. >> robert knake is a fellow with foreign relations. here to office explain the dispute between google and china, take us back to last week, what happened? >> guest: well, what happened last week is that google made the unusual stop of letting the world know that they had been hacked probably by the chinese or agents affiliated number groups affiliated with the chinese government. and the target had been not only information on chinese dissidents, use google products like gmail, but also their intellectual property and intellectual property of up to 33 other groups. >> host: what could the end result of that, for google but could the result be that they take their business entirely out of china? >> guest: that's what they're threatening to do. google has for three years, since 2006, ben and china and allowed the chinese to restrict access to google search terms that they find objectionable. tiananmen square june 4th, tibet, the dalai lama, things like that. and google said they would no longer do that beginning immediately. >> host: for

detroit, charlie, democrats line for robert knake.ler: good morning, c-span, and good morning, a guest. global is basically a search engine -- google. they make their revenue with advertising. searching in china is different from surging in india, searching and the united states, or in europe. it is what the searchers want to know. in china, they are not interested in your founding fathers, columbus discovering america. they want to know what they want to search in relation to their culture. you, young man sitting there, trying to bring old war phenomenon of divide and rule -- cold war phenomenon. so on and so forth. please, grow up. it is 21st century. host: we will get a response. guest: i think the first thing to understand, technically google was operating its own site in china -- who will.cn -- google.cn. the reason why they decided to do that in 2006 because google.com website was often being blocked or censured, so they went into china and they worked with the chinese government to establish google.cn and they have been tailori

host: robert knake from the council on foreign relations, thank you. that will do it from -- for this morning's " washington journal." back tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. enjoy the rest of this martin luther king holiday. . [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] . >> president barack obama talks about dr. king and his legacy and an update on the martin luther king memorial. we'll also look to the establishment of mlk day. coming up later today, live coverage of new virginia governor bob mcdonnell in his first state of the commonwealth address. we will begin at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. ).zÑtonight, larry cohen, the hd of the communications workers of america and what the federal government's role should be an expanding communication in the communication that is on c-span 2. now president barack obama on the legacy of martin luther king jr. he commemorated the birthday of the late civil rights leader yesterday. president barack obama spoke at the historic thurmont