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Nominee and we saw donald trump last night speaking from the podium, defending his nominee, without specifically mentioning rex tillerson's ties to russia which of course is the main source of a lot of the consternation on capitol hill. here's donald trump last night in wisconsin. >> rex will be a fierce advocate for america's 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 don't get along with, and some people...

American leadership through innovation be one of the things that he gets behind. >> reporter: let me clarify, it was actually before his meeting. i think having this productive conversation is what a lot of the tech ceos want to have. i will tell you, i was out in san francisco last week and there's a lot of anxiety from people and tech leaders about a lot of the rhetoric donald trump has been putting out there so perhaps this is an opportunity, i actually met an engineer who is carrying around his passport with him. another group of engineers that were afraid to leave the country. that's some...

And to those who don't see what you see in splitting the companies? >> so i would say, listen, we have two very interesting markets aby splitting these companies, we're going to be nimble, faster and with more innovation. if you look at what we have done over the past four years, we are reignited the engine, everything from flash storage to infrastructure to a machine and immersive computing. we have ignited the innovation engine and delevered the company significantly and we are poised now i think to take advantage of the new two markets. and obviously our objective is to prove the naysayers ...

Important american tech ceos. scheduled to meet are the heads of amazon and apple and many american companies have real concerns about what's going on in china. they'd like to make a presence or increase their presence in china, but they are concerned about the chinese government having an ever tighter grip around the internet there. at the same time, this all lays the foundation for what could happen when he goes to washington and new york. many people are expecting the obama administration to announce some type of alascord. but it won't a address the cyber hacking, which the american governm...

And make it into two jobs. but it costs more money to do that because you have the overhead of two employees. and are you going to pay the employees the same amount of money. there are practical considerations to what he's say. he's a futurist. these tech ceos like to think big, big ideas. it shows you there are these two worlds. the tech elites who really are see things in this idea-knowledge driven way. and then this growing group of people living paycheck to paycheck who are working with their hours, where that's where the bulk of the jobs are coming in. they're saying, wow, i'd like to be ...