to google means to find out all there is to know. how many friends do you officially have now? 175 million. within four degrees of me are 700,000 people. who is barack obama? the answer is right there on my facebook page. if you like hilarious, shocking, embarrassing videos i like turtles. chances are you spend a lot time on youtube. leave britney alone! what we re creating is a stage for everyone to be seen. we re in a very wonderful time right now where the innovations really are driving the technology right into the center of our lives. this should be simpler, more powerful, faster. of course the big story tonight is i have an ipad. in focus tonight, the communication innovations that await us as we head into the 21st century. we re in for the communications ride of our lives. the coming year sees cell phones small enough to hide in your pocket. the promise of videophones is coming true. tiny hand-size computers that know y
trading week. it s due to this morning s worse-than-expected read on inflation. now 8.6%. there were hopes today that it would bring signs that price spikes were easing. instead, they got worse led by that record surge in gas prices. we ll have a lot more on that. but on capitol hill, the house january 6th committee is getting ready for its next hearing on monday, which will focus on the big lie. the is committee will zoom in on former president trump s efforts to convince voters the election was stolen from him. next phase of the hearing comes after several major revelations during the prime-time kickoff. among the biggest, vice chair liz cheney pointing to testimony that when donald trump was told that rioters were chanting, hang mike pence, the former president said, maybe his supporters had the right idea and that pence deserved it. nbc news national senior political reporter, suehill kapur is on capitol hill. glenn kirschner is a msnbc legal analyst and former federal
i don t think any of us expected google to become as big and as dominant as they did. google has become more than a verb. it s become part of our culture. one day you re using yahoo! to search things, and then who even knows how it changed and then you started using google and it became so easy. it came up yahoo!. why did you switch to google? i pick google all the time when i look for something. i don t know why. one decision, i m going to google it. every individual who made it contributed to a multibillion-dollar decision. now this privately owned popular search engine is going public, and you can buy a piece of it. the company announced it will be selling $2.7 billion in stock in the most highly anticipated initial public offering in years. if the ipo of google goes well, that could open the door for a lot of other ipos. in the early 2000s, silicon valley was recovering from the dotcom bust. it was a wasteland. but google going public changed that. and you really
well, that s. .. again, i don t think that s entirely accurate because it s my understanding that. it was a direct quote from elon musk. he s saying that, but his actions are doing something completely different. number one, it s my understanding that twitter isn t going anywhere, that they plan to stay in san francisco. and number two, that they re going to start hiring and boosting up their personnel because they know what all tech companies know about san francisco this is where the talent is. and san francisco doesn t rise and fall with the tech industry. you know, we have been through very challenges.times in the past with the dotcom bust and other things, and we continue to come out of that a stronger city. we re not. you know, we re here to work with companies. we re here to work with people who want to be here. and folks are going to say what they want to say. but at the end of the day, in my conversations with a number of these ceos, they want to be in san francisco because,