bill and melinda gates have dedicated their lives to advancing science and improving public health among other initiatives. the u.s. chamber foundation has a deep relationship with the gates foundation. for more than a decade, we've worked together op both k through 12 and post secondary education reform and we value their partnership and we're very pleased to have bill and melinda gates with us here today. as you've likely seen a few years ago, bill brought attention to the risk of a global pandemic. sadly, his warning is a reality. the good news is he and melinda have committed themselves and their organization to finding a solution and that gives us all a sense of hope. the bill and melinda gates foundation have committed more than $300 million to the global covid-19 response. we're so grateful to their leadership during this trying moment and are excited to talk to them today. this episode was pre-recorded to fit their busy schedule toe there won't be audience questions at the end of the time, but there's a lot that we get to talk about, so let's get to it. well, thank you very much

bill and melinda gates on what their foundation is doing in developing a covid-19 vaccine. the conversation was hosted by the u.s. chamber of commerce. an gates are working toward internationally coordinated response to deliver a vaccine equitably once it's created. response to deliver a vaccine equitably once it's created. >> welcome to a special edition of the u.s. chamber fast-forward series. if you been a regular viewer, welcome back, if you are new, thank you for joining us. we hope you find it informative and interesting. and did you pick a great week to tune in. over the past few months we brought together experts in several fields all around the topic of returning to work. today were thrilled to be joined by two of the most filling therapist in the world. phil and melinda gaetz have dedicated their lives to advancing science in improving public health among other initiatives. the u.s. chamber foundation has a deep relationship with the gaetz foundation and for more than a decade we work together on k-12 and post secondary education reform. we value their partnership

it will include talks by authors such as madeleine albright and melinda gates to name a few.and our archive programs, booktv.org. .. welcome to a new program sponsored by the institute of america's history. and president of the institute. will present american history which behind me, our current important books in our country. we present each historian

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90% of its total total assets, given away 90% of his total assets, and largely to the bill and melinda gates foundation here so to take -- it's ridiculous to brag about taking one dollar a year what the seller is, 170542 what a quarter and giving away a couple hundred thousand dollars a year. it's a year. it's nothing. warren buffett has given away billions come i think hundreds of billions, or 90 billion or anyway, that's not -- with the coronavirus becoming, getting seemingly now the hospitals are near capacity and many southern states, many republican states, and it's becoming a crisis. and it occurred to me that our president is not really capable of doing the work as president. i think his brain is not wired for doing the work. his brain is more wired for making up falsehoods and to think he takes the easy way out. i think he's a master at pretending that he can do the work, but he can't do the work. i think it's a big stage act. i think it is a big tv reality show when we have -- tried what do you think the president's task force can do the work? do you trust dr. redfield, dr. fauci, t

bill and melinda gates on what their foundation is doing in developing a covid-19 vaccine. the conversation was hosted by the u.s. chamber of commerce. an gates are working toward internationally coordinated response to deliver a vaccine equitably once it's created. response to deliver a vaccine equitably once it's created. >> welcome to a special edition of the

i will include talks by authors such as jon griffin, melinda gates just to name a few. >> book tv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news you can also wash all overall crime programs anytime @booktv.org. >> best selling author james patterson is on book tv, the author about 150 books or so, mr. patterson your most recent is a nonfiction. >> guest: yes i've done a little nonfiction. welcome to my house we are sheltering, sheltering in florida which is a good place to shelter. [laughter] how many nonfiction's have you written? >> i don't count. probably four or five. the first one was a jeffrey epstein, filthy rich which is now i think -- it just dropped the video today it is a four-part like on the 20th of the month or something like that. and erin hernandez did that and then this when i have a jon lennon coming out in the year which is really interesting. this was connected to a house that jon and yoko owned. there's actually a bridge between these two houses. >> so who used to live in your house? nobody famous. it is a disgustingly big house. they were here for a w

joining forces with the bill and melinda gates foundation working on vaccines to help save millions of children around the world this while the prime minister is expected to go back into quarantine find out why all that and more coming up at 7 but that's it for right now if you keep up with everything in question at all times by downloading that free new app right there portable t.v. been there 24 seventh's follow me on twitter at manilla chandelle of my main question why not. that's good earth but it's a survival guide up station just like all the stars simply a pebble lizard. the bear you don't fit in a bag. oh heck no good repatriations forget the rest the 70. delegates separate guys are for. we go to work you straight home. unbelievable. shocking. this is not a video game the average us citizen is over 10 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist. after witnessing a wave of police brutality that he has which appear on my news feed every day i decided to investigate the problem of police brutality in america. united states police kill stupid people every

surface it sounds like a really good thing but gabby is the organization launched by bill and melinda gates and a lot of people have been reticent to fully embrace any gates affiliated anything do you think that's warranted. i do want to be honest i've never quite understood why he and read just so many people. so much of the time it's like he's the new ross child you know there was a time for a long time when every conspiracy theorist was looking for mr ross child under the bushes then it became george soros now it's bill gates and bill gates is case as he put it today all i'm trying to do is give my money away he's not making money out of back since he has some pretty repugnant political views from my point of view these big through xeon opposition or 'd population growth for example thinks thus far too many people in the world but it is giving away his money to vaccinate children against them dying on messes i think we're going to probably forgive him for because what he's doing is helping keep children alive look i grew up in a time when vaccines were saving lives on a mass scale the po

the most significant initiative in that area has been led by the eu, the who, the bill and melinda gates foundation, something called the act accelerator. that group grew out of a g-7 initiative and had a very successful pledging drive mate for that raised $7.4 billion to get field trials for the major vaccine candidates completed. now it is campaigning hard around making sure that those big bets on the vaccine which 10 that are in for human field trials, that there is consensus around dedicating certain portions to low income countries. made has been big progress lately and getting agreements with the astrazeneca which is proposing to produce 2 billion doses of its vaccine and having those apportioned around the world and setting up manufacturing sites that are distributed around the country. it's quite amazing to me the level of open sharing and dialogue that has happened in the last two or three months around these issues. the united states has been largely absent from that step china has made symbolic experiences here and there but the drivers of this are bill and melinda gates, the

it will include talks by authors such as madeleine albright and melinda gates to name a few. and our archive programs, booktv.org. .. welcome to a new program sponsored by the institute of america's history. and president of the institute. will present american history which behind me, our current important books in our country. we present each historian died a question and answer section toward the end. if you like other programs, please go to our website, now enjoy books. >> good afternoon and welcome to the inaugural edition of this institute of american history program. brings you some of america's greatest historians what they discuss their most recent books. today we are joined by eric as he discusses his book. before i formally introduce them, i want to go over a couple of housekeeping roles. first, today is mother's day. i want to wish you a very happy mother's day the most important people in history past and present, our moms. a very happy mother's day to all moms watching. we are going to go through some of the tech issues of the tech aspects for you viewers author

the bill and melinda gates foundation. that group grew out of the g7 initiative and it had a very successful action may 4 that raised 7.50 in dollars to get the major event and now it's campaigning hard around making sure those big bets on the vaccine that are now 10 veteran human field trials and there's consensus around dedicating certain portions to low income countries. there has been big progress made lately and getting fema for instance with the astrazeneca which is proposing to produce 2 billion doses of this vaccine and having sent around the world and setting up manufacturing sites distributed around the country. it's quite amazing to me the amount of open sharing and dialogue that's happening in the last two or three months around these issues. united states has been largely absent. china has made symbolic appearances here and there but the drivers of this are bill and melinda gates w.h.o. the european union and the major industries folks developing these vaccines. the doors open for participation by others but t

transparency, the most significant initiative in that area has been led by the eu, the who, the bill and melinda gates foundation, that grew out of the g7 initiative, had successful pledging action that raised $7.5 billion to get field trials for the major vaccine candidates completed and campaigning on making sure those vaccine developers which are in human field trials that there is consensus around dedicating certain portions to low income countries. there's been progress in getting agreement with the astrazeneca, proposing $2 billion of its vaccine and having those apportioned around the world and sitting sites distributed around the country so it is quite amazing to me the level of open sharing dialogue what happened in the last 2 or 3 months. the united states has been largely absent from that, china made symbolic appearances here or there but the drivers of this, the who, the european union and major industry folks, the door is open for participation by others but the norms have changed, data protocols, and planning ahead, it will take $65 billion to distribute vaccine to reach heard immunity a

grisham, madeleine albright and melinda gates to name just a few. book tv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news. you can also watch all our archive programs anytime at book tv.org. >> hi everyone. my name is vanessa mendoza and i'm adjunct sometime soon, but in the meantime it's nice to connect this way, and stay tuned, , the man in students putting together of virtual content that filled e rolling out over the next few months. look in your in boxes for information about those events coming to you shortly. in the interim i am so pleased to welcome my guest douglas murray to our event this afternoon. douglas is a journalist, and i'm sure many of you, if not all, have read his work on the pages of the "wall street journal" or national review or of course in the spectator but he's an associate editor. douglas is also an author most recently his 2019 book, "the madness of crowds", and he was with us in person at the manhattan institute i think in early 2018 and that was just after the publication of this book, the strange death of

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international, global public health, and spent 20 years working with the cdc on hiv-aids and the bill and melinda gates foundation. we are delighted you are with us today as well. there is an overwhelming number of ways i could jump in and start this conversation, but i feel like it is important to actually begin with a little bit of level setting as far as where everyone in this distinguished group thinks we are today in terms of the pandemic, because you hear a lot of numbers thrown around. you hear a lot of, you know, is it a spike, are we at the end of the first wave, are we talking about the beginning of the second wave? what is your best effort to describe the moment that we are in? i am going to quickly ask each of the panelists to give me their best version of what we are experiencing right now. just to frame that a little bit, right before this i saw somebody quoting a conversation they recently had with a friend of theirs who is a nurse and saying "you know, i'm a little confused. america is reopening. what exactly is different now than it was two months ago when we were closing down?" and th

president trump has repeatedly threatened to withdraw funding at a time when people like bill and melinda gates have doubled down and increased funsing. thoughts. >> a lot of thoughts. one reality of this world is this enormous gap between global challenges, climate change, pandemics, terrorism, the digital cyberdomain and global arrangements. an enormous gap. we use this phrase in our business, international community and there isn't one. world health organization like most international organizations, struggles to try to narrow that gap ten the challenge and the response but no stronger than the major powers will let it be. the united states now has pulled out funding. china has essentially ignored its requests. so, what this tells us, we see this time and time again, is whether it's the u.n., security council, the world health organization, global governance, global arrangements are only as strong as, again, the united states, china and others will allow it. so we have to improve it after the crisis or i would say we need to find ways to supplement, to work around, to come up with other wive

i will include talks by authors such as jon griffin, melinda gates just to name a few. >> book tv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news you can also wash all overall crime programs anytime @booktv.org. >> best selling author james patterson is on book tv, the author about 150 books or so, mr. patterson your most recent is a nonfiction. >> guest: yes i've done a little nonfiction. welcome to my house we are sheltering, sheltering in

given away 90% of his total bill andrgely to the melinda gates foundation.o it is ridiculous to brag about giving, taking a dollar a is, $1.75,the salary , it is nothing. warren buffett has given away $90 billion or something -- but with the coronavirus becoming, theing seemingly now, hospitals are near capacity and many southern states, many republican state, and it is becoming a crisis. it occurred to me that our president is not really capable of doing the work as president. i think his brain is not wired for doing the work. his brain is more wired for making up falsehoods, and i think he takes the easy way out. i think he is a master at pretending that he can do the work, but he can't do the work. it's a big stage act. i think it is a big tv reality show. host: do you think the president's task force can do the work cap do you trust dr. redfield -- the work? do you trust dr. redfield, dr. fauci? how do you think president has handled the coronavirus pandemic when it comes to the people he has appointed to these positions? know, i like dr. fauci but he do

doses. after striking a number of deals that include two health organisations backed by bill and melinda gatesnteeing early supply of the vaccine to lower income countries. astrazeneca's chief executive spoke to the bbc earlier about how any future vaccine would be distributed. we are actually working together. by the way, i think that competition is good. i mean, competition generates innovation and new ideas and makes people work fast. in that instance, we are not competing with one another, we are competing against this virus and there is a lot of collaboration that is ongoing across industry, so we can deliver several vaccines by the fall and before the end of this year. if you are in the uk and you want to know how many coronavirus cases have beenin know how many coronavirus cases have been in yourarea, know how many coronavirus cases have been in your area, find out by going to the bbc news website, where you can see how many cases and indeed deaths at there have been where you live simply by putting in your postcode or location. brazil has now overtaken italy to become the country with

gates foundation. reform. we value their partnership and very pleased to have built and melinda gaetz with us today. as you've likely seen bill brought attention to the risk of a deadly global pandemic. sadly, his warning is now our reality. the good news is he and melinda have committed themselves and the organization to find you dissolution and that gives us all a sense of hope. the bill and melinda gaetz foundation has committed more than $300 million to the global covid-19 response. we are so grateful for the leadership during this trying moment and excited to talk to them today, this episode was prerecorded to fit their busy schedule so they will not be audience questions at the end of this time but there is a lot we get to talk about so let's get to it. thank you very much for being with us, we have so many questions we just want to jump right in. let me ask you both what is the gates foundation doing to fight the coronavirus and why is it a priority for you? >> are foundation has a big focus on infectious diseases that kills millions of people, primarily in developing countries. our understan

gates. he and melinda are in my mind on equal level with mother teresa.the president has made an historic three-year pledge to that. look, i appreciate the feelings that the good senator from illinois has go the president of the united states and he did indeed put the brakes on w.h.o. because he hold that there were shortcomings with w.h.o. when it came to w.h.o.'s work with china and their failure really to get after china at the very beginning of this to do what it really should have done. i'm going to object to this resolution, not because of the effort by the good senator from illinois not being well-taken. it is well-taken. and we had a similar one two weeks ago, and i came out here and objected to it and the senator was frustrated because he feels that we should be doing more. well, first of all, during the two weeks we obviously were gone for a week, but let me tell you what was going on during that week and the subsequent week. i promised you at that time that the foreign relations committee was going to take this issue on because it is of such im

. >> bill and melinda gaetz on what their foundation is doing in developing a covid-19 vacci vaccine, the conversation was hosted by the u.s. chamber of commerce, the gatesalso working toward an international coordinated response to deliver a vaccine equitably once it's created. >> welcome to a special edition of the u.s. chamber fast-forward series. if you been a regular viewer, welcome back, if you are new, thank you for joining us. we hope you find it informative and interesting. and did you pick a great week to tune in. over the past few months we brought together experts in several fields all around the topic of returning to work. today were thrilled to be joined by two of the most filling therapist in the world. phil and melinda gaetz have dedicated their lives to advancing science in improving public health among other initiatives. the u.s. chamber foundation has