in 1999 using tax dollars that bill gates himself it's up to washington, washington since to bill gates a lawsuit from department of justice seeking to break up microsoft in antitrust grounds which is a polite way of saying because you succeeded too much. now, just like reardon, when that happened, gates couldn't be bothered to dirty his hands going and hanging out with is your key people in washington. i don't blame them. microsoft was a gigantic company but i think it had two or three lobbyists at that time. boy, did he learn his lesson. he kind of won the suit. he settled it but microsoft is still struggle with the echoes of the vessel struck out their antitrust issues in europe, for example. but there's another broken man. he step down as ceo as soon as the suit was settled. have you seen the price of microsoft lately. you can draw an x. where bill gates stepped down. that x. is way above the current stock price. it hasn't traded their for 11 years. it's a broken stock because bill gates is a broken man. bill gates great the world's largest fortune. if he had stayed at home he could

and bill gates has an infinite amount of money. al gore is sending his a team to bill gates. you know bill gates knows science, and you noy they have done everything they can to convince him. and bill gates goes, polio, malaria, let's get rid of it. i looked this up. bill gates has made a couple of comments about global warming that are all along the lines of "we should keep looking into it." i don't know anything about it except that bill gates has an infinite amount of money and a social conscious and looking to spend it, and you know that the al gore people are there bringing him snacks or anything they can. he has bt said a word. >> gates had some serious stuff to say about wind mills and solar power. he doesn't care about that stuff, but he won't say it because he knows the cocktail parties will suck. >> and that's probably wise and good to not say a lot of what you don't know about. but the fact that bill gates thinks the problems are polio, malaria, dissin terry, and if you look at the numbers, the problems are polio, malaria and diinterry. >> i am waiting for claw mad

. >> stahl: you describe bill gates in very harsh terms. you've described him as being quite abusive. i mean, it's not a pretty picture. >> i felt like when i wrote it, i should just tell it like it happened in an unvarnished way, warts and all. >> stahl: tonight, you'll hear how the two high school buddies who started microsoft and a computer revolution had some pretty trying times along the way. you talk about his yelling, screaming. >> there was a lot of yelling. >> you guys never understood, you never understood the first thing about this! i mean, there's no way. >> ♪ i'm not afraid >> cooper: whether you're a fan of rap or not, eminem's life story is an extraordinary tale. the rise to the top of the music world from a bleak and deprived childhood. >> ♪ this guy's a gangster his real name is clarence ♪ >> cooper: a white kid from detroit, do so well in a predominantly african-american art form? you still come back here? >> yeah. >> cooper: he let us into his world to find out showing us where he grew up, how he writes his music.... >> i

how about bill gates?ctly like bill gates, a college dropout created a revolutionary technology that transformed all her life's and extended all her lives, life, expanded dollar wealth, became the richest man in the world in the process, well-deserved and then in 1999 using tax dollars that bill gates himself had sent to washington, washington sent to bill gates a lawsuit from the department of justice seeking to breakup microsoft on antitrust grounds which is a polite way of saying because you have succeeded too much. now just like rearden, when that happened, gates couldn't be bothered to dirty his hands hanging out with those yucky people in washington and i don't blame him. microsoft is a gigantic company. i think it only had two or three lobbyist at that time. boy did he learn his lesson. he kind of won the suit. he settled it on fairly favorable terms but microsoft is still struggling with the echoes of it and still straightening out their antitrust issues in europe for example. but there is another

how about bill gates?xactly like bill gates, a college dropout created a revolutionary technology that transformed all her life's and extended all her lives, life, expanded dollar wealth, became the richest man in the world in the process, well-deserved and then in 1999 using tax dollars that bill gates himself had sent to washington, washington sent to bill gates a lawsuit from the department of justice seeking to breakup microsoft on antitrust grounds which is a polite way of saying because you have succeeded too much. now just like rearden, when that happened, gates couldn't be bothered to dirty his hands hanging out with those yucky people in washington and i don't blame him. microsoft is a gigantic company. i think it only had two or three lobbyist at that time. boy did he learn his lesson. he kind of won the suit. he settled it on fairly favorable terms but microsoft is still struggling with the echoes of it and still straightening out their antitrust issues in europe for example. but there is anothe

how about bill gates?actly like bill gates, a college dropout created a revolutionary technology that transformed all her life's and extended all her lives, life, expanded dollar wealth, became the richest man in the world in the process, well-deserved and then in 1999 using tax dollars that bill gates himself had sent to washington, washington sent to bill gates a lawsuit from the department of justice seeking to breakup microsoft on antitrust grounds which is a polite way of saying because you have succeeded too much. now just like rearden, when that happened, gates couldn't be bothered to dirty his hands hanging out with those yucky people in washington and i don't blame him. microsoft is a gigantic company. i think it only had two or three lobbyist at that time. boy did he learn his lesson. he kind of won the suit. he settled it on fairly favorable terms but microsoft is still struggling with the echoes of it and still straightening out their antitrust issues in europe for example. but there is another

bill gates, when he stayed on as an active chairman it was helpful. but still when he defered to ray ozzie to come in to sort of take the reigns at microsoft, it didn't happen. they need somebody to inspire them in there and of course tim cook would be the first to say it's not exactly him. so we hope they will bring somebody along in the pipeline to do that. and we don't also want to encourage steve jobs, and hope his health is as strong as can be, but sometimes they come in and second-guess. we've seen that happen. become generals that don't fade away. >> susie: so gene, which of apple's competitors could, you know, come in and take advantage of this transition time in terms of poaching apple talent or in terms of product development, who stands to gain the most? >> well, the companies in the mobile phone markets. companies like htc. and it is hard for me to say these because the companies had such difficulties, nokia, black berry, those are the ones, potentially google with the motorola acquisition. hard to see that happening but they are the ones

. >> didn't he have some deal with bill gates and he pledged to give all of his money away to the bill gates foundation or something so he doesn't have the income to be taxed on a regular income? what about all the income he presumably makes from byrneer hath away. he doesn't pay a salary? is that how it works? >> he talks about higher estate tax. not going to pay one dime of state tax gave fortune to bill gates. >> pay himself a salary pay the same tax rate as workers but he chooses to take it in capital gains. >> he takes it in the stocks that he accrued as head of the company and as the guy making all the decisions. >> forgets a couple things. first, he also pays the corporate income tax rate which is 35%. actual tax rate is closer to 50% when you add on the his workers apples and oranges comparison. workers earn salary. pay income tax. i talked to ben stein about this last night. we had a dust up about this whole issue. stein's point is look, people have done really well. what's the big deal? if you are making $10 billion. what's the big deal of raising those taxes? and so forth. a

how did president obama and bill gates come to be on the same side?>> guest: i think where i see it differently from you but actually let me try an analogy which will probably fail. i've never been able to figure out why gun control became a liberal versus conservative issue. it seems to me if i were conservative i would want to make sure that terrorists can't buy ak-47s. by the same token, i never quite understand, except i understood the finances of the democratic party, why so-called education reform was always seen as a conservative issue versus a liberal issue since the people who benefit the most, at least by their definition, by the reformers definition, the people who would benefit the most from their definition of education reform are the poor and the middle class, the people using our public schools. now i think when you look across the spectrum of people who are behind this movement, it is pretty hard to argue that barack obama or cory booker for the mayor of los angeles are you know, conservatives or some kind of strange strain of members

you have bill gates doing fantastic things. msn and msnbc sprang from microsoft. rupert murdoch, for all the criticism he gets, is invested in the media and innovation. mike bloomberg is doing a ton of stuff through his company. they are hiring hundreds of people. i worked at bloomberg 15 years ago, and i was in europe as a foreign correspondent. there were 40 journalists, and now, there are thousands. i think it depends on the interests of certain people, but they are being tapped, and you can get them to lend to foundations and do this type of stuff. it is just creating the bridge from the journalism world into that world, and it is not as hard as you would think, in my experience. >> i would just say that a few of those individuals you had mentioned are not examples of the types of progress of journalism that i think a lot of people are here to talk about

he is something of a legend the way bill gates and steve jobs are in the ad states.e has his own company called innovation were said incubates ideas from the men and women and the shepherds the best of those ideas to market. how have you been? >> very good. tavis: so these eggs, tell me the story behind this. >> we incubate projects. we want to help companies grow. these nests represent the company's we help maximize their chance of success. tavis: i like that. what does this have to do with innovation works and starting companies? >> we have young people. young people like to have fun. they're good at foosball. this is our second table. they wore out our first table. the little guys, broken down into toothpicks. we had to get a new one. tavis: do you play? >> yes. not bad for my age. tavis: this is a saturday. i did not expect anybody to be here. is this typical? or are they here to impress me? >> everybody works six or seven days a week. they want to. we do not demand it. this is their own company. they own most of the shares. we are here to provide support to help

you can be bill gates. if you're second to warren buffett, you're really annoyed, aren't you? >> no. that's terrible to think that way. >> this book of yours, which is a fascinating read. it come at a very timely period in american life. i love this quote from you about the american dream. the core idea of the american dream, work hard and advance up the ladder, has been gutted. now the american dream is to try to not fall or to do all you can to slow your rate of decline. a pretty devastating indictment of this great country. i would go along with it to a point but still i think an entrepreneurial zeal is just, it feels very depressed at the moment to me. >> i would say there are still many entrepreneurs doing great things. the point i'm making is that the essence of the american dream. as an immigrant, i've experienced it. that you can work hard and create a better life for yourself and your family has now really become a game of chance. and the statistics prove it. we are number ten in upward mobility. for america to be number ten in upward mobility behind france, among oth

said he looks and sounds like woody allen's nerdier younger brother but it's also been said by bill gatesng the future. he's been at it a while. >> my name's raymond kurtzwell. >> reporter: by the age of 17, he landed on tv after inventing a compute they're cour that cou music. he went on to invent optical scanner, machines that read for. he is known for predicting and thinking. mostly about how fast our technology is advancing. >> this is $1 billion more powerful than the computer i used when i was a student. >> reporter: the implications are beyond epic. it's what will help him talk to his dead father and he says eventually eliminate death altogether. are you afraid of death? >> i think all human beings are and should be. not just fearful but realizing that death is a real tragedy. >> reporter: can you beat it? >> i believe i can. >> reporter: beat death how, you ask. by taking computers and putting them inside our bodies. robots fighting sickness from the inside. >> these will become the size of blood cells. we'll be able to put intelligent machines inside our bodies and brains to keep

as i look forward -- >> charlie: were you there when bill gates and warren buffett came to china. >> i was there, yes. >> charlie: whatever the response to the idea of the giving pledge. >> they didn't talk bit. contrary to what the media reports theyidn't talk about it at all. warren was very g he shared his exmarines how he started his charity work. very personal. >> charlie: kind of a folk hero in china. >> oh, you know people, warren. >> charlie: that's amazing, isn't it. >> bilis very well known but i think they're just there to share their personal stories. they put no pressure on anybody to pledge. >> charlie: they open up the idea which exsites them about it which is not pressure but more of an explanation. is there developing philanthropic tradition in china. >> philanthropy is very new. when you look at it there are two state-owned charities. they don'treally know what project they p money to. so what we do is we decided because there's no charity to put ney to. there are things that we want to do. we decided just to, rather than just give a check, write a check, we do it w

and finally what do bill gates, steve jobs and mark zuckerberg all have this common? they top gq's list of worst dressed men in silicone valley. >>> good-bye to a football hero who became a movie star. hello to a pie in the face. and walk off winners in bean town. >>> plus, a mexican striker teaches a thing or two to europe's soccer champs. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> our record-setting heat wave continues in the east coast but the west coast is enjoying a great summer. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> well, a very good morning to you. if you are just waking up, this is "early today." >>> in sports alex rodriguez is known for his hollywood lifestyle off the field, but a-rod's tinseltown ways may have finally caught up with him. here's mario solis with a look at all of your sports headlines. >>> hi there. good morning. the yankees' alex rodriguez is no stranger to controversy, and now you can add gambling to the list. major league baseball is looking into allegations that a-rod took part in illegal undergrou

and i had some amazing conversations with bill gates. and at that point i would've said, if this is something bill gates would not wish on his worst enemy. i take that back. >> i think it's steve holmer who is the one who had a couple reported themes in there. >> i can't repeat what happened in those scenes. >> i do know when i was at microsoft several years ago and this was before google had gotten really big tummies that google is a nice company. he said we used to be a nice outcome to me in the suddenly we were a monopoly. i mean, this is what he said to me. i remember that because i watched them move forward. how do you see google's recent multimillion dollar path to retain employees affect the morale? >> that's a great question. there's been toward to keep some of its key talent, google is getting remarkably huge sums of money. certainly there is a huge competition now for the most talented people. google has very talented people and they turn out to be good employees at other companies. and i think it could be a big problem there.

the system is to get the union on your side as has been done, thanks to another villain of yours, bill gates, thanks to the gates foundation, it's been pittsburgh, hillsborough, memphis, and starting other places. i do not say charter schools are the answers. the really smart people that run the charter schools, such as dave, he's the guy that told me that chip isn't the solution. he walked me around and said this is great. if we don't fix everything else, you know, you could tear up every union contract in the world, he said, that would only be the beginning. okay. >> you have a great deal of faith in testing, accountable, data. have you ever looked at the nclb test that is are used. these are test of basic skills and the billions that are now being spent for test are teaching kids how to take test more than they are teaching them. >> guest: none -- >> host: that's why we have a very high remediation rate. 75% of the kids that graduate new york schools, after test prep, 75% go to a community school and have to be remediated in reading and math. they are not prepared for any subject. >> gues

we begin with a man called bill gates whose favorite teacher is salman khan. >> i probably would have produced sething different, got fancy lighting put make up onand got computer graphics and probably produced a lot of the education material that's already out there. >> charlie: next is the war hero eric greitens. we all have a place where our homes for the future and the people we love come right up against the reality the world presents to us. what i'velearned doing humanitarian work with refugee families going through navy seal training working with wounded veterans we all have an untapped capacity for courage. >> charlie: from a world of medicine a man who won a litzer prize for cancer dr. siddhartha mukherjee. >> the brakes are a fundamental part of the car. you can't imagine a car without the accelerator and brakes. if you jam the accelerator inappropriately or snap the brakes become unable to stop. >> charlie: we go to haiti and other places. >> listening how haitians define themselves -- every haitian can tell you about the history of haiti and being born in response to cloni

the system is to get the union on your side as has been done things to another villain of yours, bill gates, thanks to the gates foundation that's been done in pittsburgh and hillsborough county, it's been done in memphis and it's starting to be done in other places. but charter schools, i do not say charter schools, the really smart people who run the charter schools, such as dave levin, he's the guy who told me that it isn't the solution. this is great but if we don't fix everything else, you know, you can tear up every contract in the world and that would only be the beginning. >> host: you have a great deal of faith in the accounting and data. have you ever looked at the retest we use not only in this state that other states for the basic skills and the billions that are now being spent for the tests are teaching kids how to take the tests for a heavier teaching -- that's why we have a very high remediation rate. in new york city 75% of the kids to graduate the new york city schools after all the years of testing, 75% go to a community college and have to be free mediated. >> guest: i t

. >> shanita is a bill gates scholar and she still needs help from students rising above to do what shed out more about sra, did to studentsrisingabove.org. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> well, today's tip of the day is going to be is going to be washington state bing cherries. california bing cherries are all but done. most of the cherries we are buying now in the supermarkets are from washington state. later on they will be coming in from oregon but right now these are fantastic cherries. a little bit of the difference between washington and california bing cherries, the pit is smaller in the washington and the sugar content is not as much but it's still there. and still delicious. let's talk about selection. when you buy them, you want to make sure they are sold mainly in bags like this, that way the retailer can control it, make sure they got beautiful red color all the way around. all the stems have to be attached. that is so important. and the dacker the color, the darker red -- the darker the color, the darker the red, the better they will be. store them in the refrigerator because th

some of the stuff you write in the book and talking about bill gates are just downright like i am waiting for the hollywood version of what this is going to play out. would be hard to do that publicly? >> when you write an autobiography like this york east with the choice are you going to tell it as you've experienced it and the highs and lows and the important parts of your life and i just chose to do that in a an unvarnished way because i thought that is what it deserved and i feel like i made some -- i had some success and things that didn't work out that well but the technology and other things that have been. but the reclusive thing i don't understand -- >> you throw parties on of big yacht. >> to meet somebody that just stays in their house. i have friends and i'm not shaking people's hands and travel the world, i don't know. i joked last week i was going to send out a tweet saying billionaires' heads toomas adis to reenact the life of howard hughes. [laughter] >> i don't even like las vegas. >> you didn't tweet that? that is too funny not to tweet. >> the four microsoft employees l

by the way, the investment vehicle for microsoft co-founder bill gates is the largest single shareholder in deere with 5% of shares. we did see several commodities stage a nice rally. sugar, coffee and cotton each popped. each of these had sold off over the past month from their recent highs. there was concerns about a smaller sugar crop in brazil. finally, another area of strength in the market: cigarette makers. lorillard, vector group and reynolds american each rallied. they are among the u.s. tobacco companies filing a joint lawsuit, fighting against new required graphic warning images on cigarettes. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: the combination of a slow economy and last week's federal reserve pledge to keep interest rates near zero for two more years has led to a rally in bonds. that rally has forced down bond yields. a ten-year government bond pays less than 2.2%. that leaves our "street critique" guest looking for dividends. hilary kramer, editor of gamechangerstocks.com joins us. >> tom: one thing you're looking for not a big multi national but small cap socks suc

bill gates agrees. let people like michelle bachman keep their money. how much are you keeping when we have the poverty. tavis: the new book, "surviving and thriving: 365 facts in black economics history", dr. malveaux, economist extraordinary. good to have you on the program. always a pleasure, tavis. thank you so much. tavis: up next, a look at our conversation with the now late peter falk. stay with us. tavis: when we learned that peter falk passed away near l.a. thursday night we immediately thought of his memorable appearance on this program back in 2005. he joined us along with paul reiser where the two played father and son. they turned out to be a very entertaining match. >> i wrote this for him and i had no backup plan. if he said no, it was going to be me and walter cronkite. tavis: why peter falk? >> i don't know. >> tell him the story. >> i'm telling the story. >> then i can tell you my story. >> do you to yell at me on national television? is that necessary? my dad is a little cranky. i grew up. i loved peter falk. i just always zeroed in o

finally, what do bill gates, steve jobs, and mark zuckerberg all have in common? top gq's list of worst dressed men in silicon valley. >>> the resident crisis may be behind us, but the nation's economy is far from healthy. last night michael eric dyson who guest hosted the ed show asked bill maher if he thinks some democrats are becoming disillusioned with president obama's leadership. >> i think for a lot of people who like obama, and we always will like obama, we love him as a person, you know, he's such a breath of fresh air as a president, a hip, smart law professor. but there's just something missing there as far as the way he fights back. unless he's just more conservative than we thought. but whatever it is, i have to tell you, the magic is gone after the bush tax cuts, after he he rolled over on that and a number of other things. and this latest one, he has no credibility with me. i mean, i heard him the other day getting right back on the podium saying, well, now we need tax increases, he with need to get some revenues and those corporate jet owners and t

and i had some amazing conversations with bill gates. and at that point i would've said, if this is something bill gates would not wish on his worst enemy. i take that back. >> i think it's steve holmer who is the one who had a couple reported themes in there. >> i can't repeat what happened in those scenes. >> i do know when i was at microsoft several years ago and this was before google had gotten really big tummies that google is a nice company. he said we used to be a nice outcome to me in the suddenly we were a monopoly. i mean, this is what he said to me. i remember that because i watched them move forward. how do you see google's recent multimillion dollar path to retain employees affect the morale? >> that's a great question. there's been toward to keep some of its key talent, google is getting remarkably huge sums of money. certainly there is a huge competition now for the most talented people. google has very talented people and they turn out to be good employees at other companies. and i think it could be a big problem there.

then bill gates talks about the work of the bill and melinda gates foundation. i. "newsmakers", we will talk with emmanuel cleaver about the black caucus's view of federal spending and the debt and the cbc's relationship with president obama. "newsmakers" is on 10:00 a.m. on c-span. >> on sunday, a female will give an update -- fema will give an update on hurricane irene. janet napolitano will brief along with the fema administrator and the director of the national hurricane center. that is live, 11:30 a.m. eastern on sunday, here on c-span. >> on thursday night, general mattis, the commander of the u.s. central command spoke at the marines memorial association in san francisco. he described the turbulence in the middle east and said the u.s. is winning in afghanistan. he also talked about the planned u.s. troop withdrawal from iraq by the end of the year and the current security situation in pakistan, iran, and other countries in the region. this is just over an hour. [applause] >> i remember when i took over as the director of the office of management and budget