During his press conference today, President-elect Trump also discussed how CEOs and business leaders from Wall Street to Silicon Valley

are rushing to meet with him and build personal relationships in the weeks before his inauguration.

Mr. Trump took note of just how different a tone it has been compared to 2016.

The first term, everybody was fighting me.

In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.

People want to get along with me this time.

Well, they've gone through four years, and, you know, it wasn't easy for me, but it wasn't

easy for them either.

And that's a great thing, though.

Getting along is a great thing.

To break down why, we're joined now by Brian Schwartz, White House Economic Policy Reporter at the Wall Street Journal.

Thanks for being with us.

Thanks for having me.

So you actually wrote about this for the Wall Street Journal in a piece with the headline,

The Week CEOs Bent the Knee to Trump.

Whether it's Apple CEO Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Amazon's Jeff Bezos. What are these CEOs hoping to gain or perhaps

trying to prevent? Well, it's those few and many more have been reaching out and engaging with

Donald Trump since his election day victory, along with his advisors, right? And, you know,

most of it, it feels like this kind of first move to cozy

up to Trump as he prepares to be sworn in his president. But when you talk to people privately

about this, you know, many executives have concerns over Trump's proposed tariff policies.

He's been talking about that throughout the campaign.

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