you get through hundred $50 million to m.i.t. for a computing center. you never went to m.i.t..ow did that come about? steve: that was really fascinating. i am not a technologist. the president of m.i.t. started talking to me. we were concerned that the u.s. was just not investing enough in these technologies. i said to you have any interesting ideas? let's doublewith the computer science faculty. let's establish a new it isment, under school going to be the m.i.t. schwarzman college of computing. he said let's connect the ai of all the other departments. m.i.t. will become the first ai enabled university in the world. i said that is a vision i could buy in on. if somebody is watching or reading your book and they want to be a leader, a leader in business, philanthropy or government, what do you think is the key qualities to be a leader? what enabled you to be a leader? steve: you have to be a really good listener. you have to understand what is going on around you. you have to be measured and you have to realize that everything in the mindslified of the people were listening to

so, m.i.t. will become the first ai enabled university in the world.hat is a vision i could buy in on. david: final question i would like to ask you. it deals with this. if somebody is watching or reading your book and they want to be a leader, a leader in business, philanthropy, or government, what do you think is the key quality to be a leader? what have you seen as the key quality that enabled you to be a leader? steve: i think, to be a leader, you have to be a really good listener. you have to understand what is going on around you. you have to be measured, and you have to realize that everything you do is amplified in the minds of the people who are listening to you. so care, nuance, kindness. but, defining a culture is what a leader does. david: steve, thank you for this time. i appreciate it. steve: thanks, david. ♪ ♪ haslinda: hello, i'm haslinda amin he was born in the soviet union, but calls singapore home. serguei beloussov is an entrepreneur who puts knowledge of the heart of everything he does. founded more than two dozen companies, among

m.i.t. will become the first ai enabled university in the world.d, that is a vision i could buy in on. david: final question i would like to ask you. it deals with this. if somebody is watching or reading your book and they want to be a leader, a leader in business or philanthropy or in government, what do you think is the key qualities to be a leader? what enabled you to be a leader? steve: i think to be a leader, you have to be a really good listener. you have to understand what is going on around you. you have to be measured and you have to realize that everything you do is amplified in the minds of the people were listening to you. so care, nuance, kindness. but defining a culture. that is what a leader does. david: thank you for this time. i appreciate it. steve: thank you, david. ♪ beyond the routine checkups. beyond the not-so-routine cases. comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. all working with a new generation of technologies powered by our gig-speed network. because beyond technology... there is human ingenui

m.i.t. will become the first ai enabled university in the world. that is a vision i could buy in on. david: final question i would like to ask you. if somebody is watching or reading your book and they want to be a leader, a leader in business, philanthropy or government, what do you think is the key quality to be a leader? what enabled you to be a leader? steve: i think to be a leader, you have to be a really good listener. you have to understand what is going on around you. you have to be measured and you have to realize that everything you do is amplified in the minds of the people who are listening to you. so care, nuance, kindness. defining a culture, that is what a leader does. david: thank you for this time. steve, i appreciate it. steve: thanks, david. ♪ scarlet: i am scarlet fu. this is bloomberg etf iq, where we focus on the access, risks, and rewards of exchange traded funds. ♪ scarlet: america first no more. europe and emerging-market seeing inflows and catching a bid. the new face of active. professor victor chow has created an algorit

m.i.t. will become the first ai enabled university in the world.d, that is a vision i could buy in on. david: final question i would like to ask you. if somebody is watching or reading your book and they want to be a leader, a leader in business, philanthropy or government, what do you think is the key quality to be a leader? what enabled you to be a leader? steve: i think to be a leader, you have to be a really good listener. you have to understand what is going on around you. you have to be measured and you have to realize that everything you do is amplified in the minds of the people who are listening to you. so care, nuance, kindness. defining a culture, that is what a leader does. david: steve, thank you for this time. i appreciate it. steve: thanks, david. ♪ viviana: coming up on "bloomberg best," conversations from the bloomberg new economy forum. >> innovation really happens when people collaborate. viviana: a new group of leaders exploring issues and seeking solutions that will drive the economy of the future. david: it's a very complex, m

atour guest is a professor m.i.t.nd his article is in science magazine and you can also find him on the m.i.t. website. maggie miller is what the hell. on theou both for being communicators. all communicators are available as podcasts. ♪ >> the house will be in order. >> for 40 years, c-span has been providing america of -- with unfiltered coverage of the congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events from washington and around the country so you can make up your own mind. created by cable in 1979, c-span's brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >> fbi director christopher wray and kevin mcaleenan and other officials testify on countering global threats. here's a portion of that hearing that the house homeland security committee. it's just under an hour. >> thank you, mr. chairman.

after a few years of teaching, applied and was accepted to m.i.t. in architecture and planning where he earned a dual master's in architecture and planning. after graduating, he returned to tehran where he would be part of the largest modernization program in the country's history that they had ever seen. he taught at the university level for a while but quickly became part of the shah's government. my father rose quickly through the ranks to become department minister of planning and spatial planning for the country and was involved in the placement of roads, bridges, highways, dams, and importantly the locations of major centers of housing and economic development to ensure balanced development throughout the country. it was during this time my parents had me. after all -- all of his life's work came abruptly to a halt in 1979 the when the people rose up to the shah and deposed him. this was wildly popular and atta was part of the new government at the time until the new party violently solidified its hold on power. it was after this violent revol

host: sinan aral is a professor at m.i.t. 's article is in "science" magazine, and you can find him on the m.i.t. website. maggie miller is with "the hill." thank you for being on "the communicators." "communicators" are available as podcasts. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ >> the house will be in order. announcer: for 40 years, c-span has been providing america unfiltered congress -- coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events from washington dc and around the country, so you can make up your own mind. created by cable in 1979, c-span is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >> i am joined by philip klein, executive editor with the washington examiner, here to talk about his new book on millennials and what may be ahead both economically and more for that genera

. ♪ joel: gingko bioworks is a boston-based biotech company founded by five m.i.t.sts in 2008. they call it the organism company. jason: what it is is programming cells like we program computers by changing the dna code. joel: the cofounder and ceo, jason kelly, wants to change the way the worldviews biology. jason: we're sort of like cell programmers for hire. joel: he sees biology at the core of how all things will be created. jason: it's going to surprise you. it's going to be like the advanced manufacturing stuff. in addition to making food efficiently, it will be everything. joel: creating the future in a lab in our conversation w

so it is going to be important that we engage, whether it is m.i.t. we have enough around us. even our national labs. we have the capacity to do it. we just need the will to do it. >> when you are at home in brooklyn, do you hear about 5g, where to place the towers, net neutrality? >> i hear about net neutrality a lot in my constituency. the facial recognition technology roll out and they in the private sphere has become a major issue in my district. people are aware of the fact that we can't conduct business, we can't conduct our lives without interfacing with technology in all of its manifestations. what they are concerned about is how that is managed in a way in which it adheres to american values. that is the challenge that we all face, because we keep sort of moving the goalpost on what is an american value. i think we need to, you know, we need to make it clear not only to the american people, but to the companies that are developing technology what those values are and what our expectations are in terms of how we address our concerns. recently, there was a conversation

at m.i.t.'e lab, professor regina barzilay useseep learning to teach the computer to understand language, as well as read text and data. >> i was really rprised that the very basic question that i ask my physicians,hich were really excellent physicians here at mgh, they couldn't give me answers that i was looking for. >> narrator: she was convinced that if you analyze enough data, from mammograms to diagnostic notes, the computer could predict early-stage conditions. >> if we fast-forward from 2012 to '13 to 2014, we then see whei rena was diagnosed, because of this spot on her mammogram. is it possible, with more elegant computer applications, that we might have identified this spot the year before, or even back re? >> so, those are standard prediction problems in machine learning-- there is nothing special about them. and to my big surprise, none of the technologies that we are developing at m.i.t., even in the most simple form, doesn't penetrate the hospital. >> narrator: regina and connie be

so it is going to be important that we engage, whether it is m.i.t. we have enough around us.ven our national labs. we have the capacity to do it. we just need the will to do it. >> when you are at home in brooklyn, do you hear about 5g, where to place the towers, net neutrality? >> i hear about net neutrality a lot in my constituency. the facial recognition technology roll out and they in the private sphere has become a major issue in my district. people are aware of the fact conduct business, we can't conduct our lives without interfacing with technology in all of its manifestations. what they are concerned about is how that is managed in a way in which it adheres to american values. that is the challenge that we all face, because we keep sort of moving the goalpost on what is an american value. i think we need to, you know, we need to make it clear not only to the american people, but to the companies that are developing technology what those values are and what our expectations are in terms of how we address our concerns. recently, there was a conversation with mark zucker

. >> now, what do you say to people like -- there's another book out by smil at m.i.t.s yes, but we're using way more energy. if you look at the amount of energy it takes to, for example, revolutionize agriculture -- it's now 100 times more productive than it was 100 years ago but you're using 90 times more energy. >> he is absolutely right. energy use continues to increase very quickly especially as low-income countries are becoming more prosperous. total energy consumption in america has been flat for about a decade. we are at the point of decoupling total energy use from our economic growth. i'm offering a public bet to professor smil or anybody else, i think america will use less energy in ten years than it does today no, matter how big the economy gets. >> what's the consequences? if you're right, what does that mean? >> we don't have to make these radical changes you were talking about at the start, contemplate not growing anymore or voluntarily renouncing consumption. we can continue to grow while taking better care of the planet. low-income countries will get to

according to a study across the country conducted by the bipartisan policy center and m.i.t..ead more at washingtonpost.com. kentucky next, christie, good morning on the republican line. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call. i was actually in lexington last night. it was electric. the rallies on tv do not do it justice. and supportto go our president, there was a collar comparing trump rallies as a kkk rally. i stood beside a whole lot of americans, a whole lot of kentuckians last night and there were many racists. it was far -- races. it was far from a kkk rally. that is what is wrong with this race issue. stop making it a race issue because it is not. i love our president, i support him. unemployment is at an all-time be respectedves to and i was proud to go to lexington and cheer him on last night. host: we talked about those t-shirts, the " read the transcript" t-shirts. were they handing those out last night? themr: i did not see handing them out, but there was a lot of them. there was a lot of good shirts. there was one that says trump's tweets matter. i thoug

. ♪ ♪ joel: gingko bioworks is a boston-based biotech company founded by five m.i.t. company. jason: what it is is programming cells like we program computers by changing the dna code. joel: the cofounder and ceo , jason kelly, wants to change the way the worldviews biology. jason: we're sort of like cell programmers for hire. joel: he sees biology at the core of how all things will be created. jason: it's going to surprise you. it's going to be like the advanced manufacturing stuff. in addition to making food efficiently, it will be everything. joel: creating the future in a lab in our conversation with

this is technology that just came out in the painer from m.i.t. they crashed the cost of yanking arbon directly out of the air. it's negative carbon cap purr. it's -- capture. if you have a generation source, say you're a concrete plant, power generation, this and that, you could actually be using this, it uses shockingly little electricity. they basically came up with this concept of let's run these plates, let's put nanotubes on it, we'll run certain low voltage through the plates, and it'll capture the carbon in the air. the technology doesn't care if you're at one part per 400 million or heavy carbon. just is an example of technology is about to provide us a revolution on how we protect our environment and it's here. how do we actually as policymakers incentivize these technology breakthroughs to happen and how do we get these technology breakthroughs to become part of our society. it's not enough to come up here and virtue signal coming behind these microphones, telling us how much you care and then not to understand. the revolution of techno

his was from my tea and mine was -- m.i.t. and mine was from carolina. he knows a lot and i know little. i was trying to work this problem. everybody was like, what are you working on? it was stokes theorem. it was a lot of fun. i celebrate our democracy. if you ever have a democracy that does something to perfection, it should be by accident. because we have represented. if it is perfect and everybody sees it as perfect, it was a dictatorship. i loved the controversy that comes with democracy. i like people being different and expressing different views in different ways. i do not particularly like how president trump taps on his own -- steps on his own success with -- tweet. my grandma would say a few words before you spit them out. he should lick his thumb before he tweaked it out. -- tweets it out. i do not like that he throws confetti in the air all the time and says, you cannot see what is happening on days because any is falling, but i would like to see what his happened because it is -- what is being done because it is generally pretty good. diff

that's from m.i.t. we have got not a lot of problems here. our veterans are homeless. of issues in this country. customs and border patrol agents from the chicago field office intercepted a package in louisville, kentucky stuffed with 250 fake driver's licenses. >> my final word is we deal with fraud everybody day with fake driver's license and fake i.d.s. that's affecting elections not just in my state, but across the country. >> i think this is an important issue and i'm glad the president never ceases to fighting illegal immigration. liz: lou dobbs is next on the fox business network. [♪] lou: good evening, everybody. the swamp mostly clear tonight of radical dimms who have previously focused on just overthrowing the president the last two months. the president took the time to slam the dimms and tout his successes. and they criticize nancy pelosi for slow walking a major trade deal that would help americans, canadians and mexicans. today another record-breaking performance. all three major stock

reporter: he trained at m.i.t. and has discovered lower cost means to deal with pollution, plants.produced and each floor is pulling in the air as needed. >> there are plants on each floor. this is a central air cleaning system for the whole building. reporter: plants create oxygenre and they aurifiers. their roots eat bacteria. >> this is for the daytime. >> installing plants is a small step peopldocan take for s. he also says though there is a ge outside plant -- outside problem. the indiasa government it has taken steps to reduce pollution but in the meantime, india's capital andor that matter most of its major cities will continue to be among the to breathe.ult places judy: this is a partnership with the untold stories. ♪ judy: final tonight, jane fonda has been a household name for decades due to herfi pro work on screen and stage. and her enduring activism as well. her cause now -- taking on climate chan. >> you know what this is like. >> the winner is jane fonda. reporter: 2 academy awards and a primetime emmy and the list goes on. from her star in 1960 on stage and then on

he went to high school outside philly, went to m.i.t. in boston. he's a kg politician and survivor. indeed when he looked like he was done in by the last election the opposition has failed to form their part of a coalition government. but this time bb's time may be running out. the veteran diplomat martin -- said today it is conceivable bb will be the next prime minister. that is our broadcast for this thursday night. thank you so very much for being here with us and good night from our nbc headquarters here in new york. >>> what might have been a last round of hearings, witnesses fiona hill and david holmes boning testify that president trump pressed for investigations. >> plus, republicans in the white house are trying to map out where they go from here. their strategy may include limiting the impeachment trial in just two weeks. >> and michael bloomberg files paperwork to enter the 2020 white house2020 white house race. his team says he hasn't officially made the decision about whether he is going to run but the paperwork is a necessary step.

olivia blanchard who's with the peterson institute, formerly of the international monetary fund and m.i.t. loretta mester, and ben beg your pardon -- ben bernanke, our colleague here at brookings, paul krugman, the economist at the university of new york and columnist for "the new york times." krugman is the guy that makes all journalists nervous because he seems to be more productive than the rest of us and that's kind of frightening given that he does all of these other things on the side, but we can discuss that later. so i wanted to start by asking each of the panelists a bit of what they took away from the conversation we had this morning. i want to start with olivier who makes the observation in the slide that you see behind us about that's been made about how the wage phillips curve behaves perhaps as one might have expected, but prices aren't rising and so the question is what the hell is going on? >> okay. so i had prepared a slide in anticipation, and i think it has survived the previous three hours fairly well and coincides with the general message and tells us where we need to

he went to high school outside philly, went to m.i.t. in boston. he's a kg politician and survivor.d when he looked like he was done in by the last election the opposition has failed to form their part of a coalition government. but this time bb's time may be running out. the veteran diplomat martin -- said today it is conceivable bb will be the next prime minister. that is our broadcast for this thursday night. thank you so very much for being here with us and good night from our nbc headquarters here in new york. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you with us. this was the headline on the front page of the l.a. times this morning. sondland implicates president. ambassador says he was following trump's orders in pressuring ukraine. you see the picture there. this was actually very good story telling in terms of the photo editing and headline editing. so sondland implicates the president is the big headline. and the picture is sondland getting legal advice, his lawyer talking to him from behind his hand. and then you see that is actually in support of

. >> reporter: meattle, who trained at m.i.t., has developed lower-cost ways to cope with the llution plants, which w measured just outside an office building he owns in central this is the central air cleaning system for the whole building. >> reporter: plants do more than produce oxygen, he says. they are natural air purifiers. their roots eat bacteria and fungi and they absorb chemicals like formaldehyde and benzene produced by office products. >> these are are palms for the day time, bamboo palm. >> reporter: installing plants are a they're small steps people can take indoors, but he acknowledges tre's a huge complex problem outside these clean air bubbles, not easily solved in india's chaotic democracy. >> reporter: the indian government says it's taken steps to reduce poion. but, in the meantime, for years to come, for that matter, most of its major cities will continue to be among the most difficult places on earth to breathe. for the pbs newshour, this is fred de sam lazaro in new delhi. woodruff: fred's reporting is a partnership with the under- told stories project at the un

which is really strange because -- very far from a genius so my character is, as you know, she goes to m.i.tirst meeting with liz banks, who's the director. and my first question is, "what is blockchain? has anyone ever heard of blockchain [ light laughter ] right? no, exactly. i didn't know. but this was all my character talked about was blockchain. and i remember, i went in. and liz banks is so smart. she was, like, explaining it to me and i wasn't getting it. and then she got a piece of paper out. she was drawing a diagram. and i was just like, she's going to recast me, like, because i don't know what blockchain is. >> jimmy: it's like the bitcoin thing, right >> yeah, well, jimmy, you're obviously are way more smarter than i am, 'cause i had no clue >> jimmy: i get cast as geniuses all the time as well. >> right, exactly. [ laughter ] but i was just like -- and, you know when you get to the point where someone, like -- or you keep asking someone's name >> jimmy: yeah >> and you're like, "i can't ask again. so in the end i was like, "blockchain! got it like, there's a block, there's a cha

you see the likes of the banks, m.i.t., the under significant pressure.gone through into sentiment across the rest of asia. we have single day, that was off to a good start but you see this is off 1.5%. the nikkei is tracking lower by a quarter of 1% with money going in on safe haven buying. also a cloudy outlook in terms of the u.s. and china trade talks reflected in the other currency markets particularly the korean won. we had the first 10 days of exports also falling down 21%. the south korean one of the worst performers in asia. to add to the gloomy outlook we had more signs of factory deflation out of china over the weekend. we have the producers price index falling for a fourth month . the drop coming through in the the worstctober was we have seen. economists are suggesting we will see weakness in the fourth quarter as we start to see import cost and energy prices falling since june the most since 2016 going to blow through into price pressures for the likes of europe and the u.s. as everyone looks to china for the downbeat read we have been seein

very fortunate to meet my future wife, now my wife while we were both attending graduate school at m.i.tdying urban planning. so this is her hometown. so, we fell in love and moved to her city. [♪] [♪] >> i was introduced to this part of town while working on a campaign for gavin, who is running for mayor. i was one of the organizers out here and i met the people and i fell in love with them in the neighborhood. so it also was a place in the city that at the time that i could afford to buy a home and i wanted to own my own home. this is where we laid down our roots like many people in this neighborhood and we started our family and this is where we are going to be. i mean we are the part of san francisco. it's the two neighborhoods with the most children under the age of 18. everybody likes to talk about how san francisco is not family-friendly, there are not a lot of children and families. we have predominately single family homes. as i said, people move here to buy their first home, maybe with multiple family members or multiple families in the same home and they laid down their roots.

." >> reporter: m.i.t.' abhijit banerjee and esther durro, the first d couple to win the nobel prize in economics. duflo,7, is also the youngest economics laureate ever and only the second woman to receive the prize. they met in the mid '90s, when duoko, then a grad student, bannerjee'se on economics and poverty. and, she says... >> i was going to study development no matter what happen. >> reporter: development to help poor people with data. careful thinking.ink sort of not go with your intuitions. because our intuitions are often wrong. >> reporter: or they've been taught to you in economics classes. >> by authority figures. >> reporter: bannerjee was such a figure. but economic theory, his forte, was totally divorced from the mumbaiborhood in which he grew up. >> and i played with the kids .from the slum all the ti and i think over time i started to realize that what i was doing could be connected with my previous life. >> reporter: previous life as an >> no, previous life as a little boy playing with oth

. >> joining us now is m.i.t.r esther duflow, this year's co-winner of the nobel prize in economics. her new book "good economics for hard times" co-authored with her husba husband, who is also the co-winner of this year's nobel prize in economics. thank you for joining us. >> thank you so much. >> it must have been so exciting for you and your husband, first husband/wife team in history getting the nobel prize in economics. very exciting phone number? >> it was very incredible way to be woken up at 5:00 a.m. >> people don't realize how the nobel work. >> no hint whatsoever. >> no nominees. so let's go to what bill gates just said. it's one of the central elements of your book. and the republican argument is, of course, you must not tax anyone more than we're taxing them and if you tax these rich executives more, they'll just work less. it will be a disincentive to work if we tax them at the highest level. there's bill gates, no one who has worked harder than him who is saying no, no, no, there's much more room to

>> i am with the educational justice institute at m.i.t.. we provide college education in massachusetts. i'm sure you know we incarcerate more people in this country than any other country in the world. we are putting lots of people away and they are all coming back. i applaud some proposals, but i am adjusted and what you have to say. >> a couple things. thank you for what you are doing. government i slogan earlier. three strikes and you're out sounds clever, but it a failed policy. example, but only it is a failed policy. generation,housed a mostly of black men, but not exclusively, and then we by understanding that 97% or 95% come out one day, understanding that. we still compound the ability to come out and rejoin productive life. out.ration for coming back you cannot get public housing or benefits in some places, the things that you need to get back up on your feet. because we strip so much of that it should nots, surprise us that people come out feeling more dangerous than they went in and that there is recidivism because there is nowh