those were the words from jack paulson. he joined us from toronto to explain his decision. und out about this through the reporting on august 1. i will say it was a very vocal three weeks following that. within that week i was trying to raise concerns internally. there was a lot of pushback and talking about it. it was phrased as a very exploratory project, not many managers knew anything about it. as an employee when you raise a concern, you are told your concerns will eventually be handled. if y -- a few days of this i submitted a conditional resignation saying if this is true, i am forced to resign for ethical reasons. still even after submitting that conditional resignation, it felt like i receive no clarification on what the red lines might be crossed. after enough time past another week passed, i submitted , a formal resignation. i wrote a document explaining my reasons, some of which you quoted at the very end. i circulated that throughout the company. emily: another part of that document, you are avoiding profiting from the erosion of protections for dissidents. ther

today we learned that a senior google research scientist named jack paulson was so disgusted by the company's collaboration with chinese sensors, that he has quit in protest. in our thinking about this, you want to know the real reason that the google execs were so exercised, so hurt by the election of term? because he promised to hold google's partner, china, accountable. to punish chinese cheating on trade deals that hollowed out u.s. manufacturing. for google and many other big manufacturers, the pretrump status quo was much easier. keep that production overseas, lower wages, no regulation, no health care that you have to worry about for those employees over internet. and if it hurts america, so be it. after all, those blue-collar americans will probably be trump orders anyway. and of course, google, they hate you deplorables. >> that fear, i think, not just in the united states, right around the world, is what is fueling concerns, xenophobia, hatred, and his desire for answers that may or may not be there. >> laura: actually, trump found the answer is pretty easy two words: america first.