it's the kind of stuff that darpa does. that got a $9 million contract from darpa to do this work is called thomson reuters special services. they are a company that does cybersecurity and other data defense work. big company experience company. but apparently because that is the name of that company. thomson reuters special service last night, the president's top campaign donor, elon musk, decided to announce that this was a gigantic news media scandal. quote, reuters was paid millions of dollars by the us government for large scale social deception. that is literally what it says on the purchase order. they're a total scam. quote. just wow. just wow. this is like discovering that somebody studying cancer and being like, they're giving you cancer. look, it says right there cancer. thomson reuters special services and reuters, the news agency, are owned by the same parent company. but they are totally separate legal entities and they operate totally independently of one another. thomson reuters special services, the firm th

we know some darpa chai is close to the president.r finance minister in canada said they need to start looking at who is supporting trump and how we can make them pay a price for the tariffs on canada. do you think some of these countries will look at the tech people around donald trump? >> quite possibly. i think for the u.s., possibly the most damaging, the potentially damaging piece of what china announced was restrictions on the four critical minerals. which of course are directly used in a lot of semiconductors and high-tech products. that really gets at the u.s. supply chain for the products. i think china is showing us it has a lot of different things other than tariffs in its toolkit, which it can used to retaliate if things escalate. >> one of the big ai figures in washington is alexander wayne, who runs scale ai, he warned the president the ai war is not one that the u.s. can afford to lose. do you think that overshadows the talks and is donald trump focused on that? >> i think it is a legitimate issue. i don't think it over

that usa id and the pentagon through darpa were funding eco health alliance, which was conducting gain of function research, very dangerous gain of function research at the woo, honda institute over ology. and that, to me seems that that's the area where we deserve more d classification. more testimony from figures like peter das sac, who are involved as well as anthony vouching and have voucher you having been pardoned. some pre empt dooley by joe biden, on his way out actually opens him up to more testimony. the public does deserve answers about this virus which continues to up and lives and whose response was mishandled. so catastrophically by figures who appear to have been involved in this dangerous gain of function research and who appear to have lied about it. that was the whole reason why biden had to part in anthony factory, which was that he misled the public about his role in gain of function research. yeah, you said how responsible a curriculum is like the crime of the century. yeah, and the corrupt joe biden, the pardons and as you imply, that means that the con, take the

government creating darpa and other funding organizations, began to fray. may be due to vietnam but i think it is multifactorial. what doug's project has done is really re-center us on what has made us great before. they would be no silicon valley, technologies for the stealth weapons that happened many decades ago, without that particular ecosystem. and most of it was done with unclassified research and generous funding from the federal government. but now we are back to i think where we began with this study, and i hope what you have done is a model for the future. it assembled a diverse group of scholars and was able to bring very different think tanks together to put this report before the public at a time that was highly improbable for such a conversation. while we were working on this project last year, our universities were going up in flames around october 7 and the reaction to some very difficult social and racial antisemitic issues. but we persisted. i really think you deserve a round of applause for the work that you have done. thank you. [applau

government creating darpa and other funding organizations began to fray, maybe due to vietnam, but i think it's multi-sectoral. and what it's done, on what was great before. there would be no silicon valley, there would be no technology for stealth weapons that happened many decades ago without that particular eco system. and most of it was done with unclassified research and generous funding from the federal government. but now we're back to where we began with this study and i hope what you have done is a model for the future. doug assembled a diverse group of scholars and was able to bring very different think tanks together to put this report before the public at a time that was highly improbable for such a conversation. while we were working on this project last year, our universities were going up in flames around october 7th and the reaction to some very difficult social, racial and anti-semitic issues, but we persisted. i really think you deserve a round of applause for the work that you've done. i thank you. >> hear, hear. [applause] >> , but it relates to national security