david: who helped start it? deborah: there was a group of people in utah that started as a publishing company. this was not always a technology company or a subscription company. it started as a publishing company publishing records and genealogy to help people discover their past. david: you have risen up to run a publicly traded company, what's the market value of this company today? deborah: we are privately owned by blackstone and the transaction was at close to $5 billion. david: it was public? deborah: it was public about 10 years ago. david: now it's privately owned by blackstone. deborah: that is correct. david: presumably, blackstone would probably try to sell it at some point or take it public but not in the immediate future? deborah: they are the owners and our partnership with them is very close. david: how will you grow the company? it's the biggest in the united states, the biggest in the world. everybody wants growth, how will you grow the company, do you have new lines of activity you will get in

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david: and you got it? dr. shah: i did. david: what was the challenging you have there?te about it in your book, but why don't you describe the challenge you had to do there over like two or three-year period of time you were there. dr. shah: this project was really their big initial effort. bill and melinda had read an article about a disease called rotavirus that was killing 400,000 kids around the world every year. and in that same article, they pointed out that a company, merck, was rolling out a vaccine in the united states to address rotavirus where kids actually didn't die of the disease. and so they had a very simple question of, why couldn't we get the vaccines to every child on the planet? in particular those that need , them to survive? david: so your project was to get this vaccine to everybody in the world, essentially every child who needed it? dr. shah: every childhood vaccine that existed to every child who needed it. we started a global birth cohort of about 105 million kids at the time. we assessed the data and concluded that probably about half of thos

david: well, you survived that.fter you accomplished that global immunization program, you said you wanted to do something different. so you decided to leave. what did you do next? dr. shah: i was at gaates for a while. after president obama got elected, i got a phone call to join the obama administration. it had always been my dream since i left medical school to work for gore that i would get a chance to serve in the administration, so i moved to washington, d.c. david: so you wanted initially to work for the secretary of agriculture, who i guess is still the secretary of agriculture. dr. shah: [laughs] it is, yes, tom vilsack. david: he has had a couple of tours of duty in the position. you later got asked to be the head of usaid. what is usaid? dr. shah: the united states agency for international development is america's prime development and humanitarian agency. it was founded by john f. kennedy. it has a very clear and direct mission. the idea is bringing dignity, security, hope and opportunity to the poorest

david: i've noticed that. dr. vickers: you want to ask the question, why am i dropping weight even though i have been tried for the last five years had nothing happen. new onset diabetes that for some reason now, i don't have a history of it, i'm over 65 and i'm developing diabetes. then suddenly, although not early on, it's a case where either somehow my urine turns dark or i began to have some shades of change in my eyes or my thumbnails that begin to look a bit of yellow, what we call, jaundice. david: you call weight loss a sign of something not good. i know it's not directly in your area, but ozempic, which is now a very popular drug to reduce weight, some people said it might cause some type of tumors. are you an advocate of ozempic for everybody or for some people? dr. vickers: i think as the new glp-1 inhibitors, which are these drugs that really affect how we feel about being full become further advanced, i think it's going to be an overall seachange for american health care, including cancer. because we

david: so it is behind us now. as rogers once said, the country is never safe as long as they house is in session, right? so you never know, but it may never come back, right? sec. mayorkas: one would hope not. david: let us talk about the border. it appears there are a lot of people coming in over the border. this is obviously one of the subjects that some people want to impeach you over. is it that we are getting more people coming in over the border illegally or just the appearance of that? sec. mayorkas: oh, no, the number of encounters at the southern border is very high, but it's very, very important, number one, to contextualize it and number two, to explain it. from a context perspective, the world is seeing the greatest level of displacement since at least world war ii. a recent report was that there's 73 million displaced people in the united states. the challenge of migration is not exclusive to the southern border, nor to the western hemisphere. it is global. when i speak to partners across the atlantic

david? >> david: rachel scott in washington, thank you. we, of course, will stay on all the developments after this verdict, but there is a lot of news to get to, including this machete attack in new york's times square, the severe storms in multiple states, and new cases of bird through in the u.s. >>> we start here with the other news and a major turn in ukraine. a major reversal from the white house tonight. the biden administration giving ukraine permission now to strike inside parts of russia with american-made weapons for the first time. here's martha raddatz. >> reporter: tonight with the russian assault on ukraine's second-largest city, kharkiv, intensifying, the biden administration has made a major reversal, allowing u.s.-supplied weapons to be fired inside russia. for years, the administration balked at the idea, fearing a strike on russia itself with u.s.-made weapons could draw the u.s. into direct conflict with russia. u.s. officials insisting tonight the u.s. weapons will be used only to strike russian military sites that ar

david: no, this is david. by the way, she wassing having trouble with her ears because there's so many people talking behind her. thank you very much, madison. joining me now with reaction is fox news contributor joe concha and former michigan gubernatorial candidate tudor dixon, also a trump 2024 campaign surrogate. tudor, i was trying the think back, i know ronald reagan was there in 1980, and, of course, he won new york and surprised everybody by doing so. this is for tudor. there she is. good to see you pop up again. i can't think of another candidate besides ronald -- maybe jack kemp, maybe jack kemp would have done it because a lot of his policies focused on the inner city and trying to revive the inner city, but that's about a it. can you think of anybody else, tudor? >> no. but this is the a great message to republican candidates. go places where you are unexpected, and that is something we could have done more of in michigan. i look back at my campaign, and i think many republican candidates are looki

david, there you go. david: thank you, larry. i'm david as asman in for elizah macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. biden admin strays piling on the debt with the president bailing out $7.7 billion in student loan debt. this is a new fed report found 84 bernards healthcares of adults say -- 84% of adults say rise in cost made financial situation worse and grady trim seatbelt live at the white house with the very latest on this. hey, grady. reporter: hey, david. this latest round of cancel student loan debt for around 160,000 borrowers through various programs and in making the announcement, the under secretary of education said we congratulation those borrowers on their due forgiveness and we'll continue to work to deliver relief to others. >> why are they due forgiveness? >> everybody has a different story as to why they need student loans. everybody has a different reasoning as to why they want to go to college. i cannot speak for everyone. >> forgiveness due to them? >> what we have been very clear about is the system -- the student loan system needs to be fi

david: i see.et's talk about your background for a moment. you grew up where? deborah: i was born in new york , and when i was six i moved to a small town near charleston, south carolina. david: why did you do that? deborah: my dad was discriminated against at work and my parents felt like there was no future for them in new york. his friend, an indian american family, said come down to charleston, i work at the naval shipyard, and the government does not discriminate. so my dad, i have no idea what he was thinking, picked up our whole family, we drove to a place he had never been, and we moved and became south s carolinians. david: were your parents immigrants from china or were they born here? deborah: my parents are both immigrants from hong kong and they met and married here. david: so you grew up in charleston, right? deborah: yes. david: where did you go to high school? deborah: it's a place called hanahan high school. a small town 30 minutes from charleston. david: then you went to duke univ

david: you did pretty well at harvard. bill: yes. david: when you graduated, you then did what? i graduated and worked for my dad. my grandfather and his brother started a firm for financing real estate developers, what you might call a commercial mortgage brokerage. and also raised equity financing for developers, sold property. and i went to work there. i spent a little under two years there before going to business school. david: you went to business school at harvard? bill: i did. david: after you graduated from harvard business school, what did you do? bill: that is when i started a hedge fund. david: you said, i am out of harvard business school, i do not need any more experience? i'm just going to start a hedge fund? bill: yes. i had started investing in business school with a classmate. actually, i went to harvard with a plan so i could someday be an investor, and there were no courses on investing in harvard, but there were courses on finance and accounting and competitive strategy with michael porter. that was the backdrop for my education about investing. i said i wou

david: and your mother? dr.y mom's in early childhood education specialist and she started a montessori school and ran that throughout my childhood. david: you were a superstar student, is that right? dr. shah: i was a pretty good student and i grew up in an indian american community that that was pretty focused on being a good student. david: you went to university of michigan? dr. shah: i did. go blue. david: what did you want to study? dr. shah: i started in engineering because i grew up in a family where you are either going to be a doctor or an engineer and i thought maybe i would be an auto designer but i quickly switched to literature, science and arts and started studying economics and policy. david: so you graduated michigan, and decided to go to medical school at university of pennsylvania? dr. shah: i did. david: medical school was not enough. you also wanted to get another degree as well. dr. shah: i think i felt i was supposed to be a doctor because i just sort of grew up with that , and i got very

david? >> david: mireya villarreal tonight.ireya, thank you. >>> at this hour, we're tracking severe storms, possible tornadoes, damaging winds across several states. also at this hour, air quality alerts, smoke from more than 140 wildfires in canada drifts once again into the u.s. in fact, the minneapolis skyline tonight barely visible. all of minnesota in the red category, parts of wisconsin and iowa, also on alert tonight. let's get right to chief meteorologist ginger zee tracking it all for us. hi, ginger. >> hi, david. we've got an ugly-looking line moving across southern louisiana, toward baton rouge, lafayette going to get hit next. this has imbedded tornado warnings within it. and we've seen a severe thunderstorm warning pop up from new orleans to pass ka gu la, mississippi. going to be a big night. want to time it out for you. it's late night when it gets to new orleans, especially south of lake pontchartrain. we're going to end up with severe thunderstorms with winds in excess of 65 miles per hour. it marches right ac

david: 100 times? bill: yes.e bet that credit spreads would widen because we have to shut down the global economy. that was basically what happened. david: did people say, do you have any more deals like that when when you did that one? bill: yes. david: and those are hard to find. bill: the three black swan events of the last 20 years, we have been able to make big, profitable bets on, but these kind of black swan type of things hopefully occur only every seven years. let's say. david: when interest rates started going up, you made another macro bet that turned out to be pretty successful as well. bill: yes. david: so do you have any other macro bets you can mention now or nothing you can mention? bill: we have another one on as we speak. actually, we are betting the federal reserve will have to cut rates more quickly than people expect. that is the current macro bet. david: you are going to continue to be involved in this issue and try to push harvard into doing what you think they should be doing? bill: yes, i

david: right.> that is really troubling actually for the defense at this point because the judge instructed the jury, there is no burden on the prosecution to demonstrate that there was an underpayment ever taxes, only that false information with respect to income was reported and that would be on michael cohen. david: right. andy, the bottom line here, none of the underlying charges, those big three underlying charges that raises this expired misdemeanor into a felony, none of them were proved in court before the jury took it into their room in whichth deciding guilt or innocence. is it impossible, i brief it's impossible to claim there is anything here in those big three charges that have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, do you agree? >> i think the case is shoddier than that, david, in the sense that before you would even get to the underlying charges, they have to prove falseification of business records. it's not enough, let's say, let's just stipulate for argument sake there are inaccur

yeah, hey there, david. well the latest is that the prosecution has been presenting their closing arguments for about two hours. we still expect several hours to go, so we're probably right in the middle what they are presenting as their final take on the case they have built against the former president. joshua stein glass is the prosecutor who is friending these oral arguments, oral arguments in the jury there are some issues we could highlight from what they're saying inside of the courtroom but i will leave you with just one example of what a wide birth the judge seems to give the prosecution when they make the final pitch to the jurors. one of the issues come up is michael key hen's guilty plea from back in 2018 when he pled guilty to tax crimes and also the federal election violation and in the closing arguments over defense objection the judge is allowing prosecutors steinglass to argue cohen was angry after he pled guilty, because he was quote, the openly person to pay a price. really meaning that th

is david alive?rissy's trial, her defense strategy was simple. she blamed her father. judge eugene lucci presided over the trial. >> the defense tried to show it was all al zombory's doing. he snooped in christine metter's unsecured laptop. >> the defense said zombory saw the facebook conversation between chrissy and pat. the one where pat joked about hiring a hit man. they said it was zombory who wanted to arrange the meeting with pat. >> christine said she didn't know the purpose of the meeting, and all she was doing was her father's bidding. >> chrissy took the stand to tell the jurors exactly that, and that she never wanted to meet the hit man, but was pressured by pat sabo. >> it was him telling me to do something that i did not want to do. he was getting forceful with it. telling me vince knew where i lived. >> if chrissy sounded guilty in the under cover recording, she said she was playing along out of fear of what vince might do. >> i started getting scared that this man was going to show up

david? >> david: we can see it in the skyline right behind you. trevor ault, thank you. let's get right to chief meteorologist ginger zee, tracking it all, as always. hey, ginger. >> hi, david. our tornado count to date is well above average. i'm sure that's no surprise. more than 700 tornadoes, and we're about to get more going through this holiday weekend. just got a brand new tornado watch that includes elk city, oklahoma, down to san angelo. that goes until 11:00. there are other pockets of severe thunderstorms. we could easily see guests above 70 with this line that's going to develop in nebraska. i want to time this out for you. it's going to be a long night ahead and a long memorial day weekend. everybody highlighted there tonight, watch for this. because we're blowing through nebraska into even western iowa. and then it all starts to train towards chicago, milwaukee, madison, little rock, all the way back through dallas and waco still tomorrow. so, that's your friday threat. but then

david: wow. so, francey, aren't we essentially charging trump with a felony crime which hasn't been specified? >> well, david, that that's exactly what's happening. this is a mystery crime, and that is everything that violates the constitution and our system of government that we've had for more than 200 years. in fact, we broke away from england so that we would have better rights as defendants sitting in the box with. and here we still today have no idea, it seems as though bragg is trying to get a multiple choice option in front of the jury which is unconstitutional and wildly unlawful. david: well, culley, isn't the reason why we we haven't heard that other charge because it would have to be mentioned that that, that he is being accused, essentially, of a federal crime over which the d.a. of new york and this judge have no authority to are prosecute? if -- to prosecute? >> right. federal finance crimes are prosecuted by doj or the federal election commission. they waived off on that, so now w

david. >> david: martha raddatz reporting from washington. martha, thank you. >>> we have learned alvin bragg, the d.a. in new york addressing cameras and we'll pause here so that the entire network can join us, stay tuned. special report. now reporting. david muir. >> good evening again everyone. i'm david muir in new york. for those of you here in the east already watching world news tonight, we now join the rest of the country as we listen in on alvin bragg, the manhattan district attorney. of course, prosecutors winning their case against the former president of the united states late today, getting guilty verdicts on all 34 felony counts. let's listen to alvin bragg. good evening, first and foremost, i want to thank the jury for its service, jurors perform a fundamental civic duty. their service is literally the cornerstone of our judicial system. we should all be thankful for the careful attention, that this jury paid to the evidence and the law and their time and commitment over these past several weeks, 12 everyday new yorkers and, of

david?tonight, ike, thank you. >>> in new york city at this hour, the new protests tonight. the large demonstrations at nyu. and this all comes just hours after police had cleared out encampments at nyu. stephanie ramos is there. >> reporter: tonight, massive new protests just outside nyu, hundreds of pro-palestinian protesters now gathering on the streets. >> i think student movements historically have brought a lot of change. >> reporter: it comes just hours after the nypd arrested more than 50 people and cleared out tents at nyu and the new school. tonight, the president of columbia university is speaking out in a video statement for the first time since calling in police to clear that campus building seized by protesters. >> it was a violent act that put our students at risk, as well as putting the protesters at risk. >> reporter: and tonight, across colleges campuses, confrontations between protest groups now flaring. >> see my face. show me your face! >> reporter: at the university of

david? week. aaron katersky leading us off tonight. aaron, thank you. >>> we turn to the major global headline tonight. the hardline president of iran confirmed dead after a helicopter crash. tonight here, new images of the wreckage discovered on a remote mountainside in the fog. what we know so far. what led to this crash. as we also now learn iran reached out to the u.s. for help after the helicopter went down. martha raddatz tonight with late reporting here. >> reporter: new images tonight, of the deadly helicopter crash sending shockwaves across the middle east, killing iran's hardline president and other top officials. in dense fog, search teams locating the mangled wreckage, wedged between trees, in the rugged mountains of northwest iran. the bodies of iranian president ebrahim raisi, his foreign minister, and six others, found at the scene. as iran investigates the cause, defense secretary lloyd austin tonight made clear the u.s. had no role. >> the united states had no part to play i

david: this is my kitchen table and also my filing system. over much of the past three decades i have been an investor. the highest calling of mankind i've often thought was private equity. then, i started interviewing. i watch her interview so i know how to do interviews. i've learned from doing my interviews how leaders make it to the top. >> i asked how much he wanted, he said 250, i said fine and did not negotiate and did no due diligence. david: i have something i'd like to sell. and how they stay there. you don't feel inadequate being only the second wealthiest man in the planet, is that right? one of everyone's greatest fears is that he or she might be diagnosed at some point in their life with cancer. i had a chance to talk with dr. vickers who runs the memorial sloan-kettering cancer center. i had a chance to talk with him about the progress being made in treating cancer. david: today we are more than 50 years after president nixon declared war on cancer. have we made that much progress in the 50 years since he first declared war on

david: how long did you run uab? dr.ickers: i was there for nine and a half years, almost 10 years. david: so when memorial sloan-kettering approached you, did you say, i'm a great surgeon, i got what i want here, this is my native state, i don't need to leave. were you intrigued? dr. vickers: it was more the former, like you said. i have a good place, i have a good job, i built a level of trust in the community, i have a compelling mission, and i think i need to really think very hard about leaving it. i would say there are very few places that would intrigue you to consider it, leaving, and memorial sloan-kettering is one of them. david: as you rose from a small town, only child in alabama to where you are now, you must've encountered a fair amount of racial prejudice. dr. vickers: i had my share of it. i learned early on from one of my mentors at johns hopkins. he was one of the faculty there , and he reminded me that people will often have difficulties with you, but don't make their problem your problem. so, one of m

david? david: all right. madison, thank you very much. imagine, a 95-year-old grandmother voting for trump. with me now to discuss this is fox news contributor and syndicated columnist liz peek and "wall street journal" columnist and fox news contributor bill mcgurn. good to see you both. les,i just want to start with something -- liz, i just want to start with something that trump said where he's talking about common sense and so many problems, the economy, the border, crime, they really come down to the issue of common sense solutions. let me play that and get your reaction. roll it. >> but above all, new yorkers have something called common sense. and we do have common sense. and old-fashioned american common sense is exactly what i intend to bring back to the white house just like we had for four years. david: and p liz, the bottom line is common sense is the main thing that's missing with folks that are born and bred inside the beltway, right? [laughter] >> without a doubt, david. you know, who thinks that letting more criminals out

shelley and david married in 1993. they didn't have children together, but she quickly endeared herself to his two -- a son and daughter from a previous marriage. >> what do you think that thing was between you two? >> a love of adventure, a love of nature. you couldn't find somebody that had more liveliness and gumption and determination. >> if there was a marital's the dump speedbump, it was shelley's workday commute. she was probably seeing more of tori the dog than david, her husband. >> i think it was some god- awful amount. >> at least four hours behind the wheel. >> yes. >> would get to her? >> there were times when it would get to her. without question, we were struggling about the time part. >> spring break of 1999 would be shelley and david time to escape the grind and enjoyed together what they loved best -- the water. but of course, that trip, that last dive, would go so horribly wrong. how could anyone make sense of the deeply sad and miss serious death of shelley tyre ? >> coming up, disaster underwater.

david: yeah.he judge, who let stormy daniels go on and on with all the salacious details that had nothing to do with the charges and looking at the live shot of the president? no, this is a tape of the president, but when that happened, i mean, the fact is that the judge right now seems to be doubling down on the -- with the prosecution on costello when he let stormy daniels go on and nothing relevant to this case go on and on. there's an unfairness about this whole process. i don't know if you could sense it today. >> absolutely. the judge is clearly conflicted and history of making a donation to donald trump's current opponent for president, joe biden. david: a small donation and made it and he was rebuked by the new york state commission on judicial conduct. i don't know if we can put that full screen up, this is what they said, they rebuked him and said like so much of the misconduct of the -- that the commission encounters making a prohibit the political contribution is a self-inflicted mista

david? >> david: all right, mary. the race for president is on and we'll be covering it for many months ahead. >>> tonight, the new push here to free five americans being held in turks and caicos, each possibly facing at least 12 years in prison, after ammunition was found in their luggage. tonight, the small bipartisan group of lawmakers trying to get them out. here's abc's matt rivers. >> reporter: tonight, several members of congress pleading for leniency for the five americans facing 12 years behind bars in turks and caicos. each charged with carrying ammunition to the caribbean islands, each saying they forgot it was in their bag. a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers going to the territory, meeting with government officials, urging light sentences instead. >> the turks and caicos government is targeting american citizens, putting them in front of their criminal justice system totally inappropriately. >> reporter: the government saying it's just following the law. hours ago, tyler wenrich, one of five americans ar

david: it is behind us now. as will rogers once said in paraphrasing him, the country is never safe as long as the house is in session so you never know. [laughter] it may never come back, right? sec. mayorkas: one would hope not. david: talk about the border. it appears are a lot of people coming over the border. this is one of the subjects people wanted to -- some people wanted to impeach you over. is it that we are getting more people coming over the border illegally or is it just the appearance of that? sec. mayorkas: the number of encounters at the southern border is very high. but it is very important number one to contextualize it and to explain it. from a context perspective, the world is seeing the greatest level of displacement since at least world war ii. the recent report was there are 73 million displaced people in the united states and so the challenge of migration is not exclusive to the southern border or to the western hemisphere. it is global. as i speak to partners across the atlantic, it is t

david? david can david hillary vaughn, thank you very much.ll tapping the reserves bring real relief the drivers, or is it all about a revving up the votes? former energy secretary rick perry joins me now. great to see you again, secretary. glad you could be here. we've seen a variation of this before as hillary mentioned, right before the 2022 lengths we saw the reclose from the strategic oil reserves. this is gasoline. it did seem to have an effect even if it put our oil reserves in jeopardy. it did seem to bring prices down a little. will it have the same effect this time? >> probably have a little effect on it, but here's what we need to keep in mind. this is about, a million gallons is about 2.7 hours of national con sunlight. -- consumption. so this is truly a political ploy. what americans are wise to is that supply and demand actually works. administration's policy to strangle the fossil fuel industry in the united states, to placate their environmental activists that they need for their election is what this is all about. it's going t

david? >> david: matt gutman in tel aviv for us.matt. >>> now to the war in ukraine with russia targeting the second largest city of kharkiv. james longman tonight taking us underground where a school is 18 feet below the ground. james right there as alarms underground begin going off. >> reporter: tonight ukraine claims it stopped the advance of russian forces towards kharkiv in the northeast. but they say the russians have pushed forward at least six miles along parts of the front. [ sirens ] that's another massive intercept. russia feels very close tonight. an almost daily threat that forces residents into their basements for cover. but this school is the first to move entirely underground. it's extraordinary down here. it's like a whole high school. 18 feet down. typical classroom for the kids getting on with their day, except they're quite far underground. one strange thing you notice about these rooms, no windows. this 16-year-old missed more than two years of school. now she's back. >> can you forget the war when you're down

david? >> david: alex perez reporting from columbia, tennessee. alex, thank you. let's get right to chief meteorologist ginger zee tracking it all again for us tonight. hi, ginger. >> reporter: hi, david. it's hard to believe this is the fourth night in a row i've come to you saying we have tornado warnings active on the map. and we've had more than 55 reported tornadoes just this week. looking at it there, that activity is in texas, just near brady, but waco is in it tonight, and the watch still exists for parts of south georgia. but all the severe thunderstorm watches are for that action in texas that's going to start blasting across the southeast tonight. a lot of this is going to happen after dark, so, let's talk about the timing. watch that mass of red that's south of dallas there, starting now, and as it moves east, it's after about 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. that it slides over the state line into louisiana, then mississippi, eventually alabama, and by 5:00 a.m., it's in the florida panhandle.

david? >> david: mary bruce with late reporting from the white house tonight. mary, thank you. >>> also, the developing headline from texas at this hour where governor greg abbott has pardoned an ex-army sergeant convicted in the murder of a protester at a black lives matter protest. daniel perry was was serving a 25-year sentence. perry claimed he was acting in self-defense. the pardons board recommending his release. the d.a. calling the pardon a, quote, mockery of justice. >>> we turn tonight to the abc news exclusive. this evening, our james longman with ukraine's president zelenskyy just as we learn at this hour that ukraine's second-largest city is coming under attack by the russians. what president zelenskyy told james about this moment in the war, and his message for americans watching. abc's james longman reporting in from kharkiv. james? >> reporter: david, kharkiv has come under sustained aerial assault here. tonight, we've witnessed drone and missile attacks. this is almost a nightly occurrence for this city, and that is why today in an exclusive in

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