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What do you make of his message and did he deserve to be fired? >> he goes out of his way to say discrimination does exist. however, that does not explain for all the gender disparents. if you actually look at the number of women getting degrees, only 20% of engineering degrees go to women. 80% go to men. you can argue women are overrepresented at google relative to the percentage of getting science degrees. paul: that's different from the biological sciences. >> when we get into psychology. women are about 80%. in computer sciences that flips down to 20%. anyone who works at a company like go...

Six percent. steve mnuchin said 3 by the way. i'll grow an afro by the time 6 percent. you require more immigration. we're working as productively as we can. we're all on our phones, working 20 hours a day. you need more people when you have a stable birth rate. western europe around the united states has. we should be thinking about this. i'm from canada. canada loves it when donald trump and steve bannon say these things. those south asians with engineering degrees, they go to canada and give canada skilled immigration. it's economically unsound what he's saying. it does reflect a fear of br...

Well, life, maybe. tell me about it. >> yeah, it's been, like, a wild, inspiring ride. we've gotten texts from ted cruz and mike huckabee. it's crossing the aisles. teachers were taking kids, buying out theaters, schools are -- it's been remarkable. it's been such a -- so inspiring seems like it's been a catalyst for change in the country and a catalyst for women and kids to think about math and sce, engineering degrees. i don't know, it's just been -- it's been overwhelming. >> you must have known in writing the screenplay it is the american story, the underdog, the person that's overlooked, ...

Some heat for taking to twitter behind the hit film "gravity." >> don't get me started -- >> got to go there. >> sandra bullock, why do you think film lovers got so emotional about your tweets. >> the film "gravity" got 100 other things right. i just didn't tweet about those. i thought people would think it's interesting i have knowledge about gravity and officered reflections on things they got wrong, one of which, sandra bullock, a medical doctor is fixing the hubble telescope. a medical doctor wouldn't go near it unless you have engineering degrees. we don't send mechanical engine nears in ...

Will have effect on companies like yours. what would be the impact on your company? >> yes, ma'am, it will affect us greatly. we're already seeing a slowdown on contracts. contracts not being funded. we were working on particular items that funds have just frozen up and it will have a huge impact. i do a lot of our own research and development. i fund it myself. and, i'm very concerned that all of this is going to come to a halt because i'm not going to be able to afford these. engineers and the people that support this particular area in my business because, they're very talented people. they...