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The ears of the big tech folks they love bringing in the engineers from india and other countries. theyve been notoriously collaborating among themselves to do that are conspiring among themselves to do that . so again, this seems to be where the rift of the republican party is. is i it going to go more populit america first or go back to the bush-cheney days of old ? where is the party headed? i think the party is going to were going to focus on securing our border. were going to focus on legal...

Basic quality of life issues, whether thats being able to send your kid to a school thats open, being able to walk down the street and feel safe, in both cases, the efforts attract a lot of big money, you see a lot of real estate and tech folks, for example, pouring money in, and that in particular with the district attorney recall has created some skepticism on the left about, okay, whos really behind this. but i do think there are some voters even liberal voters who generally vote democratic w...

There is not a lot of savvy sort of tech folks in the senate or in the house. but the other is that tech companies can screen out content. i think google took down terrorist instruction manuals. i believe multiple platforms have taken down -- they have a screen for child pornography. they know exactly how do remove offensive content. i dont think this is a tech problem. i think this is a problem of will. i think because it was one of the two political parties in this country associated with dome...

Openings. what about the sectors? business information kinds of jobs, office jobs, lawyers, accountants, tech folks. 573,000 net new jobs there. for years health care has been growing so strongly. manufacturing down a little bit and that bears watching because this has been a decent year so far for manufacturing jobs. >> and thats been a big focus of the president. what i find interesting, fascinating, and con pounding though is why the presidents approval rating overall and even his approval ra...

Culture comes down on you. those stock options you might have earned goes out the door. ed: have all these folks on the left attack the president. root out leakers this is totalitarian. a lot of these tech folks out in california and elsewhere have been a lot more ruthless. facebook and apple as i understand. they have been ruthless about leaks. >> you know, they are incredibly ruthless because the fact of the matter is inside of the culture they share an extraordinary amount of information with...

Is there any benefit in having maybe other people work with us from other countries so we can control -- did we lose what we thought we lost with the internet? >> it is christmastime. people give gifts in christmastime. you said we gave the world the internet. sometimes you get more by giving than receiving. i think that is absolutely true. i dont mean to make a christmas parallel but it is true. we added so much to our own economy and enterprises as a result of that gift we gave the world of th...

Anti-is yn is videos we want to serve up, anti-propaganda, how do we make them go viral? they asked the youtube ceo how to make them go viral. >> people have to want to make them go viral. >> but when youre with a good group of tech folks, its the best people to ask. what one person from facebook said is what we do is we identify people who might be suicidal and serve up ads, we serve up ads that send positive messaging toward them or suicide hotlines. we tell friends to check in on them. what i...

Freak flag anymore. >> maybe its not their fault, but do you think tech entrepreneurs are doing enough to contribute to the culture? >> its not their fault. you cant blame them for homelessness in san francisco obviously. thats oversimplifying it. the question is what do they see? we want to make sure some dont get left behind. >> did you have trouble getting tech folks to come on and talk to you? if so, why do you think that is? >> i didnt have any luck getting through to the top of the big nam...

Tomorrow, but its about, you know, looking at these prototypes and having these conversations about technology and saying, hey, this is here. this is, austin is right now full of entrepreneurs showing whats next and what other conversations we are going to have in the future. read? >> all right. and then a conversation that is going to happen tomorrow involves ed snowden. he is the man who leaked u.s. intelligence, and in what way is he speaking? and what is he expected to say? >> you know, this...

Problems? >> yes. >> could you describe that a little bit. >> yes, as of last week when jeff zeints joined us for this short-term project we asked him to lead a sort of management team. we have pulled in all of our contractors as well as additional talent that they may have available. we have talked to tech folks in and out of the private sector and insurance, some of their tech experts, to get all eyes and ears, made a full assessment, developed a plan for fixes along the way. have a punch list...