weeping here in san francisco that he s not there. i do think they feel there s a lot of issues like repatriation of all mat money. billions and billions of dollars they want back in this country of income. there s all kinds of things they want so they have to cooperate. it s a republican administration, a republican congress, republican governorships everywhere. they have to reach out and cooperate with him. i don t think they had a choice to go. i just feel they could have been more firm given how powerful they are as people, how rich they are, how influential they are that they could have just said a few things, especially around immigration, and some other issues that are near and dear to the hearts of most of the workers of silicon valley. you think it was appropriate for the three older children to participate in this meeting? no. not at all. i mean, can you imagine, this is tim cook, ceo of apple, ceo of google, elon musk, a real visionary leader. these are serious businesse
public companies. they have it be seen as cooperative. a lot of people in silicon valley don t like that. a lot of engineers there was just a petition put out by a lot of engineers here that s saying we don t want to cooperate with a lot of these things that the trump administration has been talking about. like registries of muslims and various things. they ll never cooperate. it s going to be an interesting fight in silicon valley because it s supposed to about tolerance, diversity, immigrants. immigrants built silicon valley. the question is can they stick with their values, alleged values and the same time cooperate with some things that might rub them the wrong way? we ll see if they have the guts to do that. i wonder if they re worried about twitter ceo, jack dorsey, he wasn t invited today because apparently trump s people were angry at dorsey, he allegedly rejected an ad with a custom emoji of his #crookedhillary. they were concerned about not
sure, but the person who got him across the finish line who was successful electing the president was a woman. charles, looking at his cabinet picks, why do you think trump and his team have chosen primarily white ceos and military men as advisers? i mean, let s start with this, that is, at that level of government, there s no shortage of people who are qualified to do those particular jobs. it boils down to each president making a personal decision about who they feel most comfortable with, who they feel they can work with, who would advance their policies. if the vast majority of the people you feel comfortable with are people who look like you, who have the same cultural, economic experience as you, a lot of millionaires and billionaires in there, that says something about you. and you have to then do some work, some self-reflective work about what is this saying about me if i feel most comfortable with people who are the most like me? because that is the exact opposite of wha
you talk to sources on both sides, don, they said, look, there s a recognition that both sides need one another, it s a relationship they have to have over the course of the next four years. this was the first stop of this process. there are going to be disagreements and there certainly are on issues like immigration. some issues on taxes. but this was the start of a dialogue that will happen, quarterly from here on out, don. phil, there is a lot of discussion about the role of donald trump s children in this meeting. what andcan you tell us about t? reporter: jared kushner was in the meeting, ivanka trump in the neat imeeting. they re going to move down to d.c. and have a role there. the big question marks were that eric trump and don jr. were also in this meeting. these are the individuals that the president-elect, himself, tweeted earlier this week would be responsible for running the trump organization. it s not just in this meeting with tech titans, it was also eric trump was
people came into president obama s term in office thinking that a lot of things would change for the black community on the positive note. his legacy is going to be a mixed one, to be quite frank with you and a lot of people will have mixed emotions about whether he did enough, whether he was quote/unquote, black enough and whether he used his political capital enough for the community. what i will say is any time the president used the bully pulpit to address issues and directly impact the black community is a positive thing. that s why i was also proud when president-elect trump talked about specific issues with the black community. some may go back and forth on whether or not he used the right tone or the right messaging, but i think it s always important that people in these leadership positions are always talking and trying to find solutions to do something about unemployment, to have mentoring programs and to actually uplift our community because we have to be focused on the leas