Believed trapped in one of the last rebelheld areas, according to the United Nations, Regime Forces are executing men, women and children. The white house weighing in as well on the worst in a situation, the humanitarian crisis. Listen to what the White House Press secretary said just moments ago. The idea that you would target a playground and bomb kids hoping that you would then convince people to give up, because you would kill their kids . What kind of a sick mind comes up with a strategy like that . Much more on the disaster in aleppo coming up, but other stories were following including the trump transition titans of the tech world converge on trump tower. Next hour the president elect holds a roundtable. The focus, bringing tech jobs back to the United States, but sources say trade, immigration, Corporate Tax reform are also likely topics. Well plea view that meeting, update the latest cabinet picks coming up. Back to aleppo, breaking news. 24 hours ago there was a window a slight window of hope for the civilians. They thought there would be a chance to escape the bombing and the bloodshed. [ explosions ] that window slammed shut with the crash of artillery shells. Our Nick Paton Walsh takes us inside aleppo giving us a glimpse of light inside the destruction with an eye towards the Biggest Challenges to any kind of peace. Reporter the heart of the agony, where barrel bombs randomly hit doctors or children, where food became a weapon, has fallen to its persecutors. Eastern aleppo in regime hands is a turning point for the war. Here are three ways how. First, the rebels lost an important home. They have two choices to run to. A Turkish Backed enclave to the northeast, where rebels fight mostly isis, not the regime. Or the province where the syrian affiliate of al qaeda play as dominant role. This Group Formerly called the nusra front are being bombed and blacklisted by the United States. It would be hard for the west to give help to any rebels so physically close to al qaeda. A second big change happening, whats left now of those moderates who began this fight against assad . The russians and damascus havent and wont care either way. This is exactly what they want. To label all rebels as terrorists. Moscow tried this in chechnya to mixed success. Moderate separatists were targeted, radicals committed atrocities like this hostage crisis allowing moscow to pursue and only military solution against a movement they now call terrorists. It didnt end the problem. The radical came back nastier with isis now in southern russia. [ speaking in Foreign Language ] in fact, moscow must surely be concerned its savagery in aleppo may make more jihadists target it in years to come. All the same, with so many troops and so much firepower assembled now, why would the russian and Syrian Forces pack up and stop . The rebel stronghold, the city center seized only last year. Its just a half hour drive away. The third point is, that there isnt much of a reason to stop. The western alternative plan for syria is in collapse. Trumps minimal comments on syria have been focused on targeting isis. He seems to admire putin, making a kremlin regular his secretary of state nominee. Britain, france, the gulf, all seem less on syria as obama readies to leave office and look here for leadership on syria, but its new occupants may weringly inherent an affair comply handed to him elsewhere. Lebanon right now, Senior International correspondent Clarissa Ward joins us from london. The evacuation supposed to start hours ago. Has anyone been bused out . What can you tell us about whats happening there in aleppo right now . Reporter at this point, no. No evacuation appears to have occurred. In fact, the two mean tried to broker the deal, turkish president and russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and agree according to turkish state media the evacuation should still go ahead. Supposed to happen 12, 15 hours ago really and seems that some inconsistencies how the iranian militia perhaps on the ground, maybe the Syrian Regime, too, viewed this deal caused shelling to begin that stipiraled to an imminutes amount and now using car bombs to hold back the syrian army. Not the pause in fighting required to get the people out, trapped in that decreasing area held by rebel. We dont know the exact number. U. N. Put out a number 50,000 last night and qualified that say, no independent means of verifying it on the ground. Frankly, at this stage, thousands now, hearing from france, an aid group on the ground, sleeping in the streets, without food, water, finding shelter in cars and mosques. The most perilous moment indeed for people already in years through indiscriminate bombings, and now in a tiny area. The big difference now, the enemy trying to exterminate them is literally blocks away from them. Possibly the darkest moment yet in a war often defying the imagination. The next 24 hours ahead, crucial. Critical indeed. Clarissa, listen to the United States ambassador to the United Nations, samantha power. Delivered scathing remarks to the Syrian Regime and its allies, russians, hezbollah, those supporting bashar al assad. Listen to what she said about this current humanitarian crisis. Are you truly incapable of shame . Is there literally nothing that can shame you . Is there no act of barbarism against civilians . No execution of a child that gets under your skin that just creeps you out a little bit . Is there nothing you will not lie about or justify . Whereas, u. N. Man, you spent a lot of time in syria. Wuk walk us through the biggest concerns now for the people in syria as this war dramatically changes. We know what, maybe 400,000 people already have been killed over these past four, five years in this civil war. Those numbers will clearly increase . Reporter i think they are, wolf, sadly. Those are very powerful words that you heard from ambassador power, but the reality is that the u. S. Has been unwilling to get involved. And the russians have seized upon that impotence, they have doubled down on the regime of bashar al assad, to devastating effect in terms of the effect on civilians. I mean, you heard nic outlining whether thousand, tens you thousand, frankly, doesnt matter anymore. The reality, an eagreeigregious humanitarian outrage. No access to basic medicine and food. Its been going on for months. The International Community is paralyzed by it and something of a myopic sense we approach it as a Syrian Civil War a selfcontained irish were y eedo anything about. Whats happening is the most powerful cry to jihadists akrot the world. And many flooding into europe, syria will continue to be the Major National security danger and question of our time, wolf. Certainly will be. Claris clarissa, thanks. Nick paton walsh, thanks to you as well. More on this breaking story developments coming up later in the hour. Lets get to the trump transition here in the United States. The president elect meets next our with executives of Major Technology companies. The meeting includes the ceos from tesla and intel, cisco, oracle and ibm among others. Vice president elect mike pence, he arrived over at trump tower in new york city a few minutes ago and spoke about the progress with the transition team. Look forward to another productive day here at trump tower. I know the president elect is looking forward to welcoming some of the, some of the leading tech ceos inamerica to trump to youer to talk about how we can grow jobs in hightech across the country. Yesterday a great meeting with bill greats. And of course, were all very enthusiastic that governor rick perry has stepped forward to lead the department of energy. And that momentum and the pace of this transition will continue forward all the way into the holidays as we assemble a team that will make America Great again starting january 20th. The meeting with the hightech executives comes as the president elect moves closer and closer to filling all of his major cabinet and staff positions. One major spot that hasnt been filled yet is director of national intelligence. Our political reporter sara murray is outside trump tower in new york city joining us with more on the transition. Sara, whats on the agenda for the president elects meeting with these Tech Industry giants . Reporter well, it could be a very interesting atmosphere. Donald trump wants to go into this talking about how there should be more tech jobs in america. They should be creating these jobs here in the United States, rather han in countries abroad, and, look, the folks in these meetings are not all going to be people who see eye to eye with dpnt. Some very critical of him in the part and his transition officials have taken pains to highlight that, to point out that donald trump wants to get their view not just of those who agree with him, his vision and policy but those who disagree with him, to bring the different viewpoints to the table. Interesting to see how they all get along, but it does give you a sense of how donald trump does want to have an open line to the business community. Hes made that clear, obviously, in some of this cabinet picks not from government but rather big business nap is sort of the agenda he wants to set going into the white house, wolf. Sara, thanks very much. Much more on this coming up. Sara murray reporting from new york. Also coming up, a federal agency says that president elect must sell his stake in his washington, d. C. Hotel, or potentially hell fate conflict of interest the moment sworn into office. We have details. And show you why the u. S. 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Well, first of all, the cabinet selection that surprised the me the most was the secretary of state. Rex tillerson. I thought that he was going to go with someone more convention many, either a Committee Chairman or mitt romney who is not somebody we would have thought of at first, but certainly qualified. And it surprised me, because i think what trump did was got some recommendations from people, they respected, like condi rice or jim baker, or bob gates, and dick cheney, too. Came up with Rex Tillerson, met with him and then went with his gut, said, this is somebody i can do business with. What i really want to watch is how the generals react to the ceos in this administration. Because they have very different decisionmaking processes. I mean, generals see people as friends and enemies, and Business People see people as, can i do business with this guy or not . Can i negotiate with this guy or not . So around that table, its not so much going to be a team of rival, but a team of people who approach life differently, and its its going to be fascinating to watch. It could work or it could be an utter failure. Who knows. David, what does it say to you about the Incoming Trump administration . What surprised you, if anything . I think its the absence of surprise. That his choices reflect some aspect of his personality or his approach towards leadership. Having said that, Steve Mnuchin surprised me. Campaigned around the country, saying things he didnt like. The global order, wall street, you know, financial leads, all of those people, even his final ad with the whiff of antisemitism and a lot of people felt more than that about a kind of global order taking over our economy. Runs Goldman Sachs. So i think that surprised me, but the fact that he was rewarding a loyalist, something in keeping with trump, and on the Rex Tillerson front, its striking who he can do business with. Trump described him as somebody i were make a deal with. How hes approaching the cabinet picks to say nothing about the work theyll do. If they have the difficulty of running the country is not like running a business. And Steve Mnuchin is jewish, how does that collaborate with im not making saying a specter of antisemitism, when you have and ad that targets a global order, hurting our economy, harkening back to how hitler describes the jews and global earn prizes hurting germany in the runup to the third reich. Steve mnuchin is jewish, im not saying its right, but that his antipopulist message is not in keeping with someone whos a Senior Executive of Goldman Sachs in that position, his jewishness not that much of a factor. Saying that the populist message for trump was not consistent with putting in Goldman Sachs people. And another Goldman Sachs executive, president of Goldman Sachs, held of his National Economic council at the white house. Abby what, if anything, surprised you . In keeping with what david mentioned, a team of rivals emerging at the trump camp is something were going to encounter a lot. He seems to like establishing different types of people in different groups within his inner circle, but also a dynamic among his mope loyal supporters went through the toughest part of his campaign, stood by him, basically abandoned by everyone else and very distrustful of those new to the circletrump brought in a lot of new people, little history with trump and among his closest advisors. A dynamic, that trump fosters, aprese apprentice like in general. And a Rex Tillerson, and not like running a company. This is different. Running a National Security team, those are the things can restrain a team. And as these are all people used to being in charge, including his chief of staff, reince priebus. No longer in charge. Theres going to be a period of adjustment for these corporate leaders, and for these military leaders to suddenly discover, guess what . Theyre not in charge. Now, what trump often does, and has done historically, is he doesnt mind pitting people against each other. Because its darwinian to a great degree and we saw it play out on the apprentice of course. Im wondering if well see that as the cabinet dynamics take hold . Particularly in the National Security area. And credit here, underlined. The fact he is talking to very serious people, getting very serious advice about even what a lot of people would consider to be unconventional choices. And i think theres a level of rigor that hes applying to these, and its surprising, too, hes picked so many conservatives that are add odds with his views, you know, say about the minimum wage. For one example. I say one of the things that didnt actually surprise me was the choice of a lot of Business Leaders for traditionally political roles. Donald trump sees things in a similar way to someone like a Rex Tillerson. People who are on wall street and in finance, and he wants to bring that sensibility to washington. I was talking to trump voters at a recent focus group and asked what does drain the swamp mean to you . Not a Single Person mentioned finance as being a problem for them in terms of the swamp. Its very important for them to oust political insiders from some of these yes. And trump understands that. He is focusing on bringing in a different sensibility from a different part of the country, from a different industry into washington, and thats what youre seeing reflected. And these are all people who believe that government is not the answer to our problems. Right. Some of the people hes appointed, notably, of course, rick perry to run energy, he wanted to get rid of the department of energy. And so these are people when he could remember what it was but these are people who want smaller government, and i think theyre going to be in for a surprise, because a lot of outsiders, when they come to washington and get ready to leave will tell you that they were stunned at the difficulty of getting things done in washington. Right. And cutting through that bureaucratic red tape to get things done and if they can do that, more power to them, because, because its been tried and tried again and, again, these are ceos used to saying, i want this done, and on my desk tomorrow. And lets have it done. These guys dont represent politics as usual. Rex tillerson doesnt represent washington as usual, certainly. That, i think, accomplishes the goal of drai