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tonight, and he is coming off a summit with some of the people who were his strongest detractors during the campaign. senior national correspondent john roberts is outside trump tower again tonight. good evening, john. bret, good evening to you. it was the highest profile summit yet at trump tower, which is directly behind this bus behind me, and also the highest dollars. donald trump played host to high-tech billionaires, most of whom actively campaigned against him in the election. well, i just want to thank everybody. reporter: it was a crowd that just weeks ago had been openly hostile to donald trump. amazon founder jeff bezos who during the campaign claimed trump was eroding the democratic process. apple ceo tim cook who raised millions for hillary clinton. facebook coo sheryl sandberg also backed hillary clinton, as did tesla and spacex founder, elon musk. today trump urged them all to put political differences aside and focus on growing the economy, point out tech sto ....
then president obama had seven new cabinet level officials confirmed. trump only as of right now has two. do you think that you re going to be able to stop some of his nominees, or are you just trying to slow down the process? well, let me say this. first, this cabinet is unusually unique and a lot different than others. we call it the swamp cabinet, billionaires and bankers. the number of wealthy people, the number of people rife with conflicts of interest and the number of people who have disagreed with what trump has campaigned on is so much more than just any other cabinet we ve seen, and so that means they need thorough review. thorough review so they don t have conflicts of interest, thorough reviews so we know, for instance, is dr. price going to try to privatize or end medicare when trump campaigned against it? and and are republican colleagues, i don t blame them with this cabinet, have tried to rush it through. advise and consent does not mean very easily be conf ....
and glove with the president on selling the healthcare plan, the president sends out four tweets about predecessor wiretapping him. did that help or hurt? that was not part of the campaign trail. how far off course did that take you? i think it was there s really often into new territory. there is part of what the intelligence kmo committee is investigating. late today, the justice department told them it immediate more time to review the request. the spokesperson sean spicer said the president made the stupid charge. spicer dodged some of the wiretapped him. now they are trying to weasel out of it. i think the grown up here is mccain who saying put up or shut up. they have gotten away with the fantasy that there were 3 million fraudulent votes casts. this president does not get called into account for putting out false statements. even though it involves something of historic magnitude an it doesn t seem to stick with donald trump when he fly out lie ....
with a board and publicly available stocks. it has been, at the core, more of a family business. in later years, some would argue more of a licensing business and so we have this core relationship. a lot of people can t blame the president for saying the closest thing i have to a cabinet or board of directors is my family. we re seeing a president run his administration and effectively the entire federal government the same way he ran a small private business with no stock holders, no board no oversight at all really and this is where he s comfortable. you have to step back. all the things rachel said about ivanka trump are true. she s been very successful in the business world sort of in the same way her father has been. but you have to step back and say what is her credential tool be in the west wing effecting policy, advising the president. she s a senior a person as there is now all because she is the president s daughter. this move may mollify some of the complaints a ....
the car then crashed near parliament and at least one man, armed with a knife, continued the attack into parliament. sadly, i can confirm that now four people have died. that includes the police officer who was watching parliament and one man we believe to be the attacker, who was shot by a police officer. the officer s family have been made aware. at least 20 people have been injured. as part of long established and well rehearsed plans, parliament has been locked down. that response included uniformed foreign officers. we now of course have an on going operation on what we currently believe there was only one attacker. i m sure the public will understand that we re taking every precaution in locking down and searching the area as thoroughly and exhaustively as possible. and i know that the officials working within parliament are in the area completely understand the need to do this and i thank them for their patience and their support. this investigation has the full weight ....