g buffett and howard w buffett on set with us this morning.ing. so what about the name of this book---forty chances? it's all about philanthropy here. > >it's about more than philanthropy actually because it's about how you take your forty chances, forty years that we kind of all have and do the best with it. so it involves everything from philanthropy to business to whatever you can do as an individual to help. > >we only get forty chances? > >he keeps telling me he's gonna get sixty. if you think about it, when you get out of school and you get a little experience you really have about forty prime years to reach your goals, to build a legacy---whatever it is you really want to focus on. so it's trying to create a mindset and it's true, some people get a little more than forty chances but it's a number that we could make sense out of. > >what is the takeaway from this book? just give us a little nip. > >i think the takeaway is that as big as all the challenges are in the world today, if we're willing to take more risk and we're willing to be

we begin this evening with warren buffett, his son, howard buffett, and his grandson, howie buffett. >> obama has got a certain amount of criticism when he said, you know, nobody did this alone, i don't know about other people, i did not do it alone, there are 10,000, you know, crosses over there in normandy that -- and they will need to be where i am today. they are people of gettysburg, i mean, none of us do it alone and i have been very, very lucky to be sort of designed for this time and this place, but a lot of people aren't lucky and the market system showers things on me and leaves an awful lot of people behind. >> rose: we conclude this evening with a preview of my conversation with alan greenspan, former chairman of the federal reserve in which he responds to some of the questions i raised with warren buffett. >> society especially a free people like we have in the united states, has to agree on certain fundamental principles, and that is the bill of rights. that is basically freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, everyone agrees w

. >> howard buffett and his son think the best way to fight hunger is to learn how to farm better. >>'s tens of millions of farmers that can't feed their families, what's just wrong. you don't have the infrastructure, you don't have the political leadership. you have corruption. you don't have the governance you need to do it, you don't have the knowledge and a way to distribute the knowledge. >> howard's father investor warren buffett has given billions to their cause. >> is the return on investment coming through. >> on my 82nd birthday, i doubled the commitment. i wouldn't have done that unless i felt electrically what they're doing. they're tackling tough things. they could go out and have a hospital wing or, do something with a library or something like that. they are tackling real problems. >> much of their work is in conflict zones like africa and afghanistan, dee dtailed in the new book "40 chances." >> one of the most important things you can do is find the small or large, find investments that you can make at the time that thing are not stable. and then they'll lead to stabi

howard buffett, a farmer and philanthropist has seen map nourishment first hand.low joins us now. >> reporter: when you look at the numbers it's astonishing. the crisis that warren buffett's son has taken up, he's a farmer and farms 1500 acreness illinois. and he thinks that teaching people how to farm better is a big part of the solution. he's trying to solve the crisis along with his sons. we sat down with all three generations of buffetts. >> your goal is to feed the world, frankly. >> that's a big goal. but i think -- it's a goal to shoot for. >> howard buffett and his son think the best way to fight hunger is to learn how to farm better. >> when you think about that there's tens of millions of farmers that can't feed their families, that's just wrong. you don't have the infrastructure or the political leadership. the huge part, you don't have the knowledge. >> reporter: his father has given billions to their cause. is the return on the investment coming through? >> on my 82nd birthday i doubled the commitment. i wouldn't have done that unless i felt terrifica

here it is, howard u. buffett with howard w. buffet, "40 chances."r me. >> don't forget the stock tips at the end. [ laughter ] >> it will be a dated tradition. >> howard i want to thank you. you were good to your word. you brought back your old man and your son. it's been a terrific hour of television. i'm grateful to all of you. thank you very much indeed. >> thanks for having us. >> what a great hour it's been. thanks for the buffett family for joining me. that's all fours tonight "ac 360" starts now. ♪ >>> thousands of people have signed up. we know that people are getting through every day. it is not where we need it to be. it isn't as smooth as we want it to be. >>> plagued with problems, the white house doubles down to defend obama care's rough rollout. >>> she was the first witness to find her mother in the bathtub and to interact with the defendant so that's significant for us. >>> a doctor accused of murdering his wife so he could marry his mistress. you'll never guess the prosecution's star witness. the defendant's daughter. >>> and a mo

here it is, howard u. buffett with howard w. buffet, "40 chances."r for me. >> don't forget the stock tips at the end. [ laughter ] >> it will be a dated tradition. >> howard i want to thank you. you were good to your word. you brought back your old man and your son. it's been a terrific hour of television. i'm grateful to all of you. thank you very much indeed. >> thanks for having us. >> what a great hour it's been. thanks for the buffett family for joining me. that's all fours tonight "ac 360" starts now. tonight breaking news, a 360 exclusive, if you're wondering why you can't get the affordable health insurance promised stay tuned. i got done seeking answers from the woman in charge. he addresses critics that want her to resign and you'll see it here. >>> later, a little girl front in greece is she also the little ground lost in kansas city and this. >>> 911 emergency? theres an armed gunman at sparks middle school. >> and a man that ran toward the gunfire, not away, his story being told. >>> the exclusive chance to ask the question so many amer

howard buffett, a farmer and philanthropist has seen the ravages of malnourishment firsthand, armed with. poppy harlow brings us that story, a different look into the oracle from home has. >> right and none of his kids, his sons didn't follow in his father's footsteps he's literally a farmer in illinois but using his money to help people learn how to farm better around the world. it's astonishing, 842 million people in the world do not have enough to eat and legendary investor warren buffett and his son hen grandson have a new book "40 chances" we sat down with three generations to find out what they're doing with the fortune and why. your goal is to feed the world frankly. >> it's kind of a big goal but it's a goal to shoot for. >> reporter: howard buffett and his son think the best way to fight hunger is to learn how to farm better. >> you know, when you think about there's tens of millions of farmers that can't feed their families, that's just wrong. you don't have the infrastructure, don't have the political leadership. you have corruption. you don't have the governance you need to d

. >>> howard buffett has a big jochblt he's using his father's money to fight world hunger. with father and son to discuss what warren buffett calls intelligent philanthropy. >> "40 chances:finding hope in a hungry world." what's the title? >> the title really is about how we have 40 productive years to achieve our biggest goal, legacy, or whatever it is we want to set our sights on. >> some exceptions. >> some exceptions. if i was writing it for him, i'd put 80 and he doesn't think that's enough. >> some don't know this. when you made a gift to $30 billion you also gave to each of your three children. >> absolutely. >> to create a foundation. >> right. we'd already created it on a smaller scale but this expanded it very substantially and last year on my birthday we doubled it. >> we like those birthday presents. >> you obviously doubled it. you don't like to put good money after bad i was enormously pleased. you can't solve everything but you can solve some things. they've combined energy and passion and you got a good result. >> also in here are personal stories that affec

here it is, howard u. buffett with howard w. buffet, "40 chances." me. >> don't forget the stock tips at the end. [ laughter ] >> it will be a dated tradition. >> howard i want to thank you. you were good to your word. you brought back your old man and your son. it's been a trifk hour of television. i'm grateful to all of you. thank you very much indeed. >> thanks for having us. >> what a great hour it's been. thanks for the buffett family for joining me. that's all fours tonight "ac 360" starts now. >>> a "ac 360" exclusive. if you're wondering why you can't get the health care promised in the affordable care act stay tuned. i just got done seeking answers from the woman in charge. she addresses her critics who want her to resign. you'll only see it here. >>> later a little girl found in greece. is she also the little girl lost in kansas city? >>> and this. >> 911 emergency. >> there was also a hero in that school outside reno who ran toward the gunfire, not away, to help kids escape. his story just now being told. >>> first up tonight, though, an e

. >>> howard buffett has a big jochblt he's using his father's money to fight world hunger. what warren buffett calls intelligent philanthropy. >> "40 chances:finding hope in a hungry world." what's the title? >> the title really is about how we have 40 productive years to achieve our biggest goal legacy, or whatever it is we want to set our sights on. >> some exceptions. >> some exceptions. if i was writing it for him, i'd put 80 and he doesn't think that's enough. >> some don't know this. when you made a gift to $30 billion you also gave to each of your three children. >> absolutely. >> to create a foundation. >> right. we'd already created it on a smaller scale but this expanded it very substantially and last year on my birthday we doubled it. >> we like those birthday presents. >> you obviously doubled it. you don't like to put good money after bad i was enormously pleased. you can't solve everything but you can solve some things. they've combined energy and passion and you got a good result. >> also in here are personal stories that affected you. >> yeah. tell me what is

in "40 chances: finding hope in a hungry world," howard buffett, the son of warren buffett, relays his effort toss better the world's food supply. in "extortion," peter schweitzer from the hoover institution, argues that politicians are not acting in the interests of lobbyists, but are extorting them. if identity if kennedy lived," jeff greenfield, host of pbs' requested neat to know" presents his thoughts on how history might have changed if president john f. kennedy had not been assassinated. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the nors in the near future -- authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> booktv continues here on c-span2 with john lott who argues that partisan politicians don't like to nominate smart judges because they're afraid that smart judges have the ability to think independently and influence other judges. he says that judges who graduated in the top 10% of their law classes go through a much longer confirmation process than judges who don't. this is a little over an hour. >> well, thanks very much for having me again

buffett. >> yeah. >> in 20, 30 years, i hope he's still here, but if not, what happens to berkshire hathaway? >> it lays with howardson, who will be nonexecutive chairman and his number one goal and objective is to make sure the culture that attracts people to berkshire hathaway is maintained and the decades to come and the ceo of the executive chairman after that will have to have that same objective. people want to do business at berkshire because they're all allowed to sell their business to berkshire but they can still operate independently. >> do you think that will continue? >> if howard has anything to say about it, yes, it will because that's his charge from his father. >> let me ask you another question which is even businesses that have languished at berkshire. >> yes. >> warren has been -- he doesn't want to sell. he doesn't like to get rid of businesses and part of that, i would argue, has been -- has been a successful approach in terms of being able to find other peoples he can acquire at cheaper prices because of it. >> sure. >> is that the right strategy? >> i think your point is exactly right becaus