we're going to dig into what's going on, and i want to start with you, brad smith. people tell us federal election laws are arcane, they are arcane. too damn many of them. but that said, people want them. they keep demanding less money, less money in politics. i want to ask you a question, if there's an individual when makes a payment from their own pocket or from their own company, or they direct their private lawyer to make a payment whom they later reimburse even if they don't reimburse, also from the same funds, to enter into a non-disclosure agreement with an individual, a non-disclosure agreement with an individual, involving alleged activity that preceded this individual's candidacy for any federal office. is that a campaign contribution? >> short answer there is no. mark: and why not? >> well, it's not because it doesn't arise out of the campaign, and the key thing that you said there, mark, is that this happened before the campaign was going on. the events that give rise to it. and under the federal election campaign act, anything one spends to campaign is

take a listen to what brad smith had to say.rnwe see now is a that in many respects is a similar to what we saw in the united states in 2016 when certain campaigns and political parties were attacked. it is similar to the pattern 2017,e saw in france in when we really saw every major candidate for the french presidency targeted. we're seeing it again. emily: would you agree with that? >> i. think it makes sense if you're a political official, wealthy, influential, have power, you will always be targeted by a criminal helmet or potentially for espionage purposes. emily: what is the purpose of these misinformation campaigns? how difficult is it to stop? >> it will be very difficult to stop. the more people that are aware of it, the more people that will spot it. it is easier for the folks trying to be divisive it to spread fake news than it is to catch it. we will take a group defense, zone defense. we are out there looking for it. we hope to make a difference. emily: what should we be looking at? my inbox is filled with spam ever

microsoft president brad smith is here for an interview you'll only see on "cbs this morning." rks, how it is ai addressed these humanitarian challenges. >> it's really a powerful tool. you take something like sudden infant death syndrome. thousands of children die every year but we don't fully understand the cause. using more data and machine learning, we should be able to make faster progress by working with nonprofits. take something like a famine, being better able to predict where famines will work out, using data we can see where to move food to people so we can avoid the deaths we read about too often. those are just two areas where data expertise and data science can be more effective. >> does the money come to just buying more machines and more people to analyze the data? is that where this begins? >> fundamentally we're teaming people with nonprofits. we have great expertise with new technology, providing them with technology and technology tools, and data science experts. we'll provide them with financial assistance. i think in many ways the people, the expertise, the

emily: we had the microsoft president brad smith on the show last week.hey also identified several web pages operated boo i a group tied to the russian military. they took control. take a listen. >> what we are seeing now is a pattern that in many respects similar to what we saw in the united states in 2016 when certain campaigns and political parties were attacked. it is similar to the pattern we saw in france in 2017 when we really saw every major candidate for the french presidency targeted. we're seeing it again. emily: would you agree with that? >> i think it makes sense. if you are a political official, wealthy, influential, if you have power, you'll always be targeted by a criminal element or potentially for espionage purposes. emily: so what would you say the extent of the disinformation campaigns -- how difficult is it to actually stop? >> i think it is very difficult to stop. it is going to take zone defense by many different folks. that's why it's good we're talking about it today on bloomberg. the more people that are aware of it the more peop

i had a college classmate from smith, a government major. brad morris used to recruit interns because they had such a great government department. my parents were living in alexandria, virginia. my father was stationed at the pentagon. i was in a basement apartment in georgetown working a summer job in washington. we had a party in our basement apartment. .y college classmate told paul he came to the party, and that is how we met. i say it is the only party he ever willingly went to in his life. it was that very fortuitous combination of circumstances that i met paul. it changed my life. he decide to run for president and what was the thought process inside the tsongas family? rep. tsongas: he was truly motivated by this sense of generational responsibility. he was, as he always said, he thevery progressive on all human issues, the people, but fiscally conservative. he really did feel that we were spending beyond our means and this would saddle future generations with having to pay for debts accumulated by all of us. that was a primary motivator.

brad paz had i s >> i'm going apologize to carri. i have never felt to hungover in my life. >> oh, my god, there's a truth right there. here's a fun fact -- will smithlly have a star on the hollywood walk of fame. can you believe that? but last night he was the talk of the town as he returned to his hip-hop roots ♪ taking the h and o out of hollywood hollywood ♪ >> will's backup band in this little up and comer john mayer. it was little interest in another gig that was on the mind of paparazzi, a presidential bid in 2020. >> you would vote for me if i ran? >> i would. >> i'll be vice president. >> from one man in black to another, chris hemsworth who's shooting the spinoff, behind the scenes. >> where else would we come but natural addiction cafe? >> who's more excited about a food truck than this guy? you have to eat a lot to keep the muscles so exciting. >> we'll watch him do a food truck, wherever he wants to go. >>> coming up -- blasted twisted and dragged. you won't believe how far ryan gosling went to become armstrong. >>> plus -- >> you probably never had anyone this pregnant. >> the countdown to kate's first daughter. >> i took all the lipst

in the book he gets a phone call from smith father who basically says as long as i'm alive you will have a father in ohio. that is the outcome of that scene. brad asked me to talk about process. it provides an opportunity for that. a lot of book serves as an anti-memoir. i am not in it except the preface. but in many of the scenes was present including diet it played out next to me. but i found being present is never enough. what you see and hear are what you thank you see or hear isn't enough to make that helped over the last six years going back and to download their brain they are primary characters of their own and they will tell you tell you i have a pain in the. many long nights would be talking and i would take hours of note that a time. and once i thought had downloaded the brain that i can make a more coherent account i would make a map of the people around him like the social map, family members, friends, others that were later connected to the scene. and to aircraft to get a fellow pilot who was shot and have to go through a draft of the chapter together and to fact check cannot write a draft without writing errors especially with mu

book where he gets a phone call from smith's father and says basically as long as i'm alive, you'll always have a father in ohio. that's the outcome of that scene . brad asked me to talk alittle bit about process in that scene . that provides an opportunity for that. a lot of the book serves as an anti-memoir i'm not in it, except for the preface when you can hear words like what i opened with here . but in many of the scenes i was present including that one. played out right next to me. but i found being present is never enough. what you see and what you hear or what you think you see and what you think you hear usually aren't enough to make a coherent account and if so what followed for years over the last six years or so was i was going back to each of these characters, those who remained alive to try to download their brains. i don't think we have any of the primary characters but we have people in the room who are secondary characters or horses and they will note that i am a kind of a pain in the. [bleep] and we had many long nights where we would be talking and i would just be takingnotes, hours of notes at a time . and once i thought i had down

where he gets a phone call from smith's father who says to him basically as long as i'm alive you'll always have a father in ohio. so that's the outcome of that scene. brad asked me to talk a little bit about process and that scene provides an opportunity for that. a lot of the book serves as an antimemoir. i'm not in it except for the preface where you can hear words that i hope here but in many scenes i was present. that played out next to me. but i found being present is never enough, what you see and what you hear and what you think see and what you think you hear usually aren't enough to make a coherent and sturdy account and so what followed for year for the last six years or so was i was going back to each of these characters, those who remain alive and trying to download their brains, some of them -- i don't think we have any of the primary characters in the room but we have people in the room who are secondary characters or sources and they'll tell you i'm kind of a pain in the ass and there are many long nights where we would be talking and i would be taking notes, hours of notes at a time and once i thought i had downloaded each person's brain