of the policy. critics complained it allows companies to hire cheaper foreign workers instead of americans. most of the 85,000 people granted the visa each year work in tech. but exactly how the president plans to reform the program isn t yet known. the uncertainty is what is really driving the fear because nobody really is clear on what s going to happen. reporter: michael solomon runs ten x management and says foreigners in tech are trying to get into the u.s. fast or figure out what to do if they re already in the country but forced to leave. he says trump s policies and rhetoric could impact silicon valley s reputation as the best place in the world for tech talent. we are going to see a tarnishing of those images if we continue to have this anti-immigration sentiment. reporter: solomon also says there is just not enough qualified americans to fill out all the jobs that the tech world needs. so if companies can t find the
conference he was not that sincere or looked uncomfortable trying to walk back comments. . he seemed uncomfortable about comments on putin. he never said and hasn t said that russia intervened in the election. he said you saying it comes across less sincere. he said i stand with my intelligence and especially the leaders that i put in. he didn t say i disagree with president putin. he told me he denied involvement, but the foreign leader is going to deny that his involvement. can you imagine putin saying to the president oh, yes, we did intervene in your election? president trump is either naive which i don t think he is, or he decided that for the sake of his own domestic standing, he will side with a foreign leader because if he didn t it would imply a tarnishing of his election in 2016 and that is tragic for the nation. robert, john brennan saw it
territories that most politicians would say is not the place they want to go. he embraces incendiary public fights because he believes it fuels his own power and he always wants to assert strength, even in a situation as delicate and tragic as this one. peter baker, the question about exposure, all the ancillary damage to the people in his circle, perhaps people on capitol hill far from the white house. and i would argue that we ve already seen this past weekend something of a tarnishing of the good name of general kelly who is now known for this episode. oh, oh, peter? yeah, i m here, exactly right. i thought you were going to play a tape. you re exactly right. general kelly had a sterling reputation going into this. he was seen as the grown up who was going to steer the president
place they want to go. he embraces incendiary public fights because he believes it fuels his own power and he always wants to assert strength, even in a situation as delicate and tragic as this one. peter baker, the question about exposure, all the ancillary damage to the people in his circle, perhaps people on capitol hill far from the white house. and i would argue that we ve already seen this past weekend something of a tarnishing of the good name of the general kelly, who is now known for this episode. ut-oh. peter? yeah. i m sorry. i thought you were going to play a tape from general kelly. you re exactly right. general kelly had a sterling reputation going into this. he was seen as the grown up in the white house who was going to steer the president toward safer ground are politically and instead what happened last week was he came out and seeped to throw more fuel on that
the question is simply a yes or no question here. did the president share classified information with the russians in that meeting? we don t say what s classified. what s not classified. what i will tell you again is what the president shared was wholly appropriate. national security adviser h.r. mcmaster defending president trump after reports the president had shared that classified intelligence with the russians in the oval office. mcmaster s carefully phrased defense prompted headlines containing tough words like tarnishing and corruption to criticize a three-star army general who when he replaced mike flynn was praised as an independent tough voice, one of the soldier scholars of his generation. with me a man who has known mcmaersk for years, retired four-star general barry mccaffrey, decorated combat