we ask the louisiana state attorney general jeff landry next.f you like bloomberg news, check us out on the radio, the bloomberg app, and on sirius xm. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> today's technology -- it is in our watches, our phones. i think it will be augmented and eight more important by using ai. >> we will see a fundamental shift in how they think about artificial intelligence and predictive models. when you can harness those two as a leader, it is an exciting time. on wednesday, president trump met with google ceo sundar pichai. according to the president's tweets, they talk about google's efforts in china and work with the u.s. military, as well as political fairness. a meeting the president said and did very well. despite the positive sentiment, google and its parent company off of it are targeted by lawmakers. senator ted cruz claims it silences conservative voices. bloomberg previously reported a group of state attorneys general are laying the groundwork for a probe into google for antitrust and privacy concerns. i want to welcome the att

we will ask the louisiana state attorney general jeff landry coming up next. if you like bloomberg news, check us out on the radio, the bloomberg app, bloomberg.com and on sirius xm. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: on wednesday, president trump met with google ceo sundar pichai. according to the president's tweets, they talked about google's efforts in china and work with the u.s. military, as well as political fairness. a meeting the president said and -- said ended very well. despite the positive sentiment, google and its parent company etse that -- company alphab are targeted by lawmakers. senator ted cruz claims it silences conservative voices. bloomberg previously reported a group of state attorneys general are laying the groundwork for a probe into google on the basis of antitrust and privacy concerns. i want to welcome the attorney general of the state of louisiana, jeff landry. thank you so much for joining us. i am curious what your reaction is to the president's meeting with google ceo sundar pichai, or his tweet about it, given the state attorneys gener

jeff landry is joining us now, thank you for joining us.think should be done with big check. >> a great question. one we're looking at, a number of different avenues, conversation that attorney general are having. i would say, a conversation among attorney generals on both sides of the aisle. >> jeff, mr. landry, thank you for coming on the she, looking at traditional monopoly in united states, last big 3, standard oil. there was a allegation of price fixing. you had at&t, again, you can utility there was allegations of price fixing. and microsoft, such that microsoft had so much force over pc they forced you to buy microsoft word. this does not fit in the criteria, a free system, a free platform, you don't have to use it, how do you justify this a monopoly? >> i disagree with that, you look at the share that google has, in far of searchers made, i would tell you google is a monopoly in the amount of data they collect and searches that go on. what happened is that beginning. americans, consumers, had an expectation that when you would searc

i want to thank your national association president, attorney general of louisiana jeff landry, a friend of mine. we are grateful to be joined by our fantastic new attorney general, bill barr, thank you. today, we join together to reaffirm and strengthen the vital partnership among state and local and federal law enforcement. only by working together can we ensure security for every community and deliver justice for every citizen. i want to take a moment to send a message on behalf of everyone in this room to all law enforcement personnel across america. you are loved, cherished, and respected by the american people more than you will ever know. more than you will ever know. when i took office two years ago of my highest priorities was to , one reduce violent crime. in the two years before my inauguration, violent crime was up substantially. murders had increased by more than 20%. for this reason, my administration resurrected project safe neighborhoods, bringing together citizens groups, sheriffs, and police departments to put dangerous offenders behind bars. while supporting crime prev

emily: that was louisiana attorney general jeff landry.eral agency targeting facebook, this time housing and urban development alleging their ad platform is discriminatory. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: facebook is already the target of the federal trade commission for privacy thursday, and on housing and urban development charged the social network with essentially violating -- by restricting those who view housing related ads on things like religion and race. ben carson says -- facebook is discriminating on people based on where they are and where they live. that can be just as discriminatory as slamming a door in someone's face. we discussed this with alina wang and naomi next. facebook settled lawsuits , saying they would over fall that adsplatform so will not be able to do this micro-targeting on areas like gender and sex. hud is arguing that does not go fast enough and they are arguing that facebook allows discriminatory add. they could target based on where they lived, using a redline. they could enable off-line data to

. >>> several state attorneys general and the president putting pressure jeff landry sits down with us in a moment the dow down 40. >>> the cnbc trend tracker live data board brought to you by the cme group. >>> welcome back to "squawk alley. the president ripping into google via twitter, accusing the company of, quote, helping china and their military josh lipton is in san francisco with the latest. >> reporter: morgan, president trump targeted alphabet's google before, but this time went after the company's role in china, accusing the company of helping that country and its military. terrible, he tweeted google quickly countered that criticism saying we are not working with the chinese military we are working with the u.s. government, including the department of defense in many areas, including cyber security, recruiting, and health care. but the comments come after joseph dunford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff made a similar argument before congress. >> the work that google is doing in china is indirectly benefitting the chinese military and i've been very public on this iss

emily: that was louisiana attorney general jeff landry., another federal agency targeting facebook. this time it is housing and urban development alleging their ad platform is discriminatory. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ emily: facebook is already the target of the federal trade commission for privacy violations, and on thursday, housing and urban development said they are charging the social network with allegedly violating the fair housing act. hud said facebook did so by restricting those who view housing related ads on things like race and religion. here is what secretary ben carson said in a statement. "facebook is discriminating on people based on who they are and where they live. using a computer to limit housing choices can be just as discriminatory as slamming a door in someone's face." we discussed this with selina wang and naomi nix. selina: this caught facebook off guard. last week facebook settled lawsuits, saying they would overhaul their ad platform so that ads will not be able to do this micro-targeting on areas lik

i want to thank your national association president, louisiana attorney general jeff landry. friend of mine. we are happy to be joined by our fantastic new attorney general, bill barr. bill, thank you. today we join together to reaffirm the vital partnership among state, local and federal law enforcement. only by working together can we ensure security for every community and deliver justice for every citizen. i want to take a moment to send a message this afternoon on behalf of everyone in this room to all law enforcement personnel across america. you are loved, you are cherished, and respected by the american people more than you will ever know. so true. more than you will ever know. when i took office one of my highest priorities was to reduce violent crime. in the two years before my inauguration, violent crime was up substantially, very substantially, and murders had increased by more than 20%. for this reason, my administration resurrected project safe neighborhoods, bringing together citizens groups, sheriffs and police departments to put dangerous offenders behind bar

i want to thank the national association president, louisiana attorney general jeff landry, a friend of mine. we are grateful to be joined by our fantastic new attorney general bill barr. bill, thank you. today we join together to reaffirm and strengthen the vital partnership among state, local, and federal law enforcement. only by working together can we ensure security for every community and deliver justice for every citizen. i want to take a moment to send a message this afternoon on behalf of everyone in this room to all law enforcement personnel across america. you are loved. you are cherished and respected by the american people more than you'll ever ever know. so true. more than you'll ever know. when i took office two years ago, one of my highest priorities was to reduce violent crime. in the two years before my inauguration, violent crime was up substantially, very substantially. and murders had increased by more than 20%. for this reason, my administration resurrected project safe neighborhoods, bringing together citizens groups, sheriffs and police department's to put off

by today highlights an op-ed ken paxton and curtis hill adding jeff landry in support of the presidentaying the executive order is a proper use of executive power. they write with no solutions coming from congress, the president is faithfully executing the duties of his office by invoking a law congress already passed. in declaring a state of emergency, president trump is using pre-existing statutory authority to address a legitimate crisis created by --less misconduct at our lawless conduct at our southern border. our president is protecting our country's borders through means contemplated by congress and used many times by past presidents for matters less directly threatening. you can read more of those thoughts if you go to the pages of usa today. in arizona, this is christian calling on our republican line. hi. again. hi, good morning, thank you for taking my call. i think it is so ironic the 12 republicans and all the isocrats who are saying this an overreach of power and violates separation of powers, thetheir very own body is body that has the ability to amend the national emerg