the travel ban. more planned protests are expected else where across the country today. now to the west coast where there is also a protest expected. nbc s katie beck is at l.a.x. airport in los angeles. what s happening there? reporter: that protest isn t scheduled to start for another few hours. we haven t seen them arrive yet. what we have seen is immigration attorneys who are here in the airport, at the arrival gate who are offering free services to those folks who will be transitioning into the country. there s a flight arriving from saudi arabia and they will be trying to reach out to the folks, asking them if they need food, water or if they need legal services. these folks are definitely here to help and they re doing this on a volunteer basis. as for that protest, they sent out a call to action yesterday. saying we cannot take our foot off the gas. we need to be at the airport tomorrow. the worst thing that can happen is to growired in the issue.
the election and had election summaries in brussels and london and australia and this happened to be in moscow. work with client base and chambers of commerce there. report from the fox hole of america. did the business leaders see you as envoy for the president-elect? you ve been on television many times as donald trump surrogate. well, i think people may see me as someone who knew and followed the election. i have the honor of also working with john boehner, trent lott, rodney slater, lot of good people on both sides of the aisle. when they see us, often think of us identified with a particular candidate. in this case as you know i had the horn of following the campaign on a volunteer basis
trent lott. a lot of really good people on both sides of the aisle. when say see us theys often see us identified with a particular candidate and as you know i had the honor of following the campaign on a volunteer basis every single day. and was tried to keep up to speed on all of the issues as well as i could. so in your conversations with russia, did you talk the possibility of trump lifting sanctions against russia? sanctions related to russian aggression in ukraine is this. i think the big overarching theme was that for american businesses in russia, they do about $50 billion a year, these are fortune 500 companies that have been there 20 to 30 years and they have weatherered a lot of political stormed and high security type issues and they
in order to be an if he can tef president. do you have an issue with ivanka trump taking part in the meeting with prime minister abe when he visited the president-elect and also at the same time her representatives were apparently meeting according to the new york times, meeting in tokyo with people on her branding decisions for her company. well, i do think she needs to keep separate whatever work she wants to do on a volunteer basis or otherwise for the united states government in the transition and whatever she wants to do for her business. the two should never be combined in discussions. we don t want to talk trump family business side by side with talking about global warming or any other issue. that said, i think she has a constructive attitude toward a lot of the issues including global warming. as do many prominent business people. we want them to have a seat at the table. we want to keep trump business separate from the nation s business. absolutely critical.
know, i am soft spoken. i do have a tendency to be relaxed. i wasn t always like that. there was a time when i was you know, very volatile, but you know, i changed. when was that? as a teenager. i would go after people with rocks and bricks and baseball bats and hammers and of course, many people know the story when i was 14 and tried to stab someone. and you know, fortunately you know, my life has been changed and i m a very different person now. it was a rocky weekend for the presidential campaign of jeb bush. on friday, bush s campaign revealed it is cutting its payroll by 40%, slashing its budget and downsizing its miami headquarters with some senior staffers working on a volunteer basis. one anonymous bush fund-raiser told the washington post it feels very much like a death spiral and it breaks my heart. i don t know anyone who wants to reinvest now.