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 doing pretty well
to say no. Also in the running is south Dakota Republican congresswoman christey noe. While she said shed prefer to stay in congress, she might have a kdifficult time declining. Trump has promised to revamp the structure and culture of the va. That will require a unique candidate. Despite the delay, trump remains well ahead of most of his recent predecessors in naming his cabinet. On the latest stop in his thank you tour in wisconsin last night, donald trump publicly buried the hatchet with House Speaker paul ryan. The two finally appearing on stage together. And when Trump Supporters booed ryan. The President Elect leapt to his defense, albeit with a caveat. 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. All have ties to Oil Producing states. Scott pruitt has even questioned Climate Change itself. I think the president s view is that Policy Making should be guided by science and that the Policy Makers should be listening to scientists, both inside the government and outside the government. Reporter adding to the white houses concerns, reports pie the President Elects team for the names of the Energy Department staff and contractors who worked on the Obama Administrations efforts to reduce carbon emissions, a survey since disavowed by the Trump Transition Team. There should be real apprehension across the country that clean energy revolution, our efficiency revolution, our fight for clean airan water are going to be under assault from the minute he takes the oath of office. Reporter by the way, bret, the person that sent out that survey has since been properly counselled. Its also important to point out that theyre expected to take a very fresh look at a number of Obama Administration policies as far as the Energy Environment is
federal funds rate is appropriate in light of the solid progress we have seen toward our goals of Maximum Employment and 2 inflation. We continue to expect that the evolution of the economy will warrant only gradual increases in the federal funds rate over time. Stocks declined on the news that the fed may make three more rate hikes next year. The dow dropped 119, the s p 500 was off 18, the nasdaq fell 27. Now joining us from our sister network, Fox Business Networks melissa francis. So why did the rate hike or the talk of more rate hikes spook the market today . Yeah, it was really about that idea of janet yellen saying that we might be raising rates three more times in the year. Investors had expected the Federal Reserve to say that maybe it would be two more times, but, you know, i would caution investors out there, they promised a number of rate hikes within a year in the past and they havent followed
deposit or spend currency that is about to become worthless. Embattled president Nicholas Maduro said he was taking the most commonly used bill out of circulation. Venezuela is in a long economic crisis. Weve reported on it before. Struggling with the worlds highest inflation. People have been lining up outside banks since tuesday morning. Well continue to follow the situation there. There is considerable confusion tonight about whether the on again, Off Again Truce in aleppo, syria, is on again. Late this afternoon Syrian Rebels said it was, but ceasefires like this have come and gone before without much success. Tonight correspondent rich edison is at the white house looking at where we are right now in the war in syria. A warning here, though, some of the images in this report may be disturbing. Reporter this is what ceasefire agreements look like this aleppo, syria. Translator look how they killed my child. Why, my brother, why. Reporter these buses were to evacuate civilians and rebels. Instead theyre empty. They had agreed to allow them to evacuate aleppo, returning control of the city to ba shaush bashar al assad. Syrian forces have returned Bombing Aleppo as they capture more of the city. Symbolically it means a study they have struggled to besiege and encircle and take for years is finally theirs. Reporter the United Nations says progovernment forces have killed dozens of civilians. There are dozens of suicides. In more than five years of fighting, Hundreds Of Thousands of syrians are dead, killed as several nations, rebel groups and Terrorist Organizations converged on this country. In 2011, it began with hope. Syria joined the arab spring. Citizens mobilizing to overthrow
their oppressive governments. Assad responded with a violent crackdown. The country fell into civil war with Terrorist Groups joining the fight to secure syrian territory of its own. That summer the Obama Administration declared assad must step aside. A year later, this threat. A red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. Reporter another year later, assads forces killed 1400 using sarin gas. Obama decided to walk back from his threat and pursue diplomacy with assads ally, russia. That diplomacy has turned to disgust. The idea that you would target a playground and bomb kids, hoping that you would then convince people to give up because you had killed their kids . What kind of a sick mind comes up with a strategy like that . And what kind of civilized country is going to support those tactics . But thats what russia has done. Reporter and now questions of whether the administration should have engaged further in
syria, beyond air strikes against isis. There has never been a recognition that Civilian Population Protection is at the heart, at the heart of avoiding and fighting extremism. Our failure to protect the syrian population is i think the biggest Policy Failure we did. Reporter syria will be a question for the Trump Administration, as it will now decide whether and how to engage russia and continued u. S. Involvement in syria. Rich, thank you. The marine corps is grounding its fleet of mv22 osprey aircraft in japan following a crash off the coast of japan earlier this week. It happened while the Tilt Rotor Plane was conducting a nighttime midair refueling operation. The five crew members aboard the plane were all rescued. It is the eighth crash incident involving marine aircraft this year. A new theory tonight on how Russian Hackers allegedly got into the Hillary ClintonCampaign Email system. The daily mail reports a typo in an email from one of clintons top aides may have been responsible for opening a digital door. Meantime the House Intelligence Committee abruptly circled thursdays briefing on the alleged Russian Election hacks. Fox news is told that the intel agencies, the cia, fbi, nsa, odni all refused to provide briefers, which is unusual given that this is the most Senior Committee with jurisdiction. The russian scandal has put the spotlight on our countrys aging i. T. Infrastructure and not just the equipment. You might be shocked to learn just how many of the men and women charged with keeping our governments Computers Safe and effective are among the countrys oldest workers. Peter doocy tells us more tonight. Reporter during the president ial campaign season, there was a lot of talk about who should have his or her finger on the button that controls the Nations Nuclear arsenal. It turns out that Nuclear Arsenal is partly coordinated
using an 8inch floppy disk. Where do you buy a floppy disk . I cant imagine what the price is now. And so thats the big threat is this slow, grinding, lower quality, higher cost set of services. Reporter the cost of caring for such ancient equipment is now so high the feds dont have much money left over for anything else. Among the biggest spenders on i. T. , hhs at 13 billion a year, dhs at more than 6 billion a year and the va at nearly 4. 5 billion a year. The federal government spends almost 90 billion a year on Information Technology and almost 80 of that is spent on operations and maintenance, Servicing Systems that may be over 50 years old. Reporter the workforce is aging too. There are more federal i. T. Employees over 60 than there are under 30. At hud, 23 of i. T. Workers are
over 60. At the National Science foundation 18 , and at labor, 17 , which could become a problem whenever they decide to leave. There are a lot of folks that are Retirement Eligible that will be leaving in the near term. The real question is are we going to be able to attract the best talent to come in to fill those places and bluntly to do things differently than weve been doing in the past. Cost isnt the only concern as the government tries to get top talent to work for them. The nations Cyber Infrastructure remains exposed to hackers. We need about 30,000 to thwart the worst kind of attack on this country. Weve only got about a thousand. Reporter experts are waiting to see how the next president addresses the aging i. T. Infrastructure, but private Sector Companies dont have to wait for anything, like ibm action whose ceo says the company is trying to adjust to changes in tech by Hiring Thousands of what she calls new Collar Workers who dont necessarily even need college degrees. Peter, thank you. Up next, why some people are worried a President Donald Trump has interesting communication plans. First, heres what some of our fox news affiliates around the country are covering tonight. Fox carolina in greenville as lawyers for the man accused of Killing Nine Black Parishioners at a South Carolina church rest their case without calling any witnesses. Earlier a judge ruled they could not present evidence about dylann roofs mental health. Closing arguments are planned for tomorrow. Fox 8 in high point, north carolina, with the firing of a Wake Forest University football announcer accused of giving Sensitive Information to the teams opponents. Tommy el rod is a former player for the school and was also a coach for 11 seasons. He was not retained when the current coach took over. This is a live look from our affiliate in san francisco, fox 2. One of the big stories there tonight, uber puts some of their selfdriving cars into service there. Its an expansion of the pilot
program that started in pittsburgh in september. An Uber Employee is still behind the wheel to take over in case theres a problem here. Customers can opt out if they prefer a human driver. Would you . Thats tonights live look outside the beltway from special report. Well be right back. Generosity is its own form of power. Im in all the way. Is that understood . I dont know what shes up to, but its not good. Cant the world be my noodles and butter . Get your mind out of the gutter. Mornings are for coffee and contemplation. That was a really profound observation. You got a mean case of the detox blues. Dont start a war you know youre going to lose. Finally you can now find all of netflix in the same place as all your other entertainment. On xfinity x1. Tonight we continue our series on the first 100 days of the donald Trump Presidency. With one of his Signature Campaign rallying points. Early and often the republican nominee took aim at President Obamas legacy nuclear deal with iran. But trump also hinted he would not just tear up that deal, so now the question is what will the new president do about the nuclear deal and is there room for a detente with iran beyond
the deal . Chief washington correspondent james rosen reports. Reporter born in iran, an accomplished lecturer and the author of three books in he sees some prospects under the next president for improved relations between washington and his ancestral persian homeland. If nothing else, mr. Trump, he does represent american pragmatism. He will cut deals. He will sit down with friend and foe and try to come up with the best deals. Reporter in the years since the Iranian Regime the United States along with five other nations implemented a deal, including huge infusions of cash. At the same time irans military has harassed the u. S. Military. Ramped up Ballistic Missile testing, intervened to prop up the assad regime in syria, continued Funding Hamas and hezbollah and reaffirmed undying hostility to the nation it calls the great satan. Most analysts believe in his first 100 days in office the next president will make swift demonstration to his changing the relationship. The nuclear chord at the heart, never having been ratified by congress, is at once the easiest thing to change and the most far reaching. As a candidate, donald trump criticized it bitterly. This is one of the worst deals ever made by any country in history. The deal with iran will lead to nuclear problems. All they have to do is sit back ten years and they dont have to do much and theyre going to get nuclear. Reporter but he has also signalled he doesnt intend to walk away from the deal. To ri deal. Ive taken over some bad contracts. I would police that contract so
tough that they dont have a chance, as bad as the contract is, i will be so tough on that contract. Reporter the Secretary Of State who negotiated the iran deal hinting ehintinged to Repo Brussels that President Obama in attempting to persuade his successor not to scrap the deal thought there was some headway. There were aspects of it that were constructive and positive and worthwhile and maybe should be held onto. Reporter iranes president has warned tehran will not allow mr. Trump to weaken or abandon the deal. The State Department acknowledged iran has no such power. They cannot prevent any party from walking away. The Counter Argument is why would anyone walk away because its effective. Reporter outside of the nuclear deal, it is the raging civil war and humanitarian catastrophe in syria that may offer the new president
coordination with iran. The President Elect has vowed to work with the kremlin to resolve that conflict. Alan parsa for one says mr. Trump may recognize a bit of himself in his adversaries in iran. Iranians have shown themselves to be rather pragmatic in many, many areaare and as mr. Trump has said theyre good deal makers too. Reporter even if he intends to quiet things down between the u. S. And iran, mr. Trump will soon find his hand forced by events. Members of congress have proposed close to three dozen Sanctions Bills and the new president will have to issue new waivers for the nuclear deal to continue, if of course mr. Trump is of a mind to keep it. James, thank you. Our 15part series looking ahead to the first 100 days of the Trump Presidency continues tomorrow with the President Elects plans for t