our special guest, former microsoft ceo and the current owners of the los angeles clippers steve ballmer is with us. it was a busy week. a good week for stocks. wall street betting the moderate candidate will win and preserve the european union. the nasdaq compo crossing 6,000 r the first time ever this past week. the white house calling it the biggest individual and business tax cut in american history. the proposal will cut corporate tax from 35% to 15%. it doubles the standard deduction individuals can take and simply supplies into three tears. the proposal would also repeal the death tax and alternative minimum tax it eliminates all deductions besides mortgage interest and charitable donations. nafta negotiations. president trump telling the leaders of canada and mexico that the u.s. will not be pulling out of and a half today. but the president pledged the deal will be renegotiated. am zong reporting a strong first quarter, shattering analyst expectations. revenue coming in at 37.5 billion. alphabet, the parent of google smashed first quarter earnings. at 24.75 billion dollars. micr

our special guest, former microsoft ceo and the current owners of the los angeles clippers steve ballmerweek. a good week for stocks. wall street betting the moderate candidate will win and preserve the european union. the nasdaq composite crossing

clippers owner steve ballmer believes in data. in it so much he has launched a comprehensive data driven look at government spending. it is called usa facts. earlier, david gura met him and asked if measuring productivity impact has gotten any easier. >> measuring productivity is a weird concept to me. measuring how people live, how they eat, what their housing looks like, how much money they have to spend on those things, that looks clear to me. obviously, we all like having cell phones.it has changed lives. it has made things different . yet, it doesn't show up in a particular way in some of the gdp and productivity numbers. to me, that may not be the most important point relative to what we are trying to do with usa facts. we had gdp and all the numbers out there, but i'm not sure it really captures the citizens experience, and never will capture the citizens experience. reporter: when you look at tech market exclusively or the sharing economy, it is hugely popular. more and more people are becoming part of it, yet it is not ma

our special guest, former microsoft ceo and the current owners of the los angeles clippers steve ballmer is with us. it was a busy week. a good week for stocks. wall street betting the moderate candidate will win and preserve the european union. the nasdaq composite crossing 6,000 for the first time ever this past week. the white house calling it the biggest individual and business tax cut in american history. the proposal will cut corporate tax from 35% to 15%. it doubles the standard deduction individuals can take and simply supplies into three tears. the proposal would also repeal the death tax and alternative minimum tax it eliminates all deductions besides mortgage interest and charitable donations. nafta negotiations. president trump telling the leaders of canada and mexico that the u.s. will not be pulling out of and a half today. but the president pledged the deal will be renegotiated. am zong reporting a strong first quarter, shattering analyst expectations. revenue coming in at 37.5 billion. alphabet, the parent of google smashed first quarter earnings. at 24.75 billion dollars

our special guest, former microsoft ceo and the current owners of the los angeles clippers steve ballmer good week for stocks. wall street betting the moderate candidate will win and preserve the european union. the nasdaq composite crossing

our special guest, former microsoft ceo and the current owners of the los angeles clippers steve ballmerusy week. a good week for stocks. wall street betting the moderate candidate will win and preserve the european union. the nasdaq composite crossing

clippers owner steve ballmer was fired up during his team's opening playoff game on saturday.siasm. he'll be bringing the energy to the staple center for game two. before that he joins us in studio 57. where is the fired. steve ballmer. let's see it steve. welcome back to "cbs this morning". you wouldn't think that's a fired up topic but the way he lays it out it is exciting. very interesting. >> at his conferences he used to have at microsoft that enthusiasm and more. >> fired up for facts, right, steve? fired up for facts. >> we'll talk about that in just a moment. now it's time to show you this morning's headlines. the blood from a komoto dragon macon taken a type of antibiotic. scientists isolateed a substance in the blood that has germ killing abilities. it can be used for drugs to fight dangerous superbugs resistant to medicines. >> science excites us every day. >> an issue of variety features gayle on her cover. half a dozen women will be honor at a luncheon. she will receive an award for her humanitarian efforts. >> look gorgeous as always. >>> most nba owners are conc

emily: steve ballmer, former ceo of microsoft, owner of the l.a. clippers. you for being on the show. great to have you. steve: my pleasure. ♪ ♪ [opera music plays] [singing in italian] ashlee: this is muriwai beach in new zealand. this is a sheep. and this is gandalf. most people come to new zealand to check out the country's unmatched beauty, and to get their middle earth fix, and that makes perfect sense. but on this trip, i'm hunting for something else, something less obvious.

clippers owner, former microsoft ceo steve ballmer joins us. ng out my probabilities. the clippers, they have 100% chance to make the postseason. >> that's true. >> we've already started the darn thing, joe! >> no flies on that. >> that's my headline. and i think 51% chance to advance, i guess, is also, that's i mean my cbs app has really given me some good stuff here, right? who do you like -- i know you like the clippers. do you -- you think there's a chance to do that? or are you realistic? or how -- >> we've got a team that could take it all. we really do. if we play right, if we play fast, if we play with the right spirit, we have a team that could take it all. now, you know, the oddsmakers pick other guys ahead of us. but i think we're everybody -- we're the guy everybody doesn't want to play. we've got three absolute superstars. chris paul, blake griffin d'andre jordan. nobody really wants to -- wants to play us. on the other hand, there are teams that are favored, and that's not our problem. our problem is to go out there and win a ball

in 2014, steve ballmer left microsoft after a 14 year reign, bringing his trademark energy and enthusiasm from the boardroom to the basketball court with a $2 billion deal to buy the l.a. clippersoday on bloomberg "studio 1.0," steve ballmer.

steve ballmer digging it and clippers even the series 99-91 as they head to utah. >>> on tuesday thetors even their series with bucks. game three coming up as that shifts to milwaukee. that's it from here. back to you. >> all right, appreciate it. >>> up next in "the pulse." remember this family. the kids who interrupted an interview. wait until you hear what they're up to now. >> how could you forget them? >>> the missing wallet found after nearly 60 years. >>> on our facebook page a story getting a lot of shares. what landed richard simmons in the hospital. on atmfans.com. ito treat your toughy nasal allergies... unlike pills that don't treat congestion, clarispray covers 100 percent of your nasal allergy symptoms. clarispray. from the makers of claritin. poallergies?reather. stuffy nose? can't sleep? take that. a breathe right nasal strip instantly opens your nose up to 38% more than allergy medicine alone. shut your mouth and say goodnight, mouthbreathers. breathe right. atmore than one flavor, oruch texture, or color.ing. a good c

ballmer,ad, steve microsoft founder and ceo, owner of the l.a. clippers. that and the nba playoffs coming up. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: this is "bloomberg markets: trump's first 100 days." with a focus on policy and politics under the new administration. i'm david gura. what is retirement like for steve ballmer? he's been dividing his time between the staples center and an office in seattle, where he has been pouring over government data as part of a new venture called you is a fact. his aim is to give us a comprehensive look at government spending. he joins us on bloomberg markets. great to have you with us. help us understand what you are trying to do. you put all this data into spreadsheets and try to aggregated and look at it in a new way. what are you trying to rid of? mr. balmer: about three years ago, i started a project for my wife try try to understand some stuff that was related to our philanthropic interest, where government dollars are important. my try to form a total picture of where does government money come from, where does it get spence

steve ballmer, former c.e.o. of microsoft announced a new project this week. l.a. clippersest stockholder in microsoft launching "usa facts," comp hencete, nonpaisans data atform that tracks government spending and performance. i sat down with him tuesday at the economic club of new york about his career and new venture. let me start back to where you were. when you look for -- when you had the question that you wanted to answer, you know, how is government money spent, and you went looking for that, had anybody else tried to do this? >> you can find everything in our -- in our site, you can find someplace else. i mean, we didn't create anything original except the structure around the data. so the answer is yes on every topic. and there are actually some very good sites that pick certain of these topics and do them very well. i saw a great visualization the other day of how government money gets spent. that's super. you don't see many place where is people are adding together state, federal and local data. that's pretty rare because most governments present themselves gove