situ all they literally broke their own search engine to sense to me and many others that's as eric schmidt the executive chairman of google's parent company alphabet previously revealed that google would try to do you rank r.t. we are working on detecting this kind of scenario you're describing and again the ranking the ranking those kinds of sites it's basically are put nick are the 2 and there's a whole bunch of coverage about what we're doing there but we're well aware of it we're trying to engineer the systems to prevent it we don't want to ban the sites eventually google responded that it doesn't have an insider ranking system search is no use to set a political agenda and we don't bias our results to with any political ideology but the latest revelation from project veritas could make these promises less reassuring google and twitter and facebook and other in the social media and big tech and arena have the ability to filter news and filter content for a generation that does is accustomed to doing less thinking for itself than let's say the generations of 10 and 20 and 40 years ago s

one of the 1st east german leaders to fall was eric schmidt head of the secret police the. from his headquarters he had overseen a vast informers network never would he have imagined that his office would one day be a tourist attraction. he used this safe to store compromising documents on east german leader eric shiner. when caught here was standing in arish milkers former headquarters makes clear just what great symbolic meaning because we have visitors from 40 different countries who admired germany for having toppled the dictatorship and for being this brave it sends a strong thick no and creates hope. today roland the un is in charge of east germany the files he shows us the cellar where there are endless rows of them germany was able to selvage most of them making them accessible to former victims of the east german regime. andreas are also depreciates this former east german communist party members informers were not treated with leniency after the fall of the wall. but he thinks other big mistakes were made to this day many east germans feel they are not treated equ

we will take that up after thiss lou: a data firm supported by former alphabet chairman eric schmidt is now working for some of the top 2020 dem candidates. new records show joe biden, cory booker, kamala harris and bernie sanders, their campaigns paying thousands and thousands of dollars for research from schmidt's data firm. smith who helped run and fund hillary's 2016 campaign still serves as technical advisor to google's board, as far as i know. he's not on the payroll, but there it is. joining us tonight the new york times best-selling author, president of the government accountability institute and host of a new investigative series entitled "the drilldown". great to have you with us, peter. >> good to be with you as always, lou. lou: i can't imagine that he would support, advise, counsel, a democratic candidate. it's just -- this is to me fascinating that there is not more of an inquiry into google itself and what they've done is just extraordinary in terms of all the visits their executives paid to president obama during his time in the white house. i believe they were the mo

he'd had some beer and it was hot outside eric schmidt says he offered touching some food but he was saving himself for and then he popped up on the jumbotron video screen winning the competition committee aide about half a she tacos. >>and then he stopped because you could tell he was there was too much food in him and i think he kind of shooting a bit more in and started another one in the screen blacked out. >>investigators say hutchings choked during the contest. emergency medical personnel to stadium rushed in to help and got him to a nearby hospital and once he got to the emergency room staff was having to clear food out of his airway complications continued and a little less than 30 minutes later he ended up passing away say hutchings had some other medical issues and will conduct an autopsy thursday to see if anything decides joking contributed to his death. very sad and the grizzlies now say their professional kako eating championship that was scheduled for this saturday. >>has been canceled. >>as we switch gears said check on the 4 zone forecast taking a live peek outside r

eric schmidt, the head of google offered in writing to head up her tech campaign and then set up a secretiverpose of which was to put her into office. i've been a staunch supporter of the clintons for decades. i literally have a signed letter from bill clinton over my desk on a the wall and i cannot belie that she did this. in the things she's saying are just absurd. >> tucker: without getting too technical -- you are a research scientist in effect so it would be easy to confuse us, me, but give us a sense of how she has lied about you. >> number one she says my work has been debunked. that's blatantly false. my work has always adhered to the very highest standards of scientific integrity. the monitoring projects are set up. that's not scientific research. those are monitoring projects and i'm the only one who's done them so far. the purpose of those. to capture what big tech companies like google are showing people on our screens. here's the second lie. she says my entire monitoring project in 2016 was based on 21 undecided voters. actually my discovery of the bias that occurred, the pro cl

in 2011, lee grilled then ceo eric schmidt, a congressional antitrust hearing for joining the sentenced for a law that would have banned google's largest force of revenue. that would be keyword based advertising. he also egged on antitrust investigations of big tech and then accused the ftc, the federal trade commission, of going too easy on powerful companies and good for him. but fast forward to today. today, mike lee is one of google's chief allies in congress. maybe it's biggest alley in the republican party. lee has question whether congress should even bother with antitrust investigations of tech companies purely as introduced legislation that would make it harder for the government to block corporate mergers. he has complained about the e.u. opposing fines on google. we even came on this program and told the conservatives shouldn't worry about google or other tech companies silencing conservative speech online. so what happened? why the change? well, it's possible that my cletus woke up one morning and decided that his previous views had been wrong. maybe. but evidence compiled

in 2011, he grilled nonceo eric schmidt, a congressional antitrust hearing.would have banned google's largest source of revenue, that would be keyword-based advertising. we also egged on antitrust investigations of big tech and then accuse the ftc, the federal trade commission, going to easy on powerful companies, and good for him. fast-forward to today. today mike lee is one of google's chief allies in congress. maybe it's biggest ally in the republican party. lee has questioned whether congress would even bother with antitrust investigations for techch companies. make it harder to block corporate mergers. lee has complained about the e.u. imposing fines on google for itsai behavior. lee even came on this program and told us that conservatives shouldn't worry about google or other tech companies silencing conservative speech online reading so what happen? why the change? it's possible that mike lee just woke up one morning and decided that his previous abuse had been wrong. maybe. yet evidence compiled by the google transfer into projects suggests that may h

put in place larry didn't know how to create a business until eric schmidt came along we sell advertisingacquisition was one of the best things they could have done as a business. it's a traditional business even though they figured out new models for it. larry page, the ceo, he likes to tinker with what's the next big tech thing if it's not going to be ibm in the future, yeah, they should keep that mentality going. same time they're really going to grow. it's like where are these big ad dollars going to come from in the next few years as the traditional ad sources are shrinking, there's an opportunity for them they don't get sort of all the big -- >> what about these other bets they've made more bets than any other company out there. >> drones, all these other things who knows what it's going to be? that's their play, too they don't know either they just think they need to be playing in that space and get as many people online to fuel their ad business. that's their mentality. >> what's the chance, though this is microsoft? good new sthas microsoft today is remarkably robust company the

once in halifax with eric schmidt of alphabet google talking about that impact. it is going to be significant. no doubt. i believe the united states has got to have a leadership position in that area. but we also have to have a leadership position, understanding how you integrate that capability into our concept of operations and we haven't really done that yet. if we don't get that right, we could make some big mistakes in terms of giving command authority to a computer. we can't let that happen. artificial intelligence has got to help us do the job better but cannot tell us what to do. >> thank you, mr. chair. >> thank you, senator heinrich. senator ernst? sen. ernst: thank you, mr. chair. general hyten, you have been nominated to be the second highest ranking military officer in the united states armed forces. this position demands the highest levels of trust and responsibility. of course, sound judgment and an impeccable moral compass. you have been accused of sexual misconduct by a subordinate officer. i have reviewed the evidence, as well as your performanc

hama schmidt has a number of merrick's files the documents for example indicate that klaus bobby a former nazi who fled to south america after the war also bought surplus west german weapons from eric's. you may think so spot on iraq's was so to speak an extension of the federal government . and it worked with the b. and d. and shipped weapons through various channels to latin america for example. for all . the b n d actively promoted such deals to gather intelligence about crisis regions but how much of it says it violated its constitutional mandate to simply observe. begin production in from to get this activity began in the 1950 s. and least its peak in the mid 1960 s. with large shipments of weapons. they started taking more risks because the american system works of well i don't use it constantly this question. it wasn't intelligence work but weapons deals. merrick's wasn't involved with intelligence. but the b. and d. found that they could gather intelligence much more effectively by setting up and implementing these weapons deals to close off. the size or whatever so it gave them access that they might not have had otherwise. absolutely. this photo shows matins at his office i