"Are there technologies that could make it harder for terrorists to use the internet to mobilize, facilitate, and operationalize?" Despite recent fights over civil liberties, encryption, and surveillance, tech executives appeared receptive to this message, according to sources familiar with conversations at the meeting.
"Franks suggested it," said the official familiar with the conversation.
Mr. Ailes threatened to quit, a person familiar with the conversation said.
Those familiar with the conversation said she made her intentions unequivocally clear: She was not interested.
Islam, visibly nervous, did most of the talking, according to a source familiar with the conversation.
Schmitz's response, according to a person familiar with the conversation, was "no thanks, we're covered".
This enraged Kushner, who erupted in an expletive-filled rant aimed at the governor, people familiar with the conversation said.
A senior administration official familiar with the conversation between Mr. Netanyahu and Mrs. Clinton described the Israeli responses as less than definitive.
Two others familiar with the conversation said that Crown Prince Abdullah and Bandar, who was also at the meeting, had a very different interpretation of what was said.
"People will think we're trying to open a pizza parlor," Mr. Cuomo joked to a friend, according to people familiar with the conversation.
