That donald trump has filled as of this morning. His former rival turned supporter is now his nominee to head up the department of housing and urban development. Ben carson becomes the first africanamerican nominated to Donald Trumps cabinet. Vice president elect mike pence talked about carson moments ago. We are excited to have dr. Carson as our intended nominee for housing and urban development. We are looking forward to another very productive week to the transition thats setting a historic pace. Lets go live for more to cnns Jessica Schneider outside trump tower. Lets go back to china real quick. What is the transition saying this morning about the president elects comments . Reporter well, you know, they are not saying much. We can glean alone from Donald Trumps conversation with the leader of taiwan on friday as well as his subsequent tweets, of course, that controversial call, tenminute phone call on friday, then a slew of tweets over the weekend criticizing china. But of course
Them from facebook and tell everyone affected. As for past activity, i dont have all the examples of apps weve banned here, but if youd like, i can have my team follow up with you after this this. Have you ever required an audit to ensure the deletion of improperly transferred data and if so, how many times . Mr. Chairman, yes we have. I dont have the exact figure on how many times we have, but overall the way weve enforced our platform policies in the past is we have looked at patterns of how apps have used our apis and accessed information as well as looked into reports that people have made to us about apps that might be doing sketchy things. Going forward, were going to take a more proactive position on this and do much more regular spot checks and other reviews of apps as well as increasing the amount of audits that we do. Again, i can make sure our team follows up on anything about the specific past stats that would be interesting. I was going to assume that sitting here today yo
From the pentagon while meeting the Dutch Defense minister but was noncommittal when asked about the alleged syrian attack. Do you have evidence that the assad regime carried out that attack . Were still assessing the intelligence ourselves and our allies. Were still working on this. Are you military ready right now . Weve been ready to provide military options at the appropriate, as the president determined. But thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Reporter the u. S. Already has a guided missile destroyer in position off the coast of syria. The uss donald cook has 75 tomahawk missiles on board and 20 surface to air missiles in the event that russian airplanes try to challenge it. Then theres the french already in position with about 16 cruise missiles on board. One of the first phone calls President Trump made after indications of a chemical weapon attack emerged was to the french president. Now satellite images obtained from internall
Flipped, the mooueller team mad it clear that they wanted information on potential collusion of trump and the the russians meaning it is not about paul man na forth and to be clear, nbc does not confirm this, but we know that mueller is using gates to tie the campaign directly with the russians, and we showed you on the program this new court filing that gates is saying that gates was directly communicating with someone who had ties to the mueller a administration. And so gates had no choice but to flip, a san diego this information coming from directly are around someone around gates . That we dont know, but we have hints of the other angles that he is investigating. Today, a trump ally was detained at boston airport, and asked about contact with, yes, roger stone, and with wikileaks coming amidst other reports that mueller is asking about contacts of the russians and the Rnc Convention and the trump team. And this is having investigate r for thes worried that trump could lash out and
Good morning, everyone. Its thursday, december 20th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian. We begin with the president s decision to announce that he was ordering the withdrawal of all u. S. Ground forces from syria within 30 days, writing, we have defeated isis in syria, my only reason for being there during the trump presidency. That was followed up with another tweet including a video which was shot by a government camera without any press being present. Weve been fighting for a long time in syria. Ive been president for almost two years and weve really stepped it up and we have won against isis. Weve beaten them and weve beaten them badly. Weve taken back the land and now its time for our troops to come back home. These are great heros of the world because they fought for us. But theyve killed isis, who hurts the world. Weve proud to have done it. Thats the president s claim, that isis is totally defeated. It actually does not appear to be backed by evidence on the groun