there are people like george soros who has done really innovative work.get to meet the scientists working on this stuff. maybe the most amazing are the people out in the field who spend big parts of their life in africa taking these tools that we held back and making sure they get out there. >> also, you have to separate peoples' political interest from their willingness to help. there are some -- soros is clearly a liberal, i think is a fair way to say it. the koch brothers are clearly conservative but they give enormous amounts of money to hospitals and tried to improve lives -- >> and you say give them credit for that. >> yes. you don't have to agree with everything everybody does. i don't know if i agree with either side, but i think they all deserve credit. there are also a lot of people who aren't billionaires, who aren't even millionaires who write small checks or give their time. they work and lobby their elected officials to take government money and try to improve the health of everybody. they deserve an enormous amount of credit as well. >> may

is it possible that carl icahn, george soros, and bill ackman could be partially correct?> what a smarty drew -- a smarty. good question. >> i am a smarty, thank you. good question. the lines operate somewhat differently from each other. at the same time, the corporation, either tacitly or in a positive, supportive way, talks about certain activities and support certain activities. it is those activities that will be of interest to regulators. >> i want to bring in brian stanford from atlanta. you have been covering the -- i want to bring in duane stanford from atlanta. you have been covering bill ackman when he was talking about china, talking about latino employees who were wronged. what came of those presentations? >> it has been interesting, watching this two year process and the way the stock acts like a big casino. with a lack of information in terms of what the ftc is going to do, investors are constantly trying to figure out what to 's cases.ckman you saw him a gay case about china, independent investigators looking at that business. stocks reacted badly. before it

george soros is not a dumb guy lost a billion.back then said i would rather eat nuclear waste than invest in russia. now some people are saying the same thing about russia right now. what do you tell them? >> well, i'll tell you what? i've been following this market pretty closely since 1996 and russia is always been the most hated market in the world as indicated by the quotes that you suggested but ironically at the crisis points which we're hitting right now again, that you can actually make, if you're willing to have, willing to take initiative and risk you can go into the markets and actually do very, very well at times of crisis like this. lori: why don't the sanctions and even president today talking about possibility of even stricter sanctions against russia concern you? >> well, i think a lot of the sanctions are actually fairly toothless. some of the recent ones implemented earlier this week actually do not prohibit u.s. companies from doing business with companies like rosneft. they actually just limit the ability of ru

they're the new koch brothers and the new george soros of fundraising. they have been demonized and lied about. hillary clinton herself yesterday said that she is outraged that a sales clerk at hobby lobby now can't contraception. she actually said that as you pointed out. 16 different forms of contraception are covered by hobby lobby. before the obama administration imposes mandates almost every single employer in america already covered contraception. the government covered contraception on medicaid. we have a separate program where we spend $300 a -- called title 10. there is not a con that contraception crisis in america. the administration has created this real phony scandal, phony controversy to gin up their base and say there is a war on women. >> you were talking last night, byron, i think about bad reporting. and bad reporting -- we don't hold sort of the politician's feet to the fire on this. reporters get it wrong. i don't know whether you are for hobby lobby or contraception or not. at least the fax get it right and the politicians would -- i

other big winners include george soros and richard parry. the owner of the l.a. clippers cries foul again. donald sterling is suing his wife and the nba accusing them of fraud over the planned sale of the team to steve ballmer. sterling says he is the sole shareholder and his wife cannot sell the team without his consent. to forcee is trying sterling out over racist remarks he made a few months ago. this is -- this could be the most unimportant quarter ever for apple. on the conference call following the earnings report yesterday, executives including ceo tim cook come drop multiple hands cook,he company will -- drop multiple hands -- hints that the company will unveil new product this fall. investors could care less. bloomberg contributing editor paul kedrosky is with us from san francisco this morning. paul, apple is fascinating in so many ways. what surprised me, perhaps most of all, is that in the most recent quarter we saw 35 million iphones sold at a time when it seems everybody who could be buying iphone is waiting for the new iphone, the iphone six and th

the koch brothers as does sheldon add elson and george soros. doesn't come to mind necessarily when you think of big donors are women. maybe it's a reflection of the forbes 500, fewer women in this list than men, especially at the top, only one woman in the top ten. maybe it's also how the parties and campaigns are soliciting big money. politico pointed out for all the electoral gains women have made in seeking office, the gender gap in how much money women give is much different. women aren't giving as much. top male donors have given six times as much in this election cycle so far. those are the quick numbers. the question is why. one theory is women expect kachbd dats to spend more personal time with them talking about the issues and why they should give up their checkbooks for a campaign. they also don't seem fond of female-specific events like spa days or women's teas that campaigns sponsored. women in the top pool of earners tended to devote more time to raising children and running a household or do women donate to cancer research than po

pay attentionld to george soros and maybe you will know what is going on. the call.u our phones are open. this is from the financial times. -- roundsrry making the asking about all of this. >> basically, it is pretty clear this is a system transferred from russia, in the hands of separatist. thenow with confidence ukrainians did not have such a system anywhere near the vicinity at that point in time. it points a clear finger at the separatists. that is why president obama and the international community are demanding a full-fledged -- whichtion, with russia said it would do. all of these programs can be heard on c-span radio beginning at noon eastern time. darrell is joining us, good morning. are you with us? the front page of the new york times today, nation unraveled in the deadliest a so far. -- world leaders continue to call for both sides to step back. with criticism of israel rising within hours, the president called the israeli prime minister the second time in three days. next is stand from houston, texas. good morning. caller: i have a comment. i w