A ceasefire a ceasefire reached and quickly discarded. The syrian army upon orders from strongman Bashar Al Assad continues to drop bombs on its own people. Evacuations were supposed to be part of the now defunct ceasefire agreement. That did not happen. Heres how one resident describes it. Listen for the shelling in the background. Were covering all angles of this story. Our chief International CorrespondentChristiane Amanpour is in london. Id like to start with senior International CorrespondentFrederik Pleitgen who just got back from syria. Take it away, fred. Hi, kierl. Yeah, youre right. Its not just fighting thats broken out again in aleppo its very heavy fighting that has broken out. The latest that were getting is that some activists are saying as many as 100 artillery shells have fallen on that very small enclave that the rebels still hold in that town. The government is saying that six people have also been killed on the government side by shelling thats been going on the other way. But were also hearing that the government is using air strikes, as well, of course the civilians, once again, the ones who are suffering under all of this. And keep in mind it was supposed to be an agreement that would see the evacuation of those civilians and those fighters in place right now but that agreement seems to have broken down. Heres what happened. After years of holding out against Syrian Government forces, and months trying to fight off a massive final assault, the last remaining rebels and civilians are set to leave aleppo. Allegedly guaranteed safe passage in return for full government control of this ancient city. The past weeks have been among the most brutal in the fiveyear civil war. As proassad forces kept taking chunks of territory away from the opposition, tense of thousands of civilians fled. A mass exodus under fire that i witnessed first hand. There is a massive, almost avalanche of people trying to make it to safety. As you can see, there are people who are carrying their children but a lot of children left to make the trek themselves. So difficult for many of them. Of course, theyve been under siege for such a long time. Aleppo is among the oldest cities in the world. Syrias Cultural Center and was the countrys economic powerhouse. A melting pot of cultures with a prewar population of more than 2 million people. The thriving cosmopolitan city was a source of pride for syria. It was also one of the first places where the rebels managed to hold any territory in the face of a government crackdown. After years of fighting, what is left in many places is complete destruction. Whole neighborhoods flattened, including most of the ancient old city. The rebels retreat from aleppo wont end syrias civil war. Opposition fighters still hold large parts of the country and isis is advancing in others. But the oppositions defeat would mark a major victory for syrian president Bashar Al Assad and their backers cementing their grip of what is left on this wartorn nation. And it was the russians and turks instrumental in bringing this ceasefire together and they say theyre trying to work to try to reestablish it. To try to make sure that the weapons are silenced once again. Honestly with every second goes by, with every air strike that happens was less likely and once again civilians caught suffering under the heavy fighting. Fred pleitgen, thank you very much. Christiane, syria is so far away from many americans. They look at these pictures and feel sorry about it. You tell us in your words why americans should care about what happens in syria . Well, carol, obviously on the humanitarian level its something that people all over the world should care about. Because of what the other countries are not doing to stop this. So it is a very, very dark stain on the conscience of the international community. I think also in absolute practicality not only do have a country destroyed in a very vital part of the middle east you have a vast area of terrorism that can rear its head again and of course never get an endless torrent of refugees who are forced out of their own country that can no longer help them and forced into europe. And indeed american politics on its head in terms of the fear of refugees, the hatred of all these people coming in, and given rise to a lot of the populist Political Sentiment that we have been seeing over the last year. So for all those reasons, its massively important. I dont know how many civilians have died in syria. Tens of thousands, and that includes women and children. I know you recently visited a hospital. Are there working hospitals in syria in this part of syria anymore . Well, carol, to be honest with you, i visited by skype, its incredibly difficult as you know for any western journalists to get behind the lines where the rebels are. Fred was incredibly fortunate to do his great work over the last week showing the perspective from the assad side as those forces were going in to capture that part of besieged oppositionheld eastern aleppo. So in order to get behind those lines, weve had to talk to people by skype. And there were very few actual hospitals, in fact. There were what people called sort of makeshift medical centers that they set up in basements, you know, they had barely any electricity. Barely any running water. Also the jerryrigged operations to try to help the wounded. Even those have gone by the by now that the push has gone almost to the very last corner of oppositionheld eastern aleppo. But just play you one doctor who was one of the Emergency Center directors, who we reached yesterday, and he has heard firsthand, he said, about these extra judiciary summary killings of civilians. Listen to what he told us just last night. The west side of aleppo also, which are taking control over execution have been committed, yesterday about 20 person in the morning and another 17 in the evening, and there was women and children among them. So these are incredibly dire and brutal eyewitness accounts. Of course the United Nations has also been talking about this kind of thing. But they havent actually been able to have an independent investigation, an independent verification. Theyre relying on sources. But this is the kind of carnage that we saw in bosnia more than 20 years ago. You remember the destruction and the executions in srebrenica that led to war crimes trials and convictions. So this is incredibly serious what is happening right now. And obviously the actors on the ground are responsible. Russia, iran, and the others and the militias there. But the west is also responsible for failing to do anything to try to end this war over the last 5 1 2 years. And thats really been a problem. Because the diplomacy has not worked. And there has been no serious attempt to change it by military means, whereas obviously as you know the russians have put their massive military might behind the assad regime. All right, Christiane Amanpour reporting for us this morning. Thank you. The donald trump era taking shape in washington and apparently in full bloom in wisconsin. Thats the latest stop on his thank you tour and the setting for a show of unity with the states native son House Speaker paul ryan but the wisconsin crowd apparently not foregetting ryans reluctance to embrace his partys nominee. Listen to their reaction as the president elect extends an olive branch. Speaker paul ryan, ive really come to oh, no, i come to appreciate him. Speaker paul ryan. Where is he . He has been terrific. You know honestly, hes like a fine wine. Every day goes by i get to appreciate his genius more and more. Now if he ever goes against me, im not going to say that, okay . Cnns Sunlen Serfaty live in washington for more. Good morning. Good morning to you, carol. That campaignstyle rally last night with president elect donald trump and speaker ryan also notable because we saw donald trump really use this platform to push for his secretary of state nominee rex tillerson, who, of course, has really caused an uproar on capitol hill among Many Democrats but notably among many prominent republicans, as well. We saw donald trump really go out of his way last night to defend his pick, without mentioning his specific ties to russia, which, of course, is the source of so much of the contention on capitol hill. Heres more of what donald trump said last night in wisconsin. Rex will be a fierce advocate for americas interests around the world. And has the insights and talents necessary to help reverse years of Foreign Policy blunders, and disasters. Very excited about rex. And you know, rex is friendly with many of the leaders in the world that we dont get along with. And some people dont like that. They dont want him to be friendly. Now, today at trump tower, the president elect will be convening an interesting meeting, a summit of sorts with some of the top executives from the tech world at trump tower. Were talking about people like tim cook, sheryl sandberg, elon musk and jeff bezos. Many of whom notably were very vocal against donald trump and his campaign over the last year and a half. Now one name you will not see on this list is twitter and the twitter ceo were not invited to that meeting today. One thing also in the mix today, carol, interesting potentially today is we now know that donald trump has been receiving these briefings from his Incoming National security adviser michael flynn. As you may remember that has been reported that on average, trump himself has only receiving one pdb, these president ial daily intelligence briefings. Now we know according to transition officials that michael flynn, his National Security adviser, is getting these briefings himself daily, and hes briefing the president elect. Three times a week. Carol . So hes sort of the middle man between the Intelligence Officers and donald trump . The twitter thing caught my ear. So why, why wasnt the ceo of twitter invited to this tech meeting . Yeah, this is really interesting. I think it is notable, and i think its certainly caught everyones eye the fact that jack dorsey and anyone from twitter left off the invitee list. Notable because Donald Trumps affinity for twitter, how much he relied on it during the campaign and relied on it during the transition, and potentially during his presidency, as well. Left off the list, we know that the meeting today is to talk about jobs and certainly a grab bag of other topics but no response as to why theyre not there. Interesting. Im sure youll delve into it later today. Sunlen serfaty, thanks so much. Still to come in the newsroom, donald trump promises to drain the swamp. Our next best wants to lead the Bucket Brigade and he said much of it can be done with the stroke of a pen. He will explain. Plus the department of energy refusing to give team trump the flames of Climate Change employees. Later this hour well talk to the Union President representing those fearful workers. There is no typical day. There is nothing typical about making movies. Im victoria alonso and im an executive producer. At marvel studios. We are very much handson producers. If my office. Becomes a plane or an airport the surface pros perfect. Fast and portable but also light. You dont do this 14 hours a day, 7 days a week for. Decades if you dont feel it in your heart. Listen, i know my super power is to not ever sleep. Thats it. Thats the only super power i have. Cheers for donald trump in wisconsin and boos for native son House Speaker paul ryan. Hundreds showed up for a Trump Victory rally near milwaukee including paul ryan who was no fan of donald trump during the election. How times have changed. It was before i had my drivers license the last time wisconsin went republican. This is amazing. I want to thank donald trump. I want to thank mike pence. For helping wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, the midwest finally see the light of day and put a republican back in the white house. Joining me now to talk about that and more, North Carolina congressman mark meadow, also a member of the Freedom Caucus and a republican or hes chairman of the Freedom Caucus. Welcome, sir. Thank you. Its good to be with you, carol. Nice to have you here. You once considered replacing paul ryan as speaker because he did not support trump. Are you confident now that he will work in concert with the president elect . Well you know ive had a number of conversations with the speaker and i can tell you that were unified here in washington, d. C. About draining the swamp that you were talking about. Making sure that washington, d. C. Works on behalf of the American People. So im very confident were going to be looking for a unified republican majority on january 3rd. And really get down to business on day one and so yeah a lot of things were said in the past. I think you can see from last night its really all about making sure that we hit the road, and do the hard work on day one. Hit the ground running. I know youve put together a landing book for trump. What exactly is that . Well you know what we believe is as weve got a number of issues that their transition seem is looking at that goes across a number of different agencies, you know, weve actually worked real hard to come up with some 21page report to give to the Trump Transition Team that actually will look at rules and regulations. Things that can make our first 100 days the most productive. Its important that we let him know what was happening here on capitol hill. Just as much as what was happening in the executive branch. Also is it in that book . Because you say there are 200 regulations that mr. Trump can eliminate without congressional approval. Is that part of that book . It is. Weve got 21 pages. Right now its up to 232 recommendations in terms of rules and regulations. Many of them would save tens of billions of dallas just with the stroke of a pen taking some of the overreach that weve seen in the executive branch allowing our businesses to get back to work. So the list continues to grow. But we felt like it was important to put together a real working document where they can actually look at that, make decisions, its truly an executive Branch Decision well let me ask you this. These 200 regulations you say mr. Trump can eliminate them without congressional approval with the stroke of a pen he can get rid of them. But isnt that what you criticized barack obama for doing . Well, im glad you brought that up, carol. Because one of the interesting things is theres two different rules. One is a legislative role. The other is an executive branch role. And were not suggesting the overreach, because that would be hypocrisy in the first degree. What were really looking at is the overreach that weve seen in the last eight years actually rolling that back. These are some regulations that really can have an administrative fix that dont have a legislative fix in mind. To give you one ridiculous example. The fda were sitting here working with epipens and Everything Else that have real Health Concerns and yet weve got regulations on the size of breath mints. Those kind of things just bog down the regulatory process, so most of the recommendations are much more egregious than that. The fiduciary rules the reason im asking, and im sure there are some ridiculous regulations on the book. Im not arguing with you there. But im also sure there are some regulations in your landing book that democrats might not be all into, right . Oh, without a doubt. So again isnt it kind of hypocritical to say donald trump just gets rid of them without congressional approval because arent republicans doing the same thing as they accuse democrats of doing when president obama was in the was in the white house . Well, i can tell you from an article and a constitutional standpoint youll find no one that is going to be more vigorous in making sure that we rebalance that power on a legislative and executive branch. What weve tried to do is focus purely on those things that have an executive priority that dont have a legislative role. Anything that actually should require congress to act, we left off of this 21page report so i think that youll find that even as you go through with a fine tooth comb, it is one that actually balances that power in the appropriate manner. But its a valid point. Well, and another and another just question for you. Sure. Lawmakers are a check on the president of the united states. So wouldnt you want lawmakers to be involved in this . Like, wouldnt you want that . Isnt that helpful for our country . Well, i can tell you that weve had a number of us on the house Freedom Caucus who have been going through these rules and regulations. Ill give you a prime example. In 2013 there were 72 bills that passed the house, the senate, and were signed into law. That same year there were over 3500 regulatory laws that were put into effect. So if you think that you can you can act on a congressional level as quickly as the executive branch, you know, history shows us that thats not the case yeah, but thats not to take a check and balance out of the system, is it . Well, its not taking a check and balance out of the more expedient with the president to do it with the stroke of a pen instead of lawmakers sitting down doing the work. Well, were doing the work. And, and i think youre missing one critical point. And that is, is that anything that is legislative in its jurisdiction, were going to fight vigorously to make sure that we keep that here. The other is, its rules and regulations that are the purview of the executive branch. You know, the executive branch has had the ability to write rules and regulations going back all the way to george washington. The Supreme Court has upheld that. And so as we look at that. Its helping identify some of those that are uniquely theirs, and the rest is keeping those legislative prio