and while the bill and mel i need am gates foundation deserves credit we are going to keep the pressure on them. anything to expanding to whoever color of change decides to target. here is why: in november of 2011, the bill and melinda greats foundation announced a 22 month grant, an ongoing grant to allek. to alec. they announced they would not make future grants but they have 17 months of ongoing funding they have committed to $376,000 that they have committed to rolling out within the next year and a half or so. there is really honestly no excuse for the bill and melinda gates foundation to continue feeting voter suppression, union-bashing organization like alec. so we are going to ask them to cease that funding immediately, continue the fight with at&t and then wherever color of change decides to lead we will follow them. >> color of change has been doing great job. you both have petitions, i understand, on the web to be able to make the pressure points. adam, where do people go to get to your petition? >> we are at bold progressives.org. >> all right. and rashad, i want to make sur

[women singing in foreign language] ♪ >> in his 2012 annual gates foundation letter, bill gates statede foundation's top priority remains helping to complete the eradication of polio, and in january 2012, the foundation celebrated a significant milestone towards achieving its mission. that month, india celebrated its first year without a single new case of polio. [ticking] coming up, the public legacy of a legendary recluse. >> who would have thought that the howard hughes fortune would end up supporting biomedical research at the-- >> probably not howard hughes. [laughs] >> howard hughes, the accidental philanthropist when 60 minutes on cnbc returns. we always hear about jobs leaving america. here's a chance to create jobs in america. oil sands projects, like kearl, and the keystone pipeline will provide secure and reliable energy to the united states. over the coming years, projects like these could create more than half a million jobs in the us alone. from the canadian border, through the mid west, to the gulf coast. benefiting hundreds of thousands of families throughout the countr

[women singing in foreign language] ♪ >> in his 2012 annual gates foundation letter, bill gates statedt the foundation's top priority remains helping to complete the eradication of polio, and in january 2012, the foundation celebrated a significant milestone towards achieving its mission. that month, india celebrated its first year without a single new case of polio. [ticking] coming up, the public legacy of a legendary recluse. >> who would have thought that the howard hughes fortune would end up supporting biomedical research at the-- >> probably not howard hughes. [laughs] >> howard hughes, the accidental philanthropist when 60 minutes on cnbc returns. we have two car insurances that we're going to have you taste. the first one we're going to call x. go ahead and take a sip, and then let me know what the baby thinks of it. four million drivers switched to this car insurance last year. oh, she likes it babies' palates are very sensitive so she's probably tasting the low rates. this is car insurance y, they've been losing customers pretty quickly. oh my gosh, that's horrible!, which w

i didn't realize bill and melinda gates foundation was going under it's of thousands of dollars to this tentacle the coke to put they've all backed out is this a new model for fighting the koch brothers you know i think it is because basically alec is like a union for corporations not every company in alec necessarily agrees with everything they do you like i doubt eighteen he has a position on you know the stand your ground shoot first laws but we're doing is we're shaming them we're telling them that you are in this new game eve you out to defend what your money is used to give so if you don't agree with it and i think you know five or six major corporations everything from pepsi cola to the gates foundation of pulled out of alec and think if they want to continue to stand up for values that they espouse in public they shouldn't continue to fund this organization in private as all these terrible things are better a better analogy might be a gang or a union it's i get it i get it said thanks a lot for being with us tonight great to see the influence of a co-composer could no longer be

the gates foundation joins a long list of big name donors leaving a.l.e.c. including kraft, pepsi and intuit. >>> breaking news in the trayvon martin case. george zimmerman is asking people to donate money to his legal defense fund. the martin family attorney is here to respond to that. share your thoughts on twitter using the hashtag ed show. >>> welcome back. jeremiah wright is back. the birthers are back. the race is going to be a factor. race is going to be a factor in this year's election. here is what missouri congresswoman said when asked about president obama's birth certificate. >> i have my doubts about all that. i don't know. i haven't seen it. i'm just the same place as you are on that. you read this and read that. i don't understand why he didn't show that right away. if someone asked for my birth certificate, i say here it is. i don't know. they say it's real. >> the congresswoman later tried to soften her comments saying she was confirming this issue has been raised by many of her constituents. congressman cliff sterns has raised doubts about

as the gates foundation continually reminds us, these efforts have to be linked with quality supports for struggling students and multiple pathways to success. president obama gave us a significant boost this year in the state of the union. and nearly 18 states that still permit students to drop out at 16 have legislation to update their laws as well. finally, we -- while 9 of the 10 civic marshall plan benchmarks focus on dropout prevention, it became evident last year, thank you dorothy stonelin, wherever you are, we need to recover and reconnect the students who drop out each other who is the newest plank in our campaign. in fact, the white house council for community solutions recently found that 1 in 6, or 6.7 million of the 38.9 million youth ages 16 to 24 are disconnected from school and work. they cost taxpayers $1.6 trillion and society $4.7 trillion over their lifetimes. and they represent an extraordinarily untapped resource in terms of talent and wisdom and productivity for the country. the country has since coined the term opportunity youth to describe them and issued emp

the gates foundation joins a long list of big name donors leaving a.l.e.c.ding kraft, pepsi and intuit. >>> breaking news in the trayvon martin case. george zimmerman is asking people to donate money to his legal defense fund. the martin family attorney is here to respond to that. share your thoughts on twitter using the hashtag ed show. [ groans ] pssst! don't go in there! it's your surprise party and we want this hair color to be party ready. let's get some dimensional color. now!? what if it comes out wrong? [ gigi ] nice 'n easy gets your right color every time. guaranteed. in one step get tones and highlights for a gorgeous result. now, go party! surprise! surprise! surprise! surprise! i had no idea. [ gigi ] nice 'n easy. available in original or award winning foam from the color experts at clairol. >>> welcome back. jeremiah wright isback. the birthers are back. the race is going to be a factor. race is going to be a factor in this year's election. here is what missouri congresswoman said when asked about president obama's birth certificate. >> i have

the gates foundation has given nearly $400,000 to a.l.e.c. over the last couple of years but no more. the gates foundation joins a long list of big name donors leaving a.l.e.c. including kraft, pepsi and intuit. >>> coming up, righties are using jeremiah wright again to bash the president? i'll ask dr. james peterson if it will work. >>> breaking news in the trayvon martin case. george zimmerman is asking people to donate money to his legal defense fund. the martin family attorney is here to respond to that. share your thoughts on twitter. ! [ mom ] what? shut the front door. right? woop-woop! franklin delano! [ male announcer ] hey! there's oreo creme under that fudge! oreo fudge cremes. indescribably good. has been because of the teachers and the education that i had. they're just part of who i am. she convinced me that there was no limit to what we could learn. i don't think i'd be here today had i not had a wonderful science teacher. a teacher can make a huge difference in a child's life. he would never give up on any of us. thank you dr.

i want to thank the bill and melinda gates foundation. with everybody that is focused on your success. when you are successful, the city will be that much more successful. that is why we worked in government, for you. make sure you join the million dollar club. make sure you focus. take advantage. the number-one thing, when you are confronted with something distract you from completing your education, family challenges, the french it challenges, as academic challenges, -- french shriendsh challenges, academic challenges, we are there for you. thank you for joining us. [applause] i want to introduce someone who has been at my side, not only fighting for success, but creating and helping to manage and contain that achievement gap. carlos garcia. thank you. >> good morning. it is exciting to be here. i remember about five years ago, we were talking about doing something like this. all of the people who worked together, we all got together and we were dreaming about creating something that would guarantee every student in san francisco wanted

. >>> the bill and melinda gates foundation says it will stop funding a.l.e.c. spokesman for the gates foundation says it does not plan to make any future grants to a.l.e.c. the coca-cola corporation and pepsi both had corporate memberships and both of those companies have announced plans to drop the memberships. so has kraft foods saying it will not renew its membership. same with intuit and same with mcdonald's. they said that company has decided not to renew its a.l.e.c. membership this year. in other words, tough times are falling on the folks at alech, as getting a lot more attention lately. from the stand your ground gun laws, like the controversial florida measure at the center of the trayvon martin case right now, which alec worked adopted in 2009. to draconian anti-immigration measures, a la arizona's papers, please, law, which models a drafted bill modeled at an alec conference. the stuff alec does and pedals and proliferates among the states is increasingly being regarded as toxic. it's a group that's counted in the past of flying under the radar. now

. >>> the bill and melinda gates foundation says it will stop funding a.l.e.c.es not plan to make any future grants to a.l.e.c. the coca-cola corporation and pepsi both had corporate memberships and both of those companies have announced plans to drop the memberships. so has kraft foods saying it will not renew its membership. same with intuit and same with mcdonald's. they said that company has decided not to renew its a.l.e.c. membership this year. tough times are falling on the folks at a.l.e.c. as. they have been getting a lot more attention from the stand your ground laws which a.l.e.c. worked with the nra to export to other legislatures to new make it harder to vote laws which an a.l.e.c. task force adopted in 2009 to arizona's papers please law which resembles a model bill drafted at an a.l.e.c. conference. the legislation they peddle is increasingly being regarded as toxic. it's a group that's counted in the past as flying under the radar. now that they are no longer under the radar and people are paying attention to who they are and what they do, a.l.e.

it sounded counterintuitive that i needed to follow around an economist with the gates foundation, and for those lucky enough to live in a wealthier country, we can toggle between money and electronic form and its physical form as we see fit. i don't like cash that the jury is it very much. if you like using cash and wander into an atm tonight to look at their terrific. when you are for and tracked using cash you are excluded from the formal economy in ways that are crippling especially because you can't break for financial shock. you can see it the way people need to. if they have any hope of climbing out of poverty it is a out of poverty. what is happening now is a lot of development experts are encouraging this idea of getting people transaction, they don't need the cash. not only is all of your wealth however much or however little, being lost in a flood or fire or earthquake. everyone is making claims on that money. we cling the to cash and little more because of triple plays on the mind. cash is turbo liquid. they can't hold on to us. they can't hold on because a drunken uncle is

the gates foundation thought put $500 million into this program to support innovation in this area and i flew to india to interview a guy to see what this was like. how has this changed he said i used to have to read the bus, today's there, today's back to deliver a small amount of money to his grandmother. that's four days of income generation loss. he has to pay someone to look after his shop. the wealth that may be still hidden somewhere in the shop is now in jeopardy. now he basically sends a text message to his granny in the countryside and she wonders to a kiosk, where the merchant is essentially part of this huge network of merchants involved in the system and she shows -- and there is a click back and forth and she can cash out. i asked her about the security concerns at all of you will wonder back and he looked like he i was from mars. did you just listen to the value of proposition? that was pretty illuminating and suddenly the pulled me into a much more substantive area of discussion. i like talking about the germs on banknotes and i like talking about wishing my barista was

and yet even then the two thousand nine hundred fourteen mission guided bill bill and melinda gates foundation out of forty five percent of students at four year universities worth over twenty hours a week and over eighty percent of dropouts interviewed by the report so that they quit school because they either couldn't afford it or they struggled to strike a balance between learning and earning i think fox builders steam views on any sort of fact whatsoever no she's rancid it struggling graduates like a stereotypical grandparent moaning about walking fifteen miles through the snow just to get to the bus stop so for that conversation vox graduates magna calamity from tool time university. now still to come tonight we'll have a fresh those happy hour for you hillary let's listen colombia and who died has brides looking like hospital patients well dr. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money why didn't exist mean a lot of people at the area many people are turning to facebook's time like to share all kinds of experiences and moments others are concerned about the security and safety of

and linda gates foundation of forty five percent of students at four year universities worked over twenty hours per week and over eighty percent of dropouts interviewed by the report so that they quit school because they either couldn't afford it or they struggled to strike a balance between learning and earning but the fox builder esteemed views on any sort of back foot soever no she just ranted at struggling graduates like a stereotypical grandparent moaning about locking fifteen miles through the snow just to get to the bus stop so for that congresswoman vox graduates magnitka lovey from university. well still to come tonight we'll have a fresh those a happy hour for you there are a fledgling simple idea that a new diet has a prize a looking for cost focus of direct. her. on. the official g.o.p. cation. called touch from the choose dumpster. shall she like on the. video. she's mine you'll get. an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. i kind of time for happy hour and when he's busy evening aren't you producer jenny churchill and jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant and

largest company arizona public services they join coca-cola pepsi into it kraft wendy's and gates foundation all have dropped their ties with alec alec calls the boycott intimidation campaign back they released a statement saying it's harder in job creation and real solutions that improve dialogue among political leaders is needed most now its mission has never been more empowered a mission of corrupting democracy i mean that admission is to advance the interest of the one percent and the big corporations both in the ballot box by pushing legislation that will disenfranchise millions of democratic voters and the economy by pushing legislation that repeals things like environmental laws screws public service sector employees unions gives legal cover to gun sellers alec is one of the biggest threats to our democracy frankly in my opinion and the fact that they're responding this to this boycott this way means that it's working so let's keep it up wake up your friends and neighbors and ask your politicians call him up and just say hey are you have number of alec do short of those things to take

our premier sponsors of the grant nation summit, at&t, target, and the bill gates foundation. the signature sponsors, apollo group, family programs, corporation for public broadcasting, board foundations, ford motor company. i would also like to thank our media partner. we are so pleased to work closely with them as we make people aware of the education crisis in america and what can be done about it. this is a reflection of the way that the grant nation campaign has become a large and growing movement. this is a spark that is igniting americans from every walk of life to join us. as many of you know, peter passed away last year. he was truly a visionary who played a founding and guiding role in our lives. was no greater champion for the power of the five promises to change lives. he once said, "to dream what is possible and put one's self in service of that dream is the formula for a life well-lived." i know that if he were here today, he would be so excited to see so many people who have stepped up as leaders to bring more of the promises to the young people who need them. b

and linda gates foundation found forty five percent of students at four year universities worth over twenty hours per week and over eighty percent of dropouts interviewed by the report so that they quit school because they either couldn't afford it or they struggled to strike a balance between learning and earning but the thoughts builders steam views on any sort of back whatsoever now no she just ranted at struggling graduates like a stereotypical grandparent moaning about walking fifteen miles through the snow just to get to the bus stop so for that congresswoman foxx graduates magnitka luvvie from tool time university. well still to come tonight we'll have a fresh those of happier for you hillary resolution columbia and new diet has a bra is a look like hospital. story . is if you understand it and the. other part of it and realize that everything. is a big. mystery . but in the alone a cell will get the real headlines with none of the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and from what actually matters to those viewers an

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aids into the pot, bill and melinda gates foundation doing wonderful for a call so, but it is difficult to see the disease the way africans to. to bring their own ideas and agendas to the problem but we talk about condoms. africans are not debating that to. that was here but the policy is transmitted through giant program putting policy on the ground. that is not the best policy. best would be clears finance , initiatives on the right track may be listening better. >> host: we have to go to break. let's talk about pepfar and the western response when we get back. >> host: we weren't talking about western response in their not entirely effective although well-meaning with an approach to south africa. pepfar created to remove the bush should minister shouldn't aimed to put 2 million people and treatment and prevent 7 billion infections. no arguing 2 billion have been treated but the math gets fuzzier with preventing 7 billion infections. is it even possible to state such a goal that enables us to determine with our western response meet the goals? 80q say look at preventiopreventio n but

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>> the gates foundation dropped. >> all right. unbelievable. >> yeah. >> huge story.wait to watch. that will be on war room with jennifer coming up. more viewpoint coming up next. i don't just talk about politics, i've lived politics. >>beltway politics from inside the loop. >>bringing you exactly what's happening in politics today by people who know what they're talking about. >>d.c. columnist and four time emmy winner bill press joins current's morning news block. >>i know what i'm talking about and i love it and i try to bring that to the show. >> still to come the conflict in syria is festering. what does it mean if anything, for the the elections in november. my view, i will call it the tale of two bankers. what if anything have we learned since the cataclysm of '08. we will begin with john mac took over as ceo of morgan stanley in 2005. he had a great idea. he said let's focus on derivatives and mortgages and let's leverage the bank. >> that's what he did, leverage of 32 to 1, investing deeply, heavily in derivatives and mortgages and he took home a bonus of $40