michael: microsoft word. microsoft word, search and replace. and essentially, they are creating the word that they're going to search for on the dna, and then send the crispr entity into the cell, and it looks for the dna, and cuts it away. the concern is, like with microsoft word, if it finds a word that it was not supposed to cut away, like if it's looking for "resent" and it finds "present." and so, the concern with this is whether it's cutting away any other dna material, which would therefore cause other medical problems. and then, going back to our iphone, once you cut it away, the hypothesis was that you could put synthetic dna in. the landmark work done in oregon, the embryo itself repaired itself with the maternal aspect. and the concern is whether, just like autocorrect on your phone, whether that correction is done appropriately, or whether the wrong words were put in there. so, that's concern. the concern is having a missed target, so it's not just hitting the area it's supposed to, but another area. the concern is partially correcti

reasons we depend on foreign capital for venture capital when you have a really good invention like microsoft wordnd find it gets pirated in other companies you don't have the follow-on investment capital. do you see this as an important area? this would be a smaller problem if there was a huge increase in the amount of venture capital available simply because we didn't have our inventions ripped off offshore. there was a number of like 150 billion of chinese investment into startups. was that a number that occurred in one of your testimony? that is probably small compared to the amount of software that gets stolen, for example, in china every few years. i think we have to keep our eyes on that one very strongly. anyway, i just want to thank the chairman for having this hearing. it's a big deal. thank you. >> thank you. i appreciate the gentleman and he yields back and i'd like to thank all of our witnesses for their testimony today. it was very educational, illuminated a lot of issues for the members. as we indicated before, this subcommittee will continue to review the cfius process. we will hav

line by line changes in microsoft word document which prosecutors claim is proof that manafort claimsprosecutors claim he has russian ties intelligence. he proofread the op-ed, they are now going to be back in court first thing monday morning, arthel. arthel: kristin, at the same time special counsel accused by republicans for being unfair too political. >> the most recent person is top deputy's a man by the name of andrew wiseman who according to wall street journal was at hillary clinton's election night party in new york city and this comes right after another investigator in the special counsel's office peter was removed for alleged sending antitrump messages. here is republican congressman tim jordan. >> he gets kicked off for a text message that's antitrump. if you kicked out everybody from mueller's team that's antitrump, i don't think there would be anybody left. there has to be something more here. >> democrats clearly disagree. congressman at the same hearing last week. >> predicted the attacks on the fbi would grow louder and more brazen as counsel does work and walls close

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. >> reporter: microsoft is one of a handful of companies pushing hard to scrap passwords. is onel of companies working hard to scrap pass wordsst vulnerable aspect of everyday cyber life. >> people trying to guess sophisticated computers are very easy to crack. >> reporter: in 2016, the most popular pattern found among data breachers was 123456. what's more, what are of tech users write their pass words down on paper, leaving an estimated 24 billion intelligent devices over the next two years expose. this is microsoft's envisioning cente cent center. julia white is head of microsoft's cloud password. >> using your face, sometimes even a heart beat to say you are who you are. >> reporter: even if you just look at the camera, it taking 300 different points and that's it. >> reporter: tell me what happens when you try to get into my lap top. >> nope, it not logging me in. right? >> you have the same hair cut. >> reporter: biometrics are already being used on cell phones and lap top tops. but the goal, she says, is to access everything from banking to brooks brother without ever typing another password. >> it's better from a secu

words daily. we went to microsoft's head quarters to see what the tech giant is doing to put an end to it. >> please under attack. all address the world one million victims a day. >> there are a lot of attacks? >> yeah, there are. >> reporter: outside of seattle, microsoft giant microsoft keeps track of cyber crime at its own internal lab and they've noticed something alarming. >> 81% of what we saw was related to user name pass word. gives you a good idea of the magnitude of the problem. >> chief information security officer. >> did you get any bad guys? >> without going into any specifics. >> yes, the hacking community has grown in size and sophistication they use. why it's so important we solve the problem. >> microsoft is one of the handful of companies pushing hard to scrap passwords. the most vulnerable aspect of every day digital life. >> people use very simple passwords that are easy to guess or using sophisticating computers, they're easy to crack. >> in 2016, the most popular password found among data breachers was 123456. more than 80% of people using the same weak password across 20-30 a

microsoft ceo with megan murphy, live from lincoln center in new york. their full conversation will air december 23. vonnie: let's check in on the bloomberg first wordews. senate minority leader chuck schumer wants his new colleague from alabama to be involved in tax reform. schumer urged republican leaders to delay the vote on tax legislation to allow doug jones time to take his senate seat. >> doug jones will be the duly elected senator from the state of alabama. the governor did not appoint him. he won an election. it would be wrong for senate republicans to jam through this tax bill without giving the newly elected senator from alabama the opportunity to cast his vote. have been reporting, house and senate leaders have reached an agreement in principle on a sweeping tax package, according to a person familiar with the conversations who asked not to be named. the person said lawmakers still need to get a cost analysis of the agreement so it is not definite. minnesota governor mark dayton did not have to go far to find a replacement for senator al franken. he named tina smith to succeed once franken formally resigns. smith is a democrat. minnesota

microsoft's chief officer. this is bloomberg. ♪ carol: i'm carol massar along with marty schenker. tom keene and francine lacqua have the day off. let's get the bloomberg first wordnt in march -- election.n march's the opposition leader has been barred from running against him. he could have run if his conviction was canceled. a bullish report on the chinese economy. the center for economics and business research says china will overtake the u.s. as the world's biggest economy by 2032. three of the world's four largest economies will be asian. china hosted diplomats from afghanistan and pakistan in a bid to mediate a long-standing conflict between the countries. the first bilateral minister level dialogue in beijing comes as china expands its economic interest in pakistan. another difference in how president donald trump runs the white house. he will be the first chief executive in nearly a century not to host at least one state dinner during his first year in office. the white house offers no heticular region -- reason has yet to extend the visit. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. carol: the tax

microsoft chief empathy officer. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ tom: bloomberg "surveillance." it is a boring friday -- not. we will get to bitcoin and a moment. right now, to our first word i be so lucky. college managed to keep the u.s. -- congress managed to keep the u.s. government from shutting down through january 19, but they put off action on the military ceiling and undocumented immigrants. the united nations ignored a trump administration threat on jerusalem. they overwhelmingly backed a resolution critical of president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital. signaling it is ready to back another round of u.n. sanctions on north korea. they vote today on whether to cut delivery of petroleum products by 90%. in the u.k., businesses that are -- rely on the e.u. worried for the holidays. theirund fall has eroded wages and the uncertainty over their status as the u.k. gets ready to leave the e.u., and many foreign workers feel they are just not welcome. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. salek.bastian this is bloomberg. francine: thank you so much. onto bitcoin or cryptocurrencie

words, we're 111 points away from dow 25,000. how about the big tech stocks? they had a mixed picture earlier this morning. same thing is true now. facebook, amazon, alphabet down. microsoftare up. none are moving that much. i got to show you this again. home depot, caterpillar, they're both dow stocks. both of them hit all-time record highs earlier on this morning. caterpillar come back a bit to 151. home depot, still 188. >>> look at that, bed, bath & beyond, profit dropped 52%. meeting higher overhead costs as well. the stock is down almost 12%. that is bed, bath & beyond. back to my take, my opinion at the top of the hour, the democrats launching a year-long fight against the tax plan. apoplectic statements from nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. brian wesbury, chief economist, first trust advisors. brian, are they right? i think this tax plan gives us growth they say it takes money away from the middle class. who is right here? >> yeah, you are right, stuart. this tax cut, the facts, once we get into 2018 will outweigh the rhetoric, demagoguery we're hearing. what is amazing about this is, people that work in nancy pelosi's office will