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annual letter from bill gates. it came out when? >> this morning. >> stephen: came out this morning. what is -- by the way, i'm not going to say you are an old out of touch billionaire but um, -- [ laughter ] you came on my show to say you wrote a letter. you know about e-mail, right? [ laughter ] tweet it if you wanted. if this letter are you telling us things are gotten better or worse? is the hopeful message this year? >> it's positive because the progress on reducing childhood deaths, bringing population growth down it's good news that you wouldn't hear. so i share what i've been able to see in my travels to africa and asia. >> stephen: some of the tbhings you are shooting for are polio, ma laira, we've got these things on the rope? >> polio was down to 250 cases last year. >> stephen: in the world? >> in the entire world. [cheers and applause] so in the next six years it will be zero and become the second disease to ever be eradicated. [cheers and applause] >> stephen: do you think the fact that your skill set

tonight, from studio 57 at cbs news in new york a conversation with bill gates, cochair of the bill and melinda gates foundation, and the chairman of microsoft. >> well there's a lot of cynics out there who talk about, hey, there's corruption. why is this we do this? you know, it's far away. and sometimes you feel like, gosh, that's such a constant thing. are we really going to make it? is this really as important as i think it is? and only by seeing the progress does it re-energize you to say, yes. unlike any time in history, this inequity is-- is being closed, and, you know, that matters to the fathers and mothers of africa, and in the long run tmatters to humanity's optimism about its ability to achieve big things. the vacuum created by the u.s. not having clear views in solving problems is-- is-- is very scary. who's going to fill that void? yeah, there's a lot of great countries around, but we should be proud of the fact that people still expect us to step back, really know the numbers, know the science. the good news for microsoft is the magic of the future-- visual recognition, s

tonight, from studio 57 at cbs news in new york, a conversation with bill gates, cochair of the bill and melinda gates foundation, and the chairman of microsoft. >> well, there's a lot of cynics out there who talk about, hey, there's corruption. why is this we do this? you know, it's far away. and sometimes you feel like, gosh, that's such a constant thing. are we really going to make it? is this really as important as i think it is? and only by seeing the progress does it re-energize you to say, yes. unlike any time in history, this inequity is-- is being closed, and, you know, that matters to the fathers and mothers of africa, and in the long run tmatters to humanity's optimism about its ability to achieve big things. the vacuum created by the u.s. not having clear views in solving problems is-- is-- is very scary. who's going to fill that void? yeah, there's a lot of great countries around, but we should be proud of the fact that people still expect us to step back, really know the numbers, know the science. the good news for microsoft is the magic of the future-- visual recognitio

if you think of the ltiplier effect, a 50 billion for bill gates?at is nothing compared to the value he ha added to the world. >> he is spending billions applying critical thinking skills to charity. and then to dump it when it doesn't work. >> could he have reinvested more money? i don't know. >> it is his money he has the right to. but he gets credit for not the jobs and wealth he created he gets no credit for that. he is considered a a greedy businessman despite the hundreds of millions because he benefited at the same time. he shifts to charity then he is suddenly good. he will do a lot less good that we as a society value not the creation, accumulation of wealth which is what america is about, is that what is uniquely important? no. charity is fine. >> you went to an awards sayre may the ceremony with a lifetime achievement award. they dedicate those one-minute to those nine minutes to community service. the benefit these businesses haveprovided but also their own lives the reason they should feel-good about their life is the happiness coming f

. >> rose: bill gates for the hour next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: bill gates is here. he is, as you know, the chairman cofounder of the microsoft. his focus has been on philanthropic organizations since july of 2008 when he transitioned out of his day-to-day role at the company to run the bill and melinda gates foundation, along with his wife. it is the world's largest charity, devoted to improving global health and american education. the foundation is close to its target of eradicating the polio viking a goal bill gates is planning to achieve by 2018. i am pleased to have him back on the program. we come to you from the cbs news studio in new york. welcome. >> great to be here. >> rose: tell me this, the divisions in your life, which we've talked about before-- chairman of microsoft. along with melinda, running the bill and melinda gates foundation. there's a third thing. what's the third thing, the catch-all for the rest of the things you

we're talking of course about bill gates.onomic forum in davos switzerland, liz claman asked the man behind microsoft and the bill and melinda gates foundation what started his crusade to help those in need. >> -- emergency where people in the rich countries were getting access to the medicines that were saving their lives but most of the epidemic was in poor countries so the question was these medicines that only cost $100 per year, would they die because that generosity wasn't available? so it was created for that. it also took on malaria and tuberculosis so three of the big killers. and the generosity to global fund has been pretty phenomenal. they have been able to raise a bit over 3 billion dollars a year. it goes to buy those drugs and get them out for the very poorest countries. liz: bill, you mentioned vaccines. i want to get to that because that's preventive. that saves a lot of money down the line, does it not? >> that's right. for any disease where you have a vaccine like measles or polio, the key thing you need to

gates of course now runs the bill and linda gates foundation with his wife.hile he is still connected to the world of technology he is now incorporating it into solving some of the world's biggest health care challenges. >> thanks for joining us. good to see you. give us the update on global health. you and melinda have given away some $28 billion through your foundation. your fortune is still more than $60 billion. how do you see your work now? >> well, we're committed to the diseases that affect the poorest. malaria, tuberculosis, hiv, all the childhood conditions. until we treat the health of that poor child as being as important as the health of a rich child, we'll still have work to do. that gives us decade after decade of needing to make progress. malaria is a great story. the deaths have come down a lot. we don't yet have the tools to do an eradication so we are funding drug companies, vaccine companies, even new bed net concepts that will when we get them eventually give us enough to take whole countries and get malaria to zero and, you know, some day

"bill gates." i think he was really smart in bringing in a board of advisers that is sharp about business, something that he doesn't have, a knowledge he doesn't have, and then bringing in additional partners and employees that allowed him to see the bigger picture. > what is it that's so brilliant about him and these five secrets, and are they really secrets? > > i think a lot of it is very common sense. however, that said, you don't see a lot of businesses still decades later after we talk about passion and purpose and people and creating excellent product and partnerships, you still don't see that many businesses really executing those very well, so that's why we chose to call them secrets. > they a lot of times pay lip service, and you see them in mission statements, but you are saying that they are not really executing that. so is that something that he is doing deliberately, or is it just by his nature that he is that way? > > i think it is both. i think by nature he is a visionary. he knows

of the surface, bill gates. on the show this morning. today bill unveils his annual letters which features the findings of the foundation. also with us, columnist for "the new york times," nick kristof who has traveled to africa with bill gates, you traveled to two places with him. >> with bill only to africa. >> how is he as a traveling partner? >> he has logistics down better than i do. buses actually go places. planes go places. it's better than hitching a ride with rare lords. >> i get it. he's organized to a t. >> 1993 that sounds like my dad. >> and you know, you just see traveling with him the incredible impact, not just that he's richer than god, but bringing business and civility to global aid. >> let's talk about what you do with all that money and how do you it because it can't be a simple task. i'm going to read part of your annual letter. you talk about the importance of measurement. i've been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. you can achieve am

here is a short clip from bill gates. take a listen and see what your response is. >> this gives you a sense of the jobs question, the income question, and how that connects education. people say we need more jobs. in certain areas of college educated with software engineering degrees, there is a huge shortage of people. we are a country that would change the immigration policies that would allow over $100,000 year jobs to be filled by people who go to u.s. universities. even with that, you would still have a big shortage. you have 2.4% unemployment. that is a bit -- about as low as you can go. with a masters degree -- break that down by majors. in many areas, it is low. we have the irony of having an economy where many people are wanting to get jobs, but there are many open jobs. it is up to the education system to equilibrate that. look at some college, high school, and high school dropout. there is a dramatic increase in unemployment levels and a dramatic reduction in the weekly wages. it is no exaggeration to say whet

nobody was speaking to bill gates and bill gates turned to me and said why doesn't anybody talk to me? everybody was all over -- it is because nobody knows what to talk to you about. we shared our ignorance when we talked to bill gates. i used to watch richard helms head to the senator he wanted to talk to. it would have been very difficult to go up on the hill and talk to that senator but he was going to and it was a big difference in the way people lived. and they sat together at night. >> it was a lot more difficult to demonize your opponent on the hill. you had dinner next to his wife and i before. >> going on about the troops that he wanted, i went to dick one night and said we have to go home because robert mcnamara -- never mind. sit down. but it was good. can you really learn what they thought. and i think washington misses that now. >> any other questions? >> i know from all the work you have done including the relation of the stories how much you had connections with that culture. unwanted to ask you did you enjoy your time in germany and now is safe to ask you did you think

. >> one of the world's richest man and a philanthropist, bill gates was -- bill gates, was there. what did he have to say? , he pointed out that germany, like many other european economies -- >> he pointed out that germany, like many other european countries, as failed in its pledge to contribute 0.7% of gross thomistic product to development programs. >> we will be back in one minute. >> welcome back. more trouble for angela merkel 's coalition partners, the free democrats. in addition to lagging in the opinion polls, now they are facing allegations of sexism. >> the parties lead candidate in this autumn's elections, rainer bruderle, is accused of making inappropriate comments to a female journalist. >> the case has triggered a national debate on how sexism persists in german society. >> rainer bruderle is not talking to any journalists at the moment. he has made no comment on the allegations that have triggered a fierce debate in germany about verbal sexual harassment of women. the leading politicians of the party are covering bruderle's back. they say it is all just a slur camp

microsoft founder bill gates has given it away.ating billions of dollars in an effort to fix what he sees as the biggest problems facing humanity. today he is out with his annual update on the foundation's progress. mr. gates, as i said, it's great to have you here. good morning. >> good morning. >> often times we use millions and billions and they almost lose their meaning. we're talking about your foundation, which has now given away more than $26 billion over the last 18 years. when you look at the way you've spent the money, what makes you the most proud? >> it's amazing how we improved health for the poorest children in the world. in 1990, over 12 million children a year died. now that's down to about 6.9 million. and a lot of that is the vaccine effort that our foundation and governments got behind. we can do more. >> talk about an example of that. last year, based on the work of your foundation in india, a country of 1.2 billion people, 27 million live births a year, there was not one case, new case of polio reported for the

and we've got more huge interviews including bill gates, right, bill, would he ever return to microsoft as ceo? we'll ask him that. and a whole lot more. >> and you see christine lagarde will join us as well from davos even as the overall markets keep marching toward all-time highs. apple continues to be rotten today. another down day for apple. is this truly a broken stock? we have a bull/bear debate coming up. >> down 12% this week. in the meantime let's look at those markets. you have the dow which is sitting up by about 50 points right now. in fact, it's ontrack for the best january since 1994. the s&p for its part is poised for its longest winning streak in over eight years. also moving to the upside right now and theed nasdaq despite t fact apple has been dragging on thane decks the nasdaq has been defying it and managing to have its best day today in three weeks. >> the s&p 500 flourished with the 1500 mark all day today. looking to close above it for the first time in more than five years. meanwhile jim paulson from wells capital management is still looking for the extra reach.

this is one of the worst for the gates foundation. billand talk for a few moments on another passion of his which is u.s. education and he will speak for a few moments and then we have asked david leonhardt of the new york times to join bill onstage and continue for a few moments. i spoke to dave ahead of time asking if he could do this interview and david is a pulitzer prize winner and he asked is very gates prius? i said there is not a gates prize and i hope i didn't take too big a liberty in asking him to come. i have committed on behalf of the gates foundation that david leonhardt will be the first to sit in. let me present bill gates. [applause] >> thank you. good afternoon. i want to talk a bit about higher education. the reason i picked that is because i think it has been a huge strength of the united states, very important thing that has allowed us to fund our broad set of activities and be a leader in the world and the world depends on us doing it quite well. education is one of the two big areas our foundation is focused on. in t

are bill gates in your heart.and he wrote back and told me, no, i'm not bill gates, but i wish i had his money, i could give you a lot more. you know? and that was nice for him to say that. these are the letters that i get. feel this. feel this. >> that's what love feels like? >> that's what it feels like. one letter, i have some letters he writes 14 and 15 pages. if he write 14 pages i have to write 14 pages plus 7 more pages. that's why i like for him to write a lot. this is what i do. this is how i spend my time. >> from what i've observed, the monotony of prison is what creates a lot of problem for these inmates. by having this focus of writing letters and maintaining a correspondence with the man that he loved, this gave ernest a purpose, a meaning in life. >> this is my favorite one. >> read it. >> no. no. no, i'm not going to read that one. >> part of it? >> okay. okay. okay. it says, i just want to send you a card to let you know i love you and that you're on my mind. love always, daddy. he's my focus righ

all of that i think is doing some good, but bill gates is a perfect example.66 billion dollars. if you took his money away, the u.s. government borrows 4 billion dollars a day. so, if you took bill gates' money away, confiscated it tomorrow, it wouldn't cover the amount of money that the u.s. government borrows for a month. so, it doesn't solve our problems, to tax the rich, to take their wealth. it doesn't do anything to solve our long-term problems. >> greta: is this more just sort of that a the lot of people have suggested that there's a -- that people don't like rich people, sort of a war on rich people. >> yeah. >> greta: is that what this is, and a lot to be admired in this country. most people billionaires probably earned it or came up with a good idea. >> sure. >> greta: i don't know if anyone's inherited and doing good with this and even if they're eating chocolate and watching tv, it's their prerogative. is it a hatred of that or ideology, maybe we'd be better off if we did that. >> maybe some combination of both. if you look at what the president ha

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bruce johnson reports in a stunning move the woman who once ran bill gates' $39 billion foundation has been hired to run martha's table and she says the needs in the district are many. >> reporter: since 1980 martha's table has been feeding, clothing and counseling working and poor families in the district. 1,100 people a day. >> there is a very large and visible population of people who are having trouble making ends meet. >> reporter: both stonecipher, former ceo of the bill and melinda gates foundation in, a move that has stunned and electrified the world of nonprofits, stonecipher has taken the job as ceo of martha's table. >> for me the firstening is i'm joining a team, not just -- first thing is i'm joining a team, not just the folks at martha's day, but the 10,000 volunteers. >> reporter: she took no salary from the gates foundation and takes no salary at martha's tape. she goes from running a 38 bill -- table. she goes from running a $38 billion operation to a $6 billion operation here. she takes er martha's table after d.c. mayor vincent gray disappointed the community by anno

that's a role big leaders in the industry have held people like bill gates and steve jobs and peopleike that. what do you have to do-- what is it that you want to explain and say to these people who know a lot about technology at this moment in time? >> i really want to project where the future's going to go because we need people in the consumer electronics industry to work with us to fulfill this vision of the phone wandering through space and talking to all of these different devices around you. so we're going to talk to them about things like where is mobile computing going? where are smart phones going? how are we going it deal with this data demand that's so hume and so forth? and this notion they talked about, this digital sixth sense the notion that you'll add an extra sense to your perception of the world around you which is the perception of electronic cyberspace, things associate with the world that's around you, and that goes along with all the stuff we've been talking about, whether things in the environment, things on your body, things in your car. and we're going to ha

bill gates will be joining us. bill gates of bill and melinda gates foundation.ent, coca-cola chairman and ceo. this is from last year. we were talking about big thinking last year. carlos ghosn, nissan motor chairman. those are the gloves. we gave fox business gloves and coca-cola gloves. there is carlos ghosn. david: we have coca-cola gloves? i don't understand. liz: i didn't get a pair. bain & company chairwoman. arne sorenson, marriott international ceo. these are some of the people. no, that mountain is not photo shopped. david: what else will you be doing? liz: everything. david: everything? liz: we have so many guests. we have more than 30 guests. davos switzerland, the world economic forum where people come and big news is made and all the leaders will be speaking with fox business. join us. coverage begins on wednesday. david: meanwhile we have a lot happening next week. there is of course on monday is the inauguration of the president. we'll cover it here with our own neil cavuto. he has full coverage what is happening. for the rest of the week, the que

and a mannish retailer is the third richest billionaire second richest bill gates and 63 bill and mexican telecommunication magnet carlos slam with 75 billion. that's america's money. i am paula faris. >>> you're watching the station that works for you. now, good morning maryland. >> with the deadline passed, lawmakers a deal on avoiding the fiscal cliff. how will it affect you? this morning we will look in a live report. >> it was supposed to be a night of celebration but a young girl is clinging to life after a bizarre new year's celebration. >> with the new year comes new rules regarding your health insurance. we will tell you what to expect as the affordable health care act begins taking effect. those stories on this wednesday morning. thanks for joining us. and happy new year. i am megan prink neil a lot to get -- pringle. a lot to -- >> a lot to get to. lynette you are back from vacation and you have a message. people have to bundle up. >> you are right. i am sending a message this morning. as we go through time, i will sen the message as well. before we talk about the tem -- send t

it's how bill gates got rix. i understand in one of societies you study they strangle widows?hat's true among the people of -- >> stephen: sorry to hear about your husband, come over here. >> widow strangling is not involuntary. the widow -- serious, the widow calls upon her brernlings and if they are not there, her sons to strangle her. this is voluntary on the part of widow. >> stephen: as they are crushing her windpipe how do they hear her say keep strangling me. >> she says it at the beginning. >> stephen: and after that that you are committed. >> yes. i want toll explain how unstrangled one zit. with a rope around the neck -- you pull in opposite directions. >> stephen: so it's humane? would you put your hands up again like you are going to fight me. this way like this. you look exactly like the mascot of the fighting irish. [cheers and applause] >> i went to ucla. >> stephen: congratulations. you were great in lincoln. thank u

bill gates is weighing in on washington's push for immigration reform. had a chance to sit down with him. it's been interesting to get his perspective because there's a couple of debates about immigration in d.c. right now. >> and high-tech workers. he explains why he wants washington to fix immigration to allow more highly skilled workers. >> our immigration system makes it very hard for those people who come in, so, you know, somebody is being offered a job here for over $100,000 and there's other jobs created around that job, you don't want to discourage a company from having to put that job -- >> do we discourage them now? >> oh, absolutely. you can be a student at uc berkeley, foreign born. get this wonderful education. microsoft offers you a job for over $100,000 a year and we have to say if the country will keep you. and most of those students are told they can't stay. get out of the united states. >> get out of the united states. he wants to change that. and he -- you know, he also is very passionate in his foundation, very passionate about educa

poor bill gates, he gets nailed for being so square. you can disagree with some things. but he is out there. >> all of them out there now came a little late to the party. they got very rich, very young. i wanted to leave some time for audience questions. i have not read more questions from the audience because they are also good. usually it is the guy with the aluminum hat on getting cia messages. [laughter] not really. if you want to line up, we have a few more minutes at the microphones. we will take a few questions. please make sure that you make them questions. >> i have been interested in americorps and other related programs. from what i can tell, you do not support it or talk about it very much. the tea party is advocating limiting national service. president obama campaigned to expand to 250,000. senator kennedy helped to pass the expansion. i was wondering what role "the nation" can play in helping to support the program. >> we've done a lot of work around expanding doctors into rural community centers. americorps is a good program. all of those should be suppor

. >> reporter: bill gates did more than look at the kahn academy videos. he helped to bankroll the project. so in 2009, kahn finally quit his day job and partnered with the gates foundation and google to form the kahn academy. here's how it works. students watch the videos and then work on a problem set based on the lesson on the website. if you pass, you move on to the next lesson. if it looks like you don't understand the concept, the site takes you back through what you are missing. the goal is not to replace the traditional classroom. the goal is to liberate it. >> the idea of students being grouped in age-based cohorts and then going at a set pace, this is the school we all grew up in. this is actually not the way students were educated for most of history. >> reporter: instead, kahn and his allies seek classrooms tluming with creative activity, spurred by the fact that kids will have already engaged the subject matter through the online lessons. what is your ideal classroom look like? >> it won't be a bunch of chairs all positioned looking at someone

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