it can't be done. >> even venter agrees that dna is not truly anonomous. >> i would not advise anyone to do what i did. and that's to be so public about your own genome? >> yes. >> the first study at hli has nothing to do with disease at all, >> i can only think about one thing at a time... >> but is to find out if scientists can reconstruct a person's face and their voice... >> because to them in their mind, this myth, safety... >> ....from only their genetic code. >> this is like minority report stuff. this is you can get a little dna from a crime scene and say here's what he looks like and here's what he sounds like. >> yep. >> that's what you want to get to. >> yep. >> so part of that says that it >> ...he implications of that are great! can't be de-identified. >> right. >> dna cannot be de-identified. >> right >> he says that's why hli will not have an open database that any researcher can easily search through. >> that's why we put so much into database security so that we can protect the records to the extent one can in computer databases. >> but advocates of genetic privacy sa

the president is with me and joined by biologist craig venter.n the east room of the white house celebrating the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. he started a company that help us live longer and happier lives. welcome to you. you use the words wondrous. >> i've known him and been fascinated by him more than 30 years. >> i guess, let me go straight to you with the question. we have a man signature here lots of people are watching, big fans of yours, people want you to live a long time. still a very young ex-president. >> you couldn't pitch a better subject that we want to live a long time. i think he is the most important historic figure that's alive today. we would like to keep him around as long as we can. he's had good preventive medicine. he had cardiac bypass. look how much slimmer he is from those photos in the white house 15 years ago. >> i was pretty chunky, wasn't i? >> let's not talk about chunky right now. i haven't picked up your diet yet. i need to. preventive medicine is the future. it's going to be based o

. >> reporter: a high school freshman who dreams of being an in venter. 14-year-old ahmed mohamed took his home made digital clock to show his new engineering teacher. >> i took it to school to show my teacher this talent that i had. i went to show him. in my perspective, it didn't look like a bomb. >> but several teachers thought that is exactly what it looked like. police were called. the muslim student was handcuffed in the hallway. his sister tweeting this photo. later fingerprinted and questioned. >> i brought something to school that wasn't a threat to anyone. it didn't do anything wrong. i just showed my teacher something and i end up getting arrested. >> it lit up the internet. the #, i stand with ahmed trending nationwide, with clocks in a show of solidarity. mark zuckerburg saying if you want to come by facebook, i would love to meet you. and president obama issued this invitation. cool clock, ahmed, want to bring it to the white house. >> they went after this young man and treated him like a terrorist. and we know what people think terrorists are. that they associate that wi

venter corn.nother nugget that we have unearthed here is on friday at that big long meeting, at that point they saw and reviewed documents that indicated that volkswagen executives knew four years ago potentially that there was a problem with this device. at that point, no one took action and i suspect a lot of the focus of this criminal inquiry will be on who knew what and when and what those documents laid out. guy: thank you very much, indeed. hans nichols on the latest we're getting surrounding vw. we will be back with a story that is not going away. other stories that are not going away is the central bank story front and center. withed front and center the carl icahn video that has been released. iran four minutes time we will get a medium rate cut. we have german cpi coming up later and we have tesla news as well. an all electric suv. ♪ ♪ (ee-e-e-oh-mum-oh-weh) (hush my darling...) (don't fear my darling...) (the lion sleeps tonight.) (hush my darling...) man snoring (don't fear my darling.

venter corn's -- mr. winter corn's contract is supposed to be renewed. jon: will he get a contract extension? hans: he went through a bruising board battle a few months ago and at that point we got a sense for how the board works. there are some family members. then you have the state of lower saxony which controls 20% and then these work councils which also have a strong representation. but they tend to vote together. we heard some strong leg which from the premier of lower saxony saying he wants answers. nterkorn were to lose support in lower saxony, that could be a challenge. jon: thank you very much for joining us. that is still the top corporate story. more on volkswagen after the break and why they might be regretting a new series of audi adds featuring kermit. >> it's not that easy being green. >> it is now. >> i didn't mean anything about skin color. i meant green like good environmental. >> right, no problem. i get it all the time. >> this is a plug-in hybrid. i'm not a racist. >> i understand, thank you for that. jon: let's bring you up to spee

venter corn has a contract extension.is the helm of volkswagen europe through 2018. 324,000 up the math, vehicles. of $18d she to a total billion. that gets you to a total of $18 billion. the epa says they referred the case to the justice department. a lot of commentary in germany on this. it is been focused on if volkswagen has been doing this in the states, had they been doing similar things within the european union? francine? francine: hans nichols, thank you very much. trust --w when back win back trust? andrew, this seems crazy that this was bound to happen. they now have to regain the trust of the u.s. consumer. ?ow do you read into this is this going to set them back years? andrew: it is a failure of governance. it is something we will be engaging in with the management on. to doey felt the need something like this. of more concern is what is going to happen in europe? because in europe diesel sales are far higher. they tend to dominate sales. haveood thing is that they then honest. is this a u.s. issue? or europe