you built the ad business, google blogs, how many hats have you worn in 18 years?usan: when you join a startup, you have to be willing to do whatever the startup needs you to do. part of it was -- because i did not have a fixed role, is always looking for the opportunity. and so, look, there is an opportunity. nobody else is working on image search. there are all these other people working on the text search, but images would be really cool. today, that is a very popular search. so, i think doing a lot of things, and having the freedom to move around the company, enabled me to be able to see a lot of opportunities and grow them. emily: it has been 10 years since google bought youtube, and you wrote the original justification plan that convinced them to buy the company. what did you see back then? susan: i did a spreadsheet, but i also believed in youtube. there was one video we had, and that video convinced me and showed me that people all over the world can create content and be entertaining. the video was of these two students in their dorm room, and their roomma

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. >>> google using data to rip the claim that it pays female employees less than male counterparts. a blogost written that google is taken aback by this assertion which came without supporting data or methodology. we suggest an amount for every employee's compensation. the analyst that calculate amounts do not have access to employees gender data. let's bring in shelly palmer and john brod. john, start with you. does this put this to rest because this is a strong response from google. >> very strong response. i think it really puts the onus on the d.o.l. to share their methodology. they made sweeping damaging claims that google has done a terrific job defending. >> google says they use this same methodology for race. i never heard of a company going through these lengths. employees can appeal if they still think it's unfair. >> in practice, data doesn't lie. people do. so the length they're going through are extraordinary. the methodology is pretty spectacular. the question is, are they asking the right questions at the department of labor? my suspicion is they're not. google is just comin

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>> my web address would be like -- just google it davebarry.com and there's a blog and stuff.does that count? is macon near atlanta? i don't know. yeah, i've been to macon. it's great. [laughter] >> jane in olympia, washington. before we hear from jane, do you blog every day? >> yeah, i do. my blog is not really -- i don't write much for it what i do people send me stuff and this is a holdover of when i had a newspaper column and often i would write about weird news items, people kept sending me stuff so i put it up on the blog. if a toilet explodes anywhere in the world, it's probably going to appear on my blog, toilet-related news, snakes appear in the toilet, look down before you pee, people. so i throw lots of stuff on it. i don't write for it. >> do you spend any time in schools in. >> yeah. i would not call teaching. sometimes when i have a book out for kids, i will go on a tour. i will go to various schools and it's interesting. kids are not like -- adults tend to be much more worshipful of authors and kids are not like that and like -- an example from a school here in

google's vp of people operations, such a google title, said in a blog post that the technology gianty scientific and robust, end quote, annual analysis to help calculate fair salaries. the executive also said the company takes into account role, job level, job location, and performance ratings. but that all of it is blind to gender and race. >> okay. >> good goal. >> and ceos are arriving at the white house to meet with president trump today. ibm's ceo arrived just a few minutes ago. we will have some more visuals of those making their way into the white house as they get there ahead of this meeting this morning. >> all right. when we return, jim cramer live from the new york stock exchange. we'll get his thoughts on the markets this morning and today's stories and here are futures. . the dow has turned around now. it's been bouncing all over the place this morning. we'll be right back. [weather reporter]: governor has declared a winter weather emergency... announcer: soon, insurance companies won't pay for damages, that is, not if they can help prevent damages from happening in the

. >>> google continues to defend itself against a charge by the department of labor that it systematically discriminates against women when it comes to pay. in a blogost, eileen naughtton declared, quote, in late 2016 we performed our most recent analysis across 52 different major job categories and found no significant pay gap. she went on to say that the company suggests a starting pay for employeeings and compares that to what other companies' starting pay. >>> always looking norways to make your life easier. >> michael finney says the competition for your gas money is getting a little more fierce. >> do you guys like filling up your car? >> oh, it's a chore. >> well, there's a new type of gas war going on, between new providers working to disrupt the way you fuel your car. >> like most, kevin's day is pretty hectic. while kevin is inside working, booster fuels is outside fueling his car. all you do is put in your request for gas through a mobile app. >> after the first couple of times, i was like, wow, this is awesome s why not do it again. >> for people like jenny lamb, it's more than convenient, for her it's also an issue of safety. >> it's l

. >>> google continues to defend itself against a charge by the department of labor that it systematically discriminates against women when it comes to pay. in a blogquote, in late 2016 we performed our most recent analysis across 52 different major job categories and found no significant pay gap. she went on to say that the company suggests a starting pay for employeeings and compares that to what other companies' starting pay. >>> always looking norways to make your life easier. >> michael finney says the competition for your gas money is getting a little more fierce. >> do you guys like filling up your car? >> oh, it's a chore. >> well, there's a new type of gas war going on, between new providers working to disrupt the way you fuel your car. >> like most, kevin's day is pretty hectic. while kevin is inside working, booster fuels is outside fueling his car. all you do is put in your request for gas through a mobile app. >> after the first couple of times, i was like, wow, this is awesome s why not do it again. >> for people like jenny lamb, it's more than convenient, for her it's also an issue of safety. >> it's late at night, it's dark, do i wa

. >> reporter: when it comes to google, another former female employee tells nbc news, the company's blogs not convinced the company has done the work to make equal pay a reality. matt and savannah? >> okay. natalie, thank you very much. >> thanks, nat. >>> now, we turn to what is trending today. there's nothing we love on "trending" more than a good food holiday. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> people, it's grilled cheese day. i almost dropped it. everybody picked the favorite grilled cheese. tuesday, we have some grilled cheese facts. saturdays are the most popular days of the week to get grilled cheese. but tuesday is the least popular. >> tuesday is the least popular day for everything. we ranked the days of the week, tuesday is the worst day of the week. >> it is. >> anyway, what did you get on yours? >> i'm old-fashioned, white bread and american cheese. >> i add bacon. >> i knew it. >> what's yours? >> i said whatever you want because i don't believe you can mess up grilled cheese. i don't know. just some cheese on bread. >> that's yours is the same, basically. i have chedda

blog world, too, and we have to face that. some readers wrote in accusing me of making that up. i thought this was odd. because in this age of the internet, you can google anything and find the source. this particular quote came from a james baldwin profile of king in a 1961 issue of harper's magazine. what really struck me about the reaction was that seemingly, these readers could not conceive of a time when black leaders used to speak this frankly about personal behavior in the black community. it is just a foreign concept to them that that is how black leadership in america used to regularly do, which might tell you a lot about black leadership today, frankly. these readers could not conceive of that. king was operating in a world -- it is so different in terms of his expectations. his message was to black people -- we need to succeed, not withstanding this racist society we live in. today's leadership seems to have flipped this on its head -- don't blame us for anything, and until racism will be vanquished from america. racism is used as an all-purpose explanation for bad black outcomes in this country. i don't think data backs that up. >> let me no