 3. nasdaq up 14. you're watching "fbn:am." most of us like to be out in the sun. that's why sunscreen and other safety measures are key to protecting your skin from aging and cancer.

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♪ gerri: investors will be watching today's historic meeting between president trump and russian president vladmir putin. not just the pros in washington. this is finland, as the u.s. china trade dispute in all-time on friday.

ben hill joins us right now. >> great great to have you on the show. >> good morning. gerri: lots of u.s. leaders walked this walk not before. bush, looking into putin's eyes and finding him to be interest straightforward. that didn't prove to be so true, right? hillary clinton having issues with the reset button. we remember that. trump today, trying to out do his predecessors. what are traders looking for? >> sure. i think if nun thinks this is confrontational meeting with putin, they will be disappointed. markets care a lot less what is going on between trump an putin. care what is happening with trump and president xi in china. we saw trade tensions ratcheted up on wednesday. another 300 billion in tariffs announced from the u.s. side.

this morning we saw china's economic growth came in at 6.7%. and this gives -- gerri: that is exactly right. down from 6.8%. a bit of a disappointment over there obviously. what does it mean for trading today? >> at 6.7% this still gives president xi enough ammunition to ratchet up trade talks with the united states. it might be only down 1.1% off last quarter. but 6.7% is no matter how you look at it is freight economic growth in china. gerri: all right. let me get to couple other issues. one of the other things could happen, the president could mention european union. say they are a enemy of ours. what that were to occur? >> i think that is concerned. think about what happened on friday. the trump labeled eu a foe.

because of what they're doing with trade. in that same statement he also said that china is a foe economically and that russia is a foe geopolitically. i know we with the e.u. not the u.s. just first. really eu. really u.s. versus rest of the world h it comes to negotiations. gerri: don't have anymore time, ian. we'll watch this week, jerome powell heading up to the capitol hill for the humphrey hawkins testimony. that is big event. >> absolutely. gerri: ian. cheryl: coming up we're going live to london to see what traders are watching from the trump putin summit. watching special early edition of "fbn:am." >> you can't rule out the possibility he might recognize russia's annexation of crimea.in russia's annexation of crimea.in >all silverado 1500 crew cab ltn

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>> all of that tomorrow, wednesday is amex, ibm, thursday microsoft. how important are u.s. earnings to you this week? >> oh, vital, really, they took focus on trade war and that's a good sign and gets us on how well the economy is doing and if the u.s. economy does well, and so far earning season, it's been going very well, indeed. gerri: chris, thank you for that. cheryl: we have dow components coming out. we have the banks talking about and the historic summit between president trump and vladimir putin today. gerri: and you know, stuff that's important gets lost in the mixhere, federal reserve appearing in congress. that would be critical as we watch exactly how the interest rates will play out. don't forget the u.s. economy is important to wallet and how traders view that.

cheryl: thank you for watching, everybody, early edition of fbn:am, thanks for being here. we send it over to mornings with maria. maria: with early edition with mornings with maria, we will see you soon. good morning, everybody, thank you very much for joining us. i'm maria bartiromo, history in the making this morning. the last time the two leaders spoke face face to face in viet. >> going with low expectations, i'm not going with high expectations, i can't tell you what's going to happen, and i can tell you what i will be asking for and we will break down expectations. markets look like