i know eric schmidt and megan smith.ave interrupted her a million times and i know the dynamic of the conversation can be like that. in a broader context, if you don't know those individuals -- i'm sure eric and megan have interrupted each other and fought a lot over the years. i wonder if this is any different. jon: the person who raised the issue first was a google employee in the audience. it speaks to not just having diversity at the lower levels of the company, but at the most senior levels. it's wonderful that we have a female cco for the united states. google has done a better job than many companies at promoting women through their leadership ranks. sheryl sandberg, marissa mayer these are people who rose up the letter. megan smith rose up the ladder at google. google sometimes becomes unnecessarily criticized around these issues because they are a lightning rod. they have done some incredible work on this area. cory: thank you very much. ♪ cory: i'm cory johnson. silicon valley is the heart of technology but ult

stuart: look, i can't establish a direct connection between google and eric schmidt being helpful to obama's re-election campaign. i don't know if there's a tangible connection between the two. i'm simply staying looks like crony capitalism, that's what i'm saying. >> schmidt and obama have been buddies for years, and google under fire for years by competitors and regulators in other countries for monopolizing the market for skewing search results. you can put them together? you can, but i'm sure google disagrees. stuart: herman cain i'm going to ask him the same question in 20 minutes from now. thank you so much. >> thank you. stuart: not looking good for chicago's mayor. rahm emanuel, why john stossel says that city is the next detroit? whoa. 12:50. powerful stuff. and a home from magnum p.i. sold to a lawyer with ties to president obama. lots of speculation around this story. we'll discuss it 12:24. >>> and next the faa says amazon can test drone delivery but it's putting so many regulations around it might be dead on arrival. here's what could be around the corner, aircraft carrie

but there is a highly anticipated keynote by google chairman eric schmidt.lex brink at hour technology reporter is there for us. alex: yes i am. cory: talking to all of the start of geeks. alex: yes i am glad to be here. cory: how is the barbecue? they are trying to glom onto the music and the micro brews -- alex: i took a heady cap across the street. there are a lot of microbrews, a lot of margaritas. cory: we had margaritas on the set this morning to get ready for your appearance. it is tough to be a reporter that is so spread out. you are trying to figure out what is bubbling up while you're there. it is not like investor showing up at an investors conference. how do you approach this task of figuring out what is going on? alex: there's a lot going on in sxsw for sure. we have seen a lot of devices. we are seeing the emergence, a focus on women this year and diversity are you boil it down to themes and frankly, i have taken a lot of meetings off-campus. there are wonderful folks and from the west coast. a lot of coffees and drinks and having a good time h

eric schmidt top google guy runs president obama's reelection campaign.he ftc say, hang on a second. you're monopolist. and they prepare charges. all these google executives visit the white house and suddenly the administration backs off. google gets a slap on the wrist. i call that crony capitalism. is it? >> well, clearly it's one of those things that americans have a right to know. the reform is about making sure you can find that out. stewart, the one thing you know is that government knows in more about you than you know about the government. you need to know what the connections are. freedom of information is a big part of how you get it. (?) in the future, under our bill, if government doesn't give it to you in a timely fashion they'll pay your fees to make sure you get it. stuart: you could say that government could be swamped with countless requests for freedom of information act material. i mean your bill if it goes through could be abused, could it not? >> well, if you expand and expand and expand what people have a right to know, then at some

eric schmidt, john chambers and tim armstrong -- kentucky was the top pick of the 23 entries. elon musk has a message for models drivers. it will be impossible for the car to run out of a charge. or impossible to do by accident. the unveiled the software update earlier today. he says tesla will have charging stations in most of the 50 states by next year. >> the charging network has grown dramatically. cory: the new model x will hit the roads this summer. joining us from washington battery expert and the author of a terrific book about the battle and search for a better battery. also from new york, peter o'neill. i know you are bullish on the company. what was the best news for tesla? >> managing expectations when the jen three product comes out. i don't think customers have anxiety. with the potentially smaller battery, ranging site he will be a bigger issue. -- range exide he will be a bigger issue. -- range anxiety will be a bigger issue. it will be tied to the giga factory. we will have the jen three -- generation three-car. cory: what are the technological limitations? ge

google's executive eric schmidt, took some heat. eric kept interrupting as they talked and one audience member called out schmidt for his actions and the audience erupted in applause. what are silicon valley doing to diversify their workplaces? john joins us right now. what's going on in the field in terms of recruiting women, and has it changed? john:00 it's completely changed. may of last year, when google, the company we're talking about, decided to inunveil for the first time their diversity statistics. as google goes, so goes the valley. dozens of companies unveiling their statistics. we're coming up on the one year anniversary of those numbers. when those numbers get unveiled for the second time, if the numbers go south, there will webe a lot of head-scratching. you're seeing companies now, and we work with many of them, scrambling to figure outer, how they, how do they improve their diversity pipelines in a short amount of time. >> that's fascinating. as a recruit, you get hired to bring these people in. are they saying, no mo

eric schmidt help them run obama's campaign. on the other side, his competitors did to. that you are onto something when you call it crony capitalism launching a federal campaign they are not competing with these people in the market place. when they grind an ax with the government. >> all in favor of wind power. going for transporting oil by his railroad line. that kind of thing. did you find yourself rubbing up against big government and having to bend a little? >> it is always a temptation. you do not want to be stupid by letting them take over the government. if you look at our entire tax system it is riddled. all of that action has distorted the plane field. all business owners need to stand back and take a breath. what will we end up with? the latest net neutrality situation is also part of this. i think they would be better off saying let stand back and let's not invite the government and. stuart: indeed. you know i am a stickler for good ground. i was challenged on it last week. impactful is not a word. janice dean disagrees. now, she has a leg to stand on. she i

tech titans include eric schmidt, john chamberss. undefeated kentucky was the top tick -- pick of the 23 entries. now to the lead. tesla's ceo has a message for model 4s drivers he says. with the new software update, it will be impossible for a car to run out of a charge, released by accident. musk unveiled the software update earlier today. he says tesla will have charging stations in most of 50 states within the next year. elon musk: the charging network has grown dramatically over the past years to the point where virtually the entire u.s. and canadian population is in range, as well as northern western europe. cory: he says the model x will hit the road this summer. will a software update suit fears with the car's battery ko nking out? joining me is a battery expert and author of a terrific book about the search and battle for a better battery. also, from new york, a senior analyst. peter i know you are very bullish on the company. what was the best news for tesla out of today's press conference? guest: about managing expectation

eric schmidt is one of the keynotes. you can see the folks starting to line up behind me.e is expected to talk on another theme that was a continuation from last year, which is privacy. you saw snowden last year talk about encryption and how the onus is on tech companies to protect users. we may hear more of that today. cory: let's start with edward snowden. last year, he spoke from russia by satellite where he is on the lam basically. he spoke again this year. maybe the shock value was lost. he did not get so much attention. what did he have to say? >> he's still hammering home the idea the government should be staying out of our information and it is the tech companies who need to be the shield for users. if users are going to trust somebody with their information, it is on the tech companies to maintain that data for users. cory: in terms of connected home we have been hearing about it for the last 20 years. i am surprised that is a focus. >> a c.e.o. did a keynote in the last couple of days this weekend talking about some of the challenges, saying some of the onus that

other tech noticeable -- notables include eric schmidt and john leisure -- john leger. google may have escaped a investigation in antitrust, but internal documents show google acted in anti-competitive manners across the board, including demoting those of competitors and restricting advertisers from working with rival search engines. but google did some voluntary changes in the case was dismissed. joining us now from new york is the bloomberg intelligence analyst who knows a lot about antitrust. i want to leave whether it should have been brought aside -- what is the bad behavior the staff around in their investigation? what goes on in this kind of investigation and how thorough is there worth? >> their work is incredibly thorough. i was practicing law until last october and was involved in these investigations and it was unbelievable how many documents the staff could review. they take depositions and interview people in the industry. they really don't leave any stone unturned. when they come up with these conclusions and come to their opinion about whether they think

mike: you spend some time with eric schmidt, what was that like?oxx: we went out to roll out the survey and i find that it's an important event. we actually took one of the autonomous vehicles google is working on in the way to this event, and it's interesting because there are two things happening in the space to use as an example. there is a school of thought that says you need vehicles to talk to each other and there's sort of a connected vehicle discussion we were involved in trying to help that along. and then there is the autonomous vehicle discussion which is where they do not necessarily talk to each other that they have such a capability they are able to see the environment around them just like you and i are, so those vehicles really don't necessarily talk to another car that they see it and they can avoid it so there's interesting dynamics and technology. mike: and what school of thought? secretary foxx: we have to be agnostic as a department. they are using the autonomous model. but i think as a department we have to just be supportive

melissa: eric schmidt did an incredible job. google donors were very high on this list. the sixth largest source of cash for the president in 2008. what do you think google thought they were getting out of meeting with the president? >> they were very concerned and rightfully so. putting themselves between content creators and content consumers. clearly, their scale and size, they were very concerned that a combination of concerned people was. they visited the government 10 times more then any other companies. they had seven of their folks interspersed. they bracketed the government. google was funding. google was staffing. melissa: totally separate. independent agency. making all of these decisions on their own. it is a totally separate thing. do you buy that? >> no. nobody agreed on the recommendation. it kind of looks like they ought to do something. it looks like the decision was political. remember all of these folks have careers in government. melissa: okay. we will leave it there. thank you. let's go to nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange

eric schmidt has been accused of repeatedly interrupting during a south by southwest panel.ut first, the 2016 republican presidential race has begun. today donald trump officially launched a 2016 exploratory committee saying quote, americans deserve better than what they get from their politicians who are all talk and no action. i am the only one who can make america truly great again. trump's move follows that of ben carson who launched his own committee. in 2012, fringe candidates like michelle bachman and herman cane caught fire. joining me now is josh barrow and mike pesca and jackie. in politics is there such a thing as once burned twice shy? will fringe candidates actually impact this race the way they did in 2012? >> i love that donald trump is forming an exploratory committee. nobody believes him anymore when he says he's running for president. now he has to actually go start the exploratory committee. >> this is the year. >> i think he's going to remain our nbc colleague donald trump and not be presidential candidate donald trump. >> it just doesn't feel special any

and i know she's not saying that eric schmidt of google should lead the charge for a reformation, butt he does have the ability to support efforts like with the internet to try to allow people to have access to the free and open internet. >> it's also refreshing to hear so many people talk positively about an atheist. >> yes. she is. >> yes. >> yes, she is. she grew up in africa and saudi arabia. she sought asylum in 1992 in the netherlands. she went from cleaning factories to winning a seat in the dutch parliament. i think she's a wonderful speaker and an author of several best-selling books and this one is called "heretics." >>> ahead, do college campuses also need a reformation? many students are being shielded from ideas that could make them uncomfortable. and this makes greg uncomfortable. >> yes. >> he explains why next. >> it does! when the moment's spontaneous, why pause to take a pill? or stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use is approved to treat both erectile dysfunction and the urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell your doctor ab

state senator eric schmidt has proposed a remedy to that. it would potentially cap the amount of money that cities could extract for their budgets from passenger stops and things of that nature. can you walk us through that bill and give us a sense of whether it's actually likely to pass. and if so, do you think it will help eradicate the problem? >> well the bill you mention has support actually of the st. louis police officers union. i think police officers as well have gotten behind this movement because they don't want to be task collectors. they feel like it damages their rapport with the communities, it damages their recognition. i think also we're talking about removing parts of a jenga tower here in the sense that a municipality is built on these little cities these small little towns that get the money they need. as you remove one revenue source for them, they're going to try to find it swuomewhere else or the system could begin to collapse, which i think what some people are most afraid of. >> you reference the critical importance

i'm sure you've seen eric schmidt called out by an employee during a panel for interrupting chief technologyan smith of the united states. take a listen to this. >> we know that unconscious bias research tells us that women are interrupted a lot more than men. and i wonder if you're aware that you have interrupted megan many more times. [ applause ] >> what do you think? are we making too much or not? >> full disclosure i've been [ inaudible ] to megan and may have interrupted her many times. et was such an -- just like the kleiner perkins trial is the illustration of the trial around gender issues and a live version. that was a live version of exactly what happens to women in meetings all the time. here and elsewhere, he was answering questions for her that were asked of her. that was fascinating. and megan, you know, can keep up, but i don't think he understood what he was doing and the woman -- i think the word unconscious bias as i've said many times is an excuse for being lazy and stupid, so i think he didn't realize what he was doing. you could see that as it was occurring but everyone

erik schatzker: how often does eric schmidt come to your class russian mark --? to my class. erik schatzker: perhaps they should. >> my practice started when i was a school kid in india. that is -- that is one of the reasons why i am here to receive an honor from a wonderful organization. they are bringing yoga to public schools. we have introduced yoga to 15,000 kids in public schools in new york. stephanie ruhle: thank you so much. i have not change their behavior yet. they really like doing it. >> keep them at it. erik schatzker: he is the chief evangelist of brand marketing at google. he is an enthusiast for yoga and meditation and introspection. that's going to do it for us. we will see you then. ♪ >> we are coming up on 56 past the hour. we are on the markets. let's look at the action midway through the trading day. we have the strongest dollar in 12 years and fear of a right heart -- hike is spreading fear. we have session lows as well. the dollar index is up by 9/10 of 1%. joining me is heaven kelly from recon capital partners. when we see what is happeni

it includes eric schmidt, john chaney are -- john chambers and strauss cellmate.ck of 23 of the entries. staying on college sports, march madness is here and sports fans are hungry for a championship team. could st. john's be the answer? 501 shots of winning, fans are hoping the school can bank its first tournament victory in 15 years. joining me to discuss it is a division chair and director of the sports management program at st. john's university. do you have money on this game? >> i have no money on this game. alix: st. john's did not see a profit from last year's game. what are the benefits to a win? >> the benefits of having a successful sport program typically, all have said you get increased marketing affect. outside of the new york area st. john was strictly a commuter school. people across the country would not know about it if it were not for the basketball program. we are happy the program has a resurgence. 2000 was the last year we won a tournament game. >> would you see more endowments? >> possibly, but most of them tend to go toward athletics which

that was google's executive chairman eric schmidt. >> thank you. commissioner pai, in your defending statement, used it i see no legal path for the fcc to prevent paid partisanship at the top of a two-sided market. which it fears to be the sine qua non of chechen to many of the chairman's proposal. 706 of the telecommunications act could not be used for such a ban. while they resist saying it out we -- out right needed to do. that only authorized the fcc to prevent unjust or unreasonable discrimination in both the commission and court sentences interpreted that provision to allow carriers to charge different prices for different services. could you elaborate on that? >> thank you for the question. it has been textbook law since title ii with doctor. this goes back to the 1880s when regulate railroads that differential services could be affected different prices by common carrier extended towards the telecommute nation-state it's been the case that you cannot ban a prioritization. i completely agree with the chairman statement on the 20th of last ye

this includes, head of google eric schmidt, overseeing get-out-the-vote effort, software on electiont lawsuit is withdrawn. keep in mind, we've known of this relationship for a very long time. schmidt was there on, obama's very first press conference after his first election. so this relationship is not unknown but problem is, of course and i would compare it to halliburton. you know, liberals talking about favoritism from a government to a particular company. and yet at no point was there a suggestion that the government was interfering or pressuring a law enforcement agency like the ftc to back up or to take it easy. so we know that we didn't like necessarily like the relationship favoritism with the halliburton, yet there is silence to some degree when it comes to relationship with google. martha: it is very, it is weird when you think about it, to have the head of any company, sort of standing next to the president all the time while he is doing these things. they have rivals. comcast is looking at that going, or any other of their rivals, going what is up with that? we don't get

eric schmidt said of the group -- quote -- they are literally lying -- close quote -- about climate change. you don't need to support an organization that is -- quote -- literally lying about climate change. not under corporate climate responsibility 2.0. it is not necessary to have your own trade association or legislative organization arguing against you. the same should be true of opinion outlets. for decades "the wall street journal" has been an important and respected voice of the business community but now on climate change, "the wall street journal" editorial page never reflects the views on climate change of most of america's corporate leaders. only its fossil fuel corporate leaders. that page has become exclusively the voice of the fossil fuel industry and of their climate denial front organizations. in fact, in some ways, you could say "the wall street journal" editorial page has actually become a climate denial front organization. the fossil fuel companies have co-opted "the wall street journal" editorial page, and where is the objection from american corporations, big well-know

that was the executive chairman eric schmidt. >> commissioner, in your dissenting statement you statei see no path for the prioritization of the development of the market. which appears to be big unknown objection to the trans- proposal they then note telecommunications act could be used. a lot of them are resisting the need for title ii and it authorizes them to prohibit on reasonable discrimination in the commission and the courts have consistently interpreted that to allow them to charge different prices for different services. >> it has been textbook law since it was adopted into this goes back to the 1880s that differential services could be in different prices by the common carriers extending that to word the telecommunications agency cannot abandon the prayer position and i completely agree with the statement on may 20 of last year that there is nothing that abandons the pay prioritization. >> how long is this to be litigated in the courts and i ask that because the the businesses need certainty what the rules on the road will be long term. >> whether you support or oppose the

that was google's executive chairman, eric schmidt. >> thank you, commissioner pai in your statement you say i see no legal bath for the fcc for the two-sided market, and no objection to many of the chairman's proposal. we acknowledge that it could not be used for such a ban. while they resist saying it outright, neither could sitele two they only deliver unjust or unreasonable consideration. and the courts have consistently charged different prices for different services. >> thank you for the question, congressman. it has been textbook law since title two was adopted and this goes back to the 1880s when they were regulating railroads. extending that toward the telecommunication age, it has been pointed out that you cannot ban pay to play regulation. >> given that how long do you think this is likely to be litigated in the courts. and i ask that because businesses need certainty for what the rules of the road will be long term. >> everyone can agree this will be litigated for a long term. >> this goes first to the district court here first. >> depending on where it is filed, if there

i have one more question i watched your recent interview with eric schmidt and there is one question that i thought was hilarious, shifting to our rail. why is it it takes only three hours to get from 536 miles in france, and boston to dc is 470 miles and takes 7 hours? >> well this is a vision that the president and i both share. that we can speed up these times. and look, when the rail system in the u.s. was built some of it predated the road systems. but at some point what folks decided was to put both of those things on the same grade. and so in some indications our speeds will be limited because you don't want to have rail traffic going at such a high speed at grade that is intersecting with vehicular forecast. having said that, the cost of getting there will be significant. as you point out, the rest of the world has figured out there are ways to get there. and i think the future for high speed rail in the u.s. is pretty bright. but it will take some funds. it will take some commitment, and it will take some time but we will get there, we always do. >> okay, so at this point i

have to admit i watched your recent interview with eric schmidt and there's one question there i thought was a letter is. i've got to throw that out to you also. just shifting gears to our rail system a little bit. why is it that it takes only three hours to get from paris to versailles merced, and that's 536 miles and boston to d.c. takes seven hours for just 437 miles? >> well, this is a vision that the president and i both share, which is that we can speed up these times. you know look when the rail system in the u.s. was built, some of it predated the road systems. but at some point what folks decided was to put both of those things on the same grade. and so in some cases our speeds have got to be limited because you don't want to have rail traffic going at such a high speed at grade that is intersecting with the nuclear traffic. having said that the cost of getting there is going to be significant but again as you point out the rest of the world has figured out that there are ways to get there. and i think that the u.s. the future for high-speed rail india's is actually pretty brigh

i have to admit, i watched your recent interview with eric schmidt, and there was one question i thought that was hilarious. shifting gears to our rail system a little bit, why is it that it takes only three hours to get from paris to marseille and that is 536 miles, and the boston to d.c. express takes seven hours for just 437 miles? i think i got the numbers right. [laughter] secretary foxx: well, this is a vision that the president and i both share, which is that weekends read up these times. you know, look, when the rail system -- that we can speed up these times. you know, look, when the rail system was created, at some point people decided to put both of those things on the same grade, so in some cases speeds will be limited -- limited because you do not want to have rail traffic going at such a high speed at greater that is intersecting with vehicular traffic. having said that, the cost of getting there is going to be significant, but, again, as you point out, the rest of the world has figured out that there are ways to get there. i think the the future for high-speed rail in the

i have to admit, i watched your recent interview with eric schmidt, and there was one question i thought that was hilarious. shifting gears to our rail system a little bit, why is it that it takes only three hours to get from paris to marseille and that is 536 miles, and the boston to d.c. express takes seven hours for just 437 miles? i think i got the numbers right. secretary foxx: well, this is a vision that the president and i both share, which is that weekends read up these times. you know, look, when the rail system -- that we can speed up these times. you know, look, when the rail system was created, at some point people decided to put both of those things on the same grade, so in some cases speeds will be limited -- limited because you do not want to have rail traffic going at such a high speed at greater that is intersecting with vehicular traffic. having said that, the cost of getting there is going to be significant, but, again, as you point out, the rest of the world has figured out that there are ways to get there. i think the the future for high-speed rail in the u.s. is act

. >> i'll never forget the time eric schmidt said when the smartphone pretty much came in people don'tem what to do. i'll never forget those words. and that's -- you know i think we're outsourcing our brains increasingly to the machines. that's why we have to take a step back and even for a few minutes think about the task ahead. that promotes creativity. >> i would argue if i had some kind of algorithm like that i would have more time to do my own investigations and to stare out the window when i'm on my hour-long commute and not feel guilty. >> i keep thinking there's something in the world that's going to happen and i'm going to have more time and somehow i just keep having less. thank you to maggie jackson. the rest of the panel is sticking around. >>> up next i'm going to bring a pediatrician into this discussion and show you a baby nerd and her feelings about technology when we come back. e most sou nd way to go. let's talk asset allocation. sure. you seem knowledgeable professional. would you trust me as your financial advisor? i would. i would indeed. well, let's be clear here.

but they're not going to be people who -- the real question and eric schmidt and i taubt it.mpanies, it may not be good for the cable companies for the pipes except that they're still the only way to get in with the internet access. so for now they may still hold something of a draw there. but you think that's eventually going to get watered down. >> well if there's more competition offering broadband to the home and that's why the net neutrality debate is a complex one. you want to have incentives for other companies to build a pipe. the hardest part is usually that last mile or even from the curb into the house. those are difficult things to do. but with new types of technology even 4g, 5g, it's possible to have four or five choices of broadband into the home in a few years. but you're right. that's why the cable companies are still in the saddle. they're this ones that bring the cable cords into your living room in most places. >> okay. walter thanks so much. have fun at south by southwest. >> couple of years, walter. definitely i can see now. i looked it up. you got me by

schmidt have the latest on yemen. we will take your questions on facebook or twitter. washington journal, live at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> this sunday, one q and a, eric larson on his new book "dead wake" the last crossing of the lusitania. eric: the question gets commentated when the question arise as to what ultimately happened to the lusitania. why was the lusitania allowed to enter without escort, without the kind of detailed warning that could have been provided to captain william thomas turner, but was not. and this has led to interesting speculation. was the ship set up for attack by churchill, or someone in the admiralty? it is interesting. i would have found a smoking memo if that had existed. there was nothing from churchill to jackie fisher, or someone else in the admiralty saying that we should let the lusitania go into the sea. >> at 8 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. >> the radio and television correspondents association held their annual congressional dinner yesterday in washington dc. texas representative yoking casto and his -- joaquin castro and his brother hosted. this is one hour and 25 minutes.