Trump Meets CEOs At Mar-A-Lago, School Shooting In Wisconsin, Pig Kidney Transplant
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President-elect Donald Trump has been holding court at Mar-a-Lago since his election victory. CEOs, foreign leaders and lawmakers have all made the trip to South Florida. He talked about his visitors and other issues in a post election news conference yesterday. Two people were killed when a student opened fire at a Wisconsin school. The alleged shooter is also dead. A gene-edited pig kidney has for the first time been transplanted into a human.
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CEO's and foreign leaders have been visiting Mar-a-Lago. Some kept their distance from President Trump in his first term, but are now trying to get close enough to persuade him. What did he say about his visitors and other things in a post-election news conference? I'm Stephen Scape with Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News. Here is how the day unfolded at a Wisconsin school. A second grade student called 911 to report a shooting at school. What do police know about the student to open fire, killing two people, and then herself? And a gene-edited pig kidney has for the first time been transplanted into a human. I feel like a whole new person is not going to get a sickened chance in life. What does this mean for people desperately waiting for an organ? Stay with us. We'll give you the news you need to start your day. President-elect Donald Trump has been holding court from his home in Palm Beach, Florida. Business leaders have been making their way there, tech CEOs, pharma CEOs, and yesterday the CEO of a Japanese investment bank promising to spend $100 billion in the United States. The President-elect talked about this at his first news conference since the election. 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. In truth, some people wanted to be his friend last time, but there is a difference. People who don't like this say wealthy people are bending the knee, but how do the executives see it? NPR's senior national political correspondent, Mara Lyons, was watching, and she's with us now. Good morning, Mara. Good morning. Donald Trump says everybody is trying to be his friend. Sounds about right? Yeah, it does. Some of this is the normal anticipation and enthusiasm that the business community billionaires Wall Street would have to any new Republican president who is going to cut their taxes and limit regulation. Some of it is because Trump takeover of the Republican Party is now complete. There are no more Romney's and flakes and Cheney's around, and some of it is that he's seen as a more legitimate president this time because he won the popular vote, but a lot of it is just a change in the approach of foreign leaders and business leaders and Democrats. They are using a different way to resist Trump compared to his first term. They're choosing their battles instead of across the board resistance. They believe his mind can be changed on things like TikTok, which now he sees as useful to him or cryptocurrency because his family is now in the crypto business. I think it's a different kind of resistance. Talk about various dinners he's having with the CEOs. What stood out to you there? Well, you know, he described the dinner he had with two big pharma CEOs and that industry's lobbying group. They're concerned about his pick for health and human services department, Robert F. Kennedy, who is an anti-vaccine activist. Here's how Trump described R.F.K. Jr.
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