working with the chinese government, sundar pichai was in town, met with the marine general, chairmanchiefs over at the pentagon. cnbc's.com amanda mavis has been covering that aspect of the ceo's visit today. in effect, suggesting that the company, by working with chinese entities and chinese government was helping the chinese government advance technologic l technologically, arguing that's not a good thing for the president of the united states the president layering on to that a political argument here, conservatives have alleged in washington that google and some of the other technology companies, in various ways, put their fingers on the scale in terms of the conservative versus liberal debate online. the president suggesting in this tweet that he raised that issue with the google ceo as well. we'll try to get more information about this meeting it was not on the official white house schedule the president tweeted it a couple of moments ago. and that is the first we are learning of it this is something that they did not do in front of accuracy and things like that clearly, very h

on wednesday, president trump met with google ceo sundar pichai.ording 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 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 attorneys general have launched an exploratory probe into whether google breached antitrust and privacy concerns. a.g. landry: i was not privileged to the discussion the president had. i would guess it namely surrounded google's activity in china. i have not heard t

this was the scene on capitol hill last year when google ceo sundar pichai defended google about reportsthey were working with the chinese government on a censored search engine. >> right now, we have no plans to launch in china. we don't have a search product there. our core mission is to provide users with access to information. getting access to information is an important human right. we try hard to provide that information. emily: a new report from "the intercept" is saying google employees have been investigating those claims themselves and claim to have found code as recently as february of this year changed to indicate continued development on the development known as dragonfly. what's going on? to discuss, i have gerrit de vynck. what are employees saying? gerrit: some employees said they did not really trust google what -- when they said that they saw what we saw sundar pichai say , that they were going to put this aside. they were watching some of the code within the public databases at google and they claim there have been changes to the code that was used, being put together

sundar pichai was there originally meeting with the joint chiefs. this is a big issue i would think, for google, whether a pr issue or change in the line of business issue but they have come under fire both from the president and the chairman of the joint chiefs and others for being way too cozy with chinese interests which are, you know, affiliated, thinking goes with the chinese government. what do you make of the way this is all developing? >> yes indeed, connell. unless it was the president's tweet really made this news and i think probably pushed around google's stock as well. yes the company had been accused essentially working with the chinese government or perhaps not only with infrastructure and trade secrets but also this question of a china-specific search engine. that of course had been weighing on shares of google. also the potential for as the president talked about for google help the country, work with the country, that is perhaps alleviating some of those fears of more regulation of companies like facebook, like google which plagued

if sundar pichai is as smart about gaming as he is about sport, he is surely onto a winner with thisming—only games platform. they have promised console quality titles all delivered via internet connection. that means no discs, no downloads and all accessible through just about any of your devices. what's important here is that google thinks it's found a way around some of the huge problems that have faced game streaming services in the past, such as high latency rates that cause lag. to help with this, there is an optional stadia controller which connects independently to the internet to minimise any delay between you pressing a button and something happening in the game. how are you confident that that is going to work when there is potentially millions of people all playing at once? so, our vision was always to make sure that we could deliver the quality and vision of the game developer all the way to the gamer in their home. and so, we have put some incredible technology and hardware and software and services in our data centre to make sure that happens and that means we can deli

there was a meeting that sundar pichai was supposed to attend ofk in the fall but in terms some of the political fairness stuff the president talked about, lots of people i have talked to said the recent accusations that have bubbled up now and had bubbled up in the fall, that is a way to get the base out. what they are worried about is, you are going to see action on something in washington may be in six months or a year and it may go after something like that platform immunity people like google and facebook enjoy where they can post something or users can post something on youtube and aren't responsible for it. those are the nuances people are looking at. emily: google says, we are pleased to have productive conversations about investing in the future of the american workforce, the growth of technology and our commitment to working with the u.s. government. i want to talk about the meeting with general dunford. google pulled out of some work with the pentagon and has opened an ai lab in china, which was one of the focuses of the general's conversation. >> i think what is happening i

garrit: some employees said they did not really trust google what you saw sundar pichai say that theygoing to put this aside. they were watching some of the code within the public databases at google and they claim there have been changes to the code that was used, being put together for a potential china search engine. google is equivocal that they are not doing this at all. emily: google has said this speculation is inaccurate. we have no plans to launch search in china and no work being undertaken on such a project. team members have moved to new projects. how do we square this? gerrit: i think google has been very clear, this is something they don't want to be lying about and be found out again that they were actually doing this. but, they are not going to come out and they we are never, ever going to do this. this is a huge company. they want to be around for 100 years. emily: i want to hear sindar say think he swear -- pinky swear. gerrit: people do not trust google anymore. maybe they should have never trusted them, but at this point, people see them as a big company trying to

sundar pichai in d.c. yesterday meeting with key federal officials, including president trump. yes i think for me is what is all of that going to mean in terms of google's aspirations longer term in terms of china? >> i think that's gotten google in some hot water. >> yep. >> it looks like it is reported they have been involved in ai developmental efforts in china, but have been unwilling to do work with some of the projects in the pentagon. that quite rightly raises issues for u.s. policy makers and u.s. military, quite rightly it does that if you step back, there are still issues google has in china. and there's some context here. google took a highly principled stand ten years ago, refused to be involved in sensorship, took itself out of the china market, hurt its market cap and growth potential and did that it seems like things changed at google seems to be less principle than there used to be in the past china as an end market for google is de minimis and probably will be until there's a regime change in china, don't count on that. that's always an overhang on the stock. i

. >>> president trump sitting down with google ceo sundar pichai. the president tweeting that google "is totally committed to the u.s. military, not the chinese military." trump added the two discussed political fairness and the meeting ended "very well." now, google also releasing a statement saying, in part, it was pleased with the productive conversations around investing in america's work force. >>> former fbi director james comey sounding off for the first time since the mueller investigation wrapped up the d.c. tracie potts live in d.c. with more >> there was an interesting interview with lester holt comey, the man who started the russia investigation, now saying he is confused about how it ended. >> fired fbi director james comey in an exclusive interview with nbc's lester holt on the russia investigation he started. comey says it's good for the country that president trump was cleared of collusion, but attorney general william barr's summary left questions that only the full report can answer i think both director mueller and attorney genera

. >>> now this, president trump met with chief ceo at google, sundar pichai, about google doing businesslitary. the president said the meeting went well. look at the statement from google, pretty much on the same lines. we were pleased to have productive conversations with the president about investing in the future of the american workforce. the growth of emerging technologies and our ongoing commitment to working with the u.s. government. general jack keane with us, now, fox senior strategic analyst. i didn't see any mention from google oh, we're not going to do business with the chinese? >> well, let's see what happens here. i think that the concern we all have is, this is advanced network technology. this is not an automobile that they're making. obviously when you're supporting the chinese communist party and, that is who runs china, that effectively will help their military capability. and they are, we are in an adversarial relationship with china to be sure. they are the fastest-growing military in the world. and they have some advanced technology that is going right past us. they