thank you to marty shanker. kevin cirilli is our chief washington correspondent and here is courtney donohoe. courtney: president trump said it was a great honor to represent the u.s. at the bastille day parade. trump said that the military parade was magnificent. he congratulated french president macron. they are en route to the united states. it would be unfair to describe rex tillerson's efforts to find a solution in the persian gulf as a failure. the crisis cannot be solved in a day. he said that qatar would work with the united states and kuwait to end the standoff. tillerson and did his mediation effort yesterday. it u.k. has a knowledge that will have to pay money to the european union as it withdraws. as negotiators repair for a round of talks, the bill is one of its biggest issues. this puts the fee as high as $114 billion. jimmy carter is out of the hospital after being treated or dehydration. he was volunteering at a habitat for humanity home building project. he appeared to wobble and was taken to a

marty shanker, our executive editor for international government and economics, joins us.have you on the show. kim jong-un really does pick his puts moret it clearly pressure on president trump, the chinese, and the japanese. what do we expect? marty: the same problems with reacting to this provocation every time the north koreans send up an icbm exist now as in the last time. military options, even though the pentagon said they discussed military options with south korea, have the potential of being disastrous. what they have to fall back on is trying to convince the chinese and the russians to help put pressure on the north koreans to rein in their program, but it has not been successful so far. it's doubtful it will be this time. scarlet: is anyone thinking more creatively on this. people talk about, maybe you should let north korea become a nuclear state and focus your energy on making sure it doesn't proliferate too much past that and address humanitarian concerns. , butusly, that is one take are there different options being explored? marty: i think especially at the

marty shanker, senior executive editor on set with us here.are showing you the press briefing room in light of news today that sean spicer is resigning in a new press secretary in the form of anthony scaramucci that will be an on-air press meeting and we will be bringing you that right here. let's get a check on the bloomberg first word news this afternoon with him at chandra. white houseng up news, press secretary sean spicer resigned today after financiertrump hired anthony scaramucci as his medications director, according to a white house official. white house chief of staff reince priebus says he supports scaramucci 100%. he's been mentioned for several other jobs in the administration. meanwhile, president trump is shaking of his legal staff, john doubt will now be the lead attorney on the team dealing with robert mueller's special investigation into russia. doubt is denying reports that the president wants to highlight potential conflict of interest on the special counsel team. ,e's replacing market is let's who is a scaled-down role. ro

there with us is marty shanker. i saw the senate gavel dan at 9:30 this morning.y were debating one piece of legislation. give us a lay of the land, what they are going toward -- what they are going through. marty: they are trying to figure out a way to get a win. the gop is desperate to leave this city with something in their pocket that they can come home and talk about. if they spend all this time, the next two days, voting on what could be hundreds of amendments late into the morning on friday, and come away with nothing, is going to look extremely bad for the republicans and that is what they want to avoid. david: let me ask you about the term vote-a-rama. it was used back in the 19th century. what does it mean? marty: it connotes the ability to open up the legislative process to both democrats and republicans, where essentially, it is no holds barred amendments can be offered by any senator on any part of the health care bill and they take votes on it. somehow at the end of the process, they cobble together a unified bill that would be the health care policy

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erik schatzker and marty shanker , thank you for joining us on this fast-moving front of the oval officers. julie: let's take a break from politics and get you caught up on the markets. abigail doolittle has more. abigail: we have the dow as the only average that is trading higher. the s&p 500 slipping between small gains and losses. the dow all day has been higher. the nasdaq pretty decent divergence there. the bank really helping the dow -- tech dragging on the nasdaq. let's take a look at oil. oil recently moved back above the $50 barrel mark. and right now, above it by $.19. it's not clear what behind it from a fundamentals and point. but it is worth noting -- from a fundamental standpoint. is worth noting it is trading in a range between $45 a barrel and $55 a barrel. backas been climbing higher in that range, psychologically important above $50 a barrel. sector, if we hop into the bloomberg. the divergence between financial zantac, it's a good way to get a snapshot of what is happening in the s&p 500. right below it, energy up about .5%. on the bottom or near the bottom is technolo

marty shanker is calling it a conversation and interview, a chat.ic between mr. kushner and the push-up senator from iowa, i -- senator grassley? kevin: mr. kushner will meet with the senate intelligence committee later behind closed doors. this new breaking story of an 11-page document just released moments ago and it says, according to the associated press, that jared kushner only had four contacts with russians during the campaigns. willis developing and we bring you new details as we dissect that document. it is and should be noted standing in the place of what would have been a public submitted testimony. should jared kushner had testified publicly before the senate intelligence committee. this, of course, is being done behind closed doors. it comes following friday's development that he followed -- filed additional amendments to financial disclosure forms and drawing criticism from democrats and republicans as well who want to know why all of this was not disclosed earlier when he had been looking to get his security clearance in joining the a