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Number of unemployed black teens, the initiative is about young black men, has dropped by more than half. what did you hope race relations would look like at the end of eight years, his eight years in office? >> you know, i think a lot of people came into president obamas term in office thinking that a lot of things would change for the black community on the positive note. his legacy is going to be a mixed one, to be quite frank with you and a lot of people will have mixed emotions about whethe...

Being invited and what are your sources telling you about the story, is it true? >> i dont know if the story is exactly true. look, this is a group of people who have done things like this before. it could be true. they talked about there wasnt room at the table and twitter wasnt big which is kind of ridiculous. twitter is a gift from god to donald trump in this election and hes a tweet savant, like ive never seen anyone use twitter so effectively. so i think thats just -- i think theres probabl...

>> no, i dont think -- theres not going to be hard feelings. they didnt win and their candidate did not win. thats besides the point. the point is, first of all, i dont know what the bounce is, im still trying to figure that particular thing out. >> maybe the stephen colbert bounce. i think he means the stock market. >> the fact theyre doing well, theyve done kind of well, the internet companies, google, the whole company seems to be doing well. the problem is these people have a lot of issues b...

He continues to do whatever he can do to uplift our community. >> charles, what does this tell us about obamas involvement in public life under a trump presidency, he thought hed be handing it off to hillary clinton who would continue his policies. now he is, you know, clearly has to keep the flame alive. he needs to do it on his own. >> yeah, but for the very first time i ever heard him talk about this in private, i knew immediately he was going to continue to do it after his presidency and in ...

So thats what it was. it was a very nice photo op and i dont think very much was said. ive 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 dont 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. ...

Ways that silicon valley can help this country and create jobs and do all kinds of things and how technology can help us all and i think by being acquiescent and not speaking up, well see. if there is more meetings like this going forward. theres supposed to be one quarterly. well see if they speak out, if theres issues around immigration, for example, or, you know, or encryption, boy, thats going to be some fight if that continues to go forward. theres a lot of things that silicon valley really...

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Do you think he could actually be an ally in the trump administration because hes not a climate change denier? >> i dont -- you know, rex tillerson is better than his predecessor, rex tillerson came in in 2006 and ended a lot of the connections, the support that exxon was giving to these climate denier groups but theyre continuing to pave climate denier groups even today and theyve had a 50-year propaganda campaign. exxonmobil has known, we now know since the late 1970s that global warming was g...

Them saying nothing publicly about even attending the summit, nor making it clear beforehand that there are some key issues that are just not negotiable. thats why the leaders of tech should be ashamed of themselves for lining up like sheeple after all the numb skull attacks trump has made on pretty much the united states most important, innovative and future-forward business sector. i mean, why dont you say how you really feel there? >> well, don, we only go around this world once. you got to s...

But it did alter him fundamentally and make him look at these -- at this group of people and he saw how much of an impact that he was personally having on the black community in terms of image and, like, people being able to look at the white house and say, theres somebody there who looks like me and those little boys would try to rub his hair and make sure that it felt like theirs. he -- he was changed by that. he understands that he has a particular power and potency in the black community and...