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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 don't 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 the internet i think there is much more that brings these tech folks together with trump than divides...

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 you're with a good group of tech folks, it's 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 if we tried to apply that technique to folks who might be radicalized online? >> interesting. >> th...

Freak flag anymore. >> maybe it's not their fault, but do you think tech entrepreneurs are doing enough to contribute to the culture? >> it's not their fault. you can't blame them for homelessness in san francisco obviously. that's oversimplifying it. the question is what do they see? we want to make sure some don't 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 didn't have any luck getting through to the top of the big name companies. that was disheartening. it's hard to make a real honest portrait of what's going ...

Tomorrow, but it's 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 what's 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 is a big deal, because it's the first time edward snowden has really talked to an audience full o...

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 for going after those fixes and we are doing a daily tech briefing and blog to tell people what we ...