. >> we'd chat with jon but breaking news out of germany eamon javers is pretty much there on site and can give us a better view of what's going on eamon? >> reporter: yeah, bill, you can probably hear the helicopters overhead and the sirens behind me here. things have gotten a little bit tense here in hamburg. the protests have taken a little bit of an ugly tone. i want to turn over here see if you can show the folks what's going on right here we've got some protesters down the hill and behind where i'm located here, and you can see here that some of the medics are treating some of the injured protesters at least one person here appears to have been overcome by some kind of gas or at least -- possibly a head wound. we saw hundreds of police amassed in formation behind us protesters marching on the spree along the river front behind me. then all at once the police in a group of about 500 or so, the police put up a big cheer and charged forward and pushed those protests out of the way, pushed them down the block here behind us we saw at least one or two people behind me throwing bottles

our eamon javers with the latest from the g-20 in germany where, eamon, we believe this meeting is still going on. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, scott. at about 28 minutes past the hour, we got a note from the white house press pool which said that the meeting, they had been told, was still going on, about an hour and a half into the meeting at that point. that was about half an hour ago. the two leaders now pushing about two hours for a meeting that wasn't supposed to go anywhere near that length. so much curiosity around the world for what the two leaders will be discussing in that meeting. one of the questions on the american side is whether donald trump would press vladimir putin on the issue of russia's interference in the 2016 election campaign. no word yet on whether any of that was discussed we'll wait for some more reporting. there you see the picturing of the two leaders earlier before their meeting. we heard a bit from the president about what it was the two leaders were discussing today. he kept it fairly high level and fairly vague, but here's what president trump had to

we'll wait and see what kind of access we get later today. >> eamon javers, thank you look forward toearing more on the coverage of g20 from you on the ground in hamburg as the day goes on. >>> the markets, like we mentioned before, the bnk of japan stepping up plans for its bond buying program. the boj saying it would buy an unlimited number of jjbs at 0.11%. it increased the size of the regular buying of 5 to ten-year jgbs from 50 billion yen to 500 billion yen. the nikkei falling by a third of a percent. the hang seng off by a half percent. the kospi off by a third of a percent. we are seeing more of a generally negative picture on the european side of things. trading is still going on there. if you look at the markets overall, we're pretty much negative across the board. fractional losses. the dax off by 0.2%. the cac in france, half a percent. the ibex 35 in spain off by a half percent sterling hitting a session low on weak uk output and trade data the european trade of things, the euro just losing ground marginally against the dollar. the pound, 1.2916. dollar strength across th

president trump meeting with russian president vladimir putin at the g-20 in hamburg, germany i'm eamon javersthere live where once again, eamon, are you tweeting some photos of police getting into various positions as we approach the dinner hour. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, carl it got a little hairy outside and we move inside here at media hotel. protesters outside vandalizing things, breaking windows, spray painting a large group of police and protesters just moved into the area, so we've sort of retreated here into the interior part of the hotel but we just saw the video that the world was waiting for here in terms of vladimir putin meeting with president donald trump moments ago here in germany. i want to play you the key sound bite that a lot of people are going to be paying attention to in the hours and days to come, analyzing this to see if we can make anything about the relationship about the two men out of this sound bite take a listen. >> president putin and i have been discussing various things, and i think it's going very well we've had some very, very good talks. we're going

stay dry eamon javers in stormy d.c what is the likelihood of a budget getting passed and tax cuts >>m anybody cares. we've had karen started off the show -- >> what asset class you look at. bond market, you look at the dollar, gold they seem to care equities seem to care. >> there's a lot of inflation expectation and other markets you talked about as far as the equity markets they care more aboutlack of deregulation versus anything new that's coming on the docket. so i think that's a win for bulls. how it ultimately winds up >> i actually believe that this rally, the expectation of the agenda getting done has gone down every single day with good reason so we've seen the republicans are really willing to go to -- they are willing to drive off the cliff. you have such a diverse thoughts among the conservatives and the middle of the road republicans i am very skeptical we'll get any kind of meaningful tax deal done i don't think the market has much priced in for it. if we get anything it's a positive >> i don't think the equity markets are pricing anything but the much bigger markets th

eamon javers has our report tonight. >> it was the most highly anticipated meeting of the g-20. president trump and president putin addressed reporters before their closed door cop vnversati. >> that's a ve good talk. we'll have a talk now and obviously, that will continue. i look forward to a lot of very positive things happening. russia an the united states. and for everybody and it's an honor to be with you. >> in an off camera briefing following the more than two hour meeting, secretary of ste rex tillerson said the conversation was constructive. >> we're unhappy, they're unhappy. i think the perspective of both of them was this is a really important relationship. two largest nuclear powers in the world. it's a really important relationship. how do we start make iing this work? how doe live with one another, work with one another, we simply have to find a way to go forward. >> the u.s. russia and jordan agreed to ba fir in southwest earn syria, a topic tillerson said the two spent a substantial amount of time on. they also discussed north korea, how to address cyber threats

at one moment earlier, but you can see has rallied back sitting at 21,541 let's go back to our eamon javers who is in washington, d.c., standing by. we were wondering what the president's reaction is to the failure of the republican health care plan is going to be i expect that we would hear that in a matter of moments >> yeah, that's right, scott the president didn't have any on-camera events planned scheduled today, but in the wake of this obamacare news today, they've added an event we are told that that event is wrapping up. the president did speak to cameras. he did talk about the failure of his health care effort up on capitol hill and we are told the president said i think we are probably in that position where we'll let obamacare fail we're not going to own it. i'm not going to own it. i can tell you the republicans are not going to own it. we'll let obamacare fail and then the democrats are going to come to us so that's the president's take on where the party is and on where this white house is right now in terms of health care reform he's saying they're simply going to bide their

and let's go back to eamon javers at the white house. i understand correctly that there will not be enough votes for a straight repeal of obamacare either >> reporter: that's right, tyler. that didn't each survive until the senate went into its lunches today so the question is where do they go from here the president venting some frustration here at the white house just within the past couple of minutes, calling reporters into an event where they weren't originally supposed to have reporter says so he could answer questions about this obamacare repeal and replace failure today. the president saying ultimately, he's been hearing complaints about obamacare for seven years seeming perplexed as to why republicans can't pass this bill up on capitol hill saying that he is standing in the oval office ready to sign it and he's got his pen out and ready to go and republicans simply won't send him the bill and here's what the president said moments ago at the white house >> i am certainly disappointed for seven years, i've been hearing repeal and

our eamon javers is there and has the highlight from both discussions. eamon? >> reporter: yeah, hi, sara, you're absolutely right on both topics secretary of state rex tillerson gave a briefing to reporters after the meeting between trump and putin in which he laid out some of the items that were discussed. he said that president trump brought up the issue of russian interference in the 2016 u.s. election as one of the first agenda items here's how he explained in the off-camera briefing how that conversation unfolded. >> they had a very robust and lengthy exchange on the subject. the president pressed president putin on more than one occasion regarding russian involvement. president putin denied such involvement, as i think he has in the past. the two leaders agreed though that this is a substantial hindrance, and the ability of us to move the russian-u.s. relationship forward and agreed to exchange further work regarding commitments of non-interference. >> reporter: so commitments of non-interference is something that the two sides will discuss going forward

eamon javers joins us now from hamburg, germany good morning >> reporter: good morning.he president is in poland this morning where he's just wrapping up, as you say, a press conference here with the polish president, duda. the president on international soil criticizing american media and american intelligence agencies, but also saying that the united states is preparing to work with poland to confront russian destaebilization of that region here's what the president said a few moments ago. >> we're working with poland in response to russia's actions and destabilizing behavior >> the president on his way to hamburg, germany where i am right now he'll be here for the g20 starting tomorrow. a lot of anticipation about the president's various international meetings here tomorrow including with president xi jinping of china and with president vladimir putin of russia. it's unknown what the president will say in that meeting with vladimir putin here in hamburg tomorrow white house aides not saying that there's anything specific on the agenda. so a lot of questions about exac

eamon javers joins us with the latest. >> reporter: hi, kelly they wrapped up the news conference a little while ago. a joint newser with the two president and president trump was asked about his domestic political trouble in terms of the russia story and talked about the moment when his son donald trump jr. took that meeting with a russian attorney who was advertised as having some information on hillary clinton coming from the russian government the president said this is simply politics as usual here's how he described it >> i've had many people call up, oh, gee, we have information on this factor or this person or frankly hillary. that's very standard in politics politics is not the noisest business in the world, but it's very standard where they have information and you take the information. >> reporter: kelly, i can tell you won't find too many people on the republican side or democratic side who say it's very standard in politics to take information that's advertised as coming from the russian government in the course of ordinary politics here in the united states. also the white ho

eamon javers three meetings now is that what we're up to >> yeah.e know there was the encounter that went long at the g20. then there was this one. there was an initial handshake meeting. so that's three encounters at the g20 that we know of. >> that different than the meeting i heard ian bremer talking about? >> this is the one the second one at the dinner that was by bremer's account, an expert on international affairs and involved in think tanks, reported this yesterday for the first time putin and rose had this nearly hour-long encounter as he describes it the white house not giving us an indication of how many minutes it was there is no official u.s. government readout of this normally if there's a pull-aside at the g20 or a formal encounter, we will get something from the state department about why they were pulled aside, what the objective was. in this case we don't have any of that. >> okay. eamon javers, great to see you >> you bet >>> coming up, housingings repo market agenda and united airlines posted an airlines beat but there's a warnin

that it appears their latest effort has fallen short >> eamon, we'll watch for more developments eamon javers on the north lawn of the white house for us, as usual. >>> here's what else is coming up on the halftime report -- >> announcer: next up -- new insight on the next iphone will it be on time what's the cost? will there be enough to meet demand and what's it all mean for the stock? >>> plus, battleground stock chipotle another slate of analysts disagreeinonhe ts ock g wrehist is going one upgrade and two downgrades today. we'll debate it coming up on the halftime report. >>> we're back on "the halftime report." chipotle still under pressure today from headlines that diners became ill at a virginia restaurant wall street remains divided on the stock. three calls on battleground stock today. bmo downgrades it to market perform. wells cutting the stock to market perform weis, you sold your puts >> i did sell my puts. i bought them last week. it's been a great trade. got very lucky even though some people who were hugging the porcelain god in virginia didn't get as lucky here is how i think

. >>> we do have some news this morning concerning some business in the white house our eamon javersovering that. >> i want to give you a flavor of what's going on here at the white house. it is a very unsettled moment right now. there have been these reports that anthony scaramucci, the wall street financier, would be brought in as the communications director here at the white house. two sources are telling nbc that that is, in fact, a done deal. however, scaramucci himself just passed an nbc reporter in the west wing and shrugged his shoulders when asked if he was coming onboard as the communications director here there's a lot of uncertainty the white house is not officially confirming this news just yet in fact, i can tell you that abc news reporter jonathan carl just went in to talk to sean spicer and says that spicer slammed the door in his face so there might be some tension behind the scenes about this appointment. we know there are others in the white house who are resisting the anthony scaramucci appointment, partly because scaramucci would be an independent power base here

there will be a briefing this afternoon at 2:00 p.m i think on camera, with sarah huckabee sanders eamon javersng his way become to camera position on the north lawn reporters still trying to work the story. what do we know, eamon >> reporter: just got an e-mail from a source who is close to the press administration, press operation here in this white house. i want to read you this e-mail, because it gives me an indication that this is happening with some resistance from people close to spicer, if not to spicer himself. that might be the explanation for this moment of uncertainty we are seeing here at the white house, where we just haven't had an official statement yet. normally you would have an official statement, the lines of demarcation would be clear that's not at all happening right now. this source close to the white house press operation e-mailing me moments ago saying this is a joke trump wanted scaramucci on television as a surrogate for the white house and wanted to give him more of a formal title. there was simply no understanding by the president that the communications director ti

even after the fact, my colleague from cnbc eamon javers said to him, how did it feel to be on the podium for first time -- >> let me guess, i loved it. >> well, yeah, not too far off. much the same way that president trump mights than question. scaramucci told him, i have to decide if it's julie roberts or sofia vergara play me in the movie. you can see when scaramucci left the podium plowing a kiss he's -- blowing a kiss up there he's comfortable up there. i would not be surprised if you see scaramucci on tv a lot more often. the president has said privately -- he would watch spicer conduct those briefings in this room and sean for months did his best because he effectively be graded when he went back upstairs. you saw the notes passed to sean, hey, you're getting the hook and they would end it. with scaramucci he gets someone who's a lot more i think in his eyes like himself. he gets the opportunity to reboot things and frankly at the end of the chaotic six months i think he gets someone that he thinks can help sort of smooth or calm the waters at least for the near term going forward.

last year and was the subject of the e-mails that were released yesterday eamon javers joins us now withe good morning >> good morning, michelle. here's the e-mail exchange with donald trump jr. that is at the sent of today's controversy. this is an e-mail that trump jr. received last year early in the summer, as the campaign was heating up for the presidency. he received an e-mail from a publicist who was working on behalf of russian interests. the publicist writing to donald trump jr., this is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump, helped along by aras and emin what the publicist was offering was information about the hillary clinton campaign that he said was being proffered by the russian government and through intermediaries, aras and emina russian ol gork and his son who is a russian pop star. donald trump jr. receives that e-mail, he has a chance to think about it and here's how he responds he says it seems we have some time and if it's what you say, i love it, especially later in the summer last night d

eamon javers is at the white house. eamon. >> reporter: that's right. i can tell you that we know some of what he has said to these republican senators. he's gathering them here to talk about ways forward on the obamacare repeal and replace effort which was all but dead earlier this week. today the president says he wants to continue to push forward. he says ultimately that we have no choice. we have to repeal and replace obamacare. the best option is repeal and replace even though the president suggested early that maybe the best option was to repeal obamacare and wait to replace it until sometime in the indefinite future. today, the president saying that obamacare was a big lie. it was a lie directly from the president. that was from president obama. he also says that he thinks the senators should stay in town until they have the opportunity to pass this he said the democrats are not going to help them they're obstructionists, they have no ideas and they want single-payer health care which is going to bankrupt the country. real tension was expected in

eamon javers is live in hamburg with the very latest >> reporter: that meeting with vladimir putin will come tomorrow here in hamburg but today president trump has landed in air force one and just met with angela merkel, the chancellor here in germany that meeting so much anticipation for it given the fact that there was this little diplomatic snafu between two leaders in washington, d.c. where angela merkel went in for a hand shake, donald trump didn't see it or acknowledge it, didn't look at her today we got a hand shake between the two leaders. take a look at some pictures that just came in, the two leaders meeting here in hamburg. we got the hand shake, a direct look between two leaders that's also being commented on here in the press. earlier today we saw this fascinating moment in warsaw where the president was with the president of poland. there a much warmer reception from the leader in poland and also from crowds in the streets there. the president making comments about lng, energy exchanges between two countries, military exchanges between two countries. he praised the fact th

. >>> fbi director nominee christopher wray senate hearing is happening today eamon javers is watchingf that for us. eamon? >> reporter: yes, melissa. wray was asked at one point what he would do if the president asked him to do something that was illegal or unethical here's what he said. >> first, i would try to talk him out of it and if that failed, i would resign there isn't a person on this planet whose lobbying or influence could convince me to just drop or abandon a properly predicated and meritorious investigation. >> reporter: the president has been tweeting today as well. he said, "my son donald did a good job last night. he was open, transparent and innocent this is the greatest witch-hunt in political history." but his own nominee for fbi director didn't exactly agree with that technology using the phrase witch-hunt. he was asked about it and here's what he said on the hill. >> i'm asking you, as the future fbi director, do you consider this endeavor a witch-hunt >> i do not consider director mueller to be on a witch-hunt. >> reporter: so a bit of an endorsement from wrichri

eamon javers is covering it all for us eamon? >> reporter: it's made in america week here at the white house. the president is focused on another issue. that is attacking his attorney general jeff sessions who he says in an interview with "the new york times" yesterday he regrets hiring because of the attorney general's decision to recuse himself from the russia investigation. here's how the president put it to "the new york times" in an interview that took place yesterday afternoon. >> sessions should have never recused himself and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and i would have picked somebody else >> reporter: that's tough criticism from the president of the united states to an attorney general. some experts in town say they've never seen anything like that between a president and attorney general. that set up a drama-filled press conference at the department of justice at 10:00 eastern time this morning, which sessions was scheduled to give on an entirely different subject but

presidential palace in paris for their upcoming news conference and bilateral to set us up for that, eamon javerse can expect good morning, eamon. >> dpoorgood morning, carl we just saw a few moments ago a warm hand shake between the two presidents at the elysee palace. they've been moving around downtown paris a little bit today. a little while ago. doing touring while he's in town now down to the serious business they're going to have that bilateral meeting. they're going to have a two and, two a press conference where they take two questions from the domestic press, two questions from the foreign press we'll see who the president calls on there you would imagine that most of the mainstream reporters will want to ask about russia, the donald trump jr. e-mails and all of that. the white house might seem -- see fit to call in reporters that might not ask about that. that is all very carefully stage-managed. so we'll watch to see how receptive they are to a question on that topic. obviously, the two presidents today dealing with issues of syria and terrorism, international cooperation. so a lot on

. >> thank you very much eamon javers at the white house, and we thank you for watching "power lunch." >> yeah. "closing bell" starts right now. thanks so much for joining us. >> see you tomorrow. >> hi, everybody welcome to "closing bell." i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange. >> and i'm bill griffeth big news out of washington as you've probably heard by now health insurers today, as a plan to vote for a repeal of obamacare without a replacement is also losing support the latest details coming up in a few minutes. >> those names are in the red. biotech companies jumping after its new breast cancer drug was approved by the fda. more on this breakthrough with puma shares up 8%. >> that's a great story. >>> plus, new problems for chipotle today it's a new problem but it's an old problem. the stock sinking on news a restaurant in virginia closed after a number of customers became severely ill after eating there. we'll tell you where it is i guess i just did, and how chipotle is handling that issue coming up. let's start with the financials weighing on the dow. goldman sachs th

eamon javers has more on this breaking story >> reporter: the question at the top of that press briefing at the top of 2:00 p.m. here in washington, d.c. is going to be is sean spicer's departure from this white house the end of it or are we witnessing the beginning of a larger purge of trump administration staffers. there are a number of staffers inside this administration who are very close to sean spicer. we will see if anybody else departs throughout the course of this afternoon we are waiting for sarah huckabee sanders, deputy press secretary, who with sean spicer's departure would presumably be in line for the number one slot, most visible slot in the press office here at the white house to brief reporters. that we are told will be on camera which is rare recently, and we are expecting we will get some answers to what exactly anthony scaramucci's job at this white house will be. we are told that it is communications director. that is traditionally an off-camera job that oversees the press secretary and the overall press operation in order to keep communications flowing from the whi

eamon javers joins us with more on the bill, and the timing of everything eamon?yeah, good morning, andrew. the timing of everything, as you say, is unclear due to that surgery for john mccain over the weekend. he had a blood clot removed from above his left eye not exactly clear when he'll be able to be back in business. and because the margin is so tight, republican leadership has postponed the vote for now more or less indefinitely until they can get a full complement of senators in there to vote they have two senators on the republican side who've indicated they're opposed to the bill because they have 52 senators overall. that doesn't leave them any margin for error at all. here's how susan collins describes the handicapping here. she's one of the senators who opposes the bill she said ultimately it's going to be a very, very tight squeeze. >> they have eight to ten republican senators who have serious concerns about this bill and so at the end of the day, i don't know whether we'll pass. >> meanwhile the president tweeting some grievances about media coverag

eamon javers is there in germany. he has more on all of this good morning >> good morning, becky so much attention and speculation about that trump/putin meeting later on today. the president did wake up this morning in hamburg and began tweeding i'll read you another tweed tt s morning. he's been saying i wil represent our country well and fight for its interests. fake news media will never cover me accurately but who cares, we will make america great again. we have seen all of the world leaders here gathered at the g20 getting together we saw vladimir putin and president trump in the same room together along with all of the rest of the leaders. we saw ang pela merkel greeting the world leaders as they walk into the venue this morning. so we are officially underway here in hamburg for the g20. the event so far has been marred by protests. we saw the so-called welcome to hell protests yesterday here in hamburg. the epicenter of that was all here where i'm standing near the waterfront near where the media hotels are ul

eamon javers joins us with more on this. good morning >> good morning. this is an astonishing interview the president gave to the "new york times." in it he talks about jeff sessions who he says gave bad answers in his confirmation hearings on whether or not he met with the russians, when he met with the ambassador to russia a number of times the president venting his frustration. here is how he put it yesterday. >> sessions should have never recused himself. if he would, he should have told me before he took the job, i would have picked somebody else. >> the president saying she have told him before that he would be recusing himself and then he would have picked somebody else. the president also talked about com comey, the fbi director at the time, the meeting they had he said he felt comey brought up the dirty dossier inappropriately, and that it was done so that he would think -- sorry, he said in my opinion he shared it so i think he would have it out there. so he thinks comey used it as leverage against the president of the united states he also sai

thank you, eamon javers.his is happening while you're over there i was disturbed that congressman scalise has been readmitted to an intensive care unit he was shot and wounded during a baseball practice last month he had been improving following surgeries, but now they're worried about infection. surgeries were to repair i term organs, broken bones, but the d.c. hospital downgraded his condition to -- from fair to serious, back in intensive care on concerns about an infection another update is scheduled for later today. we wish him well that's always what you worry about. i think there's fragments left i don't know how many different fragments they talked about they were looking for >> any time you get surgery and you're opened up like that >> it's all over, too, the bullet shattered >> hopefully he can speed along that recovery. >> yeah. hopefully we can get good news today. >>> breaking early tomorrow, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit western montanmontana, strike fe miles southeast of lincoln tremors could b

eamon javers joins us now with more on this story it is a name we know >> that's right.nthony scaramucciy as midmorning the expectation is that scaramucci, well known figure on wall street, will now be going into the administration as the white house communications director anthony scaramucci not a political veteran or communications veteran but has a lot of qualities that the president would like, including a track record of business success, he's smart, aggressive. all of those things appealing to donald trump unclear what that means for sean spicer, the current white house press secretary, whether scaramucci would want to bring in his own staff of political experts and push out some existing staff my sense is we could know that by midmorning this morning another group of turnovers to tell you about on the president's legal time there are reports that the president's attorney has been pushed out of his political -- his personal he'll realm also the spokesperson for the president's legal team announcing his resignation early this morning not clear what that is about we'

pledged more cooperation over north korea >>> and lot of buzz about president trump's twitter feed eamon javers joining us from washington aren't you and everyone down there jonesing forrussia isn't this a diversion >> i asked kellyanne conway last week about list tweeting habits and she said the media would be talking about russia anyway, so we would rather have them talk about the joe and mika >> there you go. >> to him, they are taking a negative story of russia out of headlines and replacing it with a negative story about the president mebeating up on the media which is more popular with his base so might be a method to the madness. >> i got back, i looked at the "wall street journal," i don't see any tweet stuff here when worldwide wrestling. i even looked at the "new york times" and i see something about about michael kohn, but i don't see anything about the tweets. is it important? >> it is important, yeah >> the tweets are? >> yeah, i think so. i mean this is what the president wants to talk about at least a good percentage of the time >> doesn't take long for 140 characters he probably

let's get to eamon javers who has the latest on the trip >> reporter: good morning. the president is there for bastille day the actual parade is still going on right now in paris. they are having an elaborate reception for the president. you can see the military bands there playing, all of the full pomp and circumstance here laid out for the president of the united states on his visit with emmanuel macron in france. yesterday the two leaders had a news conference and talked about a whole range of issues, including the idea of what happened involving russia. here's what the president said yesterday in terms of don trump jr.'s meeting with a russian attorney who was proffering allegedly information that would help the trump campaign. the president portrayed that as business as usual. >> i've had many people call up, oh, gee, we have information on this factor or this person or frankly hillary. that is very standard this politics politics is not the nicest business in the world, but it's very standard where they have information and you take the information. >> reporter