we were sitting at the wilford law firm, a big law firm, and eric schmidt, the c.e.o. of google, and there was no reason he had to be there for a process, it was taken care of. and took chad, the other co-founder and me aside, and to find a room away from everyone else. and told us there would be a lot of friendly people after this acquisition, and they want to help and a lot of cool technologies in google. and you will probably be pulled in a lot of different ways to modernize the site and professional content of the site. but at the end of the day what we are buying youtube is for the idea and the team and how well it was executed. and the reassuring theme, he said there are two things i want you to do in the next year, and if anyone tries to prevent you from doing this. and first he wanted to use an infinite number of happy users and infinite of good content on the site. to me that was reassuring. and after the acquisition closed, we are still, google has an office in san francisco, in the bay area, and it's a big office and headquarters in mountain view. and youtub

. >> for more on this, we turn to eric schmidt, one of "the new york times" reporters who wrote the story based on the 92,000 documents in the paper. thank you so much for joining us. you heard mr. ramo there. you heard what the haase had to say, that this leak could put the lives of americans at risk and threaten nationality security. senator kerry called the leak illegal. did "the times" ever consider not publishing? >> george, no. we took great care when we first had access to these documents. we spent several weeks reviewing them, going over them very carefully. and as you look at the documents "the new york times" posted online, we took great care to redact the names of many people who were on the ground in afghanistan who were potentially informants who worked for the american government and also removed sorts and methods and other sensitive material that might have jeopardized operations on the ground. we worked very closely in this case with the white house and, in fact, the white house praised us for our due diligence. we also impressed upon the source, julian assange, the import