also in attendance, amazon's jeff bezos. his combative relationship with trump could cast a shadow on today's meeting. i want to talk about the tech summit with our samuel burke joining us live from london. as you know, some of these tech titans have been either dismissive of the candidacy of donald trump. critical of his positions towards immigration. some of them outright hostile towards him and donald trump has been hostile back. although peter thiel, he's a contrarian, big investor in the sill yicon valley saying, look, need to get along here. what do you think is going to happen? >> christine, it felt like nearly all of silicon valley was against donald trump during the campaign. peter thiel being one of the few exceptions. he's really the middleman between donald trump and the tech titans today at this meeting. and getting back to jeff bezos, that's the biggest elephant in the room in terms of person-to-person relationship. remember at one point, bezos said at one point trump's rhetoric is eroding democracy around its

. >> tim cook, sheryl sandberg, and jeff bezos were in attendance. for the tech giants this was a chance to attempt donald trump to avoid policies that may hurt their company is pertaining to immigration internet security, , regulation on government investment. oracle ceo said "we are net exporters. over 60% of our sales are overseas." better trade deals are very much in our interest. an analyst andth our bloomberg tech reporter outside of trump tower. >> they did not speak to reporters, the lobby was loaded with reporters. we did get a glimpse at the beginning of the meeting. trump tried to strike a .onciliatory tone he started the meeting by praising peter thiel as an innovator. saying that he was proud of all they want -- all they have accomplished. i want you to keep innovating. i am here to help. he said call me any time. call my people any time. we really don't have a formal chain of command here. he changed his tone compared to the public opposition that was very alarming on the campaign trail. emily: interesting to see them starting off on th

stuart: what's he going to do with jeff bezos? as you know, jeff bezos is the founder of amazon, a very important company and that gentleman on the screen also owns the workout -- washington post which has been hateful to say to least to donald trump. what's he going to say? >> you've got to give the president-elect credit on this, reaching out and bringing folks clearly who have not been on board. they'll talk about job ap that's the focus today. i think, now, we know the president-elect if he has an opinion and he wants to say something and he'll share it, so-- >> is he going to do something as he did to martha raditz and he said, did you know someone of you actually cried when i was elected? >> and these folks are a great step and number two on the heels of the big secretary of state announcement with rex tillerson and today's announcement of former texas governor of rick perry for energy secretary. and this is an a-list that the president-elect is putting together. stuart: you've got your message out. i've got more for a secon

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jeff bezos claimed trump was eroding the democratic process. apple ceo, tim cook, who raised millions for hillary clinton. facebook coo, cheryl sandberg also backed hillary clinton, as did tesla and spacex founder elon musk. pointing out tech stocks have been doing pretty well since he won the election. >> you're doing well right now, and i'm very honored by the bounce. they're all talking about the bounce. so right now everyone has to like me at least a little bit. >> reporter: there was no comment from the ceos who refused to talk to the press on the way out. curiously absent from the summit, twitter. donald trump is getting closer to filling out his cabinet.

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investors in the fund include amazon ceo jeff bezos, alley baba, richard branson and linkedin founder, reed hoffman, among others. >>> coming up, the bill challenges that small business owners are facing in locations around trump tower. >>> the supreme court today upheld the reach of a federal law that prohibits bank fraud. the ruling gives the government more flexibility to prosecute financial crimes. the unanimous opinion means that a person may be guilty of bank fraud, even though he intended to cheat a bank depositor rather than the bank itself. >>> well, the wells fargo fake account scandal may now have spread to prudential. the insurance company today said that it was suspending distribution of insurance policies through the bank. california regulators are also looking into new allegations made by former prudential employees who said that manufacturing customers were sold low-cost prudential life insurance policies without their knowledge. >>> president-elect donald trump has spent more of his time since the election at his home in trump tower in manhattan. as we have been repor

[inaudible] emily: apples tim cook, facebook's sheryl sandberg, amazons jeff bezos were all in attendance. for the tech giants, this meeting was an attempt to persuade trump to avoid policies that might hurt their companies pertaining to immigration, internet security, regulation, and government investment. ahead of the meeting, the oracle ceo stressed, we are net exporters. over 60% of our sales are overseas. better trade deals are very much in our interest. joining us from outside trump tower, selena wang. i did speak to a source who was briefed on this meeting who said the top three topics were jobs, immigration, and china, that the meeting was very friendly, very productive. a few sub-topics, they addressed infrastructure, education, repatriation. give us the rundown. i know you've seen all of these folks walk in and walked out. they didn't really speak to reporters. tell us what you've seen. >> you are right, they didn't really speak to reporters. the lobbyists -- lobby flooded with reporters. we did get a glimpse at the beginning of the meeting. trump tried to strike a conciliatory

trump will be sitting down with amazon's jeff bezos. his combatant relationships with donald trump could cast a shadow on it. our samuel burke is live in london this morning. samuel, there could be very some awkward moments during these meetings. >> george, good morning. it felt like at times all of silicon valley, or nearly all of silicon valley was against donald trump with one of the exceptions being peter thiel, the former tech investors who organized this meeting in part. bezos said about trump's rhetoric that it was eroding democracy around the edges for the united states. and eventually donald trump fired off this tweet, just about a year ago taking aim at basis zogs and "the washington post" which he's the owner of saying, quote, in this tweet, "the washington post" loses money, a deduction and gives owner jeff bezos power to screw public on low taxation of amazon. big tax shelter. and bezos tweeted off after donald trump won that one a bit more conciliatory. it will be interesting to see it will be like the relationship with ri

emily: amazon ceo jeff bezos told us the meeting was very productive. you and i spoke before the election. i know you were not a donald trump supporter. what are your biggest concerns with the trump administration? vinod: the area that needs the most conversation is around climate change and clean technologies. i suspect we will have relatively good agreement on things like skilled immigration, taxes needs to be addressed, but that address applies more to the larger companies like amazon and google and apple. there will be smaller company issues around skilled immigration into this country. it is important to innovation, but i do believe for the new administration and silicon valley, very focused on innovation and what accelerates it. emily: bill gates also met with donald trump yesterday. let's take a listen to what he had to say. bill gates: we had a good conversation about innovation, how it can help in health, education, impact of foreign aid and energy, and a wide-ranging conversation about the power of innovation. emily: now gary swisher of recode

emily: jeff bezos just said the meeting was very productive. you and i spoke before the election and i know you are not a donald trump supporter. what are your biggest concerns with a trumpet ministration? vinod: the area i think that needs the most conversation around climate change and clean technology i expect will have relatively good agreement on skilled immigration, taxes need to be addressed, but that applies more to the larger companies like microsoft, amazon and google. there will be smaller company issues around skilled immigration into this country. important to innovation but i believe the new administration and telecom valley is focused on innovation and what accelerates it. gates met with donald trump yesterday. let's take a listen to what he had to say. bill: we are a good conversation about innovation and how it can help with health, education, impact foreign aid and energy and a wide ranging conversation about the power of innovation. vinod khosla wrote an op-ed saying these tech leaders should be ashamed of themselves because

bill gates, jack ma, jeff bezos. tell me what you would like to accomplish. low carboneed more technologies, whether buildings, transportation, or electric power. view, and a long investors willing to take high technological risks on breakthrough technologies. the purpose of the fund is to make both those happen, and if they do, i think there is less competition in that area and a lot of economic opportunity to create very large businesses. investmentskind of do you expect this fund to make? vinod: bill gates has talked ,bout solar fuels, solar energy not electricity, but fuel for trucks and airplanes. that is a good example of a high risk technology, but a lot of potential. many others, nuclear is an area water, newmising, kinds of buildings, new strategies for building construction, so promising areas, and breakthroughs could result. i do believe enough technologies exist to have unsubsidized market competitiveness. unfortunately, too many clean technologies get associated with subsidies that are not necessarily re

blue origin, which is run by amazon ceo jeff bezos, is also testing this. it has had five successes to date. but spacex's streak of luck ended abruptly on september 1. an accident of fueling led to an explosion on the launchpad. -- it is alled with mix. it is highly flammable. it does not take much to cause it to spark and cause explosion of this magnitude. reporter: that has had a domino effect on the launch schedule. spacex remains grounded had plans to resume flight in september or push to january. the manned mission has been pushed to 2018. experts are not worried about the impact on the industry as a whole. marco: in five short years, this has become the establishment player in the launch services industry, and to come so far in such a short amount of time, to have a few problems as they have had is really amazing. reporter: spacex has a backlog of 70 missions worth more than $10 billion. bloomberg'sat was reporter. that does it for this edition of the best of bloomberg technology . join us next week where we are speaking with aol ceo tim armstrong. an

he won't go after jeff bezos for what he calls antitrust issues, or tim cook, making him create more jobs, iphones in the u.s. and those specific targets he called out in the campaign? >> i think it's going to be circumstantial. donald trump has said that he is a counterpuncher. not somebody who initiates fights but responds strongly to being attacked by others. he has also said, we've seen this in the rallies he's had, he will make fun of things that he himself said during the campaign. for example, there was a rally the other day where some of his supporters started saying lock her up. his response was, with respect to hillary clinton, yeah, that sounded good in the campaign, but we don't care about that now. there will be some things on which donald trump simply says, well, that was campaign stuff. i'm not doing it but it will depend on the particular issues. the rubber will hit the road when policy issues begin to get decided. for example, his attorney general choice, jeff sessions, has been sharply critical of the h1 h1bv visa program. there's no reason to fight about that now b

already there jeff bezos of amazon, elan musk of spax and tesla. this week's second stop for the thank you tour. like wisconsin, pennsylvania was one ofhree key states that flipped from blue to red on election night. nbc news has a new look at the blue collar counties that made it all happen. joining us from washington, political reporter for nbc news and msnbc, the new story is titled how trump won. his populist message proved everyone wrong. ben benji, you looked at the states that put donald trump over michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania. what did you find? >> this was a close margin. trump carried the states by a combined vote of 80,000. really anyone. but the prerequisite for everything is trump surged in blue collar counties some of which voted democratic for a long time or recently. in wisconsin, for example, you look at small county like juneau where it went from -- let's see, obama won by nine. trump by about 26. in terms of decisive numbers. yet a place like michigan, macomb county, a blue collar suburb that historically grew up around t

bezos at one point offered to send him to space, but since trump's victory the rhetoric among jeff bezos as well as among silicon valley companies has been toned down. there's been more of a tone of openness. that's why everyone is watching this meeting so carefully to see what actually comes out of it and how trump is actually going to deal with the technology space that wasn't just amazon. but he came out against other companies saying that apple for example should be manufacturing iphones in the united states. since the election though i do want to mention that jeff bezos tweeted congratulations to donald trump. i for one give him my most open mind and wish him great success in his service to the country. and the fact he will be participating in this meeting indicates that bezos along with a lot of other ceos, big ceos in this space want to move forward and work with the president-elect on issues such as immigration, especially of highly skilled workers, protection of i.p., trade with china, encryption, electronic surveillance. these are all going to be on tap on wednesday when you ha

we are talking people like tim cook, sheryl sandberg, elon musk, jeff bezos among the many coming to trump tower today. notably one name you will not see on the list, you will not see the twitter ceo on the list. not invited to this meeting and will not attend. notably, many of the ceos coming to the meeting today were very vocal on the campaign against donald trump. we know on the agenda will be jobs. one thing also in the mix is a briefing that donald trump has now received from his incoming national security adviser, michael flynn. you may recall, carol, that it was reported that trump was only on average receiving one of these pdbs, presidential daily intelligence briefings, per week. now we know according to transition officials that michael flynn is indeed himself getting one of these each day and now he's giving president-elect donald trump one three times a week. carol? >> sunlen, i also understand there's news of donald trump jr. and his involvement in naming picks for trump's cabinet. can you get into that for us? >> reporter: yeah. this really speaks to the continued close

including executives who took on donald trump during the campaign, including amazon's jeff bezos. so is today about making peace or making a point? we're live at trump tower. >>> also should a suspected criminal have his hand over his phone pass code to help investigators? a judge in one case ruled, you bet, but critics claim that goes against our constitutional rights. judge napolitano will weigh in coming up top of the hour on "shepherd smith reporting" we'll see you then. >>> so if you want to see what job dedication looks like, look no further. this north carolina letter carrier was just going about delivering packages when her truck started burning. the flames apparently sparked from the engine somehow before spreading to the entire truck. a good samaritan jumped in to help save as many of the packages as they could before the truck burned up. they saved christmas presents, i'm sure. wow. look at that. >>> all right. the president-elect's transition team targeting two democrats to potentially add to the cabinet. west virginia senator joe manchin, and north dakota senator heid

when i went to jeff bezos' facility they were building the same rocket for $30 million. john: nasa did once do thing that were never done before. after russia launched a satellite our president said this. >> our nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth. >> we are carrying that infrastructure with us today. nasa spend $18 billion of taxpayer money per year. half of that goes for the infrastructure that was built for apollo. they only have a third of the buying power so they can't do as much with the rest of it. john: most of the rockets going up now are private companies. >> space has been privatized. john: they are planning to go to mars. >> probably $50 billion by the time it's built. we have no money to do anything beyond that. the soonest we would go to mars would be the mid 20s and 3. i just don't think that that's going to be the way we get there. elon musk announced he's going to mars in 2018. not with people. but should he do that near the range with the heavy-lift ve

dagen: trump hand and jeff bezos' hat, so to speak. kevin: also peter teal who they are chastised and -- maria: i love peter teal. coming up this morning former congressman allen west is with us. former massachusetts scott brown is here, former ceo of nbc weighs in. republican of oklahoma marry is here, kentucky senator rand paul and former presidential candidate ron paul. so we will talk with beth rand and ron paul. check out who is going to be there. tesla ceo elon musk, tim cook, amazon ceo jeff bezos among others all heading to trump towers after meetings with bill gates yesterday and rapper kanye west was there yesterday. >> we had a good conversation about innovation, education, impact of foreign aid and energy and wide range of conversation about the power of innovation. >> what did you discus in the meeting today? >> just friends, just friends. it's a good man. doing well. long time. we have been friends for a long time. maria: meanwhile kanye west tweeted after the meeting, this is what he wrote, i wanted to meet with trump to

similare have had obligations when jeff bezos took over "the washington post." what about the potential for conflicts of interest to arise between the business of alibaba the southporting of china morning post, how we you navigate that line? have been and joe adamant in the press and with coverternal team that we alibaba and any other company and we continue to be committed to that. emily: tell us about your social media and digital strategy, given what we have seen happen to the media industry around the , the difference between the social networks that exist and are available to use in china versus the rest of the world: what is your strategy there? gary: my focus will be on the rest of the world. is takingon -- reporting on china to other parts of asia and the u.k.. the news product we have today on fromnternet has evolved print publications. best no longer the world's journalism, it is accommodation of the world this journalism and the right packaging for the distribution channel so our outlook in regard to channel's are going is to understand where consumpt

jeff bezos will be among them. this promises to be somewhat awkward considering that bezos owns "the washington post" which streets trump like, not very well, shall we say? let's go around the block. what is donald trump going to say to the big names in technology when he sits them down at trump tower tomorrow. steve cortez, what's he going to say to them? >> and the first thing he'll say to jeff bezos, star being fair to me. "the washington post" as a candidate or president-elect-- >> unfair. >> excuse me, very unfair. >> and what if he says to bezos you might have anti-trust problems with on-line sales? >> i don't think you can intimidate one company that way. liz: why is that a good thing? why do you use the power of the president to beat up a business and anti-trust. don't we complain about it-- >> what's wrong with it. liz: it's not right. stuart: what do you mean it's not right. liz: it's not right, it's using the bully pulpit-- >> a. >> abuse of power. liz: abuse of power, thank you. stuart: i will bring you

people like jeff bezos and sharyl sandberg stress about sleep. you stress over the sleep your kids get, but not yourself. you know how much battery life you have in your phone, but not in your body. to be really successful, you need more sleep. this new company she founded. partnerships with uber and jpmorgan chase. she a they are trying to draw connections to work. well rested and good sleep and unplugged and shareholder values. >> i'm a big fan of the power nap. i'll chug couffee and take a 20-minute nap. you wake up and you are good to go for the rest of the day. >> look at this. you should have been interviewing her. >> your interview was great. >>> "early start" continues right now. >> a victory lap for donald trump. he is heading to the plant where he just saved 1,000 jobs. now critics want to know how he pulled off the deal. >>> a police officer killed in washington state. the gunman barricaded in a house deep into the night. we are following the latest on the standoff which is still happening this morning. >>> and thousands waiting to fin

emily: jack ma, jeff bezos are now in this clean energy fund. do you think this fund will move the needle in an area that has been slow to have a big exit? bill: i hope so. i know all of them and i admire them and i think bill gates in particular has an amazing track record, especially in health care, helping to rid the world of polio, on the way to doing the same with malaria. if he can do in energy what he has done in health care, it would be fantastic. emily: bill maris. we will be right back with you. apple is said to have held talks about investing in softbank's $100 billion tech fund. apple may contribute up to $1 billion to the fund, which will give the company insight into up and coming technology. apple also invested $1 billion in the ride hailing giant didi. half of the $100 billion fund would be invested in the united states. all episodes of bloomberg technology are live streaming on twitter. check us out on weekdays. 5:00 p.m. in new york. technology are live streaming on ♪ emily: online retail site asoft is banking on its recent s

the approach of mark zuckerberg and jeff bezos toward their stock is a good approach. own the stock, don't trade the stock, and make a long-term investment in a company that will do well. the long-term development in these companies, the stocks will respond to the economic development of the company or lack thereof. for the case of facebook, they have warranted it, there growth -- there growth is slowing down. that is a big area for concern. that is the big f in the fang right there. we will be looking at one key stocks that did pretty well. >> blackberry is in the midst of this transition but it has been coming really slow. their move to software has been coming very slow. this business has already been through one big-name change. i would not be's price is completely down the line we see something other than the blackberry. it is a completely different business. with the blackberry, the company boosted its 2016 earnings outlook very nearly 70%. earlier, i managed to catch up with the ceo from their headquarters in ontario and asked if these margins were sustainable.

that is the same point that jeff bezos makes in a piece he wrote. he is getting eight hours of sleep a night and it is good for amazon shareholders. we are taking uber's cultural values, one of which is do not cross your redline, and working with employees to create micro-steps, easy behavior changes that have been recognized when they are getting close to that redline of accumulated stress. stress is an inevitable part of life. the question is how can you prevent it from becoming commutative -- cumulative and having unintended consequences? we see people paying a price in terms of high blood pressure, diabetes, some of them start smoking again. all of the things are preventable if we go upstream, which is what thrive global does. start working with the sources of stress before they become symptoms. emily: i huffington, founder and ceo. we're going to head to a quick break. coming up, we will get arianna huffington's take on how the media should becoming the president elect in a historic election. ♪ emily: a story we are following. apple's top ass

new reports amazon go may only be the beginning when it comes to jeff bezos' plans. studying at least three formats of physical food stores including curb-side pickup and multiformat stores they're calling it. 2,000 locations across the country. joining us is the "new york times" mike isaac and matt honan is the chief at buzzfeed news. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> mike, 2,000 stores you're getting in the neighborhood of how many stores kroger has. how much of this is feasible? >> a lot of what we saw, at least in the coverage yesterday, was of amazon go, this new sort of quicki mart type thing. you go in, you don't have to pay with physical cash. you sort of use your phone. we always see this sort of promotional thing from amazon that gets them a lot of press. so beyond that, i think that earns them the goodwill when they move toward these stores that will actually potentially make a big ripple in commerce, period, which is moving in to traditional sort of grocery store sector. and i think that's potentially dangerous, at least for a lot of the estab

bezos, and facebook ceo, sheryl sandberg. some of those invited to what the president-elect's team calling a tech summit, finding ways they can work together to bring tech jobs back to mecca. >> this industry doesn't have a lot of regulation and what little it has is very out of date the republicans will have a lot of power here and trump wants to create jobs. he wants this industry to create a lot of jobs in the u.s.. >>reporter: the transition office announcing some along with the ceo of pep so -- pepsi in the blackstone group one of the largest private equity firms have all been tapped to serve in what is dubbed the president is go strategic and policy forum. >> i want to thank everybody this is a truly an amazing of people. i can tell you the number of folks we have had asking to come to this meeting. >>reporter: another announcement officially naming rick perry, energy secretary. fox news also learning first are montana congressman will be named interior secretary. >> the selection of rick perry and ryan zinke he will ma

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jeff bezos, the owner of the "washington post," he had him at this meeting at trump tower and he lit into jeff bezos the same way he lit into carlos slim, the two most important financeers of the two most important newspapers in the country and frankly one of the major criticisms of trump is that he's vindictive and always seeks retribution against people he doesn't like so the fact he's breaking bread, maybe making peace, i think that's a healthy sign. same way that his relationship with obama, the fact they're getting along, is a good sign for -- not to be too grandiose, but for our democracy. on the flip side it suggests maybe you can't take everything so seriously when he's on the campaign trail and he has a bright line between what you say and do to get elected and what you say and do once you're in office. >> and, brooke, it also shows that more people say that there's a private side of donald trump and the public side of donald trump. that private donald trump known to be pragmatic, to listen to folks when he meets behind the scenes much different than what he says publicly. t

jeff bezos announced on twitter that it's company made its first droneits first commercial delivery. the customer ordered an amazon streams as well as popcorn. i guess they are trying to watch some tv or movies or something. pretty cool, 13 minutes. they need to figure out get it inside a building to deliver it to your desk or it jummy: what can it do for us? doug: and impressive outbreak of cold here. 47 is the average high. pretty typical mid december day out there, with sunshine. clouds will be increasing during the late afternoon and evening, and then all the flooding games come in tonight. dramatic change. you knew to know you can make the decisions, especially for tomorrow morning when the combination of air temperature and wind speed will be such that the windchill will be in single numbers. an exaggeration. it can be uncomfortably very quickly. the front gets to the neighborhood. they could be some areas of light snow, maybe enough just to glaze the ground in the northern parts of the area. maybe a few showers and out in the valley some. in the overnight, the skies will clear

there were leaders like elon messing, sheryl sandberg and jeff bezos. all their meetings with donald trump. elon musk and sheryl sandberg and jeff bezos. they talked about job, innovation and china. the meeting was behind closed doors. in opening remarks, everyone seemed cordial. >> we are going to be there for you and you'll call my people, you'll call me. it doesn't make any difference. we have no formal chain of command. >> super excited about the possibility for innovations. >> reporter: this despite the fact that nearly every silicon valley leader supported hillary clinton. some quite vocally. whether they still have reservations about trump is unclear. >> don't allow your meeting to be a smoke screen. >> reporter: michael is the executive director of the sierra club and he has a message for the leaders who were at today's meeting. >> don't be a sucker and allow for your presence in front of donald trump to be used as an indication of where donald trump is going. >> reporter: after all, trump met with al gore and then appointed scott pruitt an outs

bezos. and bezos also owns "the washington post" and space travel company blue origin. in a twitter war that dates back to last december, mr. trump attacked bezos, namely tax structure and bezos tweeted finally trashed by donald trump. we still reserve him a seat on the blue original rocket. after the election, bezos tweeted his congratulations and offered the administration, quote, an open mind. >> hena daniels in new york, thank you very much. >>> they will not provide the trump transition team with the name of staffers who worked on the trump team wanted a list of those who attended meetings on climate change over the past five years. a spokesman says the request left workers unsettled. >>> well coming up on "cbs this morning," we will ask secretary of state james baker why he recommended rex tillerson for the job. >>> a dangerous cold arctic air mass has blasted the upper midwest is moving east today and the same system is bringing snow from the great lakes to the northeast. a 12-year-ol

jeff bezos is the latest. relationship between these two is been acrimonious at best. what do you think happens tomorrow, big happy face like everyone else? >> two things i would ask, number one, have these people no pride? melissa: come on, it is the president-elect. you have to go make nice with the president-elect. we're supposed to be putting all that behind us. >> okay. great, now that you brought him up i would have made sure they came up in the service elevator, not the regular golden one. melissa: oh. shelby, what do you think? this is what the president does. you helped fences. you bring in -- now everybody wantses his ear. all right he won. i have to make friends. >> exactly. they saw him sit down with his other political opponents. why not his political open points? bill gates know he will pick up a.if a billionaire calls. this round table is supposed to be about jobs. i think a big question is will other topics be discussed? will they talk about immigration or fake news, encryption, some of the battles between the government and the tech sector? those will

speaking of, he's going to have tim cook, sheryl sandberg, elon musk, larry page, jeff bezos -- whom he's been very critical of -- all coming to trump tower for this big tech symposium. what are they possibly going to cover? there's a lot of animosity both ways. will they be able to bridge the gap? >> i mean, this is an olive branch on the part of the tech community which was quite critical in terms of both the companies themselves, but really the staffers, the kinds of people who work for these big tech companies are just not going to be donald trump fans as a general rule. and donald trump was in, for his part, really quite critical of a bunch of these companies, apple, as you said, and in particular jeff bezos who also owns the washington post, accused him of using "the washington post" to influence getting lower tax rates and to cover him in ways that trump said we were bad and irresponsible. but the thing is, these companies make up a huge part of the economy -- kennedy: yeah. >> -- and they are really highly regulated, really dependent on the direction of how, of government reg

trump, and right here you have jeff bezos, larry page, c.o.o. of face sheryl sandberg and over here peter thiele, one plaintiff trump's biggest supporters in tech who helped arrange this meeting and next to thiele is tim cook right there and next to him oracle's sava katz. also interest, none of them spoke with reporters when leaving. the vice president-elect pens tweeted productive as many mitt today with tech leaders focused on job creation and innovation. larry and ama? >> thanks so much, kristen. >>> today's decision by the federal reserve says a key interest rate could be the start of a trend. today's quarter of a percent of a hike marks the second time the fed has raised rates in more than ten years. the last time was six months ago. the fed board had delays a rapid rate increase to help stimulate economic activity by making it cheaper to borrow. >>> investors fully, pektsed the rate hike and even so stocks fall across the board. the dow dropped more than 118 points after flirting with the 20,000 mark for a brief time today. the nasdaq los

just is this morning a source close to the matter confirmed jeff bezos will be participating in that round table. others expected to attend include some of the other biggest names in tech, including apple's tim cook, alphabet's larry page, and facebook's sheryl sandberg. all-star lineup. bezos was a question mark because of the public spat between him and trump during the campaign. much of silicon valley say peter thiel was broadly opposed to trump during the campaign, this week will be the first chance for the tech sector to get an indication how the trump administration might work on immigration, information security, taxes, trade, and diversity. the meeting's agenda, as well as timing and location, are still unclear, and another source over the weekend tells me it's not even clear that trump himself attends. he says that it's likely to be a reince priebus, jared kushner, and peter thiel with mostly older tech names. i can also confirm uber's ceo was invited, though he will not be attending. carl? >> deidre, thank you very much for that. you want to be a fly on the wall, too? >> i

you talk about jeff bezos. he bought "the washington post." and he bought it as a thing to buy influence so that he doesn't have to pay tax at amazon. that's in my opinion. he has influence -- >> he paid for it privately. >> sure, but he uses it -- >> doesn't affect amazon. >> of course it does. he bought it privately so that he can influence people not to tax amazon. come on. i said you were smart. okay? and the only reason i say this because "the washington post" treats me terribly. i mean, if i did 12 good things in one day, i would have 12 bad stories. it's terrible. >> well, speaking of did >> but the press is very dishonest. >> you've gone from calling journalists scum to sleaze bags. but you also said -- >> those aren't strong enough. >> trump constantly slammed cnn now but there was a time when he was not too happy with fox. >> you said that cnn treats you better than fox. now in terms of the commentators, charles krauthammer, george will, karl rove, steve hayes, rich lowry -- >> they're terrible. >> they have ripped you. >> although r

the reason that we have launched these branches is myself, bill gates, jack morgan, jeff bezos, numerous business leaders, we know the world has a problem. we know we have to do something about it. we've got to come up with breakthrough technologies to make sure that we do get the world to carbon neutral by 2050. and we'll get on and do it. whatever, whichever way that the particular government in power at the time think. because, you know, the vast majority of people, the vast majority of business people know that something's got to be done. >> some of the people who you mentioned, jeff bezos, for example, may be meeting with president-elect donald trump, who have said this is our president, we have to work with them. the last time you and i spoke, you were pretty negative on president-elect donald trump. have you changed your view in any way and can you work with him? >> i think it would be irresponsible not to spend the next six months, a year, working hard to try to make this administration work. and i hope that some of the things that were said on the campaign trail were electionear

also, jeff bezos and mr. trump spoke a consill preparatory tone with the group. >> everybody is talking about the bounce, everybody has to like me, at least a little bit. >> absent was twitter ceo jack dorsey. mr. trump is known for his heavy use of twitter. the president-elect confirmed he's nominated former texas governor rick perry to lead the department of energy. >>> the federal reserve decided today to raise interest rates. >> it is a vote of confidence in the economy. >> rates will move up by a quarter percent and fall between 0.5% and 0.75%. by comparison, they were above 5% in 2008. officials plan to raise rates three times next year. >>> how does a combination of 8 and 6 equal five? it becomes the fifth largest air line in america. >> how many aspects of air travel are not going to change after virgin and alaska team up. >> christmas coming early for children in the tender loin. >>> and cheryl jennings takes you on a journey to show what happens to these donated medical supplies from the bay area to

it included jeff bezos, tim polk, elon musk. and his team on wednesday. maria: making it clear that he wants to bring jobs to america. bob is with us bob greifeld. can the companies bring the jobs back home to be profitable? expect that this tax plan is going to need money from overseas and companies for america? >> i think that donald trump will be good for the technology industry, as you said, we will be able to repatriate money back. a lot of that is concentrated in the companies. and as he has said before, h1b visas. it's hard for americans to relate to it, there's just not enough people primarily from the high-tech field. and as the nature of manufacturing changes it is of less people intensive. that is more reasonable proposition than it was 10 years ago. gary: i am watching a video, you know the players. most of them listed on the nasdaq. what do you think that they were all thinking when they got to trump tower? what you think happened behind a meeting? >> i would say that the meeting was symbolic. but there's also substance to it. we are saying t