she asked eric schmidt.to what he said. >> i think the biggest thing that is going to change is the development of more generalized artificial intelligence. because of the amount of competition that we can now assemble, millions of computers to work on your behalf, we can begin the transition from you asking questions to making suggestions that are quite relevant to you. the ability to do generalized knowledge means that we can not only discover facts by looking at enough information, but we can also sort of figure out the things that you care about. we talk about this in the book, that the evolution of this is, today, on your tablet or phone, you ask a question, and you get an answer -- the evolution is that there will be a device or tablet or whatever that will be this instantly intelligent personal assistant that travels with you, that helps you figure out what you need to do today, what you should know, briefs you ahead of time for meetings, keeps you entertained. all of that is possible with today's tec

there is more of eric schmidt after the break, including what schmidt sees as the future of self drivingt plus the secret inventor of bitcoin may have gone unmasked. is he living in los angeles? or isn't he? we will ask that question a little bit later. ♪ >> i am cory johnson, and this is "bloomberg west." emily chang spoke with eric schmidt and his partner jared cohen, the director of google ideas. they talked about google's latest project, project loon and driverless cars. >> there are more than 1.1 billion users of android, and we activate something like 1.5 million a day. android is a huge platform success. it is free. it is just extraordinary. if you like to use the battle analogy, you have a battle between the iphone and android phones. that fight is producing enormous cost savings, volume savings. consumers benefit enormously from the competition. on the self driving cars, or the driver-assisted cars, the much more likely scenario is that you'll be driving the car, but the car will be smarter. i think it will be a long time before cars are driving along without anybody in them. i

we have announced 13 more cities. >> google executive chairman eric schmidt. can catch that full conversation on bloomberg.com. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu visits silicon valley and talks to our correspondent cory johnson. he talks about everything from security to the california drought. ♪ welcome back, i'm emily chang and this is "the best of hamburg west." israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu paid us a visit. he talked with tech leaders. cory johnson caught up with the prime minister at stanford. >> there are so many technology companies coming out of israel. what did you learn at apple? >> i learned that they are in israel for a good reason. right now, the future belongs to those who can innovate. the future will belong to those who can innovate even more. the smart companies are in israel in a big way. a lot of israeli smart companies are here. i want to make sure that that cooperation increases because i think it really is a competitive advantage. >> you struck a deal with jerry brown to have a more formal relationship. to do what?

started by asking schmidt, what has changed in the year since the book was first written? >> it is interesting, if you read this book from a year ago, a lot of the things we talked about did happen. we talked about the dangers and issues. maybe the most interesting thing has been the unpredictability of political change because of technology. at the time he wrote the book, we're reasonably sure that the in the tahrir square in egypt was going to produce a particular outcome. now it seems we're back to square zero. if you look at the ukraine today, no one has a proposal how to deal with syria. we have learned there is some kind of limit to technological optimism. but if you empower people, the gun still speaks. i'm not sure it is a good answer, but it is a true answer. >> one of the things we had written about in the book is that governments in the midst of conflict will become so concerned about empowered citizens that they will set up check points to confiscate phones or see what is on them. i heard from my friends in syria that the government had set up checkpoints. they

turning back to my discussion with eric schmidt and jared cohen.ne of the important things we discussed, the nsa and edward snowden. take a listen. >> what is the state of google's relationship with the nsa? >> what relationship? >> it is not even complicated? >> they didn't knock, they didn't call, they didn't send a letter. they just visited. [laughter] >> the latest revelations from snowden that the nsa colluded with the british to intercept and safe images and chats, what are the chances that happened to google video chat? >> we're looking forward to more disclosures from the nsa on this matter. >> you guys have gotten together with a bunch of different technologies to petition changes in washington. how optimistic are you that congress is going to do what you want them to? >> what the nsa is doing is covered under section 215. it is known as the business record act. and through a series of legal arguments that allows them to record every phone call you make, by their own admission --in order to target one suspected terrorist out of 33 million

an interview with eric schmidt. with eric schmidt, the executive chairman of google and jericho and. cohen.jericho we started by talking about what is happened the last -- what has happened in the last year. the paperback is out this week. since they wrote the original , i asked if anything had changed their conclusions are predictions. >> if he read the book a year ago and you read this version and you look at the epilogue, a lot of things we talked about is happening. he talked about the dangers and issues around old leaking. that has occurred. most interesting thing has been the unpredictability up local change because of technology. at the time we wrote the book, we really do were unsure that the revolution in egypt would produce a pseudo-democratic government. we are back to square zero. if you look at ukraine today, no one has a proposal for how to do it. what we have learned is there is some kind of limit to technological optimism. you can empower people -- that's our position. ultimately, the gun kills peace

joining us now is michael schmidt, he's one of the reporters from "the new york times" who wrote this story. also joining us, cnn's richard quest. charles barnett, he's the 777 pilot, also an aviation attorney. michael, thanks very much for coming in. let's talk about your report. give us the upshot. what did you learn? >> basically this plane moved in several different directions after it went off -- >> after the transponders stopped sending information. >> correct, correct. >> to ground control. >> at first it goes -- shortly after it goes off the radar, it goes up to 45,000 feet, which is above its normal flying altitude. and then shortly after that, it's down around 20,000 feet, which is below its normal altitude. now, along with -- >> then it goes back up again. >> then it goes back up again. while this is all happening, it is changing directions, it has moved west, it has turned back around and whatever. so all of this suggests this erraticness that has really led investigators to say, well, who was flying the plane at that point. it clearly wasn't flying itself. if it was, that

eric schmidt of google id's the four horsemen of technology. that is also coming up next. ♪ this is "lunch money," streaming live on bloomberg.com, your tablet, and your smartphone. in tech, the silicon valley connection. tech startupe to a scene and linking up with california. angela netanyahu signed a business cooperation deal with jerry brown yesterday. they agreed to help each other in cyber security, clean energy, and water conservation. midst of an the drought. it brings home how important it is to manage our water efficiently and wisely. has no water problems because we are the number one recycler of wastewater in the world, close to 90% of our water. we have drip irrigation and we prevent leakage and pipes. we have desalinization. we do not have a water problem. california does not need to have a water problem. i think we can overcome this. >> israel and silicon valley have close ties. the israeli chamber of commerce is partnered with facebook, oracle, microsoft. more than 150 israeli startups have operations in the valley. cory johnson

. >> i interviewed eric schmidt last week. he talked about if you could offer someone lots of things they want like extra time in the day or e-mail, they might willingly make the trade for the privacy. >> think about the trade-offs people have made relative to -- relative do you want to see browser ads or not? if somebody says i will pay you $100 a year for access to your data, some people will take that. >> i think companies who do need to be honest. i think roger is right. people will have the trade-off. people do not understand it is not really a one-time trade-off. there was a great segment about data brokers. the point that was made back to the aggregation of all of these giving up a little here and a little here, is creating a composite picture. it is much richer. the problem for individuals is they lack the capacity to make consent when it comes to data give up decisions. they think individually were the people collecting are coming up with composite pictures. that is the problem. >> paul kedrosky, thank you so much for

googles aired schmidt meets with president obama to talk about nsa surveillance. and weighing in on the nsa revelations. then we will talk about the wordprocessing app, quip. twitter iness to turkey. ignoring a court order to remove content. many are outraged. many feel that the president circumvented the block and tweeted that the ban is unacceptable. a moreill be personalized app. career be from the history, seniority, and connections to show more relevant articles. it will be released in the third quarter. outlines its policy on when it can search user e-mail accounts after revelations that it scanned the e-mails of a blogger who had microsoft trade secrets. surge -- will not search e-mails unless there would be a court order. even of the search takes place, it will only look at relevant information. now to the top story of the day. tech executives, including eric schmidt meeting with president obama today at the white house to talk about the nsa and government surveillance. melissa meyer was also invited but could not make it on such short notice. megan hughes

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in principal what steve jobs, sergey brin, and eric schmidt were doing was exactly the same thing.p wages down to fix the prices of people's salaries. >> sure. hat tip to pando daily, they uncovered a lot of the e-mails. this is really now coming to a head though. and i guess the question becomes, dom, how much -- what do you do for people who should have been compensated to some extent by much, much more in the past as this comes to light? >> first of all, you have to figure out whether or not there was -- the hardest part about any kind of a case that's going to happen here is trying to quantify what the damages actually were. i mean, can you even set a market for these wages if you didn't have that collusion to begin with and do you gauge it by maybe cost of living increases? is it just the sector overall that happens? there are so many unknowns here. first of all, this is going to be one of the hardest, hardest things to be able to try to build a case around. >> but it's pretty incriminating, kevin, don't you think? >> it's very incriminating. it's classic cartel behavior. what

i sat down with eric schmidt and asked him about the nsa. the state of google's relationship with the nsa ? >> what relationship? they didn't knock. they didn't call. they didn't send a letter. they just visited. >> do you believe him? >> i definitely believe he is telling the truth. whatever -- what i don't believe is the staff having an direction with intelligence agencies. he is not in those discussions so he does not have a clue about them. purity andthat with truth. >> you think google did know and didn' help? intot me break companies different groups. tele-communications companies, the parties that do business with the federal government knew they were subject to disclosure and they had to do it. bys is handled down low compliance people. it did not tend to get to the top because it wasn't a public issue. was not aware of that in the telecommunications part of the world. runningxtent that he is something that has no government business and doesn't actually direct with the government, that is just a problem that has to be covered under,

i will be speaking with eric schmidt and jerod: in los angeles. we will be back. ♪ back to "bloomberg west." i'm emily chang. we're talking about a software startup that makes key signatures easy. it was expected to go public but instead raised $85 million in new venture funding bringing its million dollars. cory johnson is with us from new york. one of go public this year -- why not go public this year? >> we are building in terms of digital transaction management. every company in the world is a potential customer. every department in that company is a potential customer and every person is a potential and user. we're taking these funds and investing in our platform. we are also focusing on key verticals like financial services, health care. especially with our 500 partnerships, we announced a long-term strategic partnership with microsoft where we are integrating a product to office. that will expose us to one billion customers. >> why can't you do that inside a public company? why did you stay private to do that? >> it gives us some freedom to

be own emily chang will speaking with google executive chairman eric schmidt and google ideas directorohen in los angeles later today. live stream it on bloomberg.com at 7:00 eastern or catch the full conversation this thursday, "bloomberg west" 1:00 and 6:00 eastern time. coming up, google's investment arm makes a big investment in auction.com. ♪ >> welcome back. i'm jon erlichman. this is "bloomberg west." edition,atch our early 1:00 p.m. eastern time. the idea of online marketplaces is not new. there have been a lot more specific online markets that have developed. auction.com is a great example andhe business up property real estate. google capital just invested $50 million in the business. the president of auction.com joins us now. the stat that caught my eye is that iton.com sold upwards of $7 billion in real estate online. what kind of property is this? single familyfrom home to a 70 million-dollar commercial property and everything in between. internet is very good about bringing buyers and sellers together and making things transparent and efficient. >> the business model for

emily chang will be speaking with eric schmidt and google ideas director jared cohen. you can catch the full conversation tomorrow on "bloomberg west." 1:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern. ♪ >> welcome back. i'm jon erlichman. elon musk to make a push to enter the pentagon satellite launch market while sitting next to his biggest competitor, who joins us now. any sparks fly between the two rocket chiefs? >> yeah. we had elon musk of spacex making the point that he wants to join military and spy satellites launch programs. right now it is dominated by united launch alliance. today musk said that he was vying for a table, sitting next to u.l.a.'s ceo. he said that using spacex would save the federal government $1 billion in tax savings for taxpayers every year, and he did that while sitting next to a competitor and said the current state of the market is unsustainable. >> the air force and other agencies are paying too high a price for lunch. the impact was protectable. space launch innovation stagnated, compared to competition. prices elevated to levels that general shelton

let's take one last look before at leah schmidt.ill. here she is. wow. oh, my gosh. i love that hair. tracy, debbie, are you ready to look? all right. go for it. >> oh, my god. >> that's a great haircut. it is very -- turn around, leah. let's have a look at yourself. >> oh, my god. it's incredible. i love this. >> it's fantastic. >> thank you. >> right into camera 12 there. please tell us what you did, louis. >> leah is absolutely new york city chic. i mean, this is incredible. this is a great haircut by vanessa. and, of course, we gave her this high-fashion style, reddish auburn color. >> yep. >> the big tip here is she never wore makeup in her life and she looked great. today, enid put a little bit of makeup on and look at the difference. you are so glamorous. >> can you see okay? do you have your glasss? >> i cannot read. i can see. >> you can see yourself. jill, what about this outfit? which i love. >> mixing and matching. adriana papel pants, black pants, everyone should have. and the jacket is andrew marks. a zip-in. needed a

eric schmidt alongside google's jarret cohen.joseph's it will tell me whether he has anything to brag about. ♪ >> earlier in the program, we talked about a real estate company warren buffett body 1993. he still holds it today and it is one of the examples, he says, that buying long pays off for investors. supermarket, a sandwich shop, a bank them a staples nearby. but the way came by is anything but typical. larryary investor silverstein handpicked the investment for buffett. and the malkin family, the operators of the empire state building, along with the late fred rose, they did the property deal 20 years ago and they still comanage it. buffett spoke fondly of silverstein and his tip on the deal when i reached out to him, buffett said, i've given larry all of my various phone numbers and told him he can call me day or night. to talk about the investment and how handsomely it paid off is the ceo of the real estate investment firm that specializes in high-end properties in new york. you had no idea that buffett owned this piece o

. >> and unbelievable secret e-mails that show how steve jobs and google's eric schmidt may have rigged the hiring game in silicon valley, ahead as well. >>> happy monday, everybody. straight to street talk. all of the news and views you can use. first up, we'll start with national general holdings corps. a mouthful of a name but seeing a nice upswing of 3% after the initiated to outperform at fbr capital. >> added to top picks list. target is 21 bucks. so that's about a 50% jump, folks, from where the stock is now. insurance company headquarters here in new york. listed on the nasdaq february 20th. some of the first analyst' comment tear that we're getting on the name. >> take a look at boston scientific. shares upgraded to outperform from market perform at bernstein. >> not helping but overall market's down today. bernstein raised target from 15 bucks to 12. they see upside of 17%. well-known medical device company. launch of a new drug designed to treat heart diseases should help the stock. >> tech company upgraded to buy from neutral, but stock also not moving. >> the whole market's

melissa: that's a great point. >> eric schmidt is great obama supporter. zuckerberg holds fund-raisers in facebook offices for the president. to say we need a big meeting to voice our outrage is absurd. one way to voice outrage, not give him anymore money or break his chops at facebook headquarters, at google's headquarters with his hat passing around. >> they're not talking about any of this they're talking about their brackets. that is what they care about. they're not doing anything about this. i agree with all of you. this is a charade and eric schmidt, what was it a year-and-a-half ago, came out and say, hey, if you're using the internet, you don't have any right to privacy. and so they're all completely shredding the fourth amendment which is, you know, search and seizure, privacy, probable cause. they don't care about. melissa: does anyone care about that in the circle? >> everyone cares about that. the fact of the matter modern people share a lot online. you don't even need justification or legal access to that data. i mean we do that, in my work p

michael schmidt, welcome.what gave the malaysian government the confidence finally to say this plane is lost and in the south indian ocean? >> what they said today was that it was satellite information that came from a british company that had basically tracked the plane off the coast of australia, but what happened again today that the malaysians didn't really provide a lot of evidence for why they believed this satellite information, and that immediately created questions among the family members saying where is the real proof that you guys know that the plane went down? and all of a sudden, the malaysian government was once again on the defensive. >> woodruff: well, are reporters and others who have been looking into this able to piece together what that evidence may be, what the technology is? >> well, we're only given a little sliver of it today by the prime minister and basically what reporters and we're forced to rely on is what the government was saying and what happened is they didn't really explain w

emily chang will talk to eric schmidt and google ideas -- ideas erector gary: tonight. jered cohen.ullo catch conversation tomorrow at 1:00 and 6:00 eastern time. still ahead, then horowitz -- on how writing a book has helped him become a better investor. hour. inutes after the am alix steel. the s&p slipping into positive territory recently. the dow down a little bit. the market taking up for earlier losses. the a deeply him -- adp employment data coming in light but investors shaking it off. within the s&p, financials in the industrials gaining strength. on the markets again in 30 minutes. ♪ >> you are watching bloomberg "west." erlichman. getting straight to your bloomberg top headlines. new chiefrching for a information officer. the new executive will replace beth jacob. verizon tops its rivals a network performance according to a new study. six-month review of reliability, speed and data and call quality scoring 90 out of a hundred. facebook stepping up enforcement of post them sales and other regulated items. facebook says it will delete posts where users declare a willingness

schmidt. dr.he leading plastic surgeons in the country. [ cheers and applause ] he's here tonight with his family. he's also here tonight -- and this is surprising -- with his second secret family. [ laughter ] dr. schmidt, you blew it, buddy. poorly played. [ applause ] i can't believe this, and neither will you. grondar, the mighty serpent slayer, is here tonight folks. [ cheers and applause ] grondar has gone toe-to-toe with a great anaconda. he's wrestled and charmed the most resilient of cobra. and he's the only man to ever wrap himself around the monstrous burmese python and squeeze it to death. grondar, could you please -- for all of us -- shout out your signature snake killing phrase -- "to the pits of hell, serpent!" >> to the pits of hell, serpent!" >> seth: thank you, grondar! [ cheers and applause ] if there are any snakes watching, i'm sure their blood went cold. colder than it already -- you know. well, look at this. if it isn't beloved actor james van der beek. [ cheers and applause

adam: facebook's mark zucker purring and google's eric schmidt head to the white house to protest those nsa spying programs. cheryl: two million people to sign up and ten days to begin. the countdown to obamacare's deadline as health insurance executives warn of double and even triple-digit premium hikes. a lot going on in this hour but first a stock alert for you right now. could it be the best week for stocks ever? what do you say? adam: i think not the best ever. [laughter] cheryl: well, the s&p we should tell you hitting a new intraday high and on track to close at an all-time high. the number to watch, 1879. the dow p as much as 124 points earlier in the session, united technology is helping drive those gains thanks to an upgrade from goldman sachs to buy from neutral. goldman says the company is well positioned in what they call a strengthening commercial aerospace after market, and meanwhile downgrading boeing from neutral to buy saying that even small, positive surprises on new orders or new productions do seem unlikely. adam: new company debuts flooding the market. we want to h

and steve jobs, i believe schmidt was on jobs' board at one time. >> well, tyler, i think the broadern that this should be fit into is about how larger companies and how companies in general even startups treat the rank and file workers. there's a bit of a movement in silicon valley for engineers to understand how much equity they are getting from a startup to make sure that they don't get cut out of the benefit if that company goes public, or gets acquired. this is a case of bigger companies trying to make sure that they were in control of how workers were compensated where they were working more than the free market. it kind of all fits into really who has control, who has power in that employer/employee relationship. >> all right. thank you both very much. sue? >>> we are going to talk college, specifically tuition, room and board. you know they make up a big part of the cost of college certainly, but students are spending thousands of dollars a year on education extras. what you need to factor in. >>> plus, some teams, very smart ones, that are trading like the pros. dominic chu i

[applause] >> my good friend and mentor and colleague eric schmidt is here. today we are talking about the new digital age and the future of the world. >> i keep running into lean and within google. >> we are excited. eric was the first person who hired me in silicon valley when many people wouldn't. >> it worked out well for you. you've done so much better. [laughter] >> talk about this a lot. he continues to be that for me and i am so grateful. i met cheered when i first came to facebook and he is friends with us. chris said that there is one guy that totally gets it. and he runs around the world trying to get other people together. so he has been important to our industry and technology. so so excited to be here with you. from the beginning, it's not even that obviously would even know each other well. so how did you meet? what would possess you to sit down. >> i went along and it's been sort of interesting and we have shown up in baghdad. we were one of the first people to show than a commercial flight. >> to manila to do with you? >> now. >> my daughter

eric schmidt is one of your investors. how did this group come together?estion is -- does discovery have more involvement than just being an investor? does google, eric schmidt, do they have investment behind the scenes? >> discovery is on board. we have relationships with the people there. the other investors that you mentioned are not on our board, but they are great people to have and they are all eager to be participating in the next wave of disruption in the media business. >> the one thing that we found is that every time we talked to investors they all had individuals that they suggested. go talk to this one, go talk to this one. we would pay a subscription fee for this personality. our investors were very passionate around the idea and had personalities they thought would make for great channels. >> traditionally television is so tied to advertising. this is a business focused on subscription. what does that mean in terms of the future of television, which is still holding the upfront several year, catering to advertisers? every year, catering to a

googles aired schmidt meets with president obama to talk about nsa surveillance.g in on the nsa revelations. then we will talk about the wordprocessing app

i will be speaking with eric schmidt.e will have the full conversation for you thursday and will be back after a quick break with my special guest host. more to come. ♪ >> welcome back. i am emily chang. we're talking now about the software startup that makes ec managers easy. it was expected to go public this year but instead just raised $85 billion in new venture funding, bringing its total to $210 million. why not the ipo route? steve is with us now in the studio. cory johnson is also still with us from new york. keep, why not go public gekko -- public? building digital transaction management. if you think about it, every company in the world is a potential customer and every department is a potential customer. are taking these and investing in our digital transaction management platform and also focusing on key vote -- verticals like financial insurance, and especially with our over 500 partnerships we just announced last week, our long-term strategic order ship with microsoft. productntegrating the to onet will expos

we will start at what eric schmidt and shared calendar and there but the new digital age. and pulitzer prize-winning journalist on her book. later cyber security. what everyone needs no. no their vision of the future. this event in mountain view, california earlier this month. >> thank you. well, it is really exciting to be back that the computer history museums with my good friend and colleague and my friend jerry. .. >> he has been a voice that is super important to our industry and our technology and so i am excited to be here with both of you. let's start from the beginning. i mean, jobs and so what would possess you to sit down and write this? >> my friend wanted to talk about this and he was fighting in iraq are. and i thought that writing out the troops of these sort of interesting so we would show up in baghdad and we got lost with the marines on the other side megabit america denotative you? >> now. and we took videos and i play the videos and all i heard was the talk and i talked. >> they put this on and they are ready for him to go. what does he do? for he will

i want to go back to michael schmidt of "the new york times."ages, we've seen the pictures, four days old. what are you hearing about these satellite images? >> i heard what they're doing is overlaying them and trying to see what -- getting down to see every little thing that they can. it's not necessarily that they're looking at new images. it's that they're taking the images they have and getting as granular as possible to try to find things like this. the thing i wonder is whether they have satellites that can track these things as they move. do they know where this is now compared to where it was four days ago? are they going back to that spot or are they going to where they think it went to based on the tides? i don't know. >> geoffrey, do you know the answer to those questions? >> well, look, i think that's a very interesting point that's being raised. and i wonder in fact if we are being told the whole story and whether they actually have even better intelligence that's verifying that this is debris and that gives rise to the prime minist

back with us now, reporter michael schmidt who broke this report. it right until the c-block, michael. all right. let's get right down to brass tacks, the u-turn you said had to be made by a pilot. >> well, it is a little difficult to explain, so let's take it slowly. basically the first turn that this plane took off of its path was done by a computer system on the plane. it was not done manually by a pilot. >> what does that tell us? >> now, that computer system can only do that if someone on the plane or someone shortly before the plane took off program med that into the plane. so that means that whoever did this had to have known what they were doing with the plane. this is not just someone on the plane who grabbed control of it and took it in one direction. whoever was on that plane that caused this to happen had to have programmed it into the plane, or it could have been programmed in before it ever took off. >> so there is no question in your mind, according to your reporting, that the u-turn was deliberate. that this was no accident. it was n

hads in atentance was google's eric schmidt.yuckerburg says he called the president to express frustrations over internet surveillance you might remember when the president was elected he was fighting to keep his black berry phone. >> i'm still clinging to my black berry. they're going pry it out of my hands. >> that is five years ago the president uses an ipad he still uses his black berry for e mail. now, "wall street journal" says white house is testing new smart phones because the military unit prefers other phones. and one more note about the president the white house tweeted this picture of a boy asleep in a formal function. wow. >> quite breezy today oochl we're looking at the first weekend of spring. >> going to be a little bit of a warm up. and it's still breezy right now. talking about what's happening now and coming for the weekend and beyond. low clouds with us pulling away from the coastline now. temperature are down. check out the wind bringing us cooling today, gusting to 24 miles per hour out of the southwest. 20

"new york times," michael schmidt did that reporting. that was based on radar on the ground.ing those readings may not be exactly accurate which might end up having all of this make sense. right now with the information that we have, about 45,000 feet, that's above the 43,100 level approved, so why is that the level that's approved? what happens at 45,000 feet to the people on the plane? >> what happens to the wing aerodynamically. the air is only so -- think about it being thick. molecules of air. it's supporting the lift on the wing. as you go higher, the molecules of air are further and further apart. it won't be able to support the weight of the aircraft or the weight of the wing. the aircraft is going to basically be on a teeter totter and descend, immediately descent. 40,000 feet, when you hear something like that going down 40,000 feet in one moment, for myself, that makes me very skeptical that that really is a very accurate report. >> right. we are hearing from the engine maker, that may be an erroneous reading. >> absolutely. >> if it were able to get up there, to y

much of the reasons i showed him where is the intent was there schmidt said. he said. we have a court order by which it was the cool things the international community can say what we like heights and scare everyone will see how powerful the republic of turkey as an. after a series of popular protests sparked the view of what was your last summer. the ones from the service of us goods everyone has to my of corruption that was the disruption has walked out virtual abroad. many are comparing ticket to iran and north korea for social media platforms are tightly controlled. i said to the indian nation is receiving for second day in efforts to take this and i know every three seventy two australia reported that two objects won up to twenty four week is the only advice is don't like to make it. expats belief that the objects could be debt free from intimidation and i know which dissipated on the eighth of march at two hundred and thirty nine people on board starring for climate impact of ageing when it lost contact with that traffic control and raid on the fact is now focuse

i sat down with google executive chairman eric schmidt at the oasis montgomery summit in santa monica

for more about the disappearance of the malaysian jetliner, we're joined from washington by mike at schmidtf "new york times" who has been covering the story for them. we've heard that they have looked through the homes of the pilots and tried to find any connection to terrorism there. >> they have access now to a flight simulator that one of the pilots had in his house. they're going through that, and they're also going through some computers they found there, and are also talking to his family members. as of today, as we've seen the story has changed so much, the focus is now on the pilot. >> how much access to american investigators or u.s. agencies have to the fruits of these investigations? >> well, they actually don't have a lot. in terms of raw data and in terms of where the plane may have been and satellite imagery and sort of pings that have gone off the plane, the u.s. has a fair amount of access to that information, but they don't know a lot about the malaysian investigation, they not asked for formal help from the americans, and the fbi has less than a handful of guys on the gro

michael schmidt? go ahead.est: it raises the interesting questions about lobbying members of congress that are age-old questions and are things that "the times" has looked at for many years and many people look at. one thing a call or raise before was about members of congress trading on this information. there has been a lot of attention given to the issue a few years ago about how members of congress were trading off the information they had and then there was a real movement to create legislation to stop that but it ultimately stalled and it did not change. "60 minutes" did a whole piece about the members have the information and they would trade on it, and there was nothing wrong with that legally. then they try to change it but nothing ever came of it. host: does the fact that it exists, there are financial analysts trying to read between the lines of what congress is saying and make sales based on that? guest: yes, the political intelligence farms here in washington who can get information from members of

first tonight michael schmidt of the "new york times," also former u.s. department of transportation inspector general mary schiavo who represents accident victims and their families and cnn aviation analyst. les abend. this information that nbc news has broken tonight that the change in direction was programmed into the computer at least 12 minutes before that final communication. how do you interpret it? again as in everything, there are multiple interpretations of this. >> i hate to use a common word we all seem to be using, but baffling. to me, 12 minutes prior indicates that maybe there wasn't a problem. but at the same token, it could have been programmed for maybe a -- being a waypoint and maybe it was a mistaken waypoint initially. >> let's run through the options here. at least 12 minutes before the final communication of good night which was a routine good night communication. so if there was some sort of incident on board, a fire on board for instance that they were changing direction in order to respond to this, you would think that they would

mark zuckerberg, eric schmidt, two outspoken critics of the white house policies expected to be in the lots of frustration on the ceo's side. jon fortt, anything come out of these meetings? >> very little ever does. they're trying to tweak this to ensure that the government doesn't succeed in hacking them. it's a big issue not just in the short-term and for consumer privacy, but politically down the line, these are folks who have been writing big checks, particularly for the democratic party. >> many of them, as you pointed out, many of these ceos including schmidt, have been very friendly to this white house, cindy? >> absolutely. i think, certainly, the white house has seen a few stumbles lately, so i think they would do well to listen to some of these tech ceos on how to handle this going pardon. i'm kind of with john on this one. i'm note sure we'll see anything. but i would kill to be a fly on the wall. >> time warner cable's ceo may score an $80 million severance package if and when the deal goes through. it works out roughly a million a day for the six weeks that efs h on the j

. >> michael schmidt, this 122 pieces of debris that have been much talked about over the last 12 or so hours, seen on a french satellite, it's important to reiterate, there's a lot of junk floating around in the ocean, particularly in this region where the currents kind of swirl around and have stuff clumping together. we have no idea nor do the searchers at this point have any clear idea based on the information that's been released publicly what those pieces of debris are. >> as the australian prime minister said the area they're looking 1500 miles off the coast there is really in the middle of nowhere. it's a very treacherous area. the currents are very strong. the weather is terrible. and there's really no land, making it even more difficult to get the planes out there. so i think we're going to continue to sort of see these reports that come out saying oh, there's pieces and such. but i'd be very surprised if we are able to find even a dozen of these by the end of the week. >> michael schmidt, mary schiavo, pamela brown, miles o'brien. let us know what you think. follow me on t