Play Video 1:18 Fire and Fury: Key explosive quotes the new Trump book - videoWolff describes a Trump Tower meeting on 14 December 2016 – during the presidential transition – involving Trump and executives from Silicon Valley companies including Alphabet (parent of Google), Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. Later that afternoon, Wolff writes, Trump called Murdoch, who asked how the meeting had gone. “Really, really good. According to Vanity Fair magazine, Trump spoke with Murdoch before the deal “to make sure Murdoch wasn’t selling Fox News”. His new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, published next week, offers an insight into the close ties between the Trump and Murdoch empires.

Source: The Guardian January 03, 2018 18:04 UTC