former medtronic chairman and cnbc contributor bill george, currently professor of management practiceess school. thanks for the time. >> thanks, carl. >> a lot of criticism to go around obviously moonves himself, others blame analysts for not asking about this at the last earnings call and you have some thoughts on the board and whether or not moonves stayed too long. >> it's about time, carl i think it's three years too late les should have gone out a long time ago he's been there 15 years as ceo and these allegations have been widely known why the board sits back and waits for ronan farrow to write two articles of these women coming forward, what are they thinking what a sharp contrast, carl, with intel, texas instruments, and even hewlett-packard in years past when those borz acted promptly and effectively i think it's because they had an inside board they had seven insiders including the redstones and many are departing finally and bruce gordon did an excellent job -- doing an excellent job as lead director, dick parsons helped recruit a new board and they're bringing on great boa

. >> medtronic got major much too cheap. need to go to gary in florida. >> caller: hello, cramer well, when my father passed away recently in january, very high interest paid dividend stocks. and one i have been watching called etp energy transfer partners it looks like it is being taken over. >> it is a high risk well, it is merging with etp and it is a high risk situation. the balance sheet wasn't good. but you can hold on to it. it is not a great situation. >> let's go to hube in florida >> caller: booyah. how are you doing? hey, jimmy, i have a stock called walmart and have been doing some very, very good progress, okay >> look, i like walmart very much, it is expensive, but be careful. here is the one thing i would tell you because of the tariffs, probably guys cutting tariffs. and that, ladies and gentleman, concludes the "lightning round"" >> announcer: lightning round is sponsored by td ameritrade >> booyah, jim. >> maybe they are not my style, but they look good on some people, i'm sure. >> maybe we need to take the

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medtronic has embarked on a plan improve its operating budget.ts a deal to weaken its earnings per share. that is your bloomberg business flash. nejra: thank you so much. the continent of africa has felt of this year's young currency and stock rout as keenly as the continent of asia. johannesburg's all africa index is down more than 5% with nigeria's embattled mpn epitomizing the volatility of market. the country's central bank has been forced to keep its rate at 14% for more than two years to combat high inflation levels. joining us now is the former deputy governor at nigeria's central bank and a presidential candidate in nigeria's next general election. and a portfolio manager at all mutual global investors is still with us. welcome to daybreak europe. great to have you with us on set. as we said, you are a former central banker. you are also part of the political establishment. you have not run profit for. do you think you -- run for office before. do you think you stand a chance of winning? >> we are at a historic moment where citizens have

you add artificial sensors, you can match the performance of the highest surgical implants like a medtroniche analysts say that the existing companies in the monitoring space are going to see a bump in sales, i think that's a super myopic view. >> vic, i was going to say -- not to cut you off here. this idea, you're talking about so much data out there, is it too much i'm a new parent i was struggling with my child looking at all of their -- her pulses, all of the signs out there. is there going to be a point where these things give people too much information will i worry so much -- >> will you become a hypochondriac? >> yeah, i can worry all the time about my pulse and my ekg >> yeah, i think that's the role of ai. they can take these sensors and figure out what's useful it will guard your heart all the time as i mentioned, our early tests are showing that the ppg sensor combined with ai can match the performance of the gold standard monitoring so i don't think this is a windy day. i think apple is a cat 5 hurricane coming to the monitoring space i wonder if the leadership of some of thes