Trump admin updates: ICE launches immigration enforcement operation in Boston

President Donald Trump is set to host dozens of technology and business CEOs for a dinner on Thursday night in the newly renovated Rose Garden.

The White House extended invitations to multiple top tech leaders, including Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and OpenAI founder Sam Altman, according to a White House official.

It comes as the top leaders in the industry have cozied up to Trump as he's threatened penalties for companies that choose to keep making products overseas. Last month, Cook visited the Oval Office to publicly pledge a $600 billion investment into the United States. Zuckerberg, Pichai and Altman all attended Trump's inauguration.

Trump's czar on artificial intelligence, David Sacks, will also be in attendance. Not invited to attend is Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a close ally of Trump before their very public feud in June.

-ABC News' Lalee Ibsaa

Ousted CDC director, Susan Monarez, said on Thursday she was fired for putting "evidence above ideology and facts above fear."

In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, Monarez also referred to a meeting she had with her boss, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., where he pressured her to resign or be fired, which ABC News previously reported.

In that meeting, Monarez said that Kennedy also told her to “preapprove the recommendations” of the CDC’s vaccine panel, which members were replaced by Kennedy weeks ago, many of whom share similar vaccine skeptic views to the secretary.

The op-ed was published on the day Kennedy is scheduled to testify before the Senate Finance Committee, which has oversight over his department.

-ABC News' Youri Benadjaoud

President Trump on Wednesday reiterated his threats to send federal troops to cities like Chicago and New York to combat crime.

He also said that he is considering sending troops to cities in red states.

"So we're making a determination now. Do we go to Chicago or do we go to a place like New Orleans where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry, who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that's become quite tough, quite bad?" Trump said. "So we're going to be going to, maybe Louisiana, and you have New Orleans, which has a crime problem, will straighten that out in about two weeks."

President Trump was asked about the military strike on an alleged drug boat out of Venezuela -- why the vessel wasn't intercepted and why the alleged gang members weren't taken into custody.

Trump claimed there were tapes that showed a massive amount of drugs on the boat.

"They won't be doing it again. And I think a lot of other people won't be doing it again," he said.