influence over the area that s the soviet union and some in this country believes it is achievable. up next, dash hopes plan to evacuate of aleppo. after the break, we get the latest from that syrian city. you totanobody s hurt, new car. but there will still be pain.
with russia, going up against u.s. sanctions in russia for invading ukraine but the bottom line is as a businessman, he s done a different deal. different motivations. right. ayman, when you look at this and think about the fact, yuan receive unicef say 100 children are trapped under rubble in aleppo and we re complimenting his relationship with russia, do we have our head around where russia s allies are? what russia does and how different that is for a businessman and an actual diplomat to be interfacing with? i think ali said it appropriately saying when you re the head of a major corporation, you answer to your shareholders and the performance of the company. the secretary of state, the chief diplomat, you have to take into consideration values and that means you re going to look at the reports coming out of
up for the krell lmlin, i thoug this guy is not suit to be president. i m not a big fan of the electoral college but was set up precisely to allow for a group of people to deliberate and stop foreign interference, to stop somebody ascending to the office not qualified. and interestingly enough, the idea was that the electoral college would act against the popular will. say to the majority of americans, the guy you picked to be president is not going to be president. if the electoral college acted, they would act according to the wishes of the majority of americans. the fact the president is supposed to talk about business ties, and the questions about rex tillerson and aleppo people are getting killed and he had time, he doesn t have time for a press conference. he has time to meet with kanye west. things can t get any weirder,
shifting from oil to shale gas and so i think, and exxon was always concerned. they re in the fossil fuel business, no doubt, but he saw opportunities to reduce that significantly and he availed his company of that. i think that s to his credit. again, he s a realist on these things, he is not ideologue about national leaders or climate change. thank you for being with us. former board member at exxonmobil and senior fellow at harvard business school, cnbc contributor as well. tnk you for having me on your show. dangerous cold temperatures plunge across the country as the dreaded polar vortex grips tens of millions of americans. heartbreak in syria. calling the streets of aleppo hell on earth.
reports of mass killings and this is serious in aleppo this morning as pro-government forces, the forces of syrian president bashar al assad closing in on the last rebel held territory. civilians caught in the cross fire have been taken to social media describing harrowing scenes. they are bidding heartbreaking farewells, begging for the world s help. nbc foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin following the developments. ayman, this is, aleppo was a major, major city. it was the biggest city in syria. when it was fully populated, had 2 million people. it was considered the commercial capital, not the political capital but without a doubt, the commercial capital of syria. over the past couple of years, very emblematic of what happened in the country. complete divisions. rebel held part is completely collapsing. now the syrian regime overtaking 90% of rebel held territories. the syrian regime with