david: you were a german speaker, i assume. thomas: yes. david: did you learn french as well?homas: i learned french in school. it was my third language. i did latin, english, then french. at the time i did not know how valuable it would be that i learned french. david: in the united states, you often hear people saying i want my little boy to grow up to be an insurance person. they want them to be a doctor or lawyer. you never hear them say you want my boy to grow up to be an insurance person. did your parents tell you to be in the insurance world? thomas: not at all. after i finished my studies, i was not really ready to decide in which industry i went, so i went into consulting to prolong a little bit the journey and test certain industries. during that consulting time, i did amazing projects. somewhere in insurance. others were in women's underwear. others were in i.t. distribution, so i saw very different sectors. i really liked the insurance sector at the time because i saw exactly what you mentioned earlier, that there is an industry that is deeply rooted in society bec

david: wow. someone goes into your store in india and buys a $5,000 personal computer, do they call you up and say we just sold somebody a $5,000 personal computer? they don't call you about that? enrique: this summer we were in india, so i went to stores without telling them who i was. you should see their faces when i go into their store, they look at me, i ask them about what products they were selling and at some point i said, you know, i am the ceo of the company. and they became white. [laughter] david: they didn't believe it? enrique: after a while, they believed it. some of them would look at the web to make sure it is me. [laughter] david: why should somebody want to join hewlett-packard as an employee? why is it better than working at apple or one of the other competitors you may have? enrique: when i became ceo, i defined four objectives for the company. one of the four objectives is to become a school of talent. our value proposition to employees is that they can join the company, the

david: your business is global.hat is the biggest place where you have the most people, france, europe, or the united states? thomas: europe. 20% of the business is in france. 40% in europe. 20% of the you -- in the u.s. and 20% in asia. david: growing a business the end acquisition or are you going to do something like that? thomas: as i said i started with 80% life insurance and now we are at 20% having cap the same revenue which meant that we had to do transactions of the account -- of the company you mentioned earlier, the ipoed in the u.s. and we did transactions in the area of 30 billion euro. david: as the ceo of a company, do the insurance people come to you and say we have a big risk that we will underwrite or do they leave you out of the underwriting business? thomas: it depends on the size. normally they are doing their own business so we have a clear grid of competence for underwriting and it is about 99% of all risks done in the entities and so it should be. there are some risks that i have to take a de

david: cancer-related drugs. there are some cancer-related drugs, and i guess you have some as well, but they tend to deal with cancer, once you have cancer, they try to ameliorate the side effects or the effects of it. what about something that prevents cancer? is that realistic in my lifetime? dr. narashimhan: that is something that's a heavy interest of the field, and at our company, we just got great data about a breast cancer drug that can be given to women to prevent it recurring. where there's a lot of interest right now is can you identify things in the blood, things that are circulating, tumor dna, that would show the cancer is starting to happen in the body but well before it would be detectable in any scan? if we can get those tests to an adequate level of precision and treat patients before the cancer shows up, that would be the big opportunity, but that's still some time away. david: you produce drugs that help people with their lives, so why aren't you a more popular industry? you know, the private

david: let's talk about the economy.ted states has a situation where we have reasonably good girl -- good growth in 2023, over 3%. europe has not grown quite as well. why do you think the united states is pulling away from the european and chinese economies in terms of our growth. is it something about the american business environment that the united states has recovered from covid may be better than europe did or china did? thomas: a couple of factors, fiscal stimulus, the fiscal stimulus in the u.s. was higher than it was in europe and fiscal stimulus leads to more demand. secondly, there is a lot of on shoring happening or reassuring happening from somewhere else into the u.s., which is obviously something that creates growth. certainly, when you look at your demography, this is much healthier than what we have in europe. david: recently we've had high interest rates are high inflation. i assume you got through that well, but now we will go into an error will -- where interest rates come down and inflation seems to b

david? >> david: rachel scott tonight. rachel, thank you. >>> this evening, the alarming images coming in from haiti. the u.s. military evacuating some american personnel before the sun came up over the weekend. tonight here, abc's matt rivers, who has reported extensively on haiti for us, with the troubling images now coming in. >> reporter: tonight, a gang-led rebellion putting haiti on the brink of collapse. this elderly woman shot in the leg, desperate for help. and with the u.s. military helicoptering nonessential personnel out of the u.s. embassy under the cover of darkness early sunday, secretary of state antony blinken traveling to jamaica tonight for an emergency meeting with caribbean leaders. it comes after coordinated gang attacks to overthrow the government of acting prime minister ariel henri. the man behind it all, a warlord called barbecue, demanding the acting prime minister step down. we spoke to him over the weekend. if ariel henry resigns, will you stop fighting? [ speaking in a non-english language ] "

david? >> david: not taking any chances. pierre thomas leading us off, pierre, thank you. >>> we are also tracking a monster blizzard slamming the u.s. at this hour from california to nevada to colorado. they are warning of life-threatening conditions in some areas. snow in some places up to 5 inches an hour, up to 12 feet of snow possible. winds topping 100 miles an hour. torrential rains at lower elevations. and this all moves into colorado and texas, where it could fuel those fires. tonight, whiteout conditions. this is soda springs, california. people warned to stay inside, told to keep several days of food on hand. even ski slopes have shut down. yosemite national park closed to visitors tonight. abc's faith abubey from california now. >> reporter: tonight, rare blizzard warnings for the sierra nevada mountains as the biggest storm of the winter slams california with up to 12 feet of snow, life-threatening conditions, and impossible travel in the mountains. >> some of our highest peaks have seen winds in excess of 140 m

david? >> david: aaron, thank you. >>> meantime, there is breaking news here in new york city tonight. a horrific shooting at a subway station. authorities say a man was shot in the head and is in critical condition at this hour. subway riders seen ducking for cover, and of course, this all comes just days after the national guard was sent into the subway by new york governor kathy hochul. let's get right to erielle reshef with late reporting. what do we know so far? >> reporter: well, david, we want to take you straight to some harrowing video that is coming into our newsroom. you can see subway riders ducking for cover and screaming in horror, moments after a man was shot in the head inside that station in downtown brooklyn shortly before 5:00 p.m., just as that rush hour was beginning tonight. the victim seen here on a stretcher, rushed to the hospital in critical condition. police sources say that a suspect is in custody. and a weapon has been recovered. but as you mentioned, david, this

david? >> david: border security front and center for both campaigns. mary, while we have you, we had that breaking news last night here, the supreme court taking up donald trump's appeal over presidential immunity. that's the january 6th case. of course, the other federal case we're tracking is the documents case at mar-a-lago. donald trump wants that trial to be moved until after the election. tonight, the special counsel jack smith with his own proposed date for the trial in that case? >> reporter: david, that trial was expected to start on may 20th, but there have been disputes over how to handle these classified documents at trial. tonight, jack smith is now proposing a trial date of july 8th. the trump team, though, is still pushing for this to happen after the election. there's a hearing on this tomorrow, though, where we may hear more from the judge. david? >> david: mary bruce on both stories tonight. mary, thank you. >>> we turn now to that horrific scene in gaza. tonight, authorit

david? >> david: erielle reshef tonight. erielle, thank you. >>> we turn now to the race for president, and tonight, vice president kamala harris, the first vice president to ever visit a planned parenthood that provides abortions, telling voters, women's reproductive rights, abortion rights, are on the ballot this presidential election. and tonight here, what's happened, even in conservative states, when the issue of abortion has been put on the ballot after roe went down. here's abc's rachel scott tonight. >> reporter: tonight, kamala harris making history as the first vice president to visit a women's health clinic where abortions are provided, a sign of just how central this issue has become to the biden campaign. >> and walking through this clinic, that's what i saw. are people who have dedicated their lives to the profession of providing health care in a safe place, that gives people dignity. and i think we should all want that for each other. >> reporter: 21 states have banned or restricted access to abortion since th

david: and how they stay there. david: you don't feel inadequate being only the second wealthiest man? their granddaddy's hewlett-packard. it was started in 1939. by 2015 it was two separate companies. hewlett-packard enterprises and hp bank. recently i sat down to talk about the success of the personal computer and the printing company following the split. so, which company is better? hewlett-packard or enterprises or hp bank? >> as you can imagine, i have a very unbiased view. i have to say hp inc.. it isn't only that we do printers and pcs, we think we are the company that is more flexible. we work to make employees productive, to make employees engaged in this is what we stand for. >> but your main business today is computers and printers, that's your main business. i could tell from your accent you are not from baltimore or washington, d.c. where did you grow up? >> i can say you are very astute. you are really detecting that i'm not from the u.s. is very difficult, i know. but i'm originally from spain. david:

david. mike, it's the law itself. we've seen the law used against exxonmobil once and it failed. partly because of the fact that they have this clause law that few don't need a victim to define fraud but in fact, the very definition, you go into the federal register and look up the definition of fraud, meaning of fraud in and dishonesty. i'm going to "it now"usually implied under state law is the term fraud or dishonesty as matters like larceny and left and resulting in financial loss". there was not a result in financial loss here. there was not a victim. >> that's absolutely right and basic tentative law and for there to be a crime, there needs to be a victim and there was no victim here. talking about some of the most sophisticated financial operators in the world in new york city and all led to president trump again. what this is is this is a campaign fine masquerading as some sort of legal fine and know what they're doing and they know the impossibility of coming up with half a billion.

david? >> david: we'll see. stephanie ramos tonight, thank you. >>> now to the race for the white house tonight. with donald trump's laug daughter-in-law now running the republican national committee, abc news confirming that potential employees are now being asked, was the 2020 election stolen? the false claim from donald trump. here's rachel scott. >> reporter: tonight, with donald trump's takeover of the republican national committee complete, installing his own daughter-in-law, lara trump, to run the rnc, abc news has learned that the rnc is now asking anyone who wants to work for them if they believe trump's false claim that the 2020 election was stolen. donald trump lost the 2020 election by 7 million votes. lost the electoral college. and lost more than 60 cases challenging the election, some in front of judges appointed by trump. and tonight, with seven months to go before the presidential election, trump is already trying to sow doubt on the next election. >> and we're not going to allow them to rig the

david. he sits opposite me.ause i am very i haven’t seen my child for a long time, tell me why this happened, well, because my wrong lifestyle, bad company, that ’s why it all turned out this way, this is when it started, it started when she died... my mother in 2008 , david was 3 years old at that time. it’s just that karen had already left us at that time. what can you say about your life together? well, i can say that when we met, everything was fine , well, generally wonderful, my mother was happy, his parents were happy, he immediately introduced me to them, first with my dad, then with my mother, he was very happy when i found out that i was pregnant, my pregnancy personally was very long-awaited. it was about cheating, i found out later, i lived with my mother in the village, that is, in the ryazan region, and karen directly due to the fact that he worked in ryazan, well, naturally he lived there and lived in ryazan, a person comes once a week, leaves for a while, i had to go there, there was no point in

david: ok.you ultimately came to mckinsey after some public health work and why did you not stay at mckinsey? dr. narashimhan: mckinsey was a great training ground for a physician who did not anything about a pnl, a balance sheet, new nothing about m&a or valuation. i learned a lot quickly. but i felt a little detached from the real action. i had an opportunity presented to me to join novartis pharmaceuticals, to look at the r&d strategy at novartis at the time. and it was a little bit of a whim, sort of a gamble to see how that would work out. i would never have imagined it unfolded the way you did but it was great. david: so you work your way up and then, at the age of 40, somebody at novartis says we have a 40-year-old who didn't go to business school, is not from switzerland, and is a medical doctor who has never practiced medicine, let's make him the ceo. dr. narashimhan: that's right. david: were you surprised? dr. narashimhan: i was shocked . i was shocked when they first even asked me to

david: were they educated? dr.arashimhan: they were, my father alongside his brothers were some of the first people in our family to go to college in india. my father did his phd in india. i was one of the first people to come to the united states. my mother came to carnegie mellon, became a nuclear engineer. it was pretty extraordinary story that they were able to come from relatively modest beginnings, beginning with my grandparents, relatively small places in india, and find a way to the united states. david: you grew up in the pittsburgh area? dr. narashimhan: a steelers fan indeed. david: you did well in high school? dr. narashimhan: i did well. david: you went to the university of chicago. why did you go there? dr. narashimhan: it's interesting, i applied to all of the ivies and didn't get in anywhere and one place that admitted me was the university of chicago. it was such a gift. i would still credit it with how to think, synthesize and be limbless a curious. david: harvard recognizing its mistake admitted

david? >> david: good advice indeed. rob, thanks for this week. >>> now to the southern border tonight. and we're learning more about those alarming images, a group of migrants storming a barbed wire fence in texas. national guard troops were overwhelmed. abc's mireya villarreal at the border for us tonight. >> reporter: tonight, alarming video from the u.s.-mexico border. a group of migrants pulling down razor wire, breaking through this fencing. a handful of texas guardsmen pushing them away, as they stormed toward the border wall. sources tell abc news a group of migrants had been staging in this area in el paso waiting for border patrol agents to arrive. within hours, about 500 turning themselves in to border patrol agents for processing. the rio grande river is the international boundary dividing mexico and the u.s. along most of texas. after crossing, migrants face these two razor wire fences patrolled by the texas national guard before they can reach the federal border wall controlled by federal agents. texas gove

david? >> david: gio benitez on this again tonight.nd we are learning more about a horrific tragedy at a hotel pool in houston. an 8-year-old girl drowned after apparently being sucked into a pipe swimming at the doubletree hotel. her family had reported her missing. rescuers using a camera to find her inside a 16-inch pipe. her body recovered nearly 13 hours after she vanished. investigators are now trying to determine what went wrong with that pipe. >>> we turn now to that gambling scandal in major league baseball. just a short time ago before we came on tonight, the major league's highest paid star, the dodgers' shohei ohtani, breaking his silence after his interpreter and friend was accused of using ohtani's money to pay off more than $4 million in debts. victor oquendo from los angeles. >> reporter: for the first time tonight, shohei ohtani addressing the gambling scandal involving his former interpreter, ippei mizuhara, under investigation by major league baseball and the irs. [ speaking in a non-english language ] >> reporter: o

david? >> david: hard to know what to expect. in the meantime, aaron, the other breaking headline, there's also news in one of the criminal cases against donald trump tonight. the hush money trial scheduled to get underway next month. and we learned tonight that key witnesses and a piece of video that the country will remember will be allowed in this upcoming trial? >> reporter: david, the judge just ruled that two key witnesses will be allowed to testify. the recipient of the hush money, porn actress stormy daniels, and trump's former fixer, michael cohen. the judge will also allow the manhattan district attorney's office to refer to the "access hollywood" tape, the one on which trump explains how he grabbed women. david? >> david: aaron katersky leading us off here on a monday night. aaron, thank you. >>> in the meantime, we're going to turn now to authorities trying to crack down on the deadly violence during spring break on multiple beaches in florida. on one beach, a young man pulling out a gun in a crowded area. you can hea

david? >> david: mary, thank you. >>> to the other news this tuesday night, and to the images just coming in at this hour. the moment of the blast, after a deadly home explosion outside pittsburgh, killing two. the staggering damage tonight. the home in splinters, only the foundation left behind. the bodies of a man and woman found inside, and the description from the neighbors tonight, what the blast felt like far and wide. here's erielle reshef. >> reporter: tonight, a smoking crater is all that remains of a home after a massive explosion rocked a neighborhood outside pittsburgh, killing two people inside. >> i'm on the scene, and i got a house on the ground. completely on the ground. >> reporter: the home in crescent county, township, detonating just before 9:00 this morning. shock waves felt for miles. firefighters from multiple counties responding within minutes, saying they could feel the blast in their chests. >> we all felt and heard the explosion instantly. the column of white smoke

. >> david: hello, everyone, i'm david asman in for larry kudlow.ale of two presidents in new york. joe biden enlisted former president as barack obama and pill clinton to fund raise with him at radio city music hall for a star-studded affair. a far more somber occasion, donald trump attended the wake for nypd officer jonathan dillard. he was killed on monday night during a traffic stop in queens. the priorities and contrast of the two occasions and two presidents couldn't be more different. we'll talk about it with steve hilton and doug collins in just a moments. first fox news's nate foy has latest on the scene here in new york city. nate? >> reporter: david, good afternoon, we are expecting some protesters to arrive here outside radio city music hall momentarily. i say that, because two separate groups are meeting. one of them south of here at bryant park. another south of here at a separate park called bellview park. they're meeting at 5:00 p.m. both groups will be marching here where the fund-raiser is held with president joe biden and former p

david?> kayna whitworth leading us off on the breaking news, thank you. >>> we turn to major developments involving donald trump. today was the deadline for trump to put up a $464 million bond while an appeals court giving him ten more days now, and now saying he can post less than half that. ultimately if trump loses his appeal, he will owe it all. tonight trump appearing pleased with this decision and says he will come up with the money in ten days. new york's attorney general was preparing to take action on trump's properties in lieu of the bond. but tonight trump's efforts to further stall the first criminal case, the hush money case, did not work. the fireworks in court today, the judge not happy and saying trump's first criminal trial will begin three weeks from today. senior investigative correspondent aaron katersky outside the courthouse tonight. >> reporter: donald trump walked into court today grim-faced. it was the deadline for him to post a $464 million bond in his civil fraud t

david. >> david: mireya villarreal tonight. thank you. >>> we turn now to capitol hill and to the newest attempt at a republican revolt in the house. rise after the house speaker today mike johnson relayed on both republicans and democrats to pass a spending bill to keep the government open, the far right republican tonight filing a motion to oust yet another house speaker. rachel scott on the hill. >> reporter: tonight, with just hours to spare, speaker mike johnson resisting pressure from far-right republicans, putting a bill on the house floor to avert a government shutdown. the passing. package passing, with democrats carrying it across the finish line. the bill provides funding for homeland security, health human services and labor. it also included money for 2,000 new border patrol agents, and 8,000 detention beds for migrants. some republicans demanding more on immigration. >> we gotta regroup after this and get serious about some real cuts and wasteful spending, and in securing the border. >> reporter: but house republi

david: steve. you know, another reason they may not want to talk, it relates closely to the migration problem, so much of what happening at the border we lates to crime, and relates to crime, and international crime with people from china, you don't know why they are coming in and criminal gangs from venezuela, so. and the former president, trump, has categorized it as migrant crime that is sticking. >> yes. because it is right. that is what is happening this is the direct result of the policy, open border policies, we have enough crime already. in america, we don't need to be importing it and re rere-- >> they come back again, they are rearrested, instead of being during the book of them -- throwing book at them, they come back. over and over. to commit more crimes over and over. this is open border, this is outrageous, when we see a situation like this, important that we h hold democrat politicians accountable, every single one of these crimes, is avoidable, and should have been avoided. david: d

david? >> david: rachel scott leading us off, thank you. let's bring in abc news political director rick klein at the big board tonight. donald trump focused on president biden. president biden focused on donald trump, and rick, let's get right to the numbers, because if the election were held today, if this is another rematch here where does the race stand? >> yeah, david, it's going to be a very tight race. three recent polls showing donald trump with a very slight edge in the race for president. it's going to be a long and very close campaign. and the entire campaign is going to come down to just these seven battleground states. this is where is battle is going to be fought. and so key in this is going to be the independent voters. many of them voting for nikki haley tonight, and many of them saying they are skeptical of donald trump. if haley gets out of the race tonight, the battle will be on for these independents and donald trump is going to have his work cut out for him. >> david: a

david? >> david: erielle reshef reporting. erielle, thanks. >>> now to the new troubles for boeing tonight. a longtime worker, 32 years with boeing, turned whistle-blower, alleging safety issues, found dead. authorities say he took his own life. and it comes amid a new report tonight. the faa audit of boeing's production line and what it found. here's trevor ault. >> reporter: tonight, a boeing whistle-blower now dead from an apparent suicide only days after his lawyer says he'd been deposed. john barnett worked for boeing for 32 years, and was involved in a lawsuit alleging serious safety concerns with the 787 dreamliner and retaliation from the company. his lawyers say barnett was "in very good spirits" and "we didn't see any indication he would take his own life." but police in south carolina say he died saturday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. his body found inside a car in a hotel parking lot. in january, just weeks after a door plug blew off an alaska airlines boeing 737 max-9, barnett spoke with "tmz li