that's mark zuckerberg. how does he fit into all of this? >> well, yeah, mark zuckerberg is the head of meta, and it's really fascinating to see how the relationship between mark zuckerberg and president-elect donald trump has changed and evolved over the years. mark zuckerberg was just actually in mar-a-lago to meet with president-elect trump, to have a meal together. and yesterday on a call with with reporters, a facebook executive talked that mark said that mark zuckerberg wants to take an active role in tech policy conversations, especially about maintaining the american advantage in the technological sphere and they say it's especially important given artificial intelligence in global politics. keep in mind that just over the summer, president elect trump wrote in a book that he will throw mark zuckerberg in prison if he, you know, does certain things that he sees as wrong. but now they're warming up. we know that the two had been in touch and leading up to the election and after the attempted assassination attempt on president trump's

to hear from mark zuckerberg that he wants an active role, what might that look like.sk has been a great influence for president trump. what does president trump want to do with regard to shaping technology. >> it's not just mark zuckerberg. you see the ceos coming to mar-a-lago, the foreign leaders, everyone wants to be part of the administration. they know it will take off like a ro rocket ship. with regard to mark zuckerberg, we no the president doesn't have to have committees or people inside the building, he's on the phone. he will call leaders directly. that's why he's able to get things done so quickly because knows how to cut through the nonsense and the staff and all the noise and go to the source so if we can get some support and cooperation from whether it's zuckerberg or any other ceo that's previously not supported the president, great, let's bring them on board but again, there's the one person who is making the decisions and that's president trump. maria: we will leave it there. jason, great to see you. >> thank you. maria: we'll be watching your work. t

. >> mark zuckerberg? >> mark zuckerberg has been over to see me. i can tell you elon is another and jeff bezos is coming up next week. i nt to get ideas from them. we want to get ideas from everybody. we want people to love. when they wake up in the morning, get up and i love to go to work. i want to go to work. we want people working and we want them working for a lot of money. >> thank you, mr. president-elect. >> thank you. thank you. thank you very much. >> nothing like an impromptu

her heart -- perhaps mark zuckerberg is trying to curry favor.e not entirely sure what trump and his administration are going to do around tech regulation. if you are met on the last thing you want is to have all of your ai products regulated, the metaverse heavily regulated. the more he comes in and build that relationship with trump the hope is that it will be returned in some type of favorable pathway. caroline: how do employees feel about it? kurt: i'm sorry? caroline: how do employees feel about it? kurt: i don't know. trump is such an unpredictable person that all of these relationships, on the one hand it is a smart business move mark zuckerberg. i think people feel differently in 2024 than the first time they did in 2016, when we saw employees push back and complain internally. i think people know what to expect this time around. or at least they think they do. we are not seeing that pushback we had before, but a lot of that is because we don't know what this is going to look like long-term. we still have not gone to inauguration yet. at

mark zuckerberg, well, mark zuckerberg has been over to see me and i can tell you elon is another andzos is coming up next week. and i want to get ideas from them my source tonight is kara swisher, host of the podcast on with kara swisher and pivot. >> and kara, as soon as i saw last night that mark zuckerberg was donating $1 million through meta, and now tonight, learning that jeff bezos is doing the same through amazon, i wanted to know, what do you think of this? >> well, i'm shocked that gambling is going on in this place. you know, it's it's just i'm not shocked at all. they you know, as i said, i think the last time we talked, the reason he was doing some of this is he wants spacex contracts. he doesn't want to be in the line of fire, as he was in the last administration. he's virtually ignoring that. he owns the washington post, which is supposed to be an independent newspaper. and they all want, you know, they want to get out of the line of fire. mark zuckerberg was threatened with prison by donald trump during the campaign. and so they saw what happened with elon. he spent qu

mark zuckerberg's meta has donated. i think it's about $1 million to donald trump's inaugural fund. what are you hearing about this? >> yeah, what a 180 from the summer because donald trump released this book where he threatened mark zuckerberg with life in prison over the hundreds of millions of dollars mark zuckerberg and his wife made to help support election infrastructure during the 2020 election. while flash forward to now, we see mark zuckerberg's meta donating $1 million to donald trump's inauguration, which was confirmed by a meta spokesperson. and look, this is part of a larger warming between donald trump and silicon valley valley. obviously, there's been this bromance with elon musk, but we also saw mark zuckerberg dying at mar-a-lago earlier, since or in the weeks after trump was elected. so just sort of a similar sort of trajectory for some of these silicon valley types. >> and things change when you're looking at who's going to be in the white house and who could be, you know, targeting your industry if he so chooses. because we have heard donald trump has made no sec

mark zuckerberg, if you want to impress me do. what elon musk did.et journalists go into the twitter files. go into the facebook files. i want to find out exactly what you were up to in 2016 and through the pandemic. expose what happened. maybe you didn't know. maybe you did know and find out who was really putting their hand on the scale the shadow ban, republicans and skew the pandemic. we have president trump and all of these leaders, billionaires behind him that impact all of our lives. we all order on amazon. monday i spent more than i should have for cyber but i saved a lot. >> brian: share her bills next hour. >> i have gotten a lot accomplished. bezos is on board. elon musk who is the wealthiest man in the world, right? with tesla. and then we have mark zuckerberg, we're all on instagram. we are all on facebook. i'm just excited about the fact that you are all working together. >> steve: it is unity. i'm always skeptic. they are doing it because it's their highs. mark zuckerberg, now that donald trump is in charge of the federal government fo

mensah ceo mark zuckerberg recently dined at mar-a-lago he wants to get in with trump.him in? this is the guy that he censored trump and the last election. >> this is a tough one because trump is going to be pushed into electing all of the bad guys back in. all of the people who censored and silenced us and everything else he did go already i guess the ship has sailed but my question is does anybody in this room use facebook? >> i have no idea what my password is. do i have a page on facebook what is happening? now he wants us to strap that thing on and follow him. >> the goggles. >> you looked weird when i said strap on it. i saw. it is on you. it is for your head. >> yes. [laughter] >> that sounds more weird. i'm sure joe had some good jokes take it away. >> people are not buying it. on social media may be on facebook but twitter and these other places they are seeing no way do not let mark zuckerberg back in. he censored the hunter story and other things. during covert he was terrible. and he was hanging out with the fbi. do you think he has contrition. he says it wa

and also, mark zuckerberg's responsible for setting rules for 2 billion of us, that is how many of usfferent social networks. try and find one rule that works for a teenage boy in britain, a republican housewife in america and a chinese businessman. you will struggle. by letting people, setting a baseline letting people do different things in subcommunities, suddenly, it can work, can be smaller, more flexible. that, i think, is clever and that i think gives reddit some lasting appeal, even if it still has its tensions. some people, not least on this show, have been talking about bluesky, the platform gaining followers. what is their approach to moderation? they have ideas to try and do something, but at the moment it is moderated just like twitter was, and they have a small team, who is now being flooded with a lot more users, there are bots on there now, i have had spam accounts, i've had someone impersonate an old boss of mine, and i spotted it was dodgy when she asked if i wanted to buy crypto, which she does not usually do. you didn't say yes i would? they are trying to hire mode

mark zuckerberg has decided people do not want to see new, so news is heavily downgraded on instagram facebook now. elon musk has decided you want to see what people who pay for a blue tick want to say. on reddit you can pretty much tailor what you see by choosing which communities you are interested in and because they are smaller, the biggest reddits have millions on, but some have tens of thousands or a few hundred. you get to know people in the community, get a sense of identity with it and so it is quite a different experience but it is retro. this is not new, not a brand—new concept, this has been around for ages and has been rediscovered and people are liking it. how does it make money? as ever with the internet, it makes money with adverts but it also has a bunch of other things. people can pay reddit money to say thank you to another user. you can send them essentially... what is reddit money? you pay... sorry, i thought you meant money, my goodness. it has social currency. they look like stickers to put on their profile to say, you did a great post or we like this. reddit go

certainly mark zuckerberg. just over the summer, trump was threatening to jail him, saying that he accusing him of interfering in the 2020 election. jeff bezos himself, as we learned last night, that he was going to be donating through amazon, he and trump have had their own history where trump is accused him of using the washington post, which he owns as a tax shelter, and jeff bezos saying that he would send donald trump to to space and not really in a nice way. and now sam altman, wolf, who in 2016 was critical of donald trump. look at this tweet that he posted then saying he was not going to be supporting him because he said, i believe the principles he stands for represent an unacceptable threat to america. but now, wolf, he is saying he's excited for donald trump to to regain power. and clearly he is putting his money where his mouth is. >> and caitlin, as you know, several sources are telling you that donald trump is actually considering naming rfk jr.'s daughter in law as the deputy director of the cia.

you saw him -- mark zuckerberg put in $1 million towards his nomination. at one point it is not altruistic and it does not feel like a gift. honestly, could they bend the knee any harder? >> reporting ceos in the correct category? at the end of the day a ceo is a pragmatist. they are not based on principle. >> they have never donated to an inauguration before. >> ceos have in the past. different business leaders have definitely given to inaugurations in the past. mark zuckerberg said he was not going to but he certainly changed his tune. at the same time, it is not necessarily how they feel about him personally. they need to make sure that their business is running and they know the kind of guy that is about to be in the white house and they have seen what it's like to be on the wrong side of the president. >> they are pragmatic but look at mark zuckerberg. he is somebody who said i want to work to solve immigration reform. donald trump said he should go to jail. and now he's like, i want to give you a little bit of money for this inauguration so we can se

even facebook or oversight board that mark zuckerberg created. oversight board came back and said there were problems. and it lacked consistently being applied to everyone by community standard. that's why this is so important for us for our future, for all political parties for all human beings around the world. we believe in the first amendment and america first policies will fight for it. thank you. the marathon continues monday, december 30 with tulsi gabbard and then tuesday, december 31 we will hear from dr. mehmet oz and the nominee for fbi director cash patel. watch trump nominees in their own words this week at 8:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2. ....

caroline: we understand mark zuckerberg has been dining with trump at mar-a-lago last week.ood music changes. i'm interested more broadly on how integral tiktok is to investment choices of yours. >> it has been rumored and reported in the press that the north american version of tiktok is a single-digit percentage of business, not a giant part of the business. i think it is a part of the business where a lot of investors or potential investors see a huge amount of opportunity. i believe tiktok is the biggest existential threat to a business like facebook or instagram or snapchat. just go ask millennials in america what they use, or your own kids, just look at the usage patterns and the data around daily active users and how much time is spent on the different apps. tiktok is a real player. i can assure you mark zuckerberg would love to have it banned. it would be great for his business. caroline: your expertise is great. you are someone who understands the consumer of china, where technology is going there, how much harder has your life become to access these deals on the se

behest -- not freely chosen by mark zuckerberg.now said and what he's tried to the, i think, assure president trump is that it's going to be a neutral platform where they won't be too heavy-handed, you can have your free speech rights there. and i think it's good to admit that, and i hope he has a constructive relationship with whoever the president is. it's going to be donald trump for the next four years, or if it's a democrat, that's fine. and i think it goes to show you that silicon valley's becoming a little bit more comfortable with republican governance which i think would be a good thing. howard: lucy, donald trump had posted: we will pursue election fraudsters at levels never seen before. we know who you are, don't do it, zuckerbucks. be careful. trump told me that he was changing his position on tiktok because facebook, in his view, is so much worse. but here he is with zuck. >> it's a really hard needle to thread. i personally hope american corporations can be a bulwark against political extremism which i think maga cert

you mentioned mark zuckerberg several times. could you give us your opinion on both the content and the timing of the letter he sent to capitol a couple of days ago? acknowledge urging the pressure under which he and his company put during covid. it was interesting kind of the oppo mea culpa, but maybe it was it. i'd be interested. your opinion on that. thank you. yeah. the great thing about writing a book about presidents and ceos is there constantly in the headlines and, you know, if i'm looking for op ed opportunities, there's constantly something new that comes up that that i could write about or opine on and. so i think that's kind of one of the benefits of writing this book about presidents, ceos, obviously, the zuckerberg letter, the so-called mea culpa that you talk about, fits in with this category. and i thought it was indeed super interesting that he's trying to signal that, well, maybe shouldn't have done all that cooperation with the biden administration on suppressing different ideas about covid. now we walk. we do

essentially, mark zuckerberg's company donated $1 million to donald trump's inauguration. how unusual is that? do lots of companies do that, inauguration time? mark zuckerberg didn't last time around. >> inaugural committees pass the hat around but what is unusual about this is just the amount that we've seen from the tech community toward donald trump. we have seen in recent weeks, and overt reversal on part of many of these tech tie-ins down to the fact that they have sent congratulatory tweets. >> donald trump has a list and he is checking it twice and he wants to know who congratulated him. he has also invited she's in pain -- how big of a deal is it? >> i think it would be a big deal if you came. i think if i can play psychologist, i think what we are seeing is donald trump who has long sort of assumed that the presidency was something that was his birthright almost. he is trying to manifest this idea that he is american bodied and all of these other world leaders understand that he is transactional. and so this is him saying here is how you bolster my power by showin

it is interesting history between mark zuckerberg and donald trump.trump was banned from facebook in -- after january 6 riots, capitol riot, excuse me. after assassination attempt, mark zuckerberg changed his tune and two weeks ago went to mar-a-lago, had dinner and gave president trump some ray-ban smart glasses went he went down. big technology ceos are clamoring to get on good side of donald trump and why wouldn't you? this is policy, regulation, taxes. technology has been pretty beaten up on bipartisan basis, whether for censorship or concerns from washington, you both would know that better than i would. interesting to see how relationships pan out. >> carley: what an evolution, do you remember fab trending section and how partisan it was until they scrapped it. if you told me in 2016 that mark zuckerberg would donate a million dollars to donald trump, but that is happening eight years later. >> cheryl: this is going to come down, i look at you for issue of regulation, this needs to go into the books and extend tax cuts of 2017, what corporation

questioned by all these congressmen, then you also have mark zuckerberg emailing with dr. fauci about covid. and in fact, a lot of their e-mails that we received have been redacted, not just because of phone numbers, but because they were trading in trade secrets, things that they were. so a private company is communicating with the federal government and parts of that were redacted. so that makes them they're not immune anymore. they are not immune anymore. it was coercion, collusion, working together. and they cannot hide from the first amendment. that's why this is so very, very important, even facebook's board oversight board that mark zuckerberg created the oversight board came back and said there were problems. there were problems and it lacked consist instantly being applied to everyone by community standards. so that's why this is so important for us, for our future, for all political parties, for all human beings around the world. we believe in the first amendment and america first policy. we'll fight for it. and we've done it all without a stint of government fun

this morning we have new reporting on how facebook founder mark zuckerberg is trying to cozy up to donald trump and take an active role. that's a quote in the president elect's tech policy. cnn business writer clare duffy is with us. so how exactly does zuckerberg want to play here? >> yeah, john, it's sort of vague at this point, but we know that zuckerberg was in mar-a-lago last week meeting with trump and then on monday, metas global president of public affairs said that mark is really keen to play an active role in the debates that any administration needs to have about maintaining america's leadership in the technological sphere. >> they also said yesterday that meta sort of admitted that it had over moderated content during the election, which of course plays right into this narrative that trump and other republicans have spread that big tech is censoring them. now it's not totally surprising that zuckerberg would seek to play some role in these tech policy discussions. there are a lot of big decisions that the trump administration is going to need to make that will be really releva

and i want to get ideas from them. >> reporter: mark zuckerberg's meta, jeff bezos's amazon, and now sam altman, who runs openai, are planning to donate a million dollars each to trump's inaugural fund. zuckerberg recently had dinner at mar-a-lago, even though earlier this year trump publicly threatened him with life in prison if he did anything trump viewed as illegal during the presidential campaign. since then their icy relationship has apparently thawed. especially after trump survived his first assassination attempt. >> he called me after the event, and he said that was really amazing. it was very brave. >> bezos meanwhile is touting trump's promise to reduce regulations. >> i'm actually very optimistic this time around. he seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. >> reporter: and billionaire elon musk has been by trump's side virtually non-stop since the election. musk owns x, formerly known as twitter, as well as spacex, so he's a direct competitor of both zuckerberg's meta and bezos' blue origin. trump joking about his new business meetings with leaders. >> i

mark zuckerberg with his new hairstyle. $1 million to make his inaugural great again.f bezos doing one better, the inaugural and a million for the rights to stream it on amazon. if you can't beat them, might as well join them. >> jeff bezos called me, we are having dinner. mark zuckerberg came in, a nice dinner. i had dinner with him, people like me now. >> so funny. it's important, all of this is happening. no one seems to mind. he's already acting like he's president of the united states. joe biden has gone mia, clearly his already checked out. even joe biden seems anxious to turn the page. host then shapiro show. great to see you. why is this happening and how long will it last? wife suddenly acceptance of one of the most famous people in the world? what changed? >> i think everybody is relieved trump was elected not just because the biden harrison administration has been trash but also the recognition, joe biden is not there. joe biden is not the president, there is no president so a giant power vacuum in donald trump is not only their but this transition is moving

but he's choosing to have these meetings and after mark zuckerberg came out and said after trump was and said he was a bad ass, that to me marked a turn in the way he thinks of him. knows now that he is not some weak-kneed politician that could be bought off and if he wants him and brandon carr to cooperate and guide them in the next decades of their existence, he needs to be a team player. stuart: some impact on big tech then. what about jamie dimon, he's been the top banker in america, he's been holding meetings with trump. he's not exactly kissing the ring but what changes to banking and finance do you expect because of the trump effect? >> well, the jamie dimon meeting was fascinating in and of itself because you have two titans and the rumor is that donald trump has a great respect for jamie dimon to the point that he even probably would have welcomed into the cabinet although he said he didn't want him. but banking regulation is onerous. a lot of the banking regulation that jp morgan and others have had to deal with throughout the years have made it difficult to pass on the bet

do lots of companies do that, inauguration time because mark zuckerberg didn't last time around. >> i think the inaugural committees pass the hat around. i think what's interesting is the about-face that we've seen from the tech community and their attitude toward donald trump. there were difficult relationships between these executives and donald trump, kind of an overt reversal on the part of many of these tech titans down to the fact that they sent out congratulatory tweets that seem to be from the same book. >> well, donald trump has a list and he's checking it twice anyone's to know who congratulated him. he is also invited xi jinping to attend the inauguration. we've never had a foreign world leader attend and inauguration, how big of a deal is this? >> i think it would be a big deal if he came, i think what this is, if i can play armchair psychologist, i think what we are seeing here is donald trump, who has long assumed that the presidency was not given to him by the people but it was his birthright almost, he's trying to manifest that this idea that he is all of these other w

lauren: mark zuckerberg is willing to work with the trump administration on technology innovation.s, he wants to help the u.s. lead the world in artificial intelligence. i'd call this a sea change. you have another silicon valley executive who wants a seat at trump's table. in fact, mark zuckerberg had that seat last week when he had dinner at mar-a-lago with the president-elect. stuart: he's not going to do a musk, is he in. [laughter] lauren: he probably wants to compete with musk, and he might be sick of the department of justice and the regulatory actions under the biden administration if. stuart: yeah, had be his role. lauren, thank you. quick check of futures, please. a little bit of red ink, down 50 on the nasdaq, down 30 on the dow. we'll be back. ♪ ♪ glittering, you light me up like tar light on a christmas -- starlight on a christmas tree. ♪ every single kiss is like a gift to me. ♪ if at harbor freight, we design and test our own tools. and sell them directly to you. no middleman. just quality tools you can trust at prices you'll love. whatever you do, do it for less at

late last week, the day before thanksgiving, mark zuckerberg dined with trump at mar-a-lago. on a patio. attendees stood hand over heart while listening to the national anthem sung by imprisoned defendants convicted of crimes on the capitol riot. the irony of pledging allegiance to a song sung by accused insurrectionists maybe didn't register for mark zuckerberg or maybe he just didn't care. >> this is one of the big differences i think between we were talking about it before. one of the big differences between the first term, the first term, everybody is fighting me. this term everybody wants to be my friend. >> joining me now is the director of the state safeguarding democracy project. the scope of the lawsuit against the des moines register. it has been filed under iowa's consumer fraud act. how is that meaningful, how is that a meaningful difference and what does that entail? the difference between that and the classic defamation suit? >> well, so this law is primarily meant to protect consumers who are sold fraudulent goods. goods without warranties. it is not typically

facebook founder and meta ceo mark zuckerberg met with president trump last week.s is as big tech is trying to understand the incoming president's approach to their industry during his second term. let's bring in someone who's going to play a major role in that, brendan carr, fcc commissioner, and trump's pick to lead the agency. good morning and thank you so much for being here. you know, you look at elon musk and his role with president donald trump but also how he bought x as a game-changer to protect free speech, and you look at google and amazon and apple, facebook, the role that they have played not only in the last election, but also in this election. what will you do to make sure that the playing field is level and that big tech doesn't have the same grip on speech that it once did? >> yeah, thanks. first of all, i think president trump and his transition team is really just knocking it out of the park with these picks. they're putting a broad variety of people that represent president trump's unique coalition. washington, d.c. doesn't like it, and i think

trump is also getting support from meta founder mark zuckerberg, who donated $1 million to president elect trump's inauguration fund. this is kind of a shifting of sorts for silicon valley. >> abc seven news reporter monica madden is here with a closer look at the change. monica. hi there karina. >> in his first term, trump regularly clashed with big tech, accusing the social media giants of manipulating coverage of him. but now founders and ceos are looking to improve those relationships, with many now publicly embracing the incoming president. >> salesforce ceo marc benioff applauded the time person of the year selection, writing on x, quote, we look forward to working together to advance american success and prosperity for everyone. >> benioff was once a trump critic and in 2016 supported hillary clinton. >> okay, we see which way the wind is blowing. now we're going to suck up to the new regime. >> and tech giant mark zuckerberg, usually a supporter of liberal causes, is also shifting toward embracing trump in a way deeper than policy. >> this libertarian ethos in silicon valley,

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jeff bezos probably thanking his lucky stars he withheld that endorsement and remember what mark zuckerbergbutler, pennsylvania, assassination attempt and he praised president trump >> yes, inflation came down and it's heating away at embarking on the era of prosperity and you can feel it. even in the last couple of weeks and americans are celebrating and people are in support of the transition and i'm speaking as a democrat and feeling it as well. kevin: you know what, also as a democrat how concerned do you think the tech giants might be of a trump presidency moving forward. especially if you're a democrat and have the breaking as we where and how concerned about a trump presidency? >> the tech world is loving the fact that donald trump will be the next president. he's really embraced crypto and saying he wants the united states to be the crypto capitol of the world. in the meantime, people are upset and idants believe all the millennials out there and going for them and sounds like a shift. is there a shift to the right happening organically 124 >> that's a great point. i think it's acro

late last week the wall street journal reported that the day before thanksgiving, meta ceo mark zuckerberg dined with the president-elect that a patio on mar-a-lago. at one point zuckerberg and other attendees stood, hand over heart, as the club played a rendition of the national anthem sung by imprisoned defendants who are accused of crimes related to the january 6th capitol riot. the irony of pledging allegiance to a song sung by accused insurrectionist maybe didn't register for mark zuckerberg. maybe he just didn't care. >> this is one of the big differences i think between -- we were talking about it before, one of the big differences between the first term. the first term, everybody was fighting me. in this term, everybody wants to be my friend. my personality changed or something. >> joining me now is rick hassan, director of the safeguarding democracy project at ucla law. thank you for being here tonight. i first just want to talk to you about the scope of this lawsuit against the des moines register. it is not a defamation suit, similar to the abc lawsuit. it has been filed under i

facebook founder and meta ceo mark zuckerberg met with president trump last week. as big tech is trying to understand the incoming president's approach to their industry during his second term. let's bring in someone who's going to play a major role in that, brendan carr, fcc commissioner, and trump's pick to lead the agency. good morning and thank you so much for being here. you know, you look at elon musk and his role with president donald trump but also how he bought x as a game-changer to protect free speech, and you look at google and amazon and apple, facebook, the role that they have played not only in the last election, but also in this election. what will you do to make sure that the playing field is level and that big tech doesn't have the same grip on speech that it once did? >> yeah, thanks. first of all, i think president trump and his transition team is really just knocking it out of the park with these picks. they're putting a broad variety of people that represent president trump's unique coalition. washington, d.c. doesn't like it, and i think that

the president elect is also getting support from meta founder mark zuckerberg, who donated $1 milliontrump's inauguration fund. it's a shift of sorts for silicon valley, and abc seven news reporter monica madden is here with a closer look at this change. monica. >> well, dan, in his first term, trump regularly clashed with big tech, accusing social media giants of manipulating coverage of him. but now founders and ceos are looking to improve those relationships, with many now publicly embracing the incoming president. >> salesforce ceo marc benioff applauded the time person of the year selection, writing on x quote, we look forward to working together to advance american success and prosperity for everyone. >> benioff was once a trump critic and in 2016 supported hillary clinton. >> okay, we see which way the wind is blowing. now we're going to suck up to the new regime. >> and tech giant mark zuckerberg, usually a supporter of liberal causes, is also shifting toward embracing trump in a way deeper than policy. >> there's libertarian ethos in silicon valley. it's been a really, really

now we're going to suck up to the new regime. >> and tech giant mark zuckerberg, usually a supporterral causes, is also shifting toward embracing trump in a way deeper than policy. >> there's libertarian ethos in silicon valley. it's been a really, really big part of the culture for decades. >> steve hilton is a silicon valley entrepreneur and trump supporter. >> for the longest time, it's just been assumed that everyone in silicon valley is a democrat. and so i think that was the reason that he probably went along with some of those things. but deep down, that libertarian drive and ethos, i think is really, really central to mark zuckerberg and a lot of these tech founders. >> silicon valley leaders are regularly discussing these shifts online, like on a recent episode of the all in podcast, where former paypal executive david sacks said he's bullish about the policy changes for big tech. >> you're going to see the end of this era of deceleration, of regulatory capture and lawfare. >> his all in cohost jason calacanis noting it wasn't without work on the back end. >> as we all know,

jeff bezos and mark zuckerberg don't even notice a million dollars, unfortunately.or them to write a 7 figure check to the presidential inaugural committee to say they are committed is a fallacy. i'm sure they could do much, much more. their businesses, many of them, have enormous contracts with the federal government. they are doing this from a strictly business perspective. we know what their real position is we're happy that they're on the team. let's not pretend they are fans of donald trump all of a sudden. >> todd: important clarification. clearly doing this to curry favor in the most unobtrusive way. a million dollars. that means nothing to them. that said, it's good to see everybody kind of getting under the tent maybe not fully under the tent but one foot in. >> ashley: $600 million drop in the hat. >> todd: he denied it. we appreciate your time and leave everybody with this. a virginia zoo got a hip pot that must for christmas. >> ashley: no more. >> todd: ashley was so mad when i sang that in the commercial break now she is really mad. the endangered hipp

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and they say, well you know, mark zuckerberg's doing and bill gates and i love where this masa erupted in frustration stating, these are one business guys. i am involved in 100 businesses and i control entire tech ecosystem, he remonstrated. the right comparison for me is napoleon or genghis khan or emperor or chin. he built the great wall. i am not a ceo. i building an empire that took my attention in the f.t., but it has the thing i mean, you know, it is that's the thing about masada, corporate softbank's corporate mission it's on their website is it still is still the case by the way it was the case when i joined. it's still the case. it's happiness for everyone. i mean, it's one of those things that's like so when i read it, it's like you could possibly this up, right? but that's just the way he is. he says and does these things that seem completely outrageous. yeah. and there are times when he's funny. now, to be fair fair, that comment was made at a time when, after the fact, he himself came out and confessed to he didn't say hubris, but i think his exact words were which made he

take mark zuckerberg, for example. i mean, they were at odds repeatedly throughout his first term.onald trump blaming mark zuckerberg, but also many of these other tech giants for what he believed were censorship of conservatives and also largely blamed a lot of these leaders for his election loss. so this is very much a departure from the relationships we know that he had with these different leaders. back during his first administration. but one thing i also just want to get into more of is that meeting with tiktok ceo chao chao chen yesterday afternoon at mar a lago, because it's very notable, given the timing of all of this. we know that tiktok, just hours before that meeting, had asked the supreme court to weigh in on the law that congress passed last year that would essentially force it to sell its parent company or divest from its parent company by january 19th. this is something donald trump has said that he is going to look into. he also said that he is warming to tiktok because he believes that young voters helped him with his election. so that is very much a meeting to k

basically, the meta ceo, mark zuckerberg. he recently dined at mar-a-lago.and you know, he wants to get in good with trump. he sees what these other tech bros are doing. should they let him in? i mean, this is the guy that he censored trump in the last election. >> yeah, this is a tough one because trump is going to be pushed into letting all of the bad guys back in, right? like all of the people who censored us and silenced us and everything else he did go already. so i guess the ship has sailed on that. i mean, my question is, does anyone does anyone in this room use facebook anymore? is anyone on facebook? what? i have no idea what my password is. do i have a page on facebook? what's happening on facebook? and now he wants us to strap that thing on and follow him into the. >> the goggles. >> yeah. you kind of looked weird when i said strap on. >> well, i didn't know you. i saw you kind of. >> it's on. it's for your it's for your head. >> yes i know. >> i don't that sounds weirder. now, this is exactly why i'm sure joe has some good jokes about this. take

and just like meta ceo mark zuckerberg. cnn has learned that amazon founder jeff bezos will meet with president elect trump in the coming days. with us now is willie remus. technology news and analysis writer for the bezos owned washington post. great to see you this morning. so what do these guys hope to gain with this investment of not just money, but also face time? >> yeah, there's a lot to gain. >> there's a lot to lose for them. under the trump administration. these two companies in particular, they're figureheads, have been attacked by trump in the past. trump has gone after mark zuckerberg. he went after jeff bezos during his first administration. and they don't want that to happen again. they're trying to get on his good side because amazon has cloud contracts to be won or lost. mr. trump has threatened to revoke section 230, which meta relies on heavily. there's a tiktok ban on the on the table, which meta stands to benefit from. so i think you're seeing all the tech companies trying to get out ahead, and they've

mark zuckerberg in 2015 said i want to work to solve immigration reform.ald trump said he should go to jail. well, hey, you know what, i want to give you a little bit of money for this inauguration and see where we can come together here. it would be really interesting to see what this administration does with big tech. that could be some similarity between the end of biden and beginning of trump on breaking up the big tech monopoly. we'll see what happens. at a macro level, this cabinet, this is the billionaire boy's club. these guys they want to get in on this because there's a good chance the gravy train is going to benefit them, so hop on board. this is a plu toksy, oligarchky, whatever you want to use. this is a lot of money at stake in the corporations. they want to hop on this. there's a seat for them. this train. >> here is the thing with donald trump's cabinet picks. some of the people for the biggest roles. it's not that because you're wealthy you can't have the job. think about some of the things they're trying to get rid of, right? if we get ri

mark zuckerberg met with trump last month.ust because the ceos are trying to the gray sheet themselves to the president-elect doesn't mean the trump administration won't go after their companies. >> combating tech censorship will be one of the top priorities for me, you mentioned facebook and other companies, they worked with advertisers, government officials to censor the free-speech rights of every day americans. >> reporter: trump has allies in congress trying to stop online censorship. senator eric schmidt introduce legislation preventing collusion between federal agencies and social media companies which republicans have shown happened during the biden administration. it is a new day as relates to tech and online censorship in washington dc and check ceos trying to get ahead of it. stuart: still had, the president-elect plans a dramatic start to his administration, doesn't want any loose ends to upset his game plan. some bartenders in washington dc want to make members of the incoming administration feel unwelcome. politi

and he attacked mark zuckerberg and others.though i did say last march he was going to support trump. i mean, he was obviously he needed to for a variety of reasons but in jeff's case he you know, he's one of these people who doesn't want to take a side. and i would say the only side he wants to take is his own and, and money making really and i don't mean that in a negative way. he's just a business person. and so values are a little less important to him in that regard yeah. >> well and you just put that on top of, you know, mark zuckerberg having having dinner with trump and having those moments. i mean, we are just seeing a notable approach given how critical trump has been at times of these these two individuals. >> yeah, it's sort of don't upset the lion kind of thing. and mark zuckerberg was threatened with prison by donald trump during the campaign. and maybe that was just rhetoric. a lot of the tech executives i've talked to recently keep telling me, i just interviewed marc benioff today of salesforce, and he was like,