musk took a shot at bill gates on social media, calling his fellow billionaire underwhelming after thebought an electric porsche. gates has concerns over how far any electric car can go before they need a charge. i want to bring in david nelson. interesting about this. two things. i love the idea, elon musk is a counter-puncher so the fan base that said bill gates is a really smart guy. elon musk chimed in, my conversations with bill gates has been underwhelming. little bit of staining a sting porsche over tesla. >> bill gates makes a good point. there are a couple challenges for electric cars. a lot of us want sustainable energy but don't want to destroy the american economy in the process. the challenges for electric cars right now is the charge time. that's a big part of it. and the range. conquer those two problems, you got a better pathway. charles: that's what gates said. gasoline is still a more dense energy source so while dirty, it is often simply more convenient if wanting to travel long distance, especially. he put a shot out for fossil fuels. a really cogent, non-political

a sobering warning from bill gates. tell whaus you know about this new 63rd case of coronavirus confirmed here in the united states. >> reporter: well, hi, erin. no question this is another troubling sign that the virus is spreading, especially here in california. as for this woman, we are told that she is 65 years old, is a resident of santa clara county which is a couple of hours away from where we are in sacramento. she has chronic health issues, was hospitalized for some kind of respiratory illness. her infectious disease specialist was suspicion, asked for a coronavirus test, and the result came back positive yesterday. the source of the infection is unknown, and that's what makes this case so troubling. take a look. >> this is a reality check for every government on the planet. wake up, get ready. >> reporter: in northern california, health officials are investigating what appears to be the first case of community spread novel coronavirus in the u.s. >> at this point we don't know where the patient was exposed. >>

microsoft has a ceo, bill gates. what are your duties?rad: i think one of the most interesting certainly is to really be on point for these issues where technology meets society. you know, there are so many issues today. sustainability, privacy, security, responsible artificial intelligence, digital safety. the world has a different set of expectations of us than it did a decade or two ago. this requires we bring people together across our business. it also requires that we connect with her the world, with people in government -- with the rest of the world, with people in government and elsewhere. it requires new steps by government. peter: you joined microsoft in 1993. how has the company changed since then? brad: well, when i joined, microsoft had just over 4000 employees and today it has 150,000. everything is bigger. when you are big, you have to find ways to move quickly in a new form. because obviously, moving a big group of people is harder than moving a small group. when i joined in 1993, technology was not something you read abou

how does this help bill gates doing something like this?d this or in a really good position to bring that technology closer to consumers and almost commercialise it and educate us almost commercialise it and educate us in almost commercialise it and educate usina almost commercialise it and educate us in a way. there is no question once that is built we will be looking at it and we will be at least focusing regret it will have her eyes on that. possibly! but it raises a question, £500 million for taking one guy around the world. it's a lot of money. it is but it is the technology we are most interested in and that's what makes the headlines, after all. fair comment, natalie, thank you. we want to bring you some breaking news, the leader of the christian democratic union party in germany has said she will not stand for chancellor to replace angela merkel. that is a bit ofa replace angela merkel. that is a bit of a shake—up. she had been seen very much as the chosen successor to angela merkel when she stands down, not clear at the moment why

and for the record, the porsche that bill gates bought, when you sit in that porsche, when bill gatest porsche and says hello, porsche, that is our technology. ashley: that is your technology. the car says good morning, mr. gates, how are we today. where to we go from there? the ultimate artificial intelligence for cars is you don't drooef ive it at all. are we getting to that point? they are out there testing, we know. >> sometime in the future but that's a distant future. that's level 4 or level 5 autonomous. in the more near term, two to five years, what you will see is more different modes of interaction which are going to be introduced in the car. what i mean by that is voice is very important because you want your hands on the wheel, eyes on the road, and you want to use voice as the main interaction mechanism but as humans, when we interact, we use more than voice. we use gaze and gestures, we use our hands. ashley: especially when you are in a car. some of those gestures we wouldn't want to repeat. i digress. >> so the gestures we are enabling in the car, when you are driving

because bill gates took a lot of pride in the fact that microsoft did not have a d.c. office for a long time. >> and will point that out he did take pride in that and then he learned they were probably some better things clearly some better things to take pride in we are here today. we are in 56 capitals around the world. >> we conclude the book is technology animation is not going to slow down. the work to manage it needs to speed up. >> we really do believe that governments need to speed up. i used to come to washington and we had people 15 years ago didn't understand technology deeply. i think many times today, they often do. they understand it much better, and i think politicians get a bad rap, i think journalists look to point out here's a politician that didn't ask the right question or here's a politician that didn't ask the question the right way. and i think that's frankly a mistake. i don't think it's accurate. i don't think you serve anyone well, whenever you criticize them for asking a good question the wrong way. the truth is, we have regulators and politi

10000000000 he says towards climate change a few years ago about a decade ago it was mike microsoft's bill gates and warren buffett who were then worth about 40 to 60000000000 and they said we're going to give all of our wealth away to charity now they're each worth over 100000000000 and this is the process that we're always talking about about the cantillon in fact all the money printing is going to these billionaires directly so we're going to show you how the cantillon affect us not only help the billionaires but now the central banks are directly intervening and gifting these billionaires this money the e.c.b. bots l v m h bonds to finance tiffany acquisition are no is one of the richest men in the world e.c.b. q.e. is knots the mh sold some bonds and apparently the e.c.b. is in the corporate bond market just like janet yellen as we mentioned last episode is planning on that or suggest that the us federal reserve does that eventually they change the laws so that the federal reserve can buy corporate bonds well 2 of the 5 euro traunch as were placed at negative yields meaning investors are pa

it has a ceo, bill gates. what are your duties? >> guest: i play several in the company but one of the most interesting certainly is to be on point for these issues were talk knowledge he meets -- technology meets the study. there are so many issues today, sustainability, privacy, security, responsible intelligence, digital safety. where the world has a different set of expectations of us that it did a decade or two ago. this requires we bring people together across our business because we need to innovate in the space what it also requires that we connect with the rest of the world, with people in government and elsewhere because this is a journey that we're all on together and it requires that only action by companies. it requires new steps by government, you joined microsoft in 93. how has the company changed since then? >> guest: when i joined microsoft in just over 4000 employees and today it has 150,000. the first thing you see is everything is bigger. when you are big you have to find ways to move quickly in a new form. beca

ing it bill gates bought a porsche electric vehicle rather than a tesla.maybe that's the way to insult bill gates, to say your conversations with him were not impressive otherwise what do you say? he is bill gates. >> bernstein and morgan stanley upped their price targets but keep their market perform. the judge is back. let's get to the half, with coop >>> carl thanks. i'm scott wapner, front and center, the apple bombshell and enshoeing selloff in stocks after the company says it won't meet its revenue target because of the coronavirus what happens to your money if the engine of this market suddenly starts to sputter it is 12:00 noon and this is the "halftime report." >>> virus fears taking a bite out of apple. >>> semis getting slammed on the apple news is this a buying opportunity the traders take their positions. >>> the record rally, the 2020 elections, and his new bets,

. >>> and bill gates uses some of his billions to buy a yacht. >>> in today's tech bytes, samsung jumpsun on its galaxy z flip. the company is expected to show off the features at an event tomorrow. >>> the oscars dominated social media last night. the third most tweeted moment was when >>> and bill gates ordered the first hydrogen powered super yacht. >> it has five decks and can accommodate 45 people. the vessel will feature a hele pad, infinity spa and gym. it will feature a price tag of more than 6$600 million. give me a room. >> i saw the flip phone last night on the commercial, and for the first time i kind of wanted it. the power. >> see? >> the power of marketing. >> whatever it takes. >>> food insecurity is a big roadblock to helping kids learn. santa clara county is ready to remove that obstacle for thousands. >>> and if you're scrambling for a valentine's day gift, the san francisco zoo is ready to help. to take care of yourself. but nature's bounty has innovative ways to help you maintain balance and help keep you active and well-rested. because hey, tomorrow's coming up fas

as the mastermind behind this -- i am pretty sure that bill gates is a bit busy, hold up on an island somewhere and reading a dozen books a day, but you get the point. while you or i might easily dismiss these narratives as foolish or ask ourselves, how can anyone believe this, the fact is that many audiences around the world do believe these lies. for some, it reinforces their views of the west. for others, it shapes these views. if these false narratives are unchallenged and repeated over months and years, they may become increasingly difficult, for example, for u.s. public diplomacy efforts to flourish most needed, for policy to get properly executed, and for businesses to operate in certain places and offer fact-based narratives as a baseline for this decision-making. this is our challenge at the gce , a challenge we are eager and poised to meet, and a challenge that we are grateful to have partners from the academic community and civil society, and governments that are witnesses in this fight. today, by far, the strongest mandates, the largest staff, and a stronger budget than we

and china and listen up. >> yes. >> bill gates says electri electric porsche and he praised tesla forremium priced car and is very cool. >> he said my conversations with gates have been underwhelming to be honest. we have had this discussion. >> i did see one and it's very cool i will say that. >>> how much of it is the sound? >> no, it's all about brakes. >> i'm talking about my car. it's very agile. i will never not have one. i don't want that to end >> it would be the last thing that you'd sell? >> no, i don't mean that i just mean i'm not going to care when i'm 90 i'm still going to have one. >> are you going to be able to get out of it? >> maybe not we got to go squawk box will be right back. everyone uses their phone differently. that's why xfinity mobile lets you design your own data. you can share 1, 3, or 10 gigs of data between lines, mix in lines of unlimited, and switch it up at any time. all with millions of secure wifi hotspots and the best lte everywhere else. it's a different kind of wireless network, designed to save you money. switch and save up to $400 a year on you

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manufactured it as a biological weapon we've even seen reports that it was the microsoft founder bill gates who is now the billionaire philanthropist who for some reason invented a manufactured this and of course as you saw in that report also some far right extremists who want to prove that this shows why immigration must be stopped people shouldn't be allowed into certain countries so it's a whole range of different reasons and what a social media companies doing about this well i think they're very concerned about this becoming now what what we saw was an info demick so they have been teaming up with governments and with health organizations to try to stop this and last week the w.h.o. the world health organization held a meeting with many of these companies at facebook's h.q. in silicon valley where they tried to work out what they could do and facebook today for example when i went on and putting corona virus into my facebook page right at the top you can see that there was a are you looking for more information and a link to in this case the german health minutes. because where in bal

awarded about 7000000 euro's thanks to a vaccine initiative the german government and investors like bill gates the fund is also backing companies in the u.s. and australia. clinical trials will tell us which technology is most effective we're glad other companies have different approaches to dealing with this virus. we're relying on our technology. here's the difference with current vaccinations it's the weekend virus that's injected after which the human body develops antibodies to fight it the german researchers one of that scene that bypasses the virus their process aims to get the human body to simulate just a crucial part of the corona virus in order to protect itself against it. from lost of so i'm assuming the 1st clinical trials with vaccines for the new coronavirus can be launched this year including in germany. but approving a vaccine could take years so it may come online too late for the current epidemic . or to football news on trust from fed have extended their unbeaten league run to 4 games following a 5 mill victory over the weekend early fixture goals from timothy chandler. an

you look at people like bill gates who are committed to giving all their wealth away, and it would betually work out historically what its carbon footprint has been which is what microsoft is doing, and is pledging to go carbon neutral over its entire history. personally i feel a bit cynical about this i have to say. i met cara hurst who is head of sustainability for amazon, i asked head of sustainability for amazon, iasked her head of sustainability for amazon, i asked her how big is her team given how enormous amazon is as an organisation, she has some 300 people working for her in the area of sustainability. i have to say, i met her as part of a panel discussion, she was given an absolute grilling by everybody there because it is notjust about their record in terms of their environmental impact, it is also, there is a story on the bbc news app today about amazon and how the staff are treated in their factories, wherever they are around the world. there are lots of questions about that kind of thing. and then we have the environmental sustainable and governance, and all of those thr

. >> you know who has a lot of scientists, the bill and melinda gates foundation on climate change so does the location of seattle, jeff bezos, does that allow him to link up we have no idea what this climate change fund will entail. >> come on, robert, think positively seattle is the bastion of a new -- >> ego, solve global warming with jeff bezos and bill gates, i'll take ego first. >>> let's talk about some zu zuckerberg first the facebook ceo penned an op-ed calling for more regulation of big tech in elections, harmful content, privacy and data portability. one reader sent a letter, george soros. he said zuckerberg should stop arguing for regulationis and calls for him and sheryl sandberg to be removed from their posts. where do we begin with this one? >> it's worth noting that soros has been a long-time critic of facebook the last four years, ever since president trump was elected, he said it played a prominent role in helping trump get elected i guess the question is whether this call for zuckerberg and sandberg to step down will gain momentum even if it does, does it matter? zu

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tension on twitter elon musk shaded bill gates after it was reveal ed that the microsoft cofounder purchasedhe over a tesla. after the interview, the tesla ceo responded to a twitter user saying quote, my conerversation with gates has been underwhelming. >> my conversations with you have been b underwhelming. well, he can afford any number of cars he wants >> but that's the new insult >> all right, flip phones are flopping consumers are complaining about two new expensive phones that feature folding displays, but according to reports, the motorola razr screen is already separating from the body bubbling up there. completely damage iing the phon after just a few days of use the same could be said about the samsung galaxy z as the new folding display. seems to feature plastic, not glass as advertiseded. one person posting this say iin the crack occurred when he opened the phone i'm not sure why, i guess the flip phone is, has a sleeker profile? >> absolutely. i have a smaller version of the iphone which is you know, just about fits in the pocket, but i think there's an appetite, i want the big

just a little later in the programme, we will hill hear from the bill and melinda gates foundation aboutthe virus if it spreads to developing countries where healthcare systems will be far less able to cope. president trump has been celebrating his acquittal by the us senate, saying he went through hell during his impeachment. during a long statement full of vitriol and resentment, he claimed he'd been vindicated. laura trevelya n been vindicated. laura trevelyan reports. at the national prayer breakfast, the newly acquitted donald trump was in no mood for brotherly love or turning the other cheek. as everybody knows, my family, our great country, and your president have been put through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people. the president set about the business of score settling, reserving particular scorn for senator mitt romney, the lone republican who voted to convict him, citing faith as a factor. i don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. house speaker nancy pelosi, who tops the president's list of enemies, fire

finally, jeff, i have a question on valuations totally unscientific but i remember back in 2000 bill gatestepped down as microsoft's ceo in january of 2000 really convenient team market wise we had disney ceo bob iger step down just yesterday, kind of a surprise nike's ceo four months ago might that be a sign valuations are rich when you have these companies that have been on a nice run, ceos in place for a while saying now is the time to step back? >> that's an interesting observation. although the buyback programs led by those executives maybe aren't showing the same thing. we have to look at the expiration of contracts. clearly they're driving a lot of this turnover. it's an interesting observation. one we will have to see if there's more evidence of. >> we will certainly watch that. jeff, burns, thank you >>> speaking of, disney ceo bob iger has decided to step down from that role, installing the head of parts division bob chapek in his place. julia boorstin sat down with both of them last night and has the highlights. >> bob iger stepping back as ceo of the company, having transformed

bill gates tonight saying this may be the once-in-a-century pathogen we've been worried about. team is covering the story from all over the world. also breaking, the democratic candidates blast the administration's response to the coronavirus. only on cbs tonight, what michael bloomberg just told "60 minutes." >> donald trump fired the pandemic staff, and so we have nobody there. >> o'donnell: whiteout co

meanwhile, somebody like bill gates who is number two on the list worth 30 billion less has given 40ike this, not just disease eradication but new energy solutions, and that's the big question is it's very nebulous, where will the money go? >> that's my next question. where does $10 billion get you in this fight, and what kind of impact would it have? >> that's -- there are plenty of ngos out there planting trees and trying to get clean cook stoves for families in india, and they could use every cent they could get, absolutely, but planting trees is not going to get us out of this. it's all about getting off of carbon yesterday, and many of his employees point out that amazon web services, their cloud computing, they work with fossil fuel industries to find new pockets of oil and gas faster at a time when science is saying we can't afford to burn the stuff we already know about. that's not to mention all the ships and trucks, and planes it takes to get our toothbrushes to our doorstep. if he was able to harness the power of that company, amazon is the only retail company that doesn't

>> maybe that's the way to insult bill gates, to say your conversations with him were not impressive otherwise what do you say? he is bill gates. >> bernstein and morgan stanley upped their price targets but keep their market perform. the judge is back. let's get to the half, with coop >>> carl thanks. i'm scott wapner, front and center, the apple bombshell and enshoeing selloff in stocks after the company says it won't meet its revenue target because of the coronavirus what happens to your money if the engine of this market suddenly starts to sputter it is 12:00 noon and this is the "halftime report." >>> virus fears taking a bite out of apple. >>> semis getting slammed on the apple news is this a buying opportunity the traders take their positions. >>> the record rally, the 2020 elections, and his new bets, billionaire investor leon cooperman joins us for the hour. the investment committee is ready to go. "halftime report" starts right now. >>> welcome. good to have you with us on this tuesday. our investment committee here today, josh brown, stephanie link -- also with us from boy

stocks are up smarply in their public debuts ppd, backed by carlyle and slowedinger, backed by bill gatesas the biotech sector is on track for its best week in more than a year. today, mizouho advocates abbvie and pfizer as two of their top rated picks. jenny you own both of those names. five stocks. some of them we never talk about. i referenced the xbi, the ibb, xlv. everything is pacing to their best week in at least about a year. >> i really like this initiation because of the way he phrased it was there is remarkable innovation in biopharma and i think that's a nice way to look at the fact that this is where the growth is going to come from this is the beauty of the highly technological world we live in we get better biopharma. we bought abbvie last year the thought there was based on cash flows there were tremendous cash flows. there was so much negativity, as it turned out they by allergan, and they have huge synergies from that. they have a deep pipeline and they have more drugs coming line and drugs can be replenished as others come off. the innovation is driving their business p

1000000000 users they included allegations that the virus was created in a biological weapons well that bill gates was somehow involved that it can be cured by drinking bleach misleading messages about how you can prevent. being infected by the current a virus by chewing on broad garlic or taking some kind of say line solution sensors trying to strike a delicate balance between getting rid of this kind of misinformation but at the same time allowing some kind of public discourse to continue social media. messages rumors say. local radical system overwhelmed right hospitals run out of supplies by the city the problem is they would say ok why we are under control it is a very delicate balance to strike for adding government all the while you don't want to. write $0.60 right on the other hand you never know if we tell them which is what would have. by january 20th or the number of confirmed cases had climbed to $200.00 plus airports and several countries were screening passengers coming out of china and president xi jinping finally broke his silence the state run media got the message and then confir

about 7 million euros, thanks to a vaccine initiative, the german government, and investors like bill gatesthe fund is also backing companies in the u.s. and australia. >> clinical trials will tell us which t technology is most effective. we are glad other companies have different approaches to deal with this virus. we are relying on our technology. correspondent: here is the difference. with current vaccinations, it is the weeknd virus that is injected, after which the human body of alps antibodies to fight it. the german researchers want a vaccine that bypasses the virus. their process aims to get the human body to stimulate just a crucial part of the coronavirus in order to protect itself against it. >> i am assuming the first clinical trials with vaccines for the new coronavirus can be launched this year, including in germany. correspondent: but approving a vavaccine could takeke years, st may come online too late for the current epidemic. helena: french president manwell president macron -- french president manuel macron is offering allies a chance to partner with france and its nuclea

what gets very interesting and this is one of the themes on focused on commas bill gates has this thingk technologies are over hyped near-term and under hyped long-term. so if you look at augmented reality, that something tim cook brought up in 2016 he said i believe a significant portion of the population in all countries will have an augmented reality experience every day. almost like eating three meals. obviously that is not the case and its 2020. what they're gonna do in this next year in the fourth quarter as they are going to launch phones with 3d sensing on the back of your phone. so company like this is adding another chip to the iphone, there revenue to apple can be a 50 to 60% even if apple doesn't sell anymore iphones and they sold the year before. maria: i love this idea and you own this. you have been nibbling on chinese companies. tell me about that in the face of this coronavirus. >> the good news was over a week ago we went ahead and said this doesn't make sense no one is discounting this virus. we shorted a lot of chinese related nays that were sitting in taiwan and chi

yourself so the chance of opportunities are limitless you know you one of them with success with bill gates on the continent does the number of for you to tell me how much you could or in the case of advertising is that not so much anymore really be is these engagements engagement modern followers because you can have 5000 followers and have people engage in a specific you say flowers or it's cost. or briss let's all jews right if you have engagement around our conversation then you can attract business opportunities we can because of that and good men and i just in time you could have a huge number of followers i know having a good mentor around anything that is what do you of it business is interest and you have pointed out that they indeed ninny opportunities on the line but there are also challenges so what happens when you come from a country where the cost of internet is too high now for example if you're coming from nigeria where $1.00 g.b. of data costs about $2.00 right well someone is coming from zimbabwe and house to pay a mind booking $75.00 u.s. dollars for the same amount of d