eamon javers is at the white house and kayla tausche is in virginia eamon, you first. >> the president did what he was criticized three days ago for not doing on saturday. specifically naming the kkk and neo-nazis as the problem over the weekend in charlottesville here's what the president said in a hastily scheduled set of remarks from the white house. >> racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. we are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal. >> reporter: the president's comments today came after ken frazier, ceo of merck, resigned from the white house council

we're looking to get more detail and for that, we go to eamon javers in washington eamon? >> reporter: yeah, hi, melissa these reports crossed the wires a little bit after the top of the hour litt little bit after 5:00 p.m. eastern time here at the white house. we're still waiting for an official response from the white house. you can imagine that this has triggered an enormous set of steps inside the u.s. government and over at the pentagon in terms of verifying the trajectory of this missile, where did to go, where did it splash down, what was the intent, what other activity are the north koreans engaged in right now or contemplating righ now? then a series of decisions about how exactly to respond to this clearly, a potentially provocative act by the north korean government. we'll wait for the official u.s. response, also the japanese and south korean response as well in the coming minutes and hours >> all right, eamon, thanks for that keep us posted here. >>> in terms of other after hours action movers, we of course look at the currency market, the very liquid market t

we want to go to eamon javers who covers the white house this is a very interesting visit for the president given what has happened in the past 24 hours with the north korea missile strike. >> that's right. there's a lot going on for donald trump to deal with simultaneously and this is the first time that we've seen the president in the role of healer in chief, consoler in chief, a role that past presidents have played time and time again for donald trump this is new territory, although he's done similar trips on the campaign trail we just saw the president and first lady walking down the stairs there the president wearing a hat that says "usa" on it and the first lady wearing a hat that says "flotus" which means first lady of the united states what a difference these images are from the ones we've seen of the rainfall and tragedy

for "nightly business report", i'm eamon javers at the white house. >>> still ahead, looking for stocks that could double their dividend. our market monitor has some recommenda >>> the white house has ordered rou of economic sanctions orne venezuela. the order bars u.s. citizens and banks from buying new bonds from the venezuelan gov hits state oil company. they come as the trump administration steps up criticism of venezuela's pres >> let me be clear. today's action is focused on restricting the regime's access to american debt and equity markets. he may no longer take advantage of the american financial system to facilitate the whole sasale looting at the expense of the people. >> at confer the secretary commented ton debt ceiling. he said it will be raised in september and that after talks .ith congressional leade the de facto chief of samsung and other corruption charges. chair was sentenced tosam five years in prison. that was less than the 12 years that prosecutors thought. his attorneys plan to appeal and it is unclear who will lead samsung if he is in prison. they account for ab

eamon javers is following thissyout i'd trump tower in new york city. >> reporter: after the fireworks yesterday, this morning began very calmly. we saw a few members of the trump family coming in and out, but no high-rankings members of the administration were spotted here at trump tower. then in the early afternoon, the first hint of what would become a deluge, the ceo of 3m saying he was in fact leaving the advisory council. after that we got word of a conference call of elite ceos led by steven schwartzman. once that conference call got under way, we learned in fact they had decided to disband that council. moments later, we saw a tweet from the president of the united states, saying rather than putting pressure on the business people of the manufacturing council and strategic and policy forum, i am ending both. thank you all. the president there insinuating it was his decision to end both of these councils, though we had had reporting that the ceos made the decision themselves before the president's tweet. throughout the afternoon we got additional statements from members of all o

eamon javers all right. let's trade this, guys i mean, is there a way to trade this >> i know.ht specifically, no,s w the way to trade this, though, since president-elect trump went after lockheed martin for the f-35 cost overruns, what have you, is to be in the defense sector. regardless of whether or not he talks about defense, increased defense spending, defense stocks specifically lockheed martin is where you want to be. >> it's interesting, guy has been totally right on these names and to me, those valuations, again, defy gravity. i mean, you're out of place here boeing on top of all them, which has really been a cash flow machine over the last couple quarters i think that the trades really are strangely enough in infrastructure, where i don't think we get a whole lot done. i think you've got a lot of just global cyclicality behind all this we've seen what's gone on with copper, seen what's gone on with the housing industry, and by the way, great to see ceos emboldened again the question, it seems like they don't have -- they sound like their confidence is somewhere where

eamon javers has more on the fallout. good morning >> reporter: good morning.e're here in bridgewater, new jersey, a couple miles away from the trump golf course in bedminster, new jersey where the president will wake up this morning in the wake of that dramatic and historic day. we saw the conference call among the elite business ceo group advising the president yesterday afternoon in which they decided the council could not continue because of all the defections from ceos who wanted to distance themselves from the president. after that conference call was complete, the president issuing this tweet saying it was his decision to close the council saying rather than putting pressure on the business people of the manufacturing council and strategy and policy forum i'm ending both. thank you all. after that, a deluge of statements from america's most powerful ceos. to give you a sense of some of the language, here's some of the snippets aetna's ceo said i'm ashamed of our president's behavior and comments jamie dimon saying i strongly disagree with president trump

eamon javers has the details. >> reporter: secret service officials said today more than 1,100 secretervice officers will work more overtime in 2017 than they are allotted under the . that means they're going to need a fix on capitol hill in order to change the law and pay overtime to the secret service officers. in statement today, the secret service initially said this, "the issue is not one that can be attributed to the current administration's protection requirements, but rather has been an ongoing issue for nearly a decade due to an overall increase in operational tempo." then they changed the statement adding one single word that seems to indicate the secret service believes that donald trump and his family require a whole lot of secret service protection due to all of their travel. they say "the issue is not one that can be attributed to the current administration's protection requirements, alone, but rather has been an ongoing issue for nearly a decade." in either case, bipartisan group of legislators on capitol hill today said they expect a legislative fix to come soon. so at

true bertha, thank you. >> uncertainty over the future of gary cohn weighing on stocks big time eamon javers eamon? >> reporter: president trump coming under some of the toughest criticism from an ally on capitol hill, coming from tennessee republican senator bob coaching who had this to say earlier this afternoon >> the president has not yet -- has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful, and we need for him to be successful our nation needs for him to be successful >> reporter: kelly, it's not often that you hear a member of the president's own party questioning his stability or competence so that is tough language from bob cork ker on capitol hill today meanwhile you're talking about all the speculation about gary cohn the white house felt like it buttoned this up this morning when they issued a statement just after 1 is being this morning. i'll give you a sense what have they had to say. they said nothing has changed. gary is focused on his responsibilities as national security council director and a

onlion javers eamon javers is standing by. >> reporter: should see that live on camera in a couple of moments. the president will sign a document which directs the u.s. trade representative to determine whether or not to investigate any china laws or policies that may be unreasonable or discriminatory related to intellectual property and technology transfer, so that's the official designation here of what the president is doing. obviously the symbolism here in terms of the relationship with china is so very important officials here at the white house though saying this is totally unrelated to the north korea talks that are going on simultaneously that the chinese are so important on, and they are also saying with this memo hand what the president is doing here is standing up for american companies and workers, and speaking of american companies, we saw this flare-up of tensions earlier today between the ceo of merck and the president of the united states in response to how the president handled the racist violence we saw in charlottesville, virginia over the weekend. the ceo of merck

and bringing jobs back and lower prices merck had no comment we have more on this from eamon javers coming up later >>> in terms of the political uproar, perhaps, i get that people are still angry that president trump took too long to come out and call it what it is and criticize racism as evil yesterday, but the uproar should be less today than yesterday given that he did come out and make that additional statement lots of criticism out there. you can still net-net be disappointed >> it took him 50 minutes to criticize one of the most high profile african-americans in this country and two days to criticize the kkk. >> i'm aware, but net-net everybody can still make their criticism. but today he has come out and done what people asked of him. >> he tried to quiet it. >> that's fine you can question that, and try if you're a psychoanalyst look at the tone in which he delivered that net-net, things have changed from yesterday >>> north korea is backing off threats of firing missiles into the u.s. territory of guam kim jong-un says he is holding off while he waits to see what the u.s. does ne

eamon javers in bedminster now all of this comes amid soft earnings a terrorist attack in barcelona. how much worse does it get guy, do you want to tackle that question >> so the july low in the s&p just for framework i think 2410 or so. so that is something that you have to look at in terms of where we close for the month of august which quite frankly is coming to a close pretty quickly. how do i want to tackle it every soft of this magnitude the last six or even years and every time somebody said it's different this time, me being one of those voices, has broochb proven to be incorrect so i'm hard pressed to believe it will be any different this time around. clearly there are things going on in the walls of the white house right now that i guess none of us can get our arms around but that being said, were earnings that bad, have they been any different than we've seen so to blame it on earnings i think is incorrect obviously what happened in barcelona today tragic didn't help and obviously the bob corker comments are damning in a word but you have to wonder if gary cohn hasn't left

markets falling as president trump talks about the possibilities of a government shutdown our eamon javers is live in washington eamon, what a difference a couple of days make. >> reporter: that's absolutely right, scott i think what's going onhere, you guys are the market experts up there, but i think the market is reacting in different ways and different days to sort of these two simultaneous inputs that we're getting at the same time and we've been getting at the same time throughout the year. here's what i mean by that so, monday night, the president had a relatively establishment-style event at ft. meyer, virginia, talked about afghanistan strategy, stayed on prompter, stayed on mentssage. and tuesday morning, we had this headline that the markets seemed to latch on to in politico suggesting that there had been some agreements possibly made between white house staff and people on capitol hill about tax reform and last night we had the president off prompter, off message in some ways, very fiery rhetoric in phoenix, arizona and today suggesting he might want a government shutdown in te

eamon javers joins us now with more >> reporter: white house official told me yesterday that the whiteouse does not intend to put out its own tax plan as many people had expected they'll let congress take the lead on releasing the details of the plan here's what the white house official told me yesterday the congressional committees will take the lead on this that would be most likely the house weighs and means committee that would put out the first detail there. they said passing the bill is more important than what the details are of the bill. also they said they're now intentionally using the phrase tax relief rather than tax reform to garner support for this bill. you heard sarah huckabee sanders yesterday at the white house press briefing asked about tax reform she gave an answer about tax relief some interesting messaging choices there and tactical choices. the white house was criticized during the obama care repeal and replace effort for not putting out their own bill and letting congress take the lead on that that effort was not successful earlier this year. we'll see if this c

go to eamon javers. >> good morning. the president in response to the violence and racism in charlottesville, the president stepping out and saying that ultimately there was blame to be placed on both sides of the political debate here's what the president said saturday that came under such criticism. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides. it's been going on for a long time in our country. not donald trump, not barack obama, this has been going on for a long, long time. >> republicans and democrats criticized the president for that comment, failing to single out the white nationalists and neonazis responsible for the gathering and suggesting the violence was on many sides, and blame therefore was on many sides as well. the white house after that criticism put out a statement from unnamed spokesperson. here's the statement if you can put it on the screen in which they said the president said very strongly in his statement yesterday

delay the response to deescalate the response for the moment and not leap in with more rhetoric >> eamon javers, thank you here is what we know at this hour >>> harvey is now a tropical storm with stained winds of 45 miles an hour. flash flood warnings remain in effect some 300,000 people are without power in texas president trump headed to the region to survey damage. we will have full coverage throughout the day brian sullivan standing by in galveston, texas let's begin with contessa brewer, live in houston. >> reporter: i have some startling new information, will ford i'm at the convention center where many evacuees are being brought. they were prepared to house 5,000 inside inside, there are 9021 residents sheltering in the convention center nearly double what they were prepared to handle yesterday the new numbers on rescues more than 12,000 people have been rescued, many of them by high water vehicles. the national guard las come has. we know that neighbors have been helping other neighbors get out on jet skis or air mattresses. the rescues are astonishing. they have to house these people

bobpisani is at the new york stock exchange, but first to eamon javers in bedminster, new jersey >> hi, brian so much focus today and financial markets on the fate of gary cohn, the national economic council director at the white house. would he stay or depart in the wake of the president's angry press conference on tuesday regarding charlottesville and that racist violence today it's thursday morning and the white house has put out a couple of statements let me walk you through what the white house has said about this. the first statement smaild e-ma me at about 11:07 this morning gary plans to remain in his position as nec director at the white house. nothing's changed. but a few minutes later, the white house sent a statement to the white house press pool that removed that "intends to stay" language from the initial statement, updating the statement to say, "nothing has changed. gary is focused on his responsibilities as nec director and any reports to the contrary are 100% false." so a lot of folks immediately jumped on the idea that they had removed that phrase "intends to stay" f

eamon javers is live in washington with more good morning >> reporter: good morning.he president spoke at ft. myer, virginia he laid out a stlrategy for the 16-year long war he said americans are frustrated with a lack of victory but laid out a new vision of what the war should look like going forward the president said initially he was going back on political instincts this is a president who campaigned as more of an isolationist, he said during the campaign he would like to withdraw from afghanistan. last night he acknowledged he's changing course. >> my original instinct was to pull out historically i like following my instincts. all my life i've heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the oval office. in other words, when you're president of the united states >> the president laid out a detailed series of meetings that he had with senior advisers and pentagon brass over the past several months to develop this strategy he said ultimately what's going to happen is a break with the way his predecessors approached the job. >> as a resul

eamon javers has more. eamon? >> reporter: that's right. we just got pictures of the president's arrival in austin, texas, on his way to a state facility there he's going to the texas department of emergency operation center so we'll see him meeting withing officials in texas. there you see the pictures of the president coming down the air stairs there of air force one along with the first lady. he arrives as we've just gotten some sad news from houston police houston police chief says that an officer's body was recovered tuesday morning. he apparently died when floodwaters overcame his vehicle as he tried to get to his post, so some tragic news there from the houston police the president, we are expecting he'll get a briefing from officials in austin which is well outside of the disaster zone here. remember, with the presidential visit, they are trying to avoid impacting the hardest hit areas with the entire presidential apparatus, the motorcade, security and everything that goes along with the president as he travels but he'll be able to

eamon javers joins us once again now. you're out of washington you're out of the beltway.y let me out every now and then, you know, i get a free pass to come up here and see you guys >> do you still -- is there still an echo chamber up here or mainly something that happens just down there in that press room >> i think it's a different echo chamber. >> it is >> it's a -- >> there's also echoes >> definitely. >> the president's here in this echo chamber today he arrived last night. he tweeted that it was good to be home although he considered the usa his home and said the white house is a special place he was met by protesters here in midtown manhattan last night as he arrived at trump tower. we also saw this unfolding series of events through the day yesterday as a number of ceos decided that they were going to step off of his manufacturing ceo council, as well as other ceos deciding to stay on here are the statements from the two that broke late yesterday. the ceo of under armour saying i'm appreciative of the opportunity to have served but have decided to step down from t

eamon javers joins us from new york this morning.lowing the corporate reaction here, but i think you can't believe out tleave out re some of your fellow reporters, some republicans and the rest of the world. even for president trump thi was a big deal >> it was a dramatic reversal. the president switching back to his rhetoric on saturday after having been forced to come out and issue more moderate statements earlier in the week the president went back to blame on many sides here his comments were nearly universally condemned by republicans and democrats yesterday after a fiery press conference in the lobby of trump tower yesterday. he went into a discussion about who attended the neo-nazi rally. at one point he brought up robert e. lee and george washington appearing to link them in a change of moral responsibility it's not something we have seen from an american president in my lifetime or forever. here's what the president said about george washington and robert e. lee yesterday. >> george washington was a slave owner. was george w

eamon javers is live with the latest >> good morning.ou're right, the president is going to address the nation tonight from ft. myer, virginia. no word on exactly what the new afghanistan strategy is going to be, but it is expected to include more troop commitment in afghanistan. we'll see what the president has to say, that will be at 9:00 p.m. eastern time this evening meanwhile more turmoil carl icahn, the noted investor, quitting a position as special adviser to the president of the united states offering this statement saying, i chose to end this arrangement with your blessing, that is the president's blessing, because i did not want partisan bickering about my role to in any way cloud your administration. that is the statement from carl icahn. but it came just a little while ahead of in new yorker article which raised the question of whether or not carl icahn has been using his special adviser position to the president to in effect line his own pockets. icahn denies any imrow prioriprn steve mnuchin issuing a statement defending po

trump committing to an open-ended conflict in afghanistan during last night's prime time address eamon javers joins us now with more eamon, good morning. >> good morning. the president spoke at ft. myer virginia last night in order to at the nation on the months-long developed plan for the war in afghanistan. the presidenting ing5:presiden s is a change of stance from him he said things look different when you're in the oval office as opposed to running as a candidate. he dismissed the bush era idea of nation building and said the united states is moving away from that. here's what he said. >> we are a partner and a friend, but we will not dictate to the afghan people how to live or govern their own complex society. we are not nation building again. we are killing terrorists. >> reporter: the president putting that simply. he also was opposed, he said, to the obama era or implicitly opposed to the obama era efforts to withdraw from afghanistan and from iraq. saying that the time had come to simply double down on the objective there. here's what he said about withdrawing. >> the vacuum we crea

disbanding his two main councils of corporate leaders we're all over this story, of course tonight eamon javers is in front of trump tower. we'll go to him for the very latest >> reporter: members of the council said they held a phone conversation and decided to disband the council. after that news became public, we saw this tweet, that he indicated it was his decision to disband it, rather than putting pressure on the business people of the manufacturing council and strategy & policy forum, i am ending both. larry summers was on cnbc earlier today. he framed this very much as a moral choice for ceos that they have to make in a historical context. here's what he said. every one of history's evils is aided and abetted by those who maintain the fantasy that by remaining in support, they can somehow be effective it is egoistic delusion to propose that participating in an advisory council that doesn't even meet once a month and when it does meets in a room with 30 or 40 people for an hour or hour and a half gives one substantial purchase or effectiveness over public policy. >> reporter: then after

eamon javers is at trump tower where it all went down he has the latest. >> reporter: we just witnessed here at trump tower was the president making a very dramatic political gamble, gambling that going back to the language of saturday is better for him than sticking on the more conciliatory language from yesterday. saturday he was criticized was by saying that there was violence on many sides seeming to spread moral equivalence to people protesting against nazis and white supremacists along with the nazis and white supremacist s themselves and he he wewent back to that bh sides language today here is the president just moments ago. >> i do think there is blame -- yes, i think there is blame on both sides you look at both sides, i think there is blame on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either. and if you reported it accurately, you would say it >> reporter: the president also conflated george washington and robert e. lee mentioning the father of the country in the same breath as a confederate general and seeming to suggest that there was a l

eamon javers is live at the white house. eamon? >> reporter: scott, that's right. just last night the white house put out a statement just how united president trump and mitch mcconnell were in terms of the republican agenda on capitol hill this morning the president unleashing criticism of mitch mcconnell on twitter and adding to that, the speaker of the house, paul ryan he tweeted that i requested that mitch mcconnell and paul ryan tie it into the popular v.a. bill it is not for easy approval. they didn't do it. now we have a big deal of dems holding them up as usual on debt ceiling approval could have been so easy. the president also tweeting the only problem i have with mitch mcconnell after hearing repeal and replace, that should never have happened. scott, needles to say, those are not the tweets of somebody who feels himself to be united, those are the tweets of somebody who is critical. in mitch mcconnell's statement yesterday he didn't deny "the new york times" reporting from earlier in the week that he said he questions whether or not the president will b

eamon javers, welcome back from your well-deserved vacation, too, by the way. 45 minutes left in the trading session here we'll see. can we make it 11 in the row for the dow? >> one factor that's helping is tech, and you're seeing the nasdaq positive and russell positive and apple hitting an all-time high today. we'll see if those kind of names can take the dow positive and financials are doing well, speaking of the banks. >> disney has been one of the biggest dow lag yards so far this year. coming up, we'll debate whether investors should be betting on the magic kingdom, whether returning to the media giant's stock -- >> the magic can return the stock. >> or something like that. >> the mouse house, i don't know by the way, ceo bob iger will be breaking down those results on a first on cnbc interview before he speaks to analysts on their conference call so stay tuned into coming up. >> first, we've got an exclusive interview with ceo of online retailer wayfair and, of course, the big amazon question, whether that's having an impact. >> hey, we love hearing from you. reach out to the

. >> all right let's bring in eamon javers for his reaction to the press conference right now >> reporter: it's just my question to her. >> if you can hear me, we did catch that question. we will come back to him in a moment as soon as that's clear go ahead, will. >> i was going to say i think it's an interesting dichotomy of the three different tones we we heard over the past couple days, president trump unequivocal of saying he is willing to go to a government shutdown, it's not unequivocal between the president, congressmen and himself. paul ryan, though, gave the opposite tone today. he didn't take the debate when he was asked that question he said we have a great relationship we will definitely pass the debt ceiling. let's get reaction, he is following that press conference with sarah saunders. >> reporter: hi, as you say, we we heard that press conference, one of the things that wall street was looking for here was a sense of whether or not the president is going to push for a clean debt ceiling increase or not a clean debt ceiling increase, meaning, will it be straight forward, inc

national economic director gary cohn responding to calls for his job after events in charlottesville eamon javerss in washington looking at what cohn told the "financial times" in a piece that dropped earlier today >> reporter: this is the first time we've had an opportunity to hear from gary cohn since those events last week today he's kwautd in the "financial times" talking about his own job and his future inside the trump administration and the ross aspects for tax reform on his own gary cohn saying i have come under enormous pressure both to resign and to remain he also says the administration can and must do better on this issue. and he says i am reluctant to leave my post. on tax reform itself specifically gary cohn is say three big deductions will be protected. charitable, mortgage and retirement savings eenvisions imposing a one time repatriation tax on offshore revenue from companies no indication of what that tax rate would be. he said that the hill will decide which corporate tax deductions will stay and which will go and they are no longer discussing the border adjustment tax. the adm

threats to the united states they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen >> eamon javers live in washington with the latest so have you managed to figure out what that means, fire and fury and what kind of strategy is behind it >> well, that is tough rhetoric from the president of the united states, not the type of rhetoric that we've heard presidents use in the past and that is what is at trasktingtracting a lot of a. is he trying to deliberately match some of the north korean style receipt tore tlak we've seen come out of that country. what we know is that the president's comments yesterday came after reports in the "washington post" and then later confirmed by nbc news that the north koreans had managed a nuclear feat in terms oftheir technology here's what we know about the technology that the north koreans have now they have managed to miniaturize a nuclear weapon that is small enough to fit on a missile but it didn't mean that they have a nuclear icbm. it means that they have the technology to make a bomb small enough to put on an icbm and they have achieved that mi

let's get to eamon javers.rity threat, hoping the government doesn't have to shut down over his wall, to confusing a finnish reporter and learning there are a lot of blo blonde women in finland. >> reporter: we heard a lot at the press conference, sarah. as the president was leaving, a reporter shouted out, do you still have confidence in your secretary of state rex tillerson? the president at that moment was standi ining eight feet from re tillerson in the front row here, president did not respond to the question which was prompted by tillerson's moment over the weekend on national television, he was asked about american's values and the president's values tillerson said simply the president speaks for himself, viewed widely as an implicit criticism of the president, himself. the president not taking the bait in terms of that question this time, not responding in any way just now you heard a range of those other answers as you were discussing including the relationship with russia, saying many nations are a se

eamon javers just left that fractious press conference eamon, what did you make of everything that justrter: kelly, i don't think we can overstate the political significance of what we just witnessed here at trump tower. let me reset the scene for where we were this afternoon going into today's press conference. this was a moment when the president had been criticized for being tepid in his response to what nationalists and neo-nazis rioting in charlottesville virginia mainstream business leaders, some of them, were beginning to step away and distance themselves from the president. the ceo of walmart felt compelled to issue a statement criticizing the president. united states, something i don't think we've ever seen before, criticizing him specifically by name for the way he handled this situation. that's where he was going in, and then we had this press conference where the president exhibited emotion, anger, frustration, took question after question on this issue and what he did today was double or triple down on his national statement of saturday backing more of the more conciliatory

let's get more on the breaking news out of washington our reporter standing by right now, eamon javers has been in bridgewater, new jersey, and has the latest developments on steve bannon's exit. ylan mui reporting on the potential impact on the economy. and bob pisani watching the market reaction on the floor of the new york stock exchange. eamon, let's start it off with you. >> reporter: here's the official statement as it came through from the white house earlier today, saying that steve bannon, was, in fact out the white house saying white house chief of staff, john kelly and steve bannon have mutually agreed today would be steve's last day we are grateful for his service and we wish him the best this continues what has been a tumultuous year for white house staffers and high-level officials, both low-level folks and high-level folks in this white house have been booted out during the course of the year. take a listen to this sound bite from steve bannon, earlier this area, talking about the white house team, and listen for all the names he mentions here of people who have since de

eamon javers joins us with what this all means eamon, good morning again. >> good morning, becky thatthe president coming just within the past few moments. it's more provocative language now today regarding america's nuclear arsenal. we also saw the secretary of state as you mentioned touch down in guam this morning on a flight refuelling stop for his flight this was previously scheduled not necessarily a response directly to north korea's threat to attack guam, but in remarks in guam, the secretary of state very much describing the president's comments about north korea as a deliberate escalation of the rhetoric. here's what the secretary of state had to say this morning. >> i think the president, what the president's doing is sending a strong message to north korea, in language that kim jong-un would understand because he doesn't seem to understand diplomatic language i think the president just wanted to be clear to the north korean regime that the u.s., you know, unquestionable ability to defend itself, will defend itself, and its allies, and i think it is important that he deliver

eamon javers has more on what the president is expected to say and i get comments on yesterday's visitown to the area >> the president spent yesterday afternoon traveling in texas, today he will give a speech in missouri, on the idea of tax reform here's what we know will be in the speech white house officials telling us yesterday that this is going to be billed as a main street speech near america's main street, route 66 that's the imagery we'll see today. he will talk about shared prosperity slipping away in this country. he will say we need to end the rigged system. this is an interesting rhetorical choice by the president of the united states he will say the u.s. economy is rigged we need to jump start it with tax reform, tax cuts across the board. that will help get the economy going again and bring back that shared prosperity. politico reporting that steven miller, the nationalist white house aide is taking a big hand in crafting this speech. so we can expect some of that populist rhetoric in the speech. it will be an interesting way to kick off the tax reform debate going into t

let's get straight to eamon javers with more in washington semen? >> good morning. house issuing a statement today from prumz saying the world has heard north korea's intentions loud and clear saying that north korea has demonstrated contempt for its neighbors and contempt for the united nations the president going on to say in that statement that threatening and destabilizing actions only increase the north korean regime's isolation in the region and among all nations of the world. all options are on the table take a look at the map here and you see where that missile was launched from, right here pyongyang, the capital of north korea. real shot across the bow there of the country of japan, going over the northern hokkaido island, and northern host of the japanese main islands and then splashing down in three parts in the pacific ocean. a very provocative launch by the north koreans. but a measured response here in terms of the language of the statement from the president of the united states this morning, who had been talking about fire and fury in some of his on

eamon javers joins us in washington with more on what we might anticipate eamon?last night the president speak in arizona, fiery remarks, criticism directed as his political opponents, the media and others last night he talked about the idea of a possible government shutdown which he proposed, and he also said the prospects for a nafta renegotiations are not looking very good. here's what he said last night >> and you know that one of the worst deals that anybody in history has ever entered into, we have begin formal renegotiation with mexico and canada on nafta. personally i don't think we can make a deal. we have been so badly taken advantage of they have made such great deals, both of the countries, but in particular mexico, that i don't think we can make a deal so i think we'll end up probably terminating nafta at some point. >> so that was last night. what's the president expected to say here in a few moments in reno, nevada we've been given at least some excerpts of the speech here. this line is included in the president's likely remarks here from the stage

the ground in corpus christi, texas and beginning to tour the devastation from hurricane harvey eamon javers has the latest from washington it's afternoon, i think. >> the president is in corpus christi where he's expected to arrive any moment now at fire station number 5 where he's going to meet with fema officials and coast guard officials. you can see some of the local political leerdship is on hand as well. that's texas senator john cornyn on the left hand side of that shot in the blue shirt texas senator ted cruz in the green pullover awaiting the briefings alongside local and state officials. the president expected to make some remarks here along with texas governor abbott who is also going to speak to the assembled folks there. fema very much a presence there in corpus christi but earlier today texas governor abbott spoke with reporters at the corpus christi airport and explained why it is that the president is not going to houston today. here's what he said. >> he's coming here as opposed to houston right now because in houston, the most important thing is rescuing and saving lives.

eamon javers is at the white house and kayla tausche is in virginia eamon, you first. >> the president did what he was criticized three days ago for not doing on saturday. specifically naming the kkk and neo-nazis as the problem over the weekend in charlottesville here's what the president said in a hastily scheduled set of remarks from the white house. >> racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. we are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal. >> reporter: the president's comments today came after ken frazier, ceo of merck, resigned from the white house council here's what ken frazier said in a statement from merck our country stems from diversity, and political beliefs. as ceo of merck and as a matter of personal conscience, i feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism. that comment from ken frazier did not go over well with the president of the united states who re

eamon javers is here with that eamon? >> reporter: just got the white house first official response to gary cohn's ghents in which he voiced some of his frustration with the administration's handling of racially sensitive matter in the wake of charlottesville, virginia. sarah huckabee sanders talking about that interview in "the financial times" that gary cohn gave and said she would much rather focus on tax reform here's what show said. >> everybody wants to focus on a really small part of that interview. 95% of that interview was on tax reform, and we're looking at a very small portion of it it. the president, as i said, and gary have spoken many times. gary has not held back what his feelings are, if you'll let me finish gary has not held back about how he feels about the situation and been very open and honest so i don't think anyone was surprised by the comment. >> reporter: we also heard from the treasury secretary mnuchin in the wake of the president's tweet earlier in the week that negotiations over the debt ceili

. >>> the big event we're waiting for, president trump in missouri let's get to eamon javers. >> yesterday, we had a preview of speech and what we should expect is a bit of a populist speech tax cuts will be the solution to the problem, but that presents some rhetorical challenges to this particular president who has been arguing all year how great the u.s. economy is. take a look at some of the things that the president has said during the course of this summer about the state of the u.s. economy he said what's a going on is incredible we had the best jobs report in 16 years he said corporations have never made as much money as they're making now he said that business is looking better than ever with business enthusiasm at record level and the stock market at an all time high all those comments from the president within the past month or so. now today, here's the tone that we're expecting from the president according to those white house officials yesterday. they said that the president's going to say that shared prosperity is slipping away in this country he'll say that the economy is a

. >> that's and pudzer >>> eamon javers joins us now with more on the secret service. >> reporter: 12,100the statutorily mandated caps on overtime pay this year which means they need a legislate of fix up on capitol hill in order to get the officer their pay. there's been some controversy today over whether or not that's due to the fact that the president has taken a lot of travel this year and he's got a large family that also travels the world. the secret service put out a statement today and then it revised the statement ever so slightly i want to take you through the very subtle difference between statement one and statement two. they said in the first version this issue is not one that can be attributed to the current administration's protection requirements but rather has been an ongoing issue for nearly a decade due to an overall increase in operational tempo, and then later the secret service putting out an additional statement changing that by one word to say this issue is not one that can be attributed to the current administration's protection requirements alone seeming to impl

let get to eamon javers outside trump tower. >> the president woke up here at trump tower for the first was sworn in as president this morning judging by his activity on twitter, in a combative move, retweeting a picture of a train with the word trump on it, smashing into a cnn reporter then it was deleted. a spokesman saying that was retweeted inadvertently. a list of three ceos who announced they would be leaving the manufacturing council on nt wake of his handling of the charlottes vil charlottesville incident over the weekend. frazier, plank and krzanich saying that they were leaving. others saying they would stay on the manufacturing council. some of those ceos have left because they resigned from their jobs and haven't been replaced on the council others have left in protest of the president's policies, actions or inactions and, of course, some who have issued statements saying they are staying and some who have issued statements where it's not exactly clear where they come down take a look at the statement from dow chemical, andrew liverus. it appears to us and what we're assumin

congress as well as the business community and his ability to move his agenda, guys >> thank you, eamon javers is in new york. >> reporter: brian, thank you, the president just left trump tower on his way to his golf club where he's going to continue this working vacation he's been on for the past several days it's been anything but stress-free form the president tweeting within the hour or so that it was in fact his decision, he says, to disband the ceo council form the president's tweet says -- rather than putting pressure on the business people of the forum and council, i am ending both. thank you all. we have a statement from jamie dimon as well, saying in a statement to his employ crease, the equality treatment to all people is -- there's no room for equivocation, the evil on display should be condemned and has no place jamey dimon also going on to say, i strongly disagree with president trump's reaction to the events that took place in shaltsville, racism is wrong and always wrong, jamie dimon says there. so as we continue to get these statements rolling in, who are members of these vari

announcement coming as one council was dissolving already the president in bedminster, new jersey eamon javerss nearby in bridgewaters eamon? >> the president will wake up here in bedminster, new jersey to a changed landscape in the relationship between corporate america and the president of the united states. we saw this dramatic moment yesterday as you just described as the elite ceo advisory council was deciding to disband. the president issuing a tweet saying he had instead folded both of his ceo advisory councils here's what the president put out. rather than putting pressure on the business people of the manufacturing council and strategic and policy forum i'm ending both. thank you all. the president very much framing it as his idea to end these two ceo advisory groups. after that we saw this cavalcade of statements from ceos rebuking the president of the united states aetna's ceo saying i'm ashamed of the president's behavior and comments apple's ceo saying i disagree with the president and those who believe there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and nazis johnson & jo

eamon javers joins us from washington, d.c.ith more >> reporter: the president spoke in front of a large and adoering crowd in phoenix last year he was dvefensive on the way th media reported charlottesville he said he and everyone in the arena last night stood against bigotry, and he said the media are davm d are damn dishonest he admitted the part that attracted the most criticism, the idea that there were fine people on both sides, or perpetrators of violence on both sides. that sort of moral equivalency suggestion from the president that attracted so much criticism he omitted that entirely last night. he als threatened a government shutdown in terms of wall funding. >> build that wall the obstructionist democrats would like us not do it. believe me, if we have to close down the government we're building that wall. >> he also said he's revisiting the issue of naftnafta he said those renegotiations are underway but wasn't hopeful for the outlook. >> you know one of the worst deals that anybody in history has entered into, we

eamon javers is with us on set in person. he was there yesterday >> good morning. the president dramatically reversal here yesterday from where he was the day before. you remember that the weekend qai came, the president was criticized for saying there were blame on many sides for that violent rally over the weekend then he specifically called out the kkk and white supremacists yesterday at a press con freps at trump tower the president went back to both sides rhetoric that he was criticized for over the weekend. here's what he said yesterday. >> i think there's blame on both sides. i have no doubt about it you don't have any doubt about it either. only -- and if you reported it accurately, you would say it >> you can see the frustration, emotion in the president's face there. this was an angry president trump who felt like he's been criticized he's been fed up had enough of that criticism, lashing out at some of the ceos who left his manufacturing council over the way he handled events in charlottesville. he said they were grandstanders. yesterday he offered anoth

eamon javers, thank you. >>> in the meantime, adp fighting back against bill ackman's management.n a news release moments ago, adp announcing that its board has voted unanimously not to nominate of the board candidates the interviews determined that none bring any additional skills or experience to the adp bhord pershing owns not just all equity and has called for the ceo to be replaced >>> let's get to the broader markets. joining us is oliver pliiver peh good to have you here. we started to see cracks in the market last week two weeks in a row we've seen declins even though they are not huge is this the beginning of something good in- -- >> fundamentally, it's still very sound the economy is doing well. corporate earnings are strong. interest rates are likely to remain low with the possibility of the fed pushing the rate hike maybe even into next year. so i think fundamental basis there is a lot of reason to be optimistic but there is a lot of geopolitical stuff happening that will likely cause a correction but let's keep in mind, we haven't seen new in quite some time and that

eamon javers has more on that. a lot of people buzzing about it and what it means for policy making in the future >> that's right. some relationship mending going on yesterday between the two top republicans in american politics, the president of the united states and the senate republican majority leader, mitch mcconnell, both issuing statements saying they can work together after a "new york times" story earlier this week said improvemently he was worried that the president wouldn't be able to salvage his presidency here's the statement from mitch mcconnell yesterday saying we have a lot of work ahead of us we're committed to advancing our shared agenda together anyone who suggests otherwise is clearly not part of the conversation mcconnell saying the two men can work together on their shared agenda he went on to list a number of items they'll work on together but importantly not denying the reporting of the "new york times" from earlier in the week about that strained relationship and his private comments here's