industry, america's cable television companies as a public brought to you today provider.ble peter: brad smith, microsoft president, what's the premise of your new book "tools and weapons"? brad: it's that digital technology has become both a and weapon. it's creating challenges and benefits, as well. we have to grapple with both sides of that equation. peter: your book world tour begins in quincy, washington. washington? brad: it's one of the data center capitals of the world. it's near the columbia river. data centers are built there because it's close to bothelectric power that's cheap and clean the we take the reader on a tour of what is becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century, these mammoth more than 20 of them, filled with electrical generators, hundreds, thousands batteries, but, of course, mostly server computers. everything we do almost every day is actually accessing or storing our data in the cloud of theselly means one data centers. peter: and you have 100 of these in 20 countries, is that correct? brad: more than 20 countries. more than 100 data centers. largestt is one of

peter: brad smith, you say that you were search on your way out of this facility as well. ad: yes. it's fascinating because you're not surprised when you go into a data center and before you go into the inner san tum so to speak, the room with the computers, the servers, you have to go through a second very tight airport-style mettle detector. but then you're searched when you leave as well. why am i being searched to leave? i don't get searched when i leave the airport. and so no one can walk out with a hard drive. literally the only way the hard drives leave that room at the end of their life is by first going through what is a huge machine. it's the equivalent of a paper shredder but this is for literally metal hard drives. and then it leaves through its own special exit. peter: you write in your book "tools and weapons" that ireland is to data what switzerland is to money. what do you mean? brad: ireland is a great place to store data. and switzerland is regarded across europe, across the middle east -- around the world in many ways as a safe place to store money. it's

. >> brad smith, microsoft president, what is your premise of your new book, tools and weapons? >> guest: digital technology has both become a tool and a weapon. it's creating all benefits but all kinds of challenges as well and we have to grapple with both sides of that equation we want your book is essentially a world tour that begins in quincy, washington. why quincy, washington? >> guest: my co-author and i chose quincy, washington because it's one of the data center capitals of the world, if you will. it's near the columbia river and data centers are being built there because it's close to hydroelectric power in both cheap and clean. we take the reader on a tour of if you will, of what is becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century and these mammoth buildings more than 20 of them filled with electrical generators and hundreds or thousands of batteries but of course, mostly server computers and everything we do in almost every day is accessing or storing our data in the cloud and it means one of those data centers. >> host: you have 100 of these in 20 countries, is that

. >> brad smith, microsoft president, what's the premise of your new book. >> digital technology has become both the tool and weapon, excreting all kind of benefits and challenges and we have to grapple with both sides. >> your book is a world tour that begins in quincy washington my co-author and i chose quincy washington because of the data center capital the world it's near the columbia river are being built there because it's close to hydroelectric power that is cheap and clean, we take the reader on a tour of what is becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century, the mammoth buildings, more than 20 of them filled with electrical generators, hundreds, thousands of batteries but of course mostly supercomputers, everything that we do, almost every day is actually accessing or storing our data in the cloud which is in one of the data centers. >> your 100 of these and 20 countries is that correct. >> more than 20 countries, more than 100 data centers, microsoft is one of the largest but cavities like google, amazon, facebook, apple were all building more and more of these data cent

. >> host: brad smith, microsoft president, what's the premise of your new book "tools and weapons" traitor to digital technology has become both a tool and weapon. it's great all kinds of benefits but all kinds of challenges as well and where to grapple with both sides to that equation. >> host: your book is essentially a world tour that begins in quincy, washington. why there? >> guest: my co-author and i chose quincy because it's one of the data center capitals of the world. it's near the columbia river. data centers are being built there because it's close to hydroelectric power that is both cheap and clean. we take the reader on a tour of what is really becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century. these mammoth buildings, more than 20, filled with electrical generators, hundreds, , thousans of batteries but mostly server computers. everything we do. almost every day is accessing or storing our data in the cloud which really means one of these data centers. >> host: you have 100 of these in 20 countries? >> guest: more than 20 countries come with an 100 data centers. microsoft is on

. >> tonight here on c-span2 "the communicators" is next with microsoft president brad smith. that is followed by vermont senator ernie sanders speaking to "the washington post" about the coronavirus response and the 2020 presidential election. later the supreme court hears oral argument in two cases in the first dealing with criminal jurisdiction over indian lands and the other involving the role of federal courts and discrimination cases by employees of religious institutions. ♪ >> c-span has unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the sipping court and public-policy events from the presidential primary during the impeachment process. and now the federal response to the coronavirus. you can watch all of c-span public affairs programming on television, online or listen on the free radio app. be a part of the national conversation through c-span's daily washington journal program or through our social media feeds. c-span, created by america's cable television company as a public service and brought you today by your television provider. >> brad smith, microsoft presi

. >> monday microsoft president brad smith coauthor of the new book tels and weapons. >> we need exercise more self-regulation and a higher commitment to responsibility. but we do think we need more regulation of technology. think about how we live our lives. if you pick something up off the helf you will read nutrition label knowing it's standardized because of regulation. if you buy a product you don't worry about the safety of it because it's regulated. when you get in your car it scomplies with certain safety standards. our basic point is digital technology has gone longer with less regulation than almost any technology since the middle of the 1800s. we think that the market, customers, and industry itself would be better served for the long term with a different balance. the chief justice and the associate justices of the supreme court.

brad smith: well, thank you, mr. president, and i just think this is a fascinating conversation because it really shows how each industry is unique. and as an economy, we need to meet the needs of every industry and put the economy together. not surprisingly, when you're in a business and you're in a sector that creates the tools that people can use to work from home, it's not difficult to have your own employees work from home and that's what we've been doing. but i think our mission in this first phase has really been much broader than that. it's been twofold. one is, to provide the data resources and the technology to support the public health needs of the country, from public health agencies, to hospitals, to the researchers, as you mentioned, who are on the quest for a vaccine and therapeutics and the like. and i think more broadly, it is meant to work with, frankly, many of these companies around this table to sustain the economy these past few months, so that employees could work from home, so students could s

and with that i would like to hand it over to brad smith who is the director of the center of medicare, medicaid innovation but has been the chief operating officer to make all of this come together. brad? >> thank you, admiral. i want to talk through a little bit specifically the work we've been doing with the states. so as the admiral mentioned over the past few weeks we worked with each state to set a target for their testing goal in may. over a series of couple of deliver the calls we aligned what those goals are. as the admiral mentioned and president mentioned that #dadds up to nine million tests for the month of may. this is over two million of the 307lation in their state and for many states it is much higher. as you president mentioned south korea, south korea was below 2%, not for ant mo but total tests to date for the rest of the year. our states come together to set really ambitious goals we're excited to support them in meeting. go to the next slide. as i talked about last time in the test briefing there are three parts to making sure a test can happen. the first part is t

with that i would like to hand it over to brad smith who is the director of the center for medicare andaid innovation but has really been the chief operating officer to make all of this come together. brad? >> thank you, admiral. i want to talk through a little bit specifically about the work we've been doing specifically with the states. as the admiral mentioned, over the past few weeks we've been working with each state to set a target for their testing goal for may. over a series of a couple of different calls, we've aligned on what those goals are. as the admiral mentioned and the president mentioned, they've had 12.9 million tests for the month of may. for every state this is greater than 2% of their population in the entire state being tested in may and for many states it's a much higher number than that. when you compare this as the president mentioned to south korea, south korea is actually below that 2%, not for a month but for their total tests to date since the start of the year and so our states have come together to set really ambitious goals. we're excited to support them

with that, i would like to hand it over to brad smith, the director of the center for medicare innovation, but has been the chief operating officer to make all of this come together. mr. smith: i want to talk a little bit about the work we have been doing with the states. we have been working with each state to set a target for the testing go for may. over the series of a couple of different calls, we have aligned and what those goals are. as the admiral mentioned in the president mentioned, they add up to 12 million tests in the month of may. for every state it is greater than 2 million of the population. when you compare this, south korea is below the 2%, not for a month, but the total test to date. our states have come together to set ambitious goals. there are three parts to making sure a test can happen. the first part is the specimen collection supplies. the third second part is the machines, and the third part is the lab. the commercial market today is providing a large number of the supplies to states and hospitals. we wanted to ensure every state had more of what they needed. wha

please come up brad smith, please come up. they're going to do a little explaining as to what we have done in regard to testing and how successful it has been. we will take some questions after that. thank you very much. >> thank you mr. president for your leadership and for your high expectations that really made this all come together. for the uniform support in the white house. thank you secretary azar for providing his leadership and providing us the opportunity to work on this project. i think it's clear that america does lead the world and testing. i will go through some of the charts that we lead quantitatively. i will also suggest that we lead in the diversity of tests which are very important to establish the testing ecosystem to keep america safe, and clearly as we have said multiple times, no one beats america when it comes to quality. let's start potentially with the next slide. this may be hard to see but if you look at the line on top, that's the total number of tests done by the united states. no other country i

with that, i'd like to hand it over to brad smith. 's been the chief operating officer to make all of this come together. brad. >> thank you, admiral. i want to talk about the work we have been doing with the states. so as the admiral mentioned over the past few weeks we've been working with each state to set a target for their testing goal for may. over a series of a couple of different calls, we aligned what those calls were. they add up to 12.9 million tests in the month of may. for every state, this is greater than 2% of their population in the entire state being tested in may and for many states it's a much higher number than that. as you compare this to south korea, is below 2% for their total test per date for the year. we have set ambition goals. the next slide, as i talked about the last time in press briefing, three parts making sure that a test can happen, the specimen collection supply, machines, third part is the lab supplies that the machines need to run. we want to make sure all states have those three parts. the first p

ncicap.org] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> monday, on the communicators, microsoft president brad smithof a new book. we need businesses in the tech sector to step up and exercise a higher commitment to responsibility. do think we need more regulation of technology. if you go to the grocery store, if you pick something up off-the-shelf, you will read the nutrition label knowing it is standardized and accurate because of regulation. you go into the pharmacy department and byproduct, you don't worry about the safety of it, because it is regulated. when you get in your car, it complies with certain safety standards, the site the same as in airplane. gone longer with less regulation than almost any technology since the middle of the 1800s. we think the in -- would be better served with a different balance. >> c-span has unfiltered coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic with white house briefings, updates from governors in congress, and our daily call-in program, washington journal. if you missed any of our live coverage, watch any time, on demand, at c-span.org/ corona

on c-span's microsoft president brad smith, co-author of the new book. >> we need businesses in the tech sector to step up, exercise more self-regulation and a higher commitment to responsibility. that we do think we need more regulation of technology. think about how we live our lives. if you go to the grocery store and pick something up off the shelf, you will read the nutrition label knowing that it is standardized and accurate as of regulation. if you go to the pharmacy department and buy a product, you don't worry about the safety of it because it is regulated. when you get into your car, it complies with certain safety standards. the same is true of an airplane. our basic point is digital technology has gone longer with less regulation than almost any technology since the middle of the 1800's. we think the market, customers, and the industry itself would be better served for the long-term. >> watch monday at 8:00 eastern on c-span2.

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then brad smith. they are going to do a little explaining as to what we have done with testing.rlet: you are listening to president trump speak at a rose garden press conference. he did say that the u.s. will send $1 billion to states and tribes for tests. earlier, the white house said they had planned to distribute $11 billion in state test funding. blackrock will do a stock buyback, buying the shares directly from pnc as pnc will exit its full investment in the company. blackrock will buy back those shares. it will be about 1.1 alien dollars. blackrock buying shares back from pnc. if you want to continue watching president trump, it is available in life go. this is bloomberg. ♪ s bloomberg. ♪ romaine: a lot going on with the supply chain here in america and around the world. the trump administration looking to develop -- looking to jumpstart the development of ship factories in the united states. factories in the united states. joining us is lisa anderson, founder of a consulting firm that specializes in manufacturing strategy and end to end supply chain transformation. i want

i think this is something i found on my conversation with microsoft president brad smith that there is an appetite to do something, i think there is a lot of pessimism as you said in the sense that were too far gone with giving aware data to do anything but i think when you see companies like microsoft taking proactive steps to protect user data we should celebrate that and put them out as an example. >> that make sense that you want to assess and you want all of us to assess which net states and which are large are doing the right things and you conclude in the book for us to wield the power over the net states. obviously have a system in the u.s. where we hold power accountable for checks and balances but how do we advocate for herself in a climate where the shareholders, and praising the good, what are our options? >> it's a tough one, there is not an organized movement right now that we can sign on to and say we will use our collective will and actions to move away from one platform and onto another one for instance. people get outraged online and get mobilized in some sort of unif

. >> brad smith, microsoft president, what's the premise of your new book. >> digital technology has become both the tool and weapon, excreting all kind of benefits and challenges and we have to grapple with

brad smith of microsoft. that stock has done very well, i will say. great job. sonja from gap.ery much. also with us, secretary of treasury steve mnuchin and secretary of labor gene scalia. our nation continues to mourn for the lives claimed by the virus and grieve for the families who have lost loved ones. we continue to battle the invisible enemy. we are directing the flow of resources and support of the federal government to safeguard high-risk populations, especially in nursing homes. we have a very powerful strategy on nursing homes. the best strategy for public health is to aggressively protect the most vulnerable while allowing younger and healthier americans to work safely. nationwide hospitalizations, new cases and deaths are all declining. we are tracking cases and hospitalizations daily and states are demonstrating their ability to rapidly identify and contain new outbreaks. our contesting is the best -- our testing is the best in the world. we have surpassed 15 million, much more than any other country by a factor of many times. we have completed over 15 million. th

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monday, microsoft president brad smith. >> we need businesses in the tech sector to step up, exercisee self-regulation and a higher commitment to responsibly. but we do think we need more regulation of technology. think about how we live our lives. if you go to the grocery store and pick something up off the shelf, you will read the nutrition level known it is standardized and accurate because of regulation. if you go over to the pharmacy department and buy a product, you don't worry about the safety of it because it is regulated. when you get into your car, it complies with certain safety standards. the same is true of an airplane. our basic point is digital technology has gone longer with less regulation than almost any technology since the middle of the 1800's. we think the market, customers, and even the industry itself would be better served for the .ong-term eastern monday at 8:00 on c-span2. >> monday, the supreme court continues hearing oral arguments via teleconference. at issuea.m. eastern, whether the prosecution of the native american for crimes committed on tribal land is

we're trying to get feedback from airports seeing that, for example, i was on a call with brad smith- the first airport in the country testing that to get the feedback and he said that passengers are regaining that trust as they see those type of measures being put in place. the question is still whether they're effective or not again, i think recovery is not just going to happen through economic recovery, but it's also going to happen, has to happen together with trust. >> how long do you think it will take for people to come back and fly at the levels that we saw say last year? >> yeah. i think there's still a lot of debate in terms of a lot of forecasting happening, a lot of it is short-term planning. when we talk to airlines, for example, with united, they tell us they're planning one week or two weeks out, some doing 45 days out humanity is resilient. we love the adventure of travel and we're still in a global economy, but i'm also keen on where the passenger will demand the aviation industry to prove itself so what we saw in the history of aviation, all through crisis aviation

. >> tonight, brad smith from microsoft. >> we need businesses to step up and exercise more stuff regulationigher commitment to responsibility. we think we need more regulation of technology. think about how we live our lives. store,go to the grocery you will read the nutrition label knowing it is standardized and accurate because of regulation. you go to the pharmacy and buy a product. you don't worry about the safety because it is regulated. car, theret in your are certain safety standards. digital technology has gone longer with less regulation than almost any technology since the 1800s. bethink the industry would better served for the long-term. >> watch the communicators to 9:00 on c-span 2. >> the presidents. it available now in paperback and e-book. -- present biography of every president. it features perspectives of our nation's chief executives and leadership style. visit our website. you can learn more about each president. order your copy today. wherever books and e-books are sold. >> washington journal continues. look at are taking a the impact on voting and the topic of voting b

[background noises] >> tonight on the communicators microsoft president brad smith co-author of the new book "tools and weapons" the promise and peril of the digital age. >> we need businesses in the tech center to step up have much self regulation and higher commitment to responsibility. we do think we need more regulation of technology. think about how we live our lives. if you go to the grocery store you pick something up off the shelf, you will read the nutrition label knowing it is standardized and accurate because of regulation. if you go over to the pharmacy department and buy a product you don't worry about the safety of it because it's regulated. when you get in your car it complies with certain safety standards same is true of an airplane. our basic point is digital technology has gone longer with less regulation than almost any technology since the middle of the 1800s. we think the market, customers, and even the industry itself would be better served for the long-term with a different balance. >> wash the communicators tonight on cspan2. >> c-span's "washington journal" five

industry, america's cable television companies as a public brought to you today provider.ble peter: brad smith, microsoft president, what's the premise of your new book "tools and weapons"? brad: it's that digital technology has become both a and weapon. it's creating challenges and benefits, as well. we have to grapple with both sides of that equation. peter: your book world tour begins in quincy, washington. washington? brad: it's one of the data center capitals of the world. it's near the columbia river. data centers are built there because it's close to bothelectric power that's cheap and clean the we take the reader on a tour of what

announcer 2: monday on "the communicators", microsoft president brad smith, author of the new book "toolsnd weapons." >> we need people to exercise more self regulation and a higher commitment to responsibility. but we need more regulation of technology. live ourut how we lives. if you go to the grocery store and pick something off-the-shelf, you will read the nutrition label knowing it is standardized and accurate information. if you buy a product, you don't worry about the safety because it is regulated. you get in your car, it complies with certain safety standards. our point is digital technology has gone longer with less regulation than almost any technology since the 1800s. the market, customers and industry is self would be -- it self will be better served. >> watch "the communicators" 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. friday president trump and the first lady arrived at a wreath-laying ceremony at the world war ii memorial in washington, dc to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory in

. >> monday on the communicators, microsoft president brad smith, co-author of a new book. >> we need businesses in the tech sector to step up and exercise more self-regulation and a higher commitment to responsibility. what we do think we need more regulation of technology. think about how we live our lives. if we go to the grocery store and pick some thing off of the shelf, you will read the nutrition label knowing that it is standardized and accurate because of regulation. go over to the pharmacy department and byproduct, you don't worry about the safety of it, because it is regulated. when you get into your car, it complies with certain safety standards and the same is true with an airplane. digital technology has gone thanr with less regulation almost any technology since the middle of 1800s. we think that the market, customers, and even the industry itself would be better served for the long-term with a different balance. >> watch the communicators monday on c-span2. >> television has changed since c-span began 41 years ago, but our mission continues, to provide an unfiltered vi