but it's not at all related. >> bill gates had been very successful.money. he may very well have thought that given what he had already accomplished, the highest and best use of his remaining years was to spend that money helping humanity. >> it was just a few months back, if your company ended in dot-com it was a good thing. but at the end of this brutal week on wall street, a lot of analysts think the internet bubble is ready to burst, and by this time next year, a huge number of those dot-coms might be dot gone. >> a year ago, investors were so eager to buy into the internet they were happily ignoring traditional measures of success. sales, profits and growth. but reality has now set in. >> these upstarts didn't have any income. they were saying, we are worth billions of dollars. where's your revenue? they didn't have any. >> when the venture capitalists stopped putting money in, you could time the bubble. you could say you know, if we all believe this fantasy it works. if some of us stop believing, it's a prelude to its failure. >> most dot-com ret

the second richest man in the world, bill gates. he might have been wealthier if he hadn't given away so much money try to go save the world. i'll talk about what he is learning by giving away his billions. >>> also, artificial intelligence. people worry it will steal their jobs. if we get it right might it save our lives? how ai could find the drug that cures you disease. >>> and a cold war story of a different kind. in the years of world war ii why did the united states give up the chance to control one of the world's most powerful institutions? i'll tell you. but first shehere the my take. attention focused on two freshmen democratic members of congress. both are muslim and made critical statements about israel and the most american supporters. their tweets have been portrayed by some as not simply criticisms but rather evidence of a rising tide of anti-semitism ton the nw left. i don't know what's in the heart of the two representatives but i believe muslims should be particularly thoughtful when speaking about the issues becaus

david: microsoft founder bill gates says he doesn't deserve his wealth.naire says in part, quote, i paid more than $10 billion in taxes but i should have paid more. i have more than followed the law but i think things should be more progressive. i don't deserve my fortune. nobody does. rush limbaugh thinks he knows why bill gates and other rich liberals say they are undertaxed. take a listen. >> why do they do this? because it keeps the people from -- with pitchforks away from them. you don't see them giving it away. some of them put it in foundations but you don't see them, when they say they're not paying enough taxes, you never see them write additional checks to the government, do you. bill gates worth about $96.5 billion and he says he and other business barons should have to contribute more taxes. there's nothing stopping you from writing a check to the treasury. david: that's the truth. well, is there something wrong with being rich, gang? >> david, as my father liked to say, money may not buy happiness but it sure helps. in the case of bill gates,

let's get started. >> in 1975 bill gates dropped out of harvard university to found microsoft with his friend paul allenen. gates spent the next 33 years building microsoft. he's still on the board of microsort, but his day job is now giving away much of the money he made from his company's success. in less than 25 years the bill and melinda gates foundation has given away more than $45 billion. it still has $50 billion in the undowment. the gates annual letter was published a few days ago. they talk about what they learned in the process of trying to fight many of the problems that plague the world. i sat down with bill gates at his private offices near seattle. >> bill gates, pleasure to have you on. >> great to be here. >> there is a lot of talk these days about a kind of new economic mood, the cover of the economist is about all the millennial socialists. you have often said you think you're undertaxed. now there are proposals. there's one that says there should be a 70% tax on marginal income, that's over $5 million. there's another which is a wealth tax on the total assets you ha

. >> bill gates says no one deserves to be as rich as he is. i will explain why billionaires talk the talk and walk the after months of wearing only a tiger costume, we're finally going on the trip i've been promising. because with expedia, i saved when i added a hotel to our flight. ♪ so even when she outgrows her costume, we'll never outgrow the memory of our adventure together. unlock savings when you add select hotels to your existing trip. only when you book with expedia. >>. >> i am so sick of hearing wealthy people bitch about being rich. just like i don't hear people talk about being pretty or their metabolism. when bill gates and howard schultz go on and on about how tough it is being a billionaire, i want to barf into my peasant satchel. bill gates had the dumb nerve to say, he is only paid $10 million in taxes and added, but should have paid more. you muppet nerd! the irs is a pretty straight forward website where you can make contributions anytime you want! they are night and they will take your guilt money, no questions asked. it i

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easy for bill gates to say. taxes but the 63-year-old said owe should pay even more. according to a new interview with the "daily mail." here is dan mitchell. center for freedom and prosperity chairman. noelle nikpour, gop fund-raiser. he is wants to pay more taxes no one stops him from paying more. >> exactly. there is a website at the department of treasury you can voluntarily give more money to donald trump and nancy pelosi and alexandria ocasio-cortez, if you really think they will spend the money better than you, but here's the thing, he is a hypocrite. he set up a foundation a foundation is one of the top ways that rich people rich people protect income being double and tripled tax. if he thinks should pay more capital gains, sell his stock, he will have realized capital gains and pay taxes. that is virtue signaling or something absurd like that. we don't want more money going to washington, leave it in the private sector where it creates jobs. melissa: noelle, it's a little bit hip -- hip hypocritical, he

people like bill gates and steve jobs and warren buffett have had tremendous benefits -- >> neil: billwant to pay more. >> but that -- but the problem is bill gates made his money. i want -- i don't want the next bill gates to feel like he's going to be restricted in how much he could or should do, that there's a stopping point where he gets to the point where he's really providing the benefits somebody like a gates on were a jobs can provide for the economy. we don't want to punish people who are wealthy. we want to try and be like people who are wealthy. that's how you generate economic growth and prosperity. we don't need the kind of want and need you have in countries likevenezuela. we need economic growth. economic growth benefits everybody. >> neil: there was a time when we had much higher top rates. 70%, 90% for a while. john f. kennedy was able to get tax cuts enacted by lyndon johnson. there were much higher rates. the country was fine. i always show distinction here that the tax base had about 92% of americans paying federal income taxes then. >> the problem with those high r

bill gates sharing concerns about u.s.udget deficit, microsoft cofounder in an interview over the weekend it's acceptable for wealthy people to pay sharply higher taxes to address the problem. all right, we don't have that sound bite whether he recollects get that to you later on, very interesting because he said basically it's 22 trillion is out of bounds frankly. delta being cast as the world's most expensive painting is genuine, one art historian say that is leonardo da vinvi did not paint and instead one of assistants painted the painting. back to year 1500, sold for $450 million in 2017, the painting was believed to be purchased by saudi arabia's prince mohamed salman. jon: on the bill gates tax issue, we have a couple of stories on the website today that are worth looking at, excuse me, if you look at what economists are saying right now about the $22 trillion of debt and rising budget receive -- deficits there's a debate going on on both sides of the aisles conservatives and liberal, i'm not advocating this but as l

really bill gates? bill, we just said you will never run for president.ood morning. it is 8:25 am. i am kenny choi. >>> the stanford graduate engineering student was found dead at this point we do not know how he died or who he was. the autopsy is being performed, and the school says there's no ongoing safety threat on campus. >>> there was a warehouse fire in antioch at 12:30 am on walnut avenue. it took over 30 minutes to knock out the flames and one person suffered minor burns. >>> the san mateo county supervisor david canepa will introduce a bill to require you to store guns and a lot container or trigger lock. right now county lot only requires you to do so if there is a child living in the house. >>> we have news updates throughout the day on your favorite platforms including our website at kpix.com. >>> it is a 20 7 am. >>> we have a traffic alert on the east shore freeway westbound 80 at redwood with the trouble spot. there are a couple of lanes blocked and chp is on the scene, with two lanes completely shut down. give yourself extra minutes tos g

you guys put out a letter every year for the bill and melinda gates foundation. ve computers now, bill. what is the purpose of this? >> well, every year we get to see a lot of things. we travel to africa, we meet with scientists. we see a lot of things that are going very well, things like reducing childhood death, improving nutrition. it's a chance for us to share why we're excited about the work and where things are going. >> stephen: and this-- the theme this year is? >> surprises. things that have surprised us the last 20 years, or even in this last year in particular. >> stephen: okay, tell me if i'm wrong. people have known you for years as the richest man in the world. you're the second richest man in the world, right? >> we're trying to giver it away faster. >> stephen: will bezos even take your calls at this point? ( cheers and applause ) you're trying to give it away faster. see that's the sort of behavior people want from billionaires. there's a lot of talk right now that maybe billionaires shouldn't exist. you have heard some of this talk? >> we have.

bill gates going after democrats, their tax plan that is. the plans that alexandria ocasio-cortez and others have proposed. he says, well, the most generous man in history, he says he has a problem with them. let's just leave it at that. a major rally going on right now. wall street trading higher, near 400 points on the upside. this as congress has reached a tentative deal. president trump saying seems unlike there would be another shutdown. he is always sort of iffy with these things. you can see the market is pretty excited. the deal for the most part will include 1.4 billion to build 55 miles of border wall, full funding for i.c.e., no caps on internal enforcements. one potential headwind we can check off. investors are however awaiting anxious the big headline, that is the headwind of negotiations out of china. president trump saying a short time ago there is a big team in china frying to make a big trade deal. >> china wants to make a deal very badly. i want it to be a real deal. not just a deal that makes,s cosmetically looks good for

in ethiopia where refugees will be one of the main topics of discussion on the microsoft founder bill gates his foundation's extensive involved in funding projects in africa address the summit and also spoke to al jazeera about why he was that. my focus is on the opportunity . of the human capital here in africa the right things are done with the young people in terms of health and education that there's a very bright future for the continent there's a lot of great examples here. who done an amazing job getting their primary health care system or clean and you know no reason why that can't be done in in all fifty four countries and kurdish led forces backed by the united states are trying to push myself from its last pockets of territory in eastern syria to twenty thousand civilians have been moved to safer areas but hundreds are still thought to be at risk if ensor has focused on the village of any other border with iraq iraq today with all of our top stories this hour that is it for myself and the team here in london but there will be more news from doha later off the witness which starts

then we've got bill gates says he doesn't deserve to be worth 100 billion dollars. and he thinks he should be paying much more in tax. if gates wants to pay more, why doesn't he just write a check to the treasury? cash it -- it my take on that, coming up, top of the 11:00 hour and president trump wants california to pay back the three billion dollars it got from the federal government to fund a high speed rail project. question, will the president see a dime of it? that's a good question. we'll be back in a moment. good morning it is a down day, we're looking at a minus 177 as we speak that puts the dow it at a 25,300. we have jpmorgan rolling out the first crypto currency backed by a significant big u.s. bank. christina, i would have thought this crowds out the bit coin of this world. >> there are so many it's incredible to even dog coin like coin by jpmorgan the fact that it is backed by a big bank like you said as credibility it is called or just -- dubbed jpm coin, and it is not for everyday users right now for institutional investors they can use the coin. the

was the microsoft founder bill gates his foundation is extensively involved in funding projects in africa addressed the summit and spoke to al jazeera about why he was that. my focus is on the opportunity. of the human capital here in africa that the right things are done with the young people in terms of health and education that there's a very bright future for the continent there's a lot of great examples here. who've done an amazing job getting their primary health care system working and you know no reason why that can't be done in in all fifty four countries with al-jazeera live from london much more still ahead for you including israel says it will implement a controversial new law costing palestinians millions of dollars that story and more coming up very shortly. the weather is all coming down across europe now it has been incredibly wet and windy for some of us in the north this is the latest system that's made its way across us bringing yet more heavy rain and strong winds as well and that will continue its journey up towards the northeast as we head through into monday so here

century and how rivalries influenced the course of history steve jobs so much better marketeers than bill gates was apple was going to reinvent stuff all the old made software what it is today will change the world to high tech visionaries whose breakthroughs inspired a digital revolution jobs and gates face to face on al-jazeera. in a world where journalism as an industry is changing we have al-jazeera are fortunate to be able to continue to expand to continue to have that passenger drive and present the stories in a way that is important to our theories. everyone has a story worth hearing. and cover those that are often ignored we don't weigh our coverage towards one particular region or continent that's why i joined al jazeera . hell i was drowning joyce rather the moment we must look to the west and again to the mediterranean for a significant change doesn't look very much for that kid of cloud is produced an oval of nasty weather so far from when it started the further west in the mediterranean rain but more especially wind i think you'll notice that it starts to be felt already but on wed

this is al jazeera life from doha i'm dead you know bill gates also ahead. it was a very productive two days but sometimes you have to walk donald trump blames north korea's unacceptable demands for the failure to reach a nuclear deal and his second summit with kim jong il and a gesture for peace.

bill gates weighing in as well.sked, a lot of democrats want to tax more of, why not ask him he should be paying. he tried to answer this last night in the town hall on cnn. >> i should be paying more taxes. people who are in the bracket of making millions of dollars or whatever the number might be should be paying more taxes. what i'm saying is, we need -- i think what is being proposed at 70% is a punitive number and there's better ways to do this. >> so it wasn't specific in terms of how much more. 70% might be punitive. you only pay the 70% above the 10 million that you make. how the billionaires get taxed, it's not from the income taxed. they get taxed on capitol gains. the makes at 20%. warren buffet said he pays more texases than his secretary is true. their wealth is based on investments than their stakes in companies. when asked about his stake in starbucks, here's what he had to say. >> i will do nothing whatsoever to have any conflict of interest between my investments overall and my interest in the compa

your opinion on bill gates idea of raising the capital gains tax. raise the capital gains tax. stuart: let me speak directly to bill gates. this is not about you. taxing capital gains does not tax rich people. attack as people tried to get rich. people trying to get ahead. this is not going to affect you. if you want to pay higher taxes, and there's a section on everybody's tax return where you can simply add at the bottom the tape you would like to add. if you want to pay more in taxes, you can. you don't have to >> anybody else on the side of the head. the reason we have low capital gains taxes is to attract capital into the united states and fun people with capital into the market come into investments of other people at jobs. you have a job. this is not about you. i would like a better job with the lowest possible capital gains tax brings more revenue, more capital, more investment in about helping the rest of america. you're fine. stop mouthing off how other people should be taxed. it's not about you and if it does bother you, write a check to

the second richest man in the world, bill gates.f he hadn't given away so much money try to go save the world. i'll talk about what he is learning by giving away his billions. >>> also, artificial intelligence. people worry it will steal their jobs. if we get it right might it save our

you mentioned mark andreessen and bill gates, but marquee names coming including the funds and the big, it is really exciting. there is tremendous momentum going forward. emily: it does not do impact investing. jean: we support the field. we have resources, the short guide on impact investment. a 10-year look back. i personally do the impact investing. emily: have you found you can actually make money? jean: absolutely. there is a tremendous amount of research to debunk another myth that impact investing is necessarily concessionary. it is not. they looked at different asset classes, but particularly private equity and demonstrated the impact investments not only performed at market rate or did well in terms of their vintage year, in many years outperformed. emily: why doesn't the foundation do impact investment? jean: the goal is to build market and support movements. we have used a blended approach in our impact will be used resources of foundation, our personal wealth to invest in things to really move. emily: what are some trends you see coming into philanthropy and impact investin

maria: it's not like he was bill gates or michael dell. dagen: he was rich already. trophy winner trading in baseball glove just days before spring training. back in a moment with that. maria: welcome back heisman winning quarterback murray changes his mind, jared max with sports. jared: good morning, maria, we thought we might get to see a two-sport star like we did in 90's like jackson and deon sanders, murray, heisman trophy winner, after further review he announced he's moving forward committing life to becoming nfl quarterback, murray a baseball outfielder had been pick bid oakland a's, signing bonus of $4.6 million to play baseball and now has to repay what he received. he receives $210,000. star runningback pushing and kicking a woman in february, found a new team, his hometown cleveland browns signed him to new contract. record-setting night in nba, russell westbrook made record when he recorded a triple double, tenth straight game, double digit, 21 points, 14 rebounds, 11 assists, valued by forbes. at the nba's most valuable franchise, $4 billion, the nba ne

twentieth century and how rivalries influenced the course of history steve jobs a much better marketer bill gates. is going through really bad stuff all the old made software what it is today will change the world to high tech visionaries whose breakthroughs inspired the digital revolution jobs and gates face to face on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm mr ten this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes a call for new elections in venezuela full source at the u.n. security council. president walks away from his summit meeting with north korea but says talks between the two sides will continue. israel's a tiny general says he plans to endow.

bill gates earns their income. the fact they earn a lot, i don't know what you earn, but others don't earn a lot, that inequality is not new. it's important people are left free to earn as much as they can and keep what they earn. david: to john layfield's point, it's not new. this has been going on in the united states for years and years. the old editor of "wall street journal" i used to work for used to say class warfare is the fool's gold of american politics. it glitters brightly until people realize it doesn't have a lot of value. eventually it peters out. this might just be the first stage of that class warfare. by the time we get to the election in 2020 it may have petered out. >> yeah. i think it's going to get much worse. jonathan, i'm not for wealth tax. i'm telling you there's precedent in history. last time we saw wealth inequality was around 1900 when you had vanderbilt, rockefeller, j.p. morgan, carnegie. >> god bless them. >> they did it legally. right now, jonathan, i'm going to tell you to shut up

today on the show the second richest man in the world, bill gates.iest if he hadn't given away so much of his money trying to save the world. i'll talk to him about what he's learned while giving away his billions. also, artificial intelligence. people worry it will steal their jobs. but if we get it right, might it save our

bill gates was recently on a pod cast.t he had to say. >> i've heard about it a lot over the past few weeks now. maybe we should just tax folks like you, 70% marginal tax rate and that that money should be used to build infrastructure and services like this. does that appeal to you? do you think that's just ridiculous? do you think what you are doing on sort of the private fi -- private philanthropy end is more effective? >> you should look at the irs statistics, 20% rate. it is a misfocus if you focus on that, you are missing the picture. >> what bill gates was saying that when you are trying tax income from the super rich they have ways of sheltering income. his idea was to tax assets more importantly. this wealth inequality that's happening right now, the push to tax the wealthy seems to be gaining steam, and there's really nobody out there who is going to defend the wealthy. it is not something that people tend -- it is not a hill people die on. where does this go from here with this tax? are people going to have their

watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters in doha i'm dead you know bill gates also heads threats on counter threats ratchet up the tension even further after indian fighter jets strike targets along the border of pakistan.

the start of the african union summit in ethiopia where refugees are to be one of the main topics bill gates one of the world's richest men he was also there at the summit and he told leaders his foundation is ready to help the african union transform the continent my focus is on the opportunity. the human capital here in africa that if the right things are done with the young people in terms of health and education that there's a very bright future for the continent there's a lot of great exemplars here who've done an amazing job getting their primary health care system working and you know no reason why that can't be done in in all fifty four countries. more now from our correspondent who's covering it all in. the opening session was addressed by president of rwanda the outgoing african union and also the incoming. president. as well interestingly the second vice chair of the african union is felix just to carry the new president of the democratic republic of congo he spoke as well and this is of some significance it was announced over disputed election in congo. just a few weeks ago last

billionaire bill gates says boosting the capital gains is the best way to collect taxes from the wealthyhe said he is increasingly worried about the high budget deficits being run by the u.s.. he said that increasingly marginal tax rate to 70% wouldn't be the answer because there are ways that people could shield the income. reports that mohammad bin salman wants to buy manchester united. saudi information minister calls the report completely untrue. global news 24 hours away -- when he four hours a day on air and on tictoc on twitter. this is bloomberg. anna: thank you very much. bloomberg, angela merkel pulls the handbrake and tells donald trump that german cars do not compromise u.s. national security. more on that, next. remember, bloomberg radio is live on your device or in the london area. ♪ ♪ anna: we are 16 minutes away from the start of your trading day. here's what the futures look like. interesting, given strong gains in asia, it appears like we are done with that story here in europe it would appear. essentially, -- the optimism around trade that boosted the u.s. and asia. th

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or a guy like bill gates who's been, you know, his entire life has been giving money away.es on and on. you wonder if higher taxes changes that behavior of the philanthropy that has been so strong in america. >> two weeks ago -- maria: yeah. >> i just wrote a check to the federal government for $775 million. i sold patron, of course, last year. and that's with all deductions, and the tens of millions i ghei away to -- i gave away to philanthropic endeavors, so we are paying a whole bunch of money. maria: great insights. always a pleasure to talk with you. >> my pleasure. america's still working. you still work out there too. peace, love and happiness. maria: exactly. peace. thank you, john paul. >>> don't go anywhere, my sit-down with treasury secretary steven mnuchin is next. ♪ ♪ >> the president has made it clear china must make a deal or more tariffs will hit. so what are the odds of an agreement? the treasury secretary's surprising answer when "wall street" returns. -we're doing karaoke later, and you're gonna sing. -jamie, this is your house? -i know, it's not much, bu

the start of the african union summit in ethiopia where refugees will be one of the main topics bill gates also attended the summit and told leaders his foundation is ready to help the african union transform the continent and my focus is on the opportunity. of the human capital here in africa that at the right things are done with the young people in terms of health and education that there's a very bright future for the continent there's a lot of great examples here. who've done an amazing job getting their primary health care system working and you know no reason why that can't be done in in all fifty four countries al-jazeera has more now on the african union summit in addison . the opening session was addressed by president khatami of rwanda the outgoing african union chair and also the incoming african union chair president el-sisi of egypt spoke as well interestingly the second vice chair of the.

david: let me ask you a question i have asked bill gates.think you could be more successful in life if you had a university degree? richard: no. david: obviously, you could be more successful. richard: no. at age 40, i turned to my wife and said, i think i will give everything up and go to university. and she turned to me and said, you just want to chat up the young ladies at the university, you go straight back to work. [laughter] and it was good advice. ♪ quick first word headlines -- >> the first word headlines. softbank announcing a buyback of stock. stepping up efforts to close the disparity between what the company is worth and what the market thinks. proceeds from the ipo of its telecom unit will fund the repurchase in the biggest such buyback in softbank's history. the imf is adding to criticism of italy's populist government saying it is falling short on reform and growth will stay below 1% through 2023. the national statistics office confirmed italy slipped into recession at the end of last year.

stuart: now let's get to bill gates. he is going after the democrats tax the rich plans.razy talk he says. the top 400 earners in the u.s. are paying something like 20% tax rate, nothing to do with the 39.6% marginal because they -- susan: capital gains. ashley: they rely on capital gains. their amount of income is miniscule. only pay capital gains rates. that is ridiculous. it is crazy talk. stuart: but he is okay with going after capital gains? ashley: no, if you go massively high, the rich people will hide their income, stash it away. stays stays ant report. ashley: all those things. it is ridiculous, that is history true. 10:36 apartment. we're joining the "brian kilmeade show." green new deal. i can't believe it is getting support from some of the people running for the presidency on democratic side in 2020. i can't believe they support this nonsense. where are you on this? >> you are putting it mildly. 70 lawmakers, 70 democrats on the house side, 12 on the senate side, almost every presidential candidate saying this new green deal is great, pie-in-the-sky, but let'

opening ceremony started just a short while ago and had the state had from billionaire philanthropist bill gates he's speaking about health care he was invited here by rwandan president paul kagame he has been the chair of the african union for the last yeah and gates is in particular pushing for investment in health care private investment in partnership with finance and on topic organizations like his as well as the public sector and then also we've had from the director general of the world health organization have not had trustees or say pushing for a health care agenda right now u.n. secretary general antonio get there is he's talking he was very. full of praise for the african union is the. in terms of peace and conflict he talked about the recent deal in the central african republic peace deals in south sudan and libya right now he's been talking about climate change he says climate change needs to be further up the agenda here in africa it is something that african states need to engage on right. with an update from ethiopia thank you still ahead on al-jazeera forty years of hostility as

david: let me ask you a question i have asked bill gates.u think you could be more successful in life if you had a university degree? richard: no. david: obviously, you could be more successful. richard: no. at age 40, i turned to my wife and said, i think i will give everything up and go to university. and she turned to me and said, you just want to chat up the young ladies at the university, you go straight back to work. [laughter] and it was good advice. ♪ >> i'm haidi stroud-watts with your first word headlines. the next edition has been approved back to india. the former head of the team and chairman of the group is wanted of alleged fraud over his now-defunct kingfisher airlines. he is said to own over $1.2 billion and is being accused of misrepresenting how bank loans would be used. he denies wrongdoing and has 14 days to appeal. leading iron or producer is halting work at a mine in brazil while the appeals process is underway. notays the dam is

bill gates or something it goes on for a bed then they block one block the other over but yeah there's no boundaries there's no. wall separating these people and that does smack a bit america. you know the absence of a rigid class system although that changing of course but this all the egalitarian to democracy openness. is there on twitter and it's being shut down of course because they ours that they hate. egalitarianism and democracy so they don't like the fact that people are assembling ways americans of the right to assemble but that means the right to dissent that means the right to overthrow and that can't be tolerated. or face up down facebook being now managed by. you know global government forces who want to keep the dialogue within a certain narrow range and social media just think that corporate media. same thing happened through the internet that started up extraordinarily open and for a job perry barlow was writing about it is. true democratic domain and that is the corporate. it's time for second gap all over by the cops. and i got attacked. that our guy again yeah. i gu

where the microsoft founder bill gates his foundation is extensively involved in funding projects inafrica addressed the summit and spoke to al-jazeera about why he was that. my focus is on the opportunity. of the human capital here in africa that the right things are done with the young people in terms of health and education that there's a very breakthrough.

paul allen and bill gates's company to find an era with all conquering windows operating system for pcsway behind. microsoft are, by the time other smartphones came along, very complacent. they the successful softwa re complacent. they the successful software business with office and windows on the xbox and it couldn't manoeuvre the way a smaller, more focused company kind of good. you getan focused company kind of good. you get an established business doing one thing, you put all your efforts into doing that one thing and then you struggle to manoeuvre or anticipate the new technology that is coming along and that may disrupt it. about 25 years ago, they were on top of the technology industry and now where are they? it turns out they are back on top of the technology industry. never mind apple, forget google and facebook, at the end of november 2018, microsoft became the most valuable company in the world for the first time since 2002. so where did it all go right? well, i'd say about here. five years ago, the new boss was able to turn the tanker around. any ceo sets the direction. ste

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why do we pay social security to warren buffett and bill gates? they don't need benefits. they don't. there are very few -- you could mess around with that stuff but there are very few of those people so it does not have any meaningful impact on the overall programs finances. the other point i think is really a very good want to get into, which is who are the people that can work longer? the joke you here it is that it is fine for somebody sitting in their nice air-conditioned office in a think tank in washington, d.c., working well herto his armor 70 -- or 70's. a construction worker, a nurse. this was one of the issues with ages. retirement it's just not evenly distributed. to me, higher retirement age is are really a problematic way to solve the problem. host: glendale heights, illinois. good morning. caller: good morning. i actually have a question. ideamr. miller have any how much government actually owes our social security trust? i believe they have been borrowing money from the social security fund. i think it started back with reagan. any idea how much that money