All right, welcome to closing bell. I'm Scott Wapner here at the New York Stock Exchange.

That, of course, the president. That was tape playback of President Trump announcing reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trading partners.

They charge us a tax or tariff, and we charge them. That's what the president had to say.

Could be additional ones as well, said President Trump, importantly.

And the reason why the market is probably acting the way it is

and is actually higher now than it was when all of this began is because these tariffs,

these reciprocal tariffs, will not go into effect right away.

There will be a study, Howard Lutnik, the proposed Commerce Secretary, saying that that

study should be done by April the 1st. So we're watching all of that.

Amon Javers was in the room at the White House. He joins us now. Frankly, Amen, at times,

it felt like you had a chair pulled up to the Resolute Desk because I heard numerous questions

from you, obviously about terrorists, but a number of other topics

as well. What can you tell us? Yeah, look, the president for an hour there took our questions

and just a small group of reporters gathered around the desk. We were standing, not in shares,

but yeah, I mean, he, top of the head, no notes notes any topic we wanted to fire a question at him

uh... he was happy to take them a couple of interesting nuggets to me one is i asked him about

elon musk in his role in this government because there's this question of conflict of interest

with elin musk

elin walked across the street from the white house today to go over to blair house

where prime minister narendra modi of ind India is staying in advance of his meeting here this afternoon.

Musk had a meeting with Modi earlier CEO to head of state and I asked the president when Elon Musk, given his role here now, has a meeting with Narendra Modi, is he having that meeting as the CEO of Tesla or is he having that meeting as a representative

of the American government? And that gets to this conflict of interest question about what

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