google is being accused today of trying to close down public debate about google. the story is that a think tank in the us, to which it has given a lot of financial support, published a press release critical of google, and supporting the eu in fining it recently. then, mysteriously, the think tank took the offending press release off its website, and exiled the team that had been behind it, sacking its leader. had google got cross at the criticism and threatened to pull its funding in retaliation? the think tank categorically denies it was about google threatening anything, as does google. but the sacked google critic barry lynn joins us now from washington. good evening. mr lynn, what evidence to you have that your separation from the think tank was to do with google's intervention? there are a number of points of evidence. for instance, the day that we put up a notice, there was a conversation immediately after that

a lot of us trusted google not to be evil. silly us. james da more once trusted google not on evil. probably not anymore. he joins us now. james, thanks a lot for coming on. i read this saga from beginning until right now. and one question that kept coming back to me is did anyone at google, before firing you, bother to respond to any of the points that you made? it's a data driven company. they always say that did they say here is why you are wrong or did they just say you are being punished for asking questions? >> yeah. when i shared it with individual googlers. they actually had an actual reasoned discussion with me. only when it became viral did this huge emotional outrage happen of all places you wouldn't think google would have a culture where emotional outrage drives decision making. the whole point of google was they are rational. they don't sound rational at all. >> yeah. there is certain dogmas that you really can't defend against at google. and one of them being that there is any difference between people. >> so the diversity officer, ms. brown, who said that your assump

google, apple. what happens there? nikesh: i'm the camp that thinks it will be a while before we see a large proliferation of self driving cars around us. i think the economics, the regulation, the retooling required to get this to happen at scale, is far, far away. and i think we haven't thought about the ownership models in the societal problems that it's going to cause, or how do you park these cars? where do you put them? we may see people who can do closed loop tests and show you things that work, that could happen in short order. but i think the large-scale deployment and having an impact on the rental business or ride hailing business is still further away than we think. emily: should uber and lyft and didi, google, and apple, should all these companies be working on self driving cars? nikesh: i think different answers for different companies. i don't think the ride hailing businesses should make their own self driving cars at this point. emily: why not? nikesh: i think it's early. i think the ride hailing indus

emily: how did you end up at google? nikesh: i had done a small startup in the u.k., which got merged into t-mobile. i worked there for a few years. i came back to the u.k., and i was trying to figure out what to do next. one thing led to another. i met -- we hit it off. he introduced me to larry and sergey, who happened to be visiting europe the week after. i spent an hour walking around the british museum with sergey. then he and larry invited me to california. i spent time meeting many people, many of them you know, eric schmidt, sheryl sandberg, tim armstrong. and that was it. emily: google had just gone public, but the business model was still to be set in stone. nikesh: the business model was pretty robust. google was around doing $2 billion in revenue at that point in time. but i would say the international operations and scaling was still very early. tim armstrong did a great job, because the team he ran was doing really well and he already put that into place. we took the model that he built and deployed it acro

google, apple. what happens there? nikesh: i'm in the camp that thinks it will be a while before we see a large proliferation of self driving cars around us. i think the economics, the regulation, the retooling required to get this to happen at scale, is far, far away. and i think we haven't thought about the ownership models and the societal problems that will cause, or how do you park these cars? where do you put them? we may see people who can do closed loop tests and show you things can work, that could happen in short order. but i think large-scale deployment and having an impact on the rental business or ride hailing business is still further away than we think. emily: should uber and lyft and didi, google, and apple, should all these companies be working on self driving cars? nikesh: there are different answers for different companies. i don't think the ride hailing businesses should make their own self driving cars at this point. emily: why not? nikesh: i think it is early. i think the ride hailing industry has

the ceo told the girls that google welcomes women.>> there is a place for you at google. don't let anyone tell you otherwise. you belong here and we need you. >> reporter: his words of encouragement followed his cancellation of a google townhall thursday to discuss the memo and the gender controversy. in the letter to employees he explained the cancellation thing google are writing and, concerned about safety and where they may be outed publicly for asking a question in the townhall. the man claims that google hostel is -- google environment is hostile to conservative claims. >> it's a defining moment for google and our culture. it's something we are working through >> reporter: the google vice president of education is an engineer and said the wider problem is widening the pipeline for girls who see a future for themselves in a traditionally male dominated field.>> for a company like google or other high-tech companies, the number that we can hire is small because the pipeline is causing these issues.>> to the girls who dream of being an engineer or an entrepreneur and w

and now dozens of former and current women employees of googles are looking at a lawsuit. >> google is a federal contractor so because they do business with the government, they have to go under audits to see if they are abiding by fair employment laws, not discriminating against people. in the audit the dol found there were discrepancies in every job category and the chances of that happening is something like one in 100 million. so they came -- this came out because -- so there's a civil rights attorney here in san francisco who this sparked his interest. so he put out an add saying have you worked at google do you feel like you were discriminated against, and i guess something like 70 women have responded saying yes, they believe that they have. so that's sort of where that came from. >> jonathan you touched on this earlier when you talked about the sporns of diversity how you need to be able to see around the corner, see what technology is coming. if we don't diversify, what's the downside? as we move into artificial intelligence where there are al go rhythms for everything in our

>> yes. >> reporter: google's answer to the echo is the google home. it links consumers to google express, a virtual shopping mall with more than 40 retailers. walmart is the first one, letting customers link the their store accounts to google so the tech company can examine their shopping history to reorder items faster and get recommendations. >> voice ordering is the next frontier, many think when it comes to ordering, and walmart wants to make sure they've put their stake in the ground. >> reporter: for google analysts say it's a chance to boost sales for google home, which lags behind the echo. and for consumers -- >> when companies compete, they innovate and that lowers prices and makes it more convenient for consumers. >> reporter: giving shoppers a voice. joe fryer, nbc news. >>> as online shopping gets easier and easier, law enforcement says there's a flip side. a number of chinese companies using internet sales to illegally ship dangerous drugs. and it's partly fueling the deadly opioid crisis right here in america. nbc's jacob soboroff has m

google to basically slam diversity to refer to women in particular. descriptions which might under some. interpretation of human behavior might be considered valid but to others patently offensive what is google supposed to do this fellow who wrote the memo he will never work in a normal corporation or a big corporation ever again in america a what he staggered was basically one interpretation that women were inferior. based upon a variety of reasons and rationale which to him i'm sure makes sense and by the way the darling of the right right the libertarian right whatever you want to call them the memo in fact most people reporting on it never read it the people criticizing it i read it it was quite sound quite sane it was temperate he even said that nothing in this memo means that we should respect everybody we should respect everybody and then google went around and fired him and showed him that the left does not respect anybody who has independent thought the problem is not that we don't understand what the problem is that this is a pensive to peo

car rams into a group of soldiers in paris injuring several anti terror police are investigating and google's decision to sack an employee for criticizing its diversity policy sparks a free speech but he does get a job offer from wiki leaks. turned four o'clock here in moscow you're watching international now amid growing tensions between north korea and the u.s. president has emphasized the strength of america's nuclear arsenal he said he will move to renovate and modernize the u.s.a.'s weapons adding that america will never be overtaken as the world superpower president gave a strong warning to north korea's leader kim yang threatened to strike the u.s. pacific territory of guam. make it work ranch to the united states. they will be met with fire fury. like the world has never seen before trying to make that rather explosive statement while the washington post actually published an article claiming that their reporters have read this latest u.s. defense report which says that north korea has managed to build these small nuclear warheads a small enough to fit inside missiles so rather alarmi

still a private company so if google chooses to do this. kind of that's their discretion that's the. kind of now that. the government's not telling them that that we know of the government is not telling them to do this they're just saying hey we're private business we're going to choose. that's the whole point is obviously as a private company they have that right now obviously it's up to us to say maybe we don't want to use that search engine anymore now we know google has a history of course of working with the government because of the fact of the capturing you know. some people allege that they're actually accessing your emails themselves as well as google search words you type in even maybe your smartphones when you're using them because they can use it for advertising purposes but they've also had a relationship with the n.s.a. inclusion going back to the prism program that snowden revealed that they were giving data to the n.s.a. they've also had to google executives that have been given classified security meetings with the with th

google, apple. what happens? it will beus thinks a while before we see a large proliferation of self driving cars. i think the economics, the regulation, the retooling required to get this to happen at scale, is far, far away. we haven't thought about the ownership models in the societal problems that will cause, or how do you park these cars? where do you put them? we may see people who can show you things don't work, that could happen in short order, but i think large-scale deployment and having an impact on the rental business or ride hailing business is still further away than we think. emily: should uber and lyft and didi, should all these companies be working on self driving cars? >> i don't inc. the right hip -- i don't think the ride hailing businesses should make their own self driving cars at this point. emily: why not? >> i think it is early. i think the ride hailing industry hasn't settled down. we haven't quite figured out where the industry will stabilize. i think they have lots of work the way logi

our analysis shows no gender pay gap at google. they have not taken steps to learn how our systems work. and may not have accurately understood them. >>> tonight the google engineer who was fired for his manifesto is breaking his silence and he is not sorry. kpix 5's maria medina is live outside google headquarters with the story. >> reporter: james damore said he values diversity but because of his memo the ceo of google plans to hold a town hall with employees tomorrow. >> i decided to create the document to clarify my thoughts. >> reporter: james damore was just a google engineer who decided to write a memo about the gender gap at his company. >> i heard things that i disagreed with. >> reporter: in an interview james damore explains he wrote the memo after attending a diversity program at google. >> a lot of shaming. that is sexist, you can't do this. there is just so much hypocrisy. >> reporter: he blames biological causes for the gender gap. women have more nurotticism. >> he is not the only one who thinks that way. he is jus

new york has more reaction beginning to google's move. this fellow who wrote the memo he will never work in a normal corporation or a big corporation ever again in america what kind of idiot would decide. google to basically slam diversity to refer to women in particular most of descriptions which might under some. interpretation of human behavior might be considered all valid but to others patently offensive what is google supposed to do the memo in fact most people reporting on it never read it the people criticizing it i read it it was quite sound quite sane it was temperate he even said that nothing in this memo means that we should respect everybody we should respect everybody and then google went around and fired him and showed him that the left does not respect anybody who has independent thought what he staggered was basically one interpretation that women were inferior. based upon a variety of reasons that rationale which to him i'm sure makes sense and by the way he may be now the darling of the right right the libertarian right

google, apple. what happens there? nikesh: i'm in the camp that thinks it will be a while before we see a large proliferation of self driving cars around us. i think the economics, the regulation, the retooling required to get this to happen at scale, is far, far away. i think we haven't thought about the ownership models in the -- and the societal problems that will cause, or how do you park these cars? where do you put them? we may see people who can do closed loop tests and show you things that work, that could happen in short order. but i think large-scale deployment and having an impact on the rental business or ride hailing business is still further away than we think. emily: should uber and lyft and didi, google, and apple, should all these companies be working on self driving cars? nikesh: there are different answers for every company. i don't think the ride hailing businesses should make their own self driving cars at this point. emily: why not? nikesh: i think it is early. i think the ride hailing industry ha

emily: google express has had its stumbles. there are other vendors on the service, target, costco, bed bath & beyond. arun, how big of a threat is this to amazon? arun: i think it's a really big threat. you're combining the ai and device power of google with the logistics and retailing expertise of walmart. i think it's a win-win for both walmart and for google. you look at the online retail landscape, look a few years ahead, and there doesn't seem to be anybody who poses a serious threat to amazon. when you combine google's strengths with walmart's strengths, it's still really early days for online retail. less than 10% of u.s. retail is online. emily: yet amazon has spent 20 years laying groundwork for this. how much of a head start to they have? arun: they certainly have an advantage. they have the devices in the home, and they have the 55% of u.s. customers -- prime customers. they've got the largest tech expertise and, like, 20 years of experience, but i think google is ahead of them on the voice and ai technologies and t

wod >> reporter: google's answer to the echo is the google home. it links consumers to google express, a virtual shopping mall with more than 40 retailers. walmart is the first one, letting customers link the their store accounts to google so the tech company can examine their shopping history to reorder items faster and get recommendations. >> voice ordering is the next frontier, many think when it comes to ordering, and walmart wants to make sure they've put their stake in the ground. >> reporter: for google analysts say it's a chance to boost sales for google home, which lags behind the ec echo. and for consumers -- >> when companies compete, they innovate and that lowers prices and makes it more convenient for consumers. >> reporter: giving shoppers a voice. joe fryer, nbc news. >>> as online shopping gets easier and easier, law enforcement says there's a flip side. a number of chinese companies using internet sales to illegally ship dangerous drugs. and itar fueling the deadly opioid crisis right here in america. nbc's jacob soboroff has more

google's decision to sack an employee for criticizing its diversity policy of free speech but nonetheless it got a job from wiki leaks we'll tell you all about that. russian lawyer embroiled in the collusion scandal with donald trump's team explains exclusively to us why her story is being exploited by the mainstream media. for my meeting with donald trump jr has been orchestrated and now this story has proven to be gold for so many. to come and you're watching a day in moscow now eleven in the morning in paris of course and that's where the top story centers this hour in a suburb of the european capital where a car has been driven into a group of soldiers a small about a fifteen local time six of the two seriously. is there at the scene charlotte bring us up to speed i don't know how many twenty twenty one months into the country go and stay. of emergency the terror of. continues yeah now underway for the person who was growing up in that vehicle which was driven into the soldiers here just outside the or just in the mark up of paris school. ok now we understand six soldiers were injured

which they shared their thoughts on google's move without. what kind of being idiots would decide at google to basically slam diversity to refer to women in particular you know most of descriptions which might under some. interpretation of human behavior might be considered all valid but to others patently offensive what is google supposed to do this fellow who wrote the memo he will never work in a normal corporation or a big corporation ever again in america a what he staggered was basically one interpretation that women were inferior. based upon a variety of reasons and rationale which to him i'm sure makes sense and by the way he may be now the darling of the right the all right the libertarian right whatever you want to call them the memo in fact most people reporting on it never read it the people criticizing it i read it it was quite sound quite sane it was temperate he even said that nothing in this memo means that we should respect everybody we should. respect everybody and then google what around and fired him and showed him that th

of conversion by michael first of all thanks for joining us there for having me it sounds like google and facebook dominance in the digital ad space is pretty hard to dispute what's your take on it it's true for the majority of our clients they focus on strategies that yield them a good return on investment and there's no better companies outside of facebook and google if you think about it google owns about ninety percent of the network of web sites out there so from an ad dollars to. point that's the go to but facebook has got more criteria for each person name address phone number where you went to school interests things of this nature and they could target you better and then with over two billion unique facebook users a month there's a better platform so these are the top two though who edges the other one out if you're talking about different advantages for the two companies. coming up a snap chat that just came out but that's hardly really the twenty and below crowd there's always being in the yahoo but for the most part it's it's google and facebook but is google better or is

our annual analysis shows no gender pay gap at google. they haven't taken steps to learn our systems and don't understand them. the fired engineer is defending every word he wrote. kpix 5's maria medina shows us the debate he is sparking over the company's work culture. >> i decided to create the document just to clarify my thoughts. >> reporter: before the world knew who he was, james damore was just a google engineer who decided to write a ten-page memo about the gender gap at his company. >> you know, i heard things that i definitely disagreed with. >> reporter: in an interview with a youtube channel he explains for the first time he wrote the memo after attending a diversity program at google. >> there's a lot of just shaming and, you know, no, you can't say that. that's sexist. you can't do this. and i -- there's just so much hypocracy. >> reporter: in this memo, he blames biological causes for the gender gap. men have a higher drive for status and women on average have more neuroticism. >> he is the only one to say that in a memo. >

and google says to sack an employee for criticizing its diversity policies to free speech but you get sick from wiki leaks and also. the russian. collusion scandal with donald trump's team explains it's believed to be why the story is being exploited by the mainstream media. whole scandal over my meeting with donald trump jr has been carefully orchestrated and. this story has proven to be gold for so many. in the afternoon here in moscow you with the international start with that nice from france where french counterterrorism prosecutors are now investigating an attack on soldiers near their barracks in the north paris suburbs this morning six troops were injured three of them seriously let's get more details now from depends who's in the force charlotte good afternoon look it's been a few hours hasn't it since this is happened is there been any more information released about who the attack might be here. but what we understand is that the manhunt. it is still under way we did hear a press conference with the mayor of the local area live. and he said that they will c.c.t.v. image the

kpix 5 is at google headquarters in mountainview tonight. >> reporter: and that google ceo canceled the town hall meeting when some of his employees' identities or private information were being posted online. >> there's a lot of just shaming, and, no you can't say that, it's sexist. >> reporter: by now james damore's former co-workers have likely heard his first interviews after the controversial memo about why he thinks men are more successful than women in tech. >> no one high up to me ever came up and said no, don't do this. >> reporter: but today was supposed to be the google ceo's chance to talk. he cut his vacation short to have a town hall meeting with his employees, but canceled it at the last minute. he wrote, on some websites googlers are being named personally, they're writing in concerned about their safety and worried they could be outing publicly for asking a question in the town hall. >> and the issue is of course they fired the guy that wrote the manifesto, and that undoubtedly upset a bunch of other people, and now it's become hostile. >> reporter: this tech analyst be

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there's always being in the yahoo but for the most part it's it's google and facebook but is google better or is facebook better it's really completely different if you're looking more forward to be to be crowned even seedling din is a great aspect is won't have a great product but google's a default you have to understand that over three billion internet searches are conducted per day on google unbelievable that's insane so that's why google's the big behemoth and i don't even comes close to that right but facebook offers a different type of a platform in which their people are on there every single day for hours at a time so advertisers want in front of them it seems like companies like facebook have figured out a way to make money but it wasn't always the case i remember in the early years. social media that was a real struggle is figuring out how these free platforms would bring in revenue correct i remember when they first went public it was so interesting to see them so the stock price go up and then it just plummeted because nobody had faith that they would be able to monetize their

there's always being in the yahoo but for the most part it's it's google and facebook but is google better or is facebook better it's really completely different if you're looking more forward to be to be crowned king that seedling didn't is a great aspect as won't have a great product but google's a default you have to understand that over three billion internet searches are conducted per day on google unbelievable that's insane so that's why google is the big he with and i don't even comes close to that right but facebook offers a different type of a platform in which their people are on there every single day for hours at a time so advertisers want in front of them it seems like companies like facebook have figured out a way to make money but it wasn't always the case i remember in the early years. social media that was a real struggle is figuring out how these free platforms would bring in revenue correct i remember when they first went public it was so interesting to see them so the stock price go up and then it just plummeted because nobody had faith that they would be able to moneti

one google employee tweeted this after reading the memo. that garbage fire of a document is trash and you are wonderful co-workers who i am extremely lucky to work with. another wrote, imagine working at google, getting paid all that money just to spend your time writing a disguftsing manifesto and sending it to your peers. and a female google employee said internal article circulated today describing how gender rep gap in sw is due to biological differences between men and women. google's new president of diversity responded saying we are unequivocal in our belief that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success as a company. we've continued to stand for that and to be committed to it for the long haul. the man who wrote that memo is also sounding off this weekend saying there is sexism at work but also says some ideas are, quote, too sacred to be honestly discussed at google. the company needs to be more open to more conservative ideals. thom jensen, san jose, bay area news. >>> new video of a frightening accident at menlo college

google is making products for the world. don't you need to have all kinds of people making those products? james: yes, i support diversity and inclusion. i think that also, our lack of ideological diversity has hurt our projects, or our products. it makes us think that, for example, just the stereotype that all conservatives are stupid, for example, that is widely held within very left-leaning circles. that has hurt us. it makes us alienate large portions of the population. caroline: that was former google engineer james damore speaking exclusively to emily chang. google ceo sundar pichai has also issued a statement. he says, our job is to build great products to make a great difference in our user's lives. to suggest a group of our colleagues are less biologically suited to the work is offensive and not ok. joining me now for a deeper look is ellen huet, who has been reporting on this story and diversity at large. talk to us about the town hall meeting that sundar pichai will be holding with all of google today. is this a r

male engineers at google. i was just trying to address why we do not have equal or presentation from the population. emily: we have a very impassioned response to this. it said, the memo was not about black people or latinos, or the lgbt community, you would not have anyone defending you. what you think of that? >> i think that is a false analogy, and she is trying to rope me in with other races -- bigots, and ind am not. that seems to me more try this mirror my image rather than respond to the evidence. have beenesponses about looking at the science. they have just been calling me names. leaked document did not carry any references which my original document did. emily: don't you think these conclusions extend to women and minorities and other types of people. forle is making products the world. don't you need to have all kinds of people making those products? >> i support diversity and inclusion, and i think also that our lack of ideological products.has hurt our it makes us think, for example, just the star

of conversion by michael first of all thanks for joining us there for having me it sounds like google and facebook dominance in the digital ad space is pretty hard to dispute what's your take on it it's true for the majority of our clients they focus on strategies that yield them a good return on investment and there's no better companies outside of facebook and google if you think about it google owns about ninety percent of the network of web sites out there so from an ad dollars standpoint that's the go to but facebook has got more criteria for each person name address phone number where you went to school interests things of this nature and they can target you better then with over two billion unique facebook users a month there's a better platform so these are the top two though who edges the other one out if you. talking about different advantages for the two companies. coming up a snap chat that just came out but that's hardly really the twenty and below crowd there's always being in the yahoo but for the most part it's it's google and facebook but is google better or is facebo

and google's decision to sack an employee for criticizing its diversity policy sparks of free speech he gets a job for wiki leaks the russian noir embroiled in the collusion scandal with donald trump's team explains its lucidly to see why her story is being exploited by the mainstream media whole scandal over my meeting with donald trump jr has been carefully orchestrated and blown out this story has proven to be gold for so many. fellow beckons you live from moscow you watching our internationals could have a company this sound our top story french counterterrorism prosecutors are now investigating an attack on soldiers near their barracks in a north paris suburb this morning six troops were injured three of them seriously charlotte dubinsky reports while a manhunt is now underway in paris as security forces and police try to locate the perpetrator behind this attack now what we know is that it happened at eight o'clock this morning six soldiers as they were leaving the barracks which are just behind me were injured in that incident three. we have been seriously injured although we

so there are very many capable women at google. and i'm not trying to say that any of them are any worse than average male engineer at google. just i was trying to address why we don't have equal representation from the population. of thes largely because different interests in people versus things which is linked to prenatal testosterone. susan wrote a very impassioned response and she said had your memo been about thek people or latinos or engine be community that he wouldn't have anyone defending you. how do you respond to that t?h >> that's a false analogy and she's trying to lump me in with racists and other bigots, which i'm not. i'm not a sexist. and i'm not a racist. i think that's just trying to smear my image rather than actually looking at the evidence. very little of the responses have been actually looking at the science. names oren calling me nitpicks of, the formatting was a little wrong, or the original linked document that somebody else linked to didn't have any citations when my original document it. >> you are ur

google is being accused today of trying to close down public debate about google. the story is that a think tank in the us, to which it has given a lot of financial support, published a press release critical of google, and supporting the eu in fining it recently. then, mysteriously, the think tank took the offending press release off its website, and exiled the team that had been behind it, sacking its leader. had google got cross at the criticism and threatened to pull its funding in retaliation? the think tank categorically denies it was about google threatening anything, as does google. but the sacked google critic barry lynn joins us now from washington. good evening. mr lynn, what evidence to you have that your separation from the think tank was to do with google's intervention? there are a number of points of evidence. for instance, the day that we put up a notice, there was a conversation immediately after that with anne—marie slaughter, ahead of the think tank, in which she said, i got off the phone with google, with eric schmidt, and they are polling al

he also filed a case with the nlrb against google on monday. have spoken he may to hr last week about other issues. it seems like he's been making moves to try to lay groundwork for maybe some legal case. emily: one of the points we have not discussed is that the peer-reviewed process at google is huge. a huge part of their culture. you review your peers. how did google move on from this internally?what kind of discussions are had ? reporter: i think that. youth systemreporter: came up when employees were saying, "this is why i can't continue to work at google if you still here." is a cooperative workplace, and you work with peers, which determines your promotions. it is hard to separate an engineer who had become an internal pariah from the system, and many people felt if he continued to work at google, it would be a major reason they would quit. emily: google is also facing a lawsuit that is systematically discriminates against women based on pay. what is the status of that? reporter: our understanding is it is still ongoing. there have been

if you survey google and ask what fraction of google employees voted for trump? what section of silicon valley it is probably 2% or 3%. ,it is clearly not representative of the american people. that is a different point than what are the roots of employee-based and engineering based differences of google. i am not an expert at what causes that or google or biology. i do think google is taking some risk in being very draconian about some views. i think personally if i was running the company, it's ridiculous that anybody spends 10,000 words and distracts the entire company. but google has a culture with mailing list for these off-topic mailing lists. there is a general rule people should not be able to take business time and distract 70,000 employees regardless of , views. emily: i did speak to james damore the day after he got fired. take a listen to what he had to say. james it is hard to regret it, : just because i do believe that i'm trying to make google and the world in general a better place by not confining us to our ideological echo chambers were -- where

emily: how did you end up at google? nikesh: i had done a small startup in the u.k., which got merged into t-mobile. i came back to the u.k., and i was trying to figure out what to do next. one thing led to another. met -- we hit it off. he introduced me to larry and sergey, who happened to be visiting europe the week after. i spent an hour walking around the british museum with sergey. then he and larry invited me to california. i spent time meeting many people , many of them you know, eric schmidt, sheryl sandberg, tim armstrong. and that was it. emily: google had just gone public, but the business model was yet to be set in stone. nikesh: the business model was pretty robust. google was around doing $2 billion in revenue at that point in time. but i would say the international operations and scaling was still very early. tim armstrong was doing really great job, because the team he ran was doing really well and he already put that into place. we took the model that he built and deployed it across europe. tim and i use

google ceo paused to hear the pitches. girls explained apps they created to help solve problems in their communities. ironic timing for google after one of its engineers posted a memo saying genetic differences explain why fewer numbers of women are in tech jobs and leadership roles. he was fired. the ceo told the group of girls thursday night google welcomes women. >> there's a place for you at google. don't let anyone tell you otherwise. you belong here and we need you. >> but his words of encouragement follow his cancellation of a google town hall thursday to discuss the memo and the gender controversy. in the letter to employees he explained the cancellation, saying googlers are writing in concerned about their safety and worried they might be outed publicly for asking a question in the town hall. the worker claimed google was hostile to conservative viewpoints and gives special treatment to female and minority candidates. >> it's definitely a defining moment for google. and for our culture. it's something that we're w

kpix 5 is at google headquarters in mountainview tonight. >> reporter: and that google ceo canceled the town hall meeting when some of his employees' identities or private information were being posted online. >> there's a lot of just shaming, and, no you can't say that, it's sexist. >> reporter: by now james likely heard his first ers have interviews after the controversial memo about why he thinks men are more successful than women in tech. >> no one high up to me ever came up and said no, don't do this. >> reporter: but today was supposed to be the google ceo's chance to talk. he cut his vacation short to have a town hall meeting with his employees, but canceled it at the last minute. he wrote, on some websites googlers are being named personally, they're writing in concerned about their safety and worried they could be outing publicly for asking a question in the town hall. >> and the issue is of course they fired the guy that wrote the manifesto, and that undoubtedly upset a bunch of other people, and now it's become hostile. >> reporter: this tech analyst believes google made a ba

google is a big news player. they are ranked second in the united states with 150 million unique visitors for news only after yahoo!. facebook is the place all the news sites in that getting distribution --end up getting distribution. facebook has been increasing speed of news stories displayed. you will see a scrum. news is going online. it is going mobile. snap is an innovator but will not necessarily be the primary news innovator. caroline: talk about the scrum david mentioned. we are not seeing content deals coming from google. we are seeing across the board from twitter and facebook. why the obsession with media? >> there are a couple of components. first of all, there is a looming concern among brands about putting their ads next to content that is safe. remember the scare with youtube earlier this year where some brands saw they were being placed against extremist content or racist content. these projects are working directly with publishers to help ensure brand safety. they can say we are working with you

should we trust google to do this? paul:another setback in the south for big labor as nissan who are these people? the energy conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something... humongous. a little thing here. a little thing there. starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. who are all these caretakers, advocates too? turns out, it's californians it's me and it's you. don't stop now, it's easy to add to the routine. join energy upgrade california and do your thing. [♪] paul: big labor suffered another setback in the south when workers in canton, mississippi voted overwhelmingly to reject unionization it was a blow to the united auto workers union who invested in the effort. we are back with dan henninger, alicia finley and gillian mel melchoir. why did it fail? >> the auto workers weren't sold on the benefit of the union. the union came in and tried to make this a racial issue. this plant is 80% black. they are trying to wed the auto movement to the civil rates movement. a lot of the empl

emily: google has since become alph what is the biggest risk to google's business model now? abet. nikesh: we underestimated the risks to build and advertising juggernaut. facebook has built one. i don't think there is a third. i don't think there is a third platform out there which has the scale to be able to build what google and facebook have built. i think we will see more and more concentration at google and facebook in the advertising space. i think that will not go away soon. emily: would you say it is a duopoly, and is that ok? nikesh: yes, for now. there are other players relevance of the advertising space online and off-line, whether it will be snapchat or twitter or interest in the future. maybe some traditional players that are doing a phenomenal job of transitioning from off-line to online. there are many players in the space. for the perceivable future, will google and facebook be the largest players? yes. emily: do think there were ever will be a third company that takes a third of that high? nikesh: i think it will be hard but i think there will be a collection of c

cleanliness and literature and the arts or doesn't come to mind is our friendly google home page and it's reassuring search bar in the age of the internet anyone outside of china might expect open access to all kinds of information at our fingertips with just about anything available for our visual pleasure silicon valley seems to a different vision as recent studies indicate google has been adjusting its search function stifling traffic to political material seen as controversial or simply out of the mainstream originally designed to counter terrorist platforms google seems to have taken even more political initiative according to a new kind of punch article under its new so called anti fake news program google algorithms have in the past few months moved socialist anti-war progressive websites from previously prominent positions in google searches to positions up to fifty search pages from the first page a sense you're moving them from the search results any search or will see from the war on drugs poverty and terror to the war on fake news in a world that celebrates fake stars fak

anna withinner, cbs news, new york. >>> little more about google. its work force is 69% male. 56% white, 35% asian, and only 2% black. the engineer who wrote the memo confirmed his firing to reuters in an e-mail saying he was fired for perpetuating gender stereotypes. now social media reacting and roberto tweets this guy just destroyed google's ability to attract good women engineers to the company. but buck writes, nothing says global thought leader like a $600 million company firing a guy for saying men and women are not exactly the same. >>> well, wherever you find a baby you're bound to find a camera. facebook is proof of that. we love to snap pictures of the little bundles of joy. that's why an article in some tweets buzzing around social media caught our attention. they're all about a family friend who took a closeup of a newborn and the cell eye. we wanted to verify. can that actually happen? can a camera flash blind a baby? verify put the question to eye specialist dr. jeffrey levinson. listen to what he has to say. >> it's clear that flash

protests had been planned at google offices around the country. we reached out to google for a response. >>> tonight their job was to make sure the air we breathe was safe, but two whistle blowers say they were fired when they refused to destroy evidence of emissions violations. they are now suing. >> the target of the lawsuit, the bay area air quality management district, it is responsible for making re big companies like chevron, shell and other refineries aren't polluting our air. >> and we have to monitor these public agencies to make sure they're doing their jobs because if they don't, the air we breathe suffers. >> reporter: jamie 's ients miael bauman and sarah steele erfiled waa lknew lawsuit today against the bay area district today alleging the district ordered them to destroy public documents. they came out as whistle blowers in february. >> our clients allege that the district was destroying public records and when they complained about it persistently, they were investigated and then fired. >> i worked with these people for 16 years.

information about him or his status at google. anthony? >> mason: john blackstone outside google's offices inside san francisco. thanks, john. for the first time in eight years, the two koreas and china sat dunn and talked at a regional security conference in manila. what came out of it were threats from the north. it said it will retaliate for sanctions the u.n. security council approved in response to the latest missile test. here's asia correspondent ben tracy. >> reporter: after a rare public appearance at north korea's foreign minister ri yong-ho at this weekend's security conference, the north launched a blistering attack on the new u.n. sanctions. in an angry statement, the north vowed the u.s. will pay by 1,000 fold for heinous crimes against north korea and that it is ready the teach the u.s. a severe lesson. new york northern's latest launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile that could hit the u.s. appears to have united the international community against kim jong-un's regime. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerso

, i think i had a partial hand in naming google. thank you very much. host: tom salmon night -- tom simonite, any thoughts? [laughter] tom: john, what a great story, thanks for sharing it. i can -- yeah, we think of google as solved, using for years now. the question of how you get computers to understand languages is one of the trickiest in artificial intelligence. so, while search works pretty good and speech recognition is not bad either, translation is getting better. computers still have literacy problem, you know, describes them as illiterate, they can't read a sentence or inject a paragraph of text and get or group cementing of it. people that work in the field -- or group the meaning of it. the meaning of it. which if you want machines and we don't know right now. host: what happened with facebook recently and the research they were doing and the program that they had to understand language and created their own language, and the controversy that surrounded that? tom: yes, earlier in the month we so i -- we saw a flurry of a

>> yes. >> reporter: google's answer is the google home. it links consumers to google express, a virtual shopping mall with more than 40 retailers. walmart is the first one letting customers link the their store accounts to google so the tech company can examine their shopping history to place reorders faster. >> voice ordering is the next frontier, many think when it comes to ordering, walmart wants to make sure it puts its stake in the ground. >> reporter: it's a chance to boost sales for google home. >> when companies compete, they innovate and that lowers prices and makes it more convenient for consumers. >> reporter: giving shoppers a voice. joe fryer, nbc news. >>> as online shopping gets easier and easier, law enforcement says there's a flip side. a number of chinese companies using internet sales to illegally ship dangerous drugs. and it's partly fueling the deadly opioid crisis right here in america. jacob soberoff has more in his series "one nation overdosed". >> reporter: fentanyl is available to order online from china. somethin