All right, guys, thanks so much. Welcome to closing bell. Scott Wobner live from Post 9 here at the New York Stock Exchange.

This maker break hour begins with, of course, the markets, the war, a volatile day yet again.

Take a look at the majors here with 60 to go in regulation. And once again, we are trying to rally into the close.

We're certainly off the worst levels of the day, and that says for all of the major

averages. The Dow only down now by two-thirds of 1%, S&P, less than 1%, the NASDAQ as well. Russell

was getting hit especially hard earlier today, and it is still lower by one and a third percent,

but a bit of a better- looking picture at this very moment as the

final stretch begins. We're watching oil. It is a very big focus yet again. We had spikes earlier,

again, off of those levels now, still higher though. Yields, they've been moving higher as well.

And away from Iran, we're watching shares of Blackstone today after its flagship

private credit fund sees record redemptions. We'll have much more on that coming up as well.

It's a very big story and there was a very big interview on this network earlier today.

Let's begin, though, in Washington, where the president spoke in the Oval Office earlier.

Our senior Washington correspondent, Amon Javers, joins us now with the very latest.

Hi, Amin.

Hi there, Scott.

Yeah, one of the things that we're trying to clear up from the president's appearance in the

Oval Office earlier today is this question of what he meant when he talked about trade

with Spain.

The president venting some frustration with Spain and the government

there saying that they refused to allow U.S. military assets to deploy from Spanish territory

during this attack on Iran. And the president said during this press interaction in the Oval

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