his research group received millions in grants from the pentagon, doctor charles lieber, also workedin living expenses. federal prosecutors say he hid key details of this arrangement from harvard. the department of defense, and the irs. >> failure to disclose foreign affiliations and foreign funding can pose serious threats to national security. >> lieber's ongoing trial is a major test for a justice department initiative to thwart the chinese government's efforts to steal american technology and sensitive research. prosecutors say the national institutes of health and the pentagon gave lieber's research group at harvard $15 million in grants, which required him to disclose money from foreign governments. the "boston globe" reports when the fbi arrested him, lieber said the wuhan university of technology had paid him only travel costs. when shown his contract with the university, lieber then admitted to traveling from wuhan to boston with bags of cash, tens of thousands of dollars he never declared. >> what we're observing here is one of the most significant and comprehensive penetra

but someone like charles lieber, it could be sex, it could be money, but once he takes money for the because then he knows he is vulnerable to being disclosed, so there's all sorts of things. we look at fong fong, the ministry state security agent at the heart of the chris wall balm manner, that is a very simple way to turn on american. >> jesse: sex is probably the biggest booby-trap but what about cash, with the giving him cash? how did this happen >> they were giving them something like $50,000 a month, that is quite large -- >> jesse: that is hunter biden money? that is no small change. >> it doesn't necessarily have to be a lot of money, it just has to be a little bit of money because that what happens is they know they have committed a crime, they know they are vulnerable to blackmail and extortion and then we start to see more and more information getting leaked out. so it doesn't take very much to turn an american like this. and remember the harvard academic that they talked about, every american can be bought. >> jesse: bought or flipped in the bedroom like swalwell, like we

this is what the government says was lieber will hiding his work with the chinese university. win for the justice department's china initiative. an effort to toward china's government siphoning of sensitive government research. some academics says that program attacks academic freedom. the conviction follows a report this month from a think tank foundation for defense of democracies detailing dozens of american university ties to chinese schools that also support china's military. bret? >> bret: all right, rich, thank you. speaking of china, we have new information about how china is using advanced technology to produce mind control. you heard that right. mind control. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the story from the pentagon. >> it would be literally like putting a device into your brain that could launch a missile. >> it sounds like a sci-fi politicaller using technology control its own people. machines that could allow a chinese commando to discharge a weapon with just a thought not a trigger finger. >> that's what they mean by brain control technolog

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charles lieber is accused of concealing funding he received from the chinese government. influence within universities. a british woman has been found guilty of murdering her girlfriend's i6—month—old child. star hobson endured months of assaults and psychological harm at the hands of 28 year old savannah brockhill. a jury at bradford crown court cleared the little girl's mother, frankie smith, of murder and manslaughter, but convicted her of causing or allowing her daughter's death. big tech companies should be forced to take tougher action against online crimes and abuse, according to uk mps. they've called for tighter safeguards for children and women and more action on tackling fraud and racist abuse to be made law. the committee's report said it was necessary to �*call time on the wild west online'. her�*s our media editor amol rajan. for years, every country and particularly western democracies have grappled with how to minimize the harms of life online while reaping the benefits. many of those harms affect children, especially grooming, usually by anonymous abusers

prosecutors are saying lieber is paid tens of thousands of dollars per month for collaborating with aversity with ties to the government. his case is of major concern to u.s. national security as china is now looking, of course, to become the global leader in technology. let's bring in retired four-star general jack keane to talk about this threat from china. general, it's great to have you. this program under which the professor was here is called the thousand talents plan. it's probably one of the biggest threats to national security that most americans have never heard of before. the chinese government uses it to do all kinds of nefarious things, right? >> there is no doubt about that. it also has an association with the wuhan laboratory, where he was paying $158,000 a year. what we are observing here has been going on for a number of years. one of the most significant and comprehensive penetrations of the united states, and our technology and our intelligence in our history. it exceeds what was going on with the soviet union for 40 years. christopher wray, the director of the fbi,

charles lieber, he was paid $50,000 a month by china's communist party to collaborate with them, helphnology so they can beef up their position as a world power. professor lieber was convicted of not disclosing that relationship with china when he received $15 million of grant money from the u.s. department of defense and the national institutes of health. he didn't disclose the fact he was being paid by china. ashley, i have to say, $50,000 a month is cheap for china to penetrate and infiltrate our universities, to get all of this information, with national security implications this is a wake-up call for other universities to make sure you know what your staff is stooge. the university didn't know and the irs didn't know. that is why he was in trouble. ashley: i am glad he got caught. susan, thank you. if you're hoping to get a break at the grocery store, don't hold your breath. many food manufacturers plan to raise prices even more of a the new year. that is great news, right? mick mulvaney that democrats economic agenda is fueling inflation and they don't care. >> more money, fewe

according to "the new york times," lieber's conviction is seen as an initiative. and in fact, much of what he was doing was legal. what is not legal, and what a professor should know is lying to the fbi about it. that's why he was arrested. that's why he's being tried. he lied to the fbi. >> yeah. that's often the case, right? people get caught because they don't tell the truth to authorities about what they were doing. there have been people questioned what he was doing should be legal. and president trump was trying to clamp down on some of the ties that american academics had with china. china puts a lot of money into u.s. universities, whether by sending their students there or whether directly by grants. and people can get embroiled in doing china's bidding without necessarily being aware that they are doing that. or without feeling that they are doing something wrong. but it becomes financially lucrative for them or their institution to do so. it kind of -- he was dumb for lying but it does point to a broader issue of the amount of -- not just in the u.s., b

the texts reveal that danny lieber secretly advised the late governor's team to victim shame a accuserdo it in public. this is the be double standard thing we've got. you have got an administration, andrew cuomo says we're all about me too, about the rights. as soon as they come under fire their strategy take the victim, shame them in public. that is how -- david: not the first time. remember the clintons. it is the same playbook. >> happens all the time but it has gotten more egregious, people are taking much more public postures they're on the woke side of this issue. we're all about this issue but of course you know it doesn't matter as long as they're the ones under the microscope they will do whatever they can to stay in power. if you want to understand our world right now, it is words and deeds and the gap has never been bigger particularly for people on the left. david: now this, the republican candidate for kansas attorney general is taking legal action against osha's vaccine mandate. he says the government is not taking into account natural immunity. kris kobach will be joinin

lieber lied which was aimed at wooing foreign experts and economic ties to the wuhan university of technologyed to disclose hundreds of thousands of payments that he received from china on his taxes. he faces up to 5 years in prison. meanwhile president biden claims he's confident on reaching a deal at some point with senator joe manchin on the dead in the water build back better bill. >> senator and i will get something done. maria: coming out as official no on the vote as you know. he later outlined changes that he would like to see in the bill that could get his support down. president biden outlined his new plan to battle the spread of omicron, a key part of his plan includes buying and distributing 500 million at home tests for free. this forcing white house press secretary jen psaki to walk back her words from 2 weeks ago. >> why not just make them free and have them available everywhere? >> should we just send to every american? >> maybe. >> what happens if every american has one test, how much is the cost and what happens after that? maria: telling journalist that is she should have b

zuckerberg and when it's time to talk what is lieber and the control of that, the value was going to do with the commission. my concern is who controls the internet? we have seen twitter, we seen instagram can we seen facebook control people on their platforms. how concerned are you about outside forces controlling platform on which those dollars are traded. >> i'll do you want better on your hypothetical which is we've now seen major banks deep laugh from both industry and individual customers for not sharing the right point of use of these are scary ideas. the point of crypto is to have true decentralization and the project that succeed will be the projects that achieve it. bitcoin succeeded because there are literally millions of participants in the node network and so there is no ceo twitter to deplatform, note see all of jp morgan to take away your credit card. you to control. some of these will not achieve it. there will be consigned to the sheet of history i predict. >> thank you very much, i yield back, madam chair,. >> thank you. the german from colorado mr. perlmutter who's

john lieber giving us great perspective.st, romaine bostick alongside paul sweeney. we will talk foreign policy deeper and particularly what is going on with china, there are economy and the chinese response. that will be right here on bloomberg. ♪ romaine: this is a special edition of "bloomberg markets," simulcast on bloomberg television and radio. romaine bostick alongside paul sweeney. keep an eye on china. a lot of data coming in toward the end of the year. interesting allow assists -- interesting analysis by the folks at bloomberg. a lot of eyes on the second largest economy in the world and how it will perform in 2022. carl riccadonna joining us now to talk more. what is the general expectation based on models we have? carl: the general expectation is china, as they mean to manage the deceleration, not necessarily rev up economic growth as we head into 2022, they have critical pillars of their economic engine if you will, things like exports, and domestically it has always been fiscally driven growth and especially co