let's give a warm welcome to steve ballmer. >> [applause] steve: well thanks to governor ducey. he understated the amount we have in common. yes, i started my career at procter & gamble, but i am also almost a native of toledo, ohio. michiganled detroit, for some. am an ice cream guy. the governor may have started cold stone creamery, but i love ice cream. i am also a numbers guy. when i retired from microsoft three years ago, one of the sources of energy that i missed was that numbers aspect. shortly after i retired, my wife, who has been running our philanthropic activity for y ears, very focused on child welfare issues, and now more broadly we are focused on opportunities for children born in the u.s. who may not have any other shot at the american dream. it is a real issue. but right after i retired, i couldn't get too focused on that. she said, come on, let's get your brain engaged on these issues of children. and i said, come on, the government really does this. the government supports the old, supports the poor, children -- is there really a role for us other than pain ou

. >> also speaking to the nation's governors was steve ballmer, former microsoft ceo.he talked about his new data project which provides -- this is 25 minutes. governor, i am thrilled and excited to introduce and hear from our next speaker. steve ballmer is best known for his incredibly successful career as at the leader of microsoft serving for 14 years as the company's chief executive officer. was steve started at microsoft, they had just 30 employees and a few hundred thousand dollars in profit. when he left theom

steve ballmer is best known for his incredibly successful career as at the leader of microsoft serving for 14 years as the company's chief executive officer. was steve started at microsoft, they had just 30 employees and a few hundred thousand dollars in profit. when he left the company, they employed more than 100,000 people around the globe and were profit andbillion in had created a product that changed the world. he is a true american success story. to both of uson spending time in the private sector, steve and i have a few other things in common. we both started out careers at proctor and gamble. are both bigbt we sports fans but his antics are most famous and that is what you get when you are the owner of the los angeles clippers. many of you know i am an avid proponent of american civics. and arizona was the first state to pass the american civics asked and that is where all of our high school seniors will have completed that test so they will be but to pass the same exam new citizens to our country pass so that they understand our system of government. i am thrilled when i see

steve ballmer is best known for his incredibly successful career as at the leader of microsoft serving for 14 years as the company's chief executive officer. was steve started at microsoft, they had just 30 employees and a few hundred thousand dollars in profit. when he left the company, they employed more than 100,000 people around the globe and were profit andbillion in had created a product that changed the world. he is a true american success story. to both of uson spending time in the private sector, steve and i have a few other things in common. we both started out careers at proctor and gamble. are both bigbt we sports fans but his antics are most famous and that is what you get when you are the owner of the los angeles clippers. many of you know i am an avid proponent of american civics. and arizona was the first state to pass the american civics asked and that is where all of our high school seniors will have completed that test so they will be but to pass the same exam new citizens to our country pass so that they understand our system of government. i am thrilled when i see

steve ballmer is best known for his incredibly successful career as the leader of microsoft, serving for 14 years as the company's chief executive officer. when steve started at microsoft, they had just 30 employees and a few hundred thousand dollars in profit. when he left the company, they employed more than 100,000 people around the globe, and were making $28 billion in profit and

clippers steve ballmer joins us for a special interview. talk about his latest venture called usa facts, plus get his thoughts on the president's economic policies and what they could mean for business any of them ever become law. >>> and governors meeting to discuss the nation's trade and jobs policies. governor chris sununu of new hampshire will be our special guest as the second hour of "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ >>> live from the beating heart of business, new york city, this is "squawk box." >>> good morning, welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc we're live at the nasdaq marketsite in times square i'm melissa lee along with joe kernen and kelly evans let's take a look at how futures are shaping up at this hour. we look to be adding across the board here keep in mind the nasdaq, this would be the longest winning streak since at least may. looking at about one point at the open, the dow looking higher by 14 and the s&p 500 looking higher by just a fraction and of course jpmorgan going to have an impact on the moves today. >> lo

about that later, but first, shares of twirt surgeded nearly 2% today that kicks off our top trade steve ballmery good things to say about the social media company earlier today. >> i continue to say twitter is a good asset, so improving the product some and improving and making the montization better. and the company's been on top of both of those things and the market understands that and it is now getting reflected somewhat in the stock price. >> by the way, i also asked him if snap's woes make twitter look that much better he wouldn't comment. >> i don't know if it's about the woes i think he's talking about the scarcity value of a social platform he talkeded about valuation, look at snap at 20 or $19 billion. twitter has a $12 billion enterprise value it's one of the ones out there, it's pretty important in a day and age we live in, in a way our government is communicating with us the way we get our news, that sort of thing, so i think ballmer makes a lot f sense. he's talk about the strategic it has. who knows what the stock market value should be. if you look at snap, you say twitter is c

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liz: former microsoft ceo steve ballmer saying -- so eric, is he right?hat if it passes, and i think it's unlikely that this will ever be enforced, but if it were, let's say the supreme court overrules and there's some change. why would a business owner that goes to seattle or goes washington because he doesn't or she doesn't want to pay any tax, and suddenly hit by a small group of people. this council and this mayor who think they are god in essence and are going to tax things irrespective of the law, irrespective of the law, that's where politicians need to be held personally responsible. they would not be doing this if they knew they were personally responsible. the money they expect to get is going to go social programs, but what's going to happen is they're going to actually lose money to defend all the lawsuits and then we're going to find out the supreme court is going to overrule it, they're going to be net in terms of dollars, so money that could have gone into programs to help people, they will have evaporated. this is a political grandstanding

and the importance of computer science in school with girls who code ceo, former microsoft ceo steve ballmerand tesla ceo elon musk who will speak at the governor's closing session. watch the national governors association summer meeting live on the c-span network. c-span.org and listen live on the seat-- free c-span radio app this morning a look at a new report by medicare trustees on how long that hospital insurance program is expected to last live at 915 eastern on c-span3 and streaming on our free c-span radio app. later today live coverage of a discussion about renewing section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act allowing access of non-us resident communication outside country. join us live that new and eastern on c-span3, streaming live online at c-span.org or the free c-span radio app. >> sunday on q and. >> speaking about the distribution of wealth, corruption can get you arrested and in so much trouble. >> saudi arabian women rights activists talks about her time in prison after challenging the saudi government ban on women drivers in her book "daring to drive, a saudi

>> this is not steve ballmer's microsoft anymore.his is a total change in a deck add ago when people used to bat them around as a has been. i'd be feeling about g. about the strategy it's trite a trance formation to show that momentum in the cloud. i think to your other question, absolutely i think this is a new rear in terms of cloud computing reaching the mainstream. about five years ago when we started talking about cloud, it had sort of less the sub1% adoption in the enterprise now most server resources are either moved to the cloud or in the process of evaluating that transition and the desktop computing stuff that we do, the stuff that microsoft makes money on that, is cloud based as well that is a lot of the momentum were those two segments, the server and office division they're migrating and that is propelling earnings growth >> gene, you know this whole trend, it's very clear it seems to have a lot of runway to it. the market is willing to place higher valuation onz this kind of revenue who are the net losers here? i don't

and the importance of computer science in schools with girls who code ceo, former microsoft ceo steve ballmer and tesla ceo elon musk, who will speak at the governors' closing session. watch the national governors association summer meeting live on the c-span networks, c-span.org and listen live on the free c-span radio app. >>> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3 -- state university professor discusses union general george mcclullen's failed attempt. >> haven't done a lot of research about what this peninsula looks like and what marching along this peninsula would be like. but he's so dead set on making sure that he doesn't concede anything to lincoln that he basically puts his army on the virginia peninsula in the spring of '62, it's going to turn out to be perhaps the worst possible place to launch his campaign. >> sunday at 6:30 p.m. on the 325th anniversary of the salem witch trials, historian margo burns talks about "records of the salem witch hunt". >> that is one reason why we know so much about salem village, why we know so much about the pleas of innocence because samuel

steve ballmer, thank you very much. that does it for us this morning. stephanie rule picks up the coverage right now. >> thanks so much, michael. good morning. i'm stephanie rool with a lot to cover starting with an nbc news exclusive. someone else was in that don junior meeting, a man suspected of having ties to russian counterintelligence was in the room and we've got the breaking details as the president stands by his eldest son. >> i think from a practical standpoint most people would have taken that meeting. >> and his son-in-law, jared kushner, under serious fire. new calls for the president's son-in-law to lose his security clearance. >> jared kushner should be fired or he should resign. >> plus, no margin for error. the new republican health care plan officially out with numerous senators still on the fence and they cannot afford to lose one more. >> this bill doesn't repeal obamacare. >> i'm very disappointed because i've been very vocal about my concerns. >> all right. you know what we are going to start with, that nbc news exclusive, a former

they want to get more into hardware, were they software they were really just moving around with steve ballmer. finally, satya nadella steps in there, and since that time, annually, revenues have been going up at about a 3% clip. when you look at this last quarter, not only did they have a great quarter in terms of research, but you look at margins as well. so they're moving in the right direction. they're focused on exactly where he came from, the cloud. that's where they're getting that growth. you look at azure, it's stunning to see how well they are skp executing there. and that's part of the story there. i think when you look at mcdonald's, i think jimmy knows this story better than anybody, but the raeality is, that's a ceo, easterbrook, has taken over that company and figured out, we've got to be better for the customer we can no longer ride on this mcdonald's wagon they've been on for so many years. that i have sta they've started to care more about the customer and changed the way they're doing all kinds of aspects, including breakfast. people wanted breakfast for a long time. but it'

steve ballmer, thank you very much. that does it for us this morning. >> thanks so much, michael. good morning. i'm stephanie rool with a lot to cover starting with an nbc news exclusive. someone else was in that don junior meeting, a man suspected of having ties to russian counterintelligence was in the room and we've got the breaking details as the president stands by his eldest son. >> i t

with girls who code ceo, steve ballmer, and elon musk, who will speak at the governor's closing session. watch the national governors association summer meeting, live on the c-span networks, www.c-span.org, and listen live on the free c-span radio app . trustees for medicare say the fund that finances hospital and insurance coverage will be depleted by 2029, one year later than projected in last year's report. we get an update friday morning, live from the american enterprise institute at 9:15 eastern time on c-span 3. and a discussion about whether congress should renew portions of the foreign intelligence surveillance act. section 700 t2 allows intelligence officials to access information for those living outside the u.s. live coverage begins at noon eastern. watch both events online at www.c-span.org, or listen live at the free c-span radio app. >> this weekend on book tv on c-span 2, saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern, former chess champion talks about his book "deep thinking: on the future of artificial intelligence and its impacts on society." centuries have been taking over all forms

and the importance of computer science in schools with girls who code ceo, former microsoft ceo steve ballmer and tesla's ceo, elon musk, who will speak at the governors' closing session. watch the national governors association summer meeting, live on the c-span networks, c-span.org, and listen live on the free c-span radio app. >>> with the help of our comcast partners, this weekend, the c-span cities tour takes book tv and american history tv to concorde, massachusetts, where the first shots of the american revolution are fired. and then less than a century later, a writer's revolution takes place as the town becomes home to ralph waldo emerson, henry david theiro and louisa may alcott. saturday, we'll take you inside orchard house, where louisa may alcott lived and wrote the groundbreaking work "little women." then explore walden pond to see the place that influenced henry david theroux and the foundation of the transcendental movement. >> it's the home of two revelations. it stood and watched the beginning of the american revolution through the windows on the hill and the second revoluti

and the importance of computer science in schools with girls who code ceo former microsoft ceo steve ballmer and tesla ceoelon musk who will speak at the governor's closing session. watch the national governor's association closing meeting live on the c-span networks and listen live on the free c-span radio app. >> with the help of comcast partners, the cities tour takes booktv and american history tv to con cord, massachusetts, where the first shots of the american revolution are fired. and then less than a century later, the town becomes home to ralph emerson and louisa mayal cot. saturday, noon eastern on book tv, inside orchard house where louisa may alcott wrote little women and walden pond to see the place that influenced henry david thor roe and where emerson wrote nature which set the foundation -- >> really a house of two revolutions. the beginning of the american revolution through its windows down the hill. later the second american revolution of intellectualism and thought, it's really a house that has such great history to it. >> on sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american histor

and the importance of computer science at school with girls who code ceo, former microsoft ceo steve ballmer and tesla ceo elon must will speak the governor's closing session. watch the national governors association summer meeting live on the c-span network, c-span.org and listen live on the free c-span radio . >> you're watching book tv on c-span2 with nonfiction books and authors every weekend. book tv: television for serious readers. >> this weekend on c-span2 we got 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books. here's a few of the programs you will see. on our after words program, naomi klein discusses politics and the election of president trump. he's in conversation with lydia benjamin, cofounder of code being. also this weekend, wall street journal columnist jason riley argues that political capital for african americans has left them at a disadvantage in terms of a board economic mobility. former world champion garry kasparov examines the future of artificial intelligence. >>

they are taking a five-minute break right now waiting for the next speaker, who is steve ballmer, former ceo of microsoft . later this afternoon, tesla and spacex ceo elon musk will be speaking. that also will be live here on c-span. and a reminder, you can watch laterf today's sessions tonight on c-span starting at 8:00. >> we are at national governors association waiting for the next panel to start. let's hear from other speaker. girls who code cofounder. >> there is no wi-fi in the homes, little to no wi-fi in the schools, the county has been decimated by the heroin epidemic. about 40 girls twice a week meet in a local library to learn how to code to get their shot at the middle class. automation has transformed everything about the way we live and work. jobs are not going to be done by machines and humans, but robots and computers. if we were honest, this has created a lot of pain for americans, but it is always created an opportunity. there are 500,000 jobs open in computing and technology. these are jobs that are great, they pay a great wage, $120,000 if you are a software program.

eastern, governors talk about computer coding and the importance of computer science in school with steve ballmer and tesla ceo elon musk. wash the summer meeting live on the c-span2 network and listen ton at the free c-span radio app. >> the medicare board of trustees has issued a report saying the federal healthcare program will remain solvent through 2029. we'll hear more about that and some of the reports other findings and ways to improve medicare's lock-term fiscal condition. this is just under two hours. >> hi, everybody. welcome to everyone here and everyone on c-span to the american enterprise institute. we're having a discussion today about the medicare trustees report, the report was issued late yesterday afternoon, and is an annual report that gives some indication of not only the current fiscal status of the medicare program but also the long-term outlook. i'm joe