thank you very much. at the top of the hour, thank you for joining us. donald trump is filling his cabinet but will the most powerful in the white house be his children? this is cnn tonight. i m don lemon. donald junior, ivanka and eric trump all at the meetings. donald junior helped interview candidates for interior secretary, and ivanka trump will reportedly take on some of the duties normally assigned to the first lady. is there a line between the trump family and business and the oval office? i want to begin right now with phil mattingly live for us at trump tower. good evening to you. what can you tell us about the tech summit at trump tower. it was the titans of silicon valley representing facebook, apple, google. the most interesting element is almost all of these individuals were deeply opposed to donald
a tech summit at trump tower today, the president-elect meeting with top silicon valley executives from amazon, tesla, apple, facebook and others. after being at odds for months. here to discuss, kara swisher. she is the executive editor of ricoh. thank you for coming on. thanks for having me. that photo op of the top tech leaders meeting with trump, what do you think this is all about? a photo op. that s what i think it s about. so that s what it was. it was a very nice photo op and i don t think very much was said. i ve talked to a number of people who were there and nothing happened. and words like very productive came out of it, so that could give you a clue, none of the tech leaders talked about it after they left and they ran out pretty quickly. so i don t think anything happened. it was just a large photo op and good for donald trump for getting them all in a room, peter thiel, really, who is his major tech helper. what did they get out of it?
all three of the children were at the tech summit. eric trump was present for at least one of the meetings with mitt romney. is this too close for comfort? i don t have an issue with the family being involved in giving him counsel. my issue is the family is involved in giving him counsel at the same time they re running their businesses. in cnn money they did a breakdown. i believe trump has business or ties with 500 different companies and of those 150 have done business in 25 foreign countries. that s the issue. jared kushner providing help to his father-in-law is not the issue. jared kushner running his company at the same time as having a desk inside the west wing, that s an issue. and there is precedent for criticizing of a president for having his family in charge of important policy. remind us of bill and hillary clinton. hillary clinton did health care in 1993.
nominated. president elect will be holding a bit of a tech summit at trump tower with some of the biggest names in technology including tesla, elan mask, tim cook of amazon, safra catz of oracle and sheryl sandberg of facebook. lots of people in and out yesterday a battle may be brewing over mr. trump s pick of tillerson as secretary of state. will marco rubio expressing quote serious concerns ore tillerson s russia. the conflict of interest as a serious sense of america s interests and an advocate for foreign policy goal.
winning again. you are going to go, cann t stand waning this much. they will say, i am sorry. you have to go back and tell them we are going to keep winning and winning and winning whether they like it or not. he will announce two other cabinet selections. rick perry expected to be nominated as department of energy. montana republican congressman ryan zinke who serves on house of natural resources is expected to be nominated for secretary of interior. after that he will only have two cabinet seats remaining veterans affairs and agriculture. the president elect will continue outreach efforts among business leaders and will be holding a tech summit of sorts with some of silicon valley s