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 hightech 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 Stocks have been
to john bolton s attorney is basically saying you can t publish this book right now. now you have a dispute. in a normal environment there would be a meeting where john bolton would sit down with the national security team. john bolton has done this 30 years and he s saying there is nothing classified in here. that doesn t mean he isn t right but the president has the right to say this is classified. and you want to talk about meetings and even if he disagrees, and it is now left to the lawyers and publisher. there is a first amendment. do you decide you go full-speed ahead and in the context what we re about to see, a lot of questions will be this is now the proxy over debate of witnesses whether that s john bolton or john bolton s manuscript and here the legal step is making it clear, lock
launch missiles and rockets. do you launch your troops which is keeping them ready just in case? what now? i think it s important for our readiness that we continue to do these exercises. i do think we need to see if kim reacts in a military way and restarts missile launches, perhaps those nuclear tests. we don t know how he s going to react. one thing is for sure, though, just because he wasn t testing and he claimed he won t test in the future, doesn t mean he isn t trying. it doesn t mean he isn t still purchasing missile material and building more rockets. so he s going to continue to advance his program. i think there is some estimates that he built even several more missiles in just the period between singapore and hanoi. so his program is going to continue and the clock really, in my view, is on kim s side, not ours. that s one of the big problems, john, that i think president trump ran into here which is that he didn t get a
even though there is no testing doesn t mean he isn t trying. the intelligence community is clear he continues to develop his missile program and scientific research and he s still building and producing missiles. just because he is not testing doesn t mean he is not trying. one of the things we know the north koreans want is declaration of the end of the korean war, whether stand alone or peace treaty. from the united states perspective, what s wrong with that idea? i don t think there s anything wrong intrinsically with end of war declaration. let s talk about terminology. you have an armistice in place since 1963. and peace treaty that has to get ratified by the senate. i think they re talking end of war declaration. that in itself is not a bad idea but has to be carefully worded and need to be carve-outs that
numbers will probably harden as we get closer to 2020 as well. if you look at this gm news there s a couple things that i think are true at once. you could have auto workers who lose their job who could become big trump supporters. just because he hasn t delivered doesn t mean he isn t trying, doesn t mean that these folks don t feel he s fighting for them, but i think the other things that are difficult for him is, yes, he s made promises that he hasn t been able to keep as this protectionist who is going to push people around him, threatening mary baro of gm that she s messing with the wrong guy, for a president to be threatening a ceo that way. the other reality is think of what gm is doing. it s not just because of what s happening in the auto market which is across the industry, it s also the concern of a potential downturn that she s trying to protect the company against. it s that kind of head wind that is big trouble for the u.s. economy, for the markets and of course for any