coming up, that conversation with bloomberg lp founder mike bloomberg and microsoft founder bill gateswe asked whether he would go back to microsoft and what his future plans really are. ♪ >> this is the early edition of "bloomberg west" and i'm emily chang. intel is giving him his plan -- giving up on its plan to revolutionize the way we watch tv. but verizon is taking over intel's startup. what is verizon seeing that intel is not? jon erlichman joins us. opportunitya huge for verizon. if you look across the country, verizon could potentially rollout tv service. some people are familiar with its files offering. it can beat with -- it competes charter and and satellite. there is plenty of usa for verizon files to be available in. throughy have acquired intel is a simpler technology to roll out. if you are talking about paid television through the internet as opposed to a big dig, the infrastructure costs that you generally see with rolling out into the new markets, the regulatory hurdles, all of that stuff to a certain extent goes away by buying something like this. you can talk about

we have been bringing you the exclusive conversation with bill gates and mike bloomberg. mr. oomberg, founder and majority owner of bloomberg lp, a parent of bloomberg news, is heading to africa. betty asks bill gates if he has any advice for mr. bloomberg. >> mike has been super generous on malaria research. i hope you will feel good going in and seeing that the death rate is down, seeing -- we have been talking to the people on the ground for which tools to deliver. africa is fantastic. the city sees that city needs a lot of help. that is why both of us are drawing more of our philanthropy to help those countries that have great means. >> one of the places melinda is has 50,000 people per doctor. we have 500 people per doctor. if you need an emergency operation, you just die. we have been training people to do appendectomy's, which turns out to be relatively simple operations. you are not going to cure everything, you are not going to be able to do open heart surgery but you are going to do things that can be enormous. >> what do you hope to do or see their? >> the organizat

obviously we've seen with mike bloomberg that some of his health policies, you know, banning smoking in bars and restaurants and parks and his transportation policies, bike lanes are being emulated across

he will be sitting down with mike bloomberg today at 9:30 a.m. television. ♪ >> later this morning, bill gates will be sitting down with michael bloomberg for a conversation on the importance of giving back and his efforts around the world. both of these men giants in the world (three -- of philanthropy. this is "bloomberg surveillance." our guest host for the hour is john borthwick, the ceo of betaworks and experts on all things media. speaking of this conversation coming up at 9:30, the bill and melinda gates foundation published their annual letter this morning. there is a great quote i wanted to bring up that talks about how the future is not preordained. he'll gates is really focusing the letter on how to make progress for the poor and how there are a couple of myths that get in the way -- he is talking about improving the world through philanthropy, the importance of giving back. but it sounds like something would say in the world of technology, isn't it? >> the question is, how much technology do you need to solve some of these problems, a

we are going to share some of that interview between our own mike bloomberg and bill gates. inary philanthropist. -- extraordinary philanthropist. ♪ >> we are approaching 26 minutes past the hour, that means it is time for bloomberg to go on the markets. we have seen the rally, or if there was much of a rally, though out on u.s. stocks. the nasdaq hasn't changed but the s&p 500 has turned lower, losing 2/10 of a percent. l industrials is moving almost three quarters of one percent. -- dow industrials moving almost three quarters of one percent. verizon shares are falling. the company just concluded its conference call and fourth- quarter results. even though half it beat analyst estimates, the story is subscribers are slowing down from the record. the company says it is studying options at competition from the likes of t-mobile. detail on theore verizon agreement to buy intel. bloomberg has learned that verizon will pay less than $208 million to buy that business. people withrding to knowledge of the matter. we will continue to monitor shares and the overall markets on this t

value of a good engineer, coming up with twitters former head of engineering mike abbott. >> welcome back to "the best of bloombergi'm emily chang. offered engineers are perks like free food and vacations. what makes a good engineer so valuable? , said down with mike abbott former head of engineering at twitter. take a listen. >> i think great engineers want to work with other great engineers. they want to make an impact on whatever they are working on. they have a great impact and they're working with great people and they want to work at your company. >> are good engineer is -- do they drive innovation? are they given a problem to solve or do good engineers come up with a problem to solve? >> i think great engineers come up with novel solutions to address a problem. i think many great product companies, the problems are outlined by the design team, or maybe a project manager. the design team may have a vision for a particular interaction and it is up to engineering to think through how they come up with realizing that vision or dream. there has to be a path for engineers to provide input into that innovation. on

i was getting ready for the new arctic vortex. , mike bloomberg, going to be joining us. only are you doing this, but you're going to be moderating the conversation between bill gates and michael bloomberg. were you trying to think of questions and how to do all this? come a scenario like this you just say, it is a conversation. >> yeah, right. >> with some pretty big figures. we've been waiting 12 years for this to see the mayor back on. it will be great to see him back on tv. >> people want to hear what bill gates has to say about microsoft. too.ll gates, i forgot about him. let me give you some of the news pouring in this morning. correiaal going on in -- korea for beer. anheuser-busch buying brewery --ean they sold it for one third of the price. they're buying it now for three times what they sold it for just 2-3 years ago. it is a vote of confidence for the korean your market. it wraps up deals for liquor companies as we all talk about pot and marijuana. liquor companies are big money. bigger than all of last year. >> how did you get the story he ? -- we have as here

founder and former new york city mayor, mike bloomberg. hear what they have to say about eradicating poverty and disease. that's tonight at 9:30 p.m., only on bloomberg. ♪ >> starbucks, starbucks posted its earnings after the close of trading today. the world's largest coffee shop chain said first quarter revenue rising 12%, $4.25 billion. so how can local coffee shops compete against such a giant? well, let's check in with two owners. rich runs sweetleaf coffee and espresso bar. the company's gone from one to three locations in new york city. and from washington, d.c., max brown joins us. he's the owner of chinatown coffee. he's among many local coffee shops that are honoring something called the disloyalty card. so let's begin with you. what is a disloyalty card? >> thanks for having me. so, six shops in d.c. got together and said, come to each one of our shops, get a stamp and then the sixth coffee, you can go to any one of our shops and get a free coffee. it's a way for folks who experience lots of different shops and for small business

mark halperin, when we talk about the senate, we hear mike bloomberg is contributing his money to thee pack, the leadership pack from harry reid and chuck schumer trying to hold the senate. but there had been information that i had as recently as two weeks ago that he was resisting pressure from schumer and reid to defend mark pryor, not o attack him on the gun issue, that he was really single issue focused on guns. at the risk of jeopardizing senate for the democrats, has that changed? >> even as you reported in the new york times and i've confirmed, they resisted in treaty from president clinton to layoff mark pryor. that one may be a special case because mayor bloomberg does care a lot about the issue. contribution, a couple million dollars to the committee to help democrats in the senate races is part of a larger play on the democratic side, yes they have a lot of dangered incumbents but doing fine raising money and this is a group of incumbents under no illusion how tough things will be. obama care tightened their races up. there's not one of them anything like a goner. most of t

so mike bloomberg has been a modern -- he got there, bought it fair and square, i choked. money got him into office and sustained a lot of what he wanted to do. but he's kind of a billionaire do-gooder. he really meant and did well. transportation policies and bike lanes, anti-tobacco for kids, a green agenda by 2030. this is all to the good. but when a billionaire comes to a conclusion irrespective of the fact digs in his heels on stop and frisk, it's not pretty. and other cities don't have a stop and frisk. had crime rates coming down as much as new york, but instead of adjusting his language, mike bloomberg quietly reduced stop and frisk, but it didn't stop bill de blasio, a brilliant politician. he didn't get there on height alone, although it helped. by running on and against stop and frisk, which gave him a pathway with his modern family to victory. >> yeah. well, and look, when you look at stop and frisk and look at this new commissioner bratton who was a commissioner once before and was an analyst for nbc at one point. this was someone when you ran you signaled you

[laughter] ♪ >> mike bloomberg spent 20 years running new york.t is no wonder he thinks local government is the bedrock of society. >> cities are where you disturb it services. federal governments tend to move money around. cities are where you pick up the garbage, where you educate the kids, where you bring down crime, where you and act health measures that you can actually see. what you can buy, how it is labeled, where you can use it, those kinds of things. if you take a look at most of the progress that has been making climate change, it has all been done at the city level. very little -- even in this country, when we are fighting guns, obesity, improving the school systems among those are not done at the federal and state level. those are done at the city level. >> bill, i have always wanted to know this from you. you have such a huge arsenal of resources. how do you pick the causes that you get behind? wax globally, i think equity is how poor children don't get to go up and achieve their potential. either they die or don't have enough food t

rudy giuliani and mike bloomberg who did great things.ty was heading to detroit and then came rudy and then came mayor bloomberg an this guy is looking to take us, his policies, are essentially what got us in trouble the first time. i will say this, here's why you have to worry about comrade bill de blasio. his campaign was built on a lie. new york city isnot a -- how do you say the word? >> dekeynesian. >> dekeynesian hell le. >> you can't make this argument if you can't say it. >> some people are saying maybe charlie's wrong, maybe it is the best of times and the worst of times. the best of times for rich guys like charlie but still so many pockets of poor in this country, let's try a different system because this capitalism thing isn't fair. >> but the capitalism is the best system there is. there's in perfectly fair system. god did not make life to be perfectly fair. i would likeo recommend an author named charles payne whos has a website who wrote about this subject about a class envy and about the envy and how bad it is and dangerou

mike bloomberg tweeting best of luck to the deblasio administration. best days for our city be ahead of us. we're going to be taking you live to that ceremony, the former president bill clinton is there as well as former secretary of state and new york state senator hillary clinton. they are both there, as well. you can see the color guard and the choir getting ready to kick off the ceremony. as soon as it begins in earnest, we'll take you back live. here are also some stories making news around the world right to you. vladimir putin paid a new year's visit to victims of this week's suicide bombings. 34 people were killed at a railway station on a trolley bus in volgograd on sunday and monday. no group has claimed responsibility for those attacks. putin said russia would continue the fight against terrorists until they're "complete an intolation." the blasts come just six weeks before russia hosts the winter olympics, raising fears of terrorism at that the event. the games will be held in the town of sochi, that is on the western he can of the north ca

. >>> mayor mike bloomberg bid farewell to new york city politics, but don't expect one of the world'sply disappear, armed with billions of dollars and a zeal for civic issues. michael bloomberg's next chapter promises to be very interesting. with a last wave, this multibillion air is out of work, for now. >> i'll be fulfilling a lifelong dream of enjoying a small soda on a nonsmoking beach. >> reporter: the net worth of $31 billion, makes him the seventh richest man in the country, and the 13th richest in the world, and it started with a layoff. when solomon brothers let him go in 1981 with a $10 million severance package, bloomberg started what would become bloomberg l.p. it's now the largest financial data provider on the globe. the company on track for a record $8.3 billion profit in 2013. bloomberg stepped down as ceo in 2001 to campaign for mayor. financing that campaign himself. >> so help me god. >> reporter: $74 million in 2001. 85 million in 2005. and after a controversial change in term limits he pushed through city council -- >> so help me god. >> reporter: -- 108 million i

bill gates is going to be joining in the loop for a special conversation with mike bloomberg and bettyiu. this will be coming on a day that he releases his annual so great to be with you. >> welcome to "money moves" where we focus on alternative assets. we show you what investors and entrepreneurs are doing, as well as what is going on in hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and more. privacy and security, president obama is defending the role of intelligence gathering and national security. we will review his speech and show you which businesses are benefiting from surveillance programs. also the expanding world of alt asset management.

new york mayor has taken the reigns at city hall from former mayor mike bloomberg. >> we are gettingget rid of the horse carriages period it is over. >> they have been secelebrated film here in barefoot in the park and on tv on sex in the city. >> i wasn't going to question any oist. not even until we found a horse drawn sleigh in the middle of manhattan >> they have been on the top of so many tourist must do lists. >> it is one of the things that you need to do. don't get rid of the horses or we won't come back. >> how many horses have to die? >> animal rights groups have been calling for a ban on the rides. the animals are forced to live in conditions that they describe as inhumane. >> the mayor says he is open to new alternatives replacing the kirn carriages with antique cars. the move to get rid of the horses won't work. he and other drivers plan to fight it in court. >> the horses are the star. it is not the car the carriage it is not me. sethe star. you can't create that with an electric car. kids can't pet fenders, they pet horses. >> animal rights groups say the traffic and t

we'll have more with mike abbott after this quick break. >> welcome back to the early edition of "bloombergt," i'm emily chang. back with mike abbott, a partner at kaufman and buyers and i want to talk to your area of focus which is enterprise focus. you've even said these are unsexy companies but how is investing in something more unsexy makes your job difficult or actually easier? >> as an engineer, it's more fun to look at things that are solving real problems, and regardless whether it happen to to be sexy or not. a lot of the things i look at are as a team and oftentimes it's teams of engineers with maybe one designer, maybe no designers. but does this group of folks have a vision around solving a particular problem or based on some trend and he or she wants to realize that. >> what are the trends in enterprise infrastructure? >> i've been spending time around a label called big data which i cringe when i say it, having started companies in that space. but there are a lot of things going on there where companies have invested in basically really efficient ways to store data and have in

gates, chairman founder of microsoft, and bloomberg lp's founder and former new york city mayor mike bloombergh betty liu. biz stone working on a new search engine and he will tell us all about it next. ♪ >> you are watching "bloomberg west" where we focus on technology and the future of business. blackberry -- is hoping a real estate deal will help. says it will allow them to invest in turnaround projects. sales keep falling at ibm for a seventh straight quarter. offsetting a slump in hardware. they're also forgoing annual bonuses. act of its investor dan loeb betting on a merger between t- mobile u.s. and the sprint. marriage between the two creates "the only real counterbalance to an industry dominated by at&t and verizon." a stake inund has softbank, sprints daren't company. our smartphone photos of the future of search? stone iset biz zton making with jelly. he cofounded mediaman the as aus corporations or social media pioneer, why did he choose search? i sat down with him in the early edition of "bloomberg west" today. >> it happened by accident. we were going on a walk-in we accidentall

. >> majority stakeholder, my my -- mike bloomberg, and microsoft cofounder bill gates. to switzerland -- some of technologies biggest names are headed to the world economic forum. we will hear from them, coming up, next. ♪ >> welcome back to the best of "bloomberg west" with emily chang. taking the stage at the world economic forum in switzerland. the salesforce ceo is there. among them, all of them sat on a single panel. they covered topics, including nsa surveillance. i spoke with them at length. >> interesting, all of them affected, maybe so forth the least. -- salesforce the least. yahoo! as well getting those collection request from the nsa. here they are at this forum talking about the impact of their global businesses on this spying policy. >> all of them were asked, what would you ask, if you could ask president obama for one thing, what would you ask? let's take a look. >> what one request would you make to president obama? >> transparency. understanding, so that we can help our users understand these how many requests that we are getting, and the range of requ

. >> mike bloomberg sat there through this litany of insults'.r president bill clinton swearing-in. >> one touch of class because he at least said he wanted to pay tribute to the man who had less -- left new york safer, more secure. lou: swearing in this mayor. by the l.a., it none of the sanitation department and tell he showed up. what sanitatn department has a chaplain? are you kidding me? >> the muslim cleric who was there is supporter of louis farrakhan. lou: this cannot be imagined. >> bloomrg saved new york. 9/11, the city that was going down the tubes. he restored confidence. he had done nothing else but that his legacy would be secure. lou: don't leave out a guy by the name of rudolph guiliani. and nine not thinking he was invited to that ceremony. they're coming right back with the "a-team." they have a lot to sayho>> ♪ lou: we are back with the "a-team," and we want to complete as best we can hear in a short time, the new york times and their call for clemency and pardon, if you will, for edward snowden to many, many of us feel somewha

here in new york, bill de blasio has been sworn in as the city's new mayor replacing billionaire mike bloombergformer u.s. president bill clinton administered the oath of office on a bible once used by franklin delano roosevelt. de blasio is the first democrat to lead new york in two decades. in his inaugural address, de -- he vowed to fight income inequality and what he called -- inequality. thatknow there are those think what i said in the campaign was rhetoric, political talk in the interest of getting elected. there are some that think that now, as returned to governing that things will continue, pretty much the way they always have. so, let me be clear. when i said i would take dead aim at the tale of two cities, i meant it. [applause] and we, will do it. i will honor the faith and trust that you have placed in me, and we will give life to the hope of so many in our city. we will succeed as one city. we know this will not be easy. it will require all that we can muster, and it will not be accomplished only by me. it will be accomplished by all of us. ande of us here today, millions of ever

for more we are joined from washington by mike riley from bloomberg news. it started to lay out the details, how did these hackers get all of these credit card numbers? >> so they have got a pretty sophisticated piece of malware, the terminal that sits in front of the cash register that we all swipe our cards on. so the malware takes advantage of a quirk within that machine, all the information that comes off that card is sent from one memory chip to another. it's not encrypted in it and it's grabbed right this. >> who's writing the malware? >> it looks like eastern european gangs. some of the most sophisticated hackers in the world are eastern european or russians. they have a supply chain that you can buy pieces of malware so you're good enough as in this case what they did was bought an existing piece of malware. it's a good piece of malware to begin with. but then they customized it. they made it harder to find. then they figured out the scheme to get into target's computers and stuck it on the system. the same gang or a group of different hackers using

mike bloomberg almost didn't run a third term because of this. >> and you know who criticized him --uncil from new york, bill de blasio. >> he didn't think that the mayor was paying enough attention to the less affluent areas of the city. >> the city has limited resources and they trust the mayor to distribute them in a fair way. if he didn't get them on time, then so be it. they will clean it up. but now he is admitting -- >> he admits the upper east side didn't get the attention they needed. >> correct, he claims it was negligence, but if had he targeted the east side because he thinks they're republicans, because he thinks they're rich, some reason that has nothing to do with the re-distributing of city resources he would really expose himself to enormous criticisms. >> we'll get to this, because it is very funny, somebody tweeted, the upper east side people abandoned by the mayor, waiting for fema. wait, let me ask you this, they said by the way there was one truck working on the upper east side, but nobody noticed it, because allegedly it was gps malfunction. the reason people w

bloomberg surveillance." our guest host for the hour, craig moffett. mike from the files of "bloomberg west." >> amazon says they are not planning an online pay-tv service, telling "usa today," plan --y do continue to to plan to continue making original shows, but not television. ofckberry is selling most its real estate in canada. the company will sell almost 3 million square feet of space and then lease back what it needs. it is their plan to raise cash as the ceo looks to turn blackberry around. nokia may return as much as $4 billion to shareholders, speaking of cash. deutsche bank predicts that the british company could return some of that amount in the form of an annual dividend as soon as tomorrow. they have not guaranteed any payout. that is today's company news. >> what about news stories that are like names from the past? >> it does not take long in the tech world. >> what is the saying? the graveyard is littered with tech relics? >> there has to be a saying about companies and how long they can live. >> speaking of relics, if you think that airbus

it's hard opposing you and haley and mike bloomberg and murdoch and long-term unemployment. not against immigration reform. i'm against the house moving with immigration reform this year in 2014 with a bad senate bill sitting there ready to sabotage or i think the house members in conference. i think you'll get a much better bill next year as republican house and senate. >> haley, i think there's some wisdom there in what he's saying. certainly there's pro growth but the low hanging fruit. i call it the brainian visas. let's let those stay here and work, the electrical engineers, let's let them do that. let's let the kids of the undocumented families stay here and go to what schools they want to go to. to me, that would be reach out. it would also be very pro growth in the american economy. >> well, you know, bill, i am in favor of immigration reform as a matter of policy. you've mentioned some of the things that are just so obvious. i don't know why anybody would be against them. and i think boehner and the republicans in the house are wise that they are going to take immig

. >> mayor bloomberg, mike bloomberg, is a very progressive guy, and they made him look like some tea party guy. >> you think they're all in the same kettle? >> they like to point out there's a war on the republican party. the right controlled the tea partiers, but the far loony left is starting to control the democratic party. >> will you stop calling de blasio comrade? >> he's probably a nice guy, but when he apologized for giving aid and comfort to the sand iniestas. >> maybe you have is to move on. >> i don't think so. >> charlie gasparino, it's a pleasure. >>> meanwhile, now you all know i have been a superhero for a long time. look at that, gasparino. envy it. what a lot of you didn't know are the folks who made it all possible. when it comes to good nutrition, my daughter's an expert. hi dad. she's a dietitian. eating right, she got me drinking boost. it's got a great taste, and it helps give me the nutrition i was missing. helping me stay more like me. [ female announcer ] boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d

generous last charities. 15 individual donations exceeded at least according to the million and mike bloombergion to his alma mater johns hopkins and mark zuckerberg donated $990 million. >> we can't give $990 million but good for mark zuckerberg. thank you, alison. appreciate it. >>> coming up, imagine eating every meal every day at starbucks for an entire year. one woman did-0l2 it. seriously! you won't believe what it cost her. we will have her story next. tham that you might not know about. salad dressings, raspberries, strawberries... they all have acid in them, and it's working at your enamel. once the enamel is gone, it's gone. you can't get it back. i would recommend using pronamel as your regular toothpaste. pronamel will help to re-harden the enamel that is softened by the acids in our daily diets. knowing what i know about pronamel, i use that every day twice a day. and i know that i am protected. there's nothing like being your own boss! and my customers are really liking your flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order. good news

you can ask this about anyone who works for, say, an andrew cuomo or chuck schumer or mike bloombergterms of trying to channel their personalities. >> schumer staff members start to talk like chuck schumer. i've seen it happen to people i know. >> they marry each other. >> there's a very strong, particularly strong personalities like chris christie or chuck schumer, you see in their staff, that personality trickles down as people try in an organization to emulate the boss because that's the thing that kind of reflects most kindly on them. you see that. >> what's interesting in a lot of e-mails we've seen, by the way, a lot of them have been redacted which adds to the mystery. you don't know who communicating with david wildstein or bill baroni. what's very interesting about some of them is the sense she clearly is reporting to someone, and the assumption so far is it could be bill stepien, christie's longtime campaign manager who was let go, if you will, by the governor. and, you know, they had a very close working relationship, bridget anne kelly and bill stepien. the question remai

a moat towards mike bloomberg. the new mayor's inaugural address.or deblasio pace as challenge of managing the big city during a severe snowstorm about to hit. joining me is chris,"washington post" political reporter omoti and kate taylor. welcome, all. first to you, kate taylor. we are talking about new york and bill deblasio's speech perhaps predictable in that it was strong progressive message. but hardly graceful towards the outgoing mayor. >> yeah. he is getting some criticism for how harsh the proceedings were in general towards the mayor. and it actually fell to former president clinton to say first nice words about bloomberg and about an hour into the ceremony when he said that bloomberg had really devoted a lot of his life to the city and the city was -- leaving eight lot stronger than when he had come. and afterwards deblasio said a few nice words. it was very striking. harry belafonte tee and the new public advocate la tear a james described the city as very divided. and a chaplain for the sanitation department actually referred to new yo

how does she get out of that -- >> the de blasio phenomenon is very specific to the fact that mike bloombergfor 12 years, people are ready for a change and he capitalized in a very left leaning democratic city and ran a clever campaign and we'll see how he does. >> but a very divisive campaign. >> i personally think that he will be a better manager than most people think he will be. but we'll see, right? but this is not a message that the democratic party or hillary clinton is going to embrace. >> does hillary clinton go -- >> it is a very unclinton message. >> -- elizabeth warren slash de blasio slash obama, or will she do what richard is suggesting and be more like her husband? >> if she ever got to the white house she'd be more like her husband. but the fact is when you have 15 democratic senators sign a bill to stop the president from appeasing iran, the party has gone too far to the left. and hillary is going to have to run to the left to forestall an elizabeth warren challenge or a challenge from any other number of lefties out there. it's gone over to the edge. and this is what happen

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. >> it is key that you have billionaires like bill gates and warren buffett and mike bloomberg and ahers giving money to direct charity. a lot of people have mistrusted government spending and central planning. smartguys are able to do things with the money. >> ibm is out with earnings. eps coming in ahead of estimates. revenue cells by about five percent. .evenue missing estimates here this is what we have seen shifting out of technology. bloomberg reported that lenovo was said to be in discussions to server through lower and business. they have been in discussions before. apparently they are in discussions once again. little overs for a 10% of the company sales overall. nonetheless, this is something that ibm has been trying to shift away from. they are saying that this ups will be at least $18. it looks like there is a little -- >> you're trying to shift one into the other and focusing on margins. it is sort of a slippery slope. not been able to get there. they have been having trouble. >> it is one more of the companies that we are seeing missing estimates and under promising for

this is -- concept that's not alien to mike bloomberg either. the question to me is -- argument in the democratic party is taking place a little bit more in new york and a lot nationally about how safe is it to be sort of as outwardly progressive to embrace the idea and how politically safe is it to do that? that's why i'm so interested to see if cuomo ends up budge oygt. cuomo is a perfect symbol of the resistance to outward progress. if cuomo is forced politically to embrace it on the tax question, i think that tells you a lot. >> perfect symbol and potential rival to one hillary rodham clinton. i great article. everybody should take a look at it. >>> coming up, a new year brings a new round of snow. parts of the country are about to get walloped by a major winter storm. we will having a live report next. hey linda! what are you guys doing? having some fiber! with new phillips' fiber good gummies. they're fruity delicious! just two gummies have 4 grams of fiber! to help support regularity! i want some... [ woman ] hop on over! [ marge ] fiber

. >> that is pretty much in line with what the former new york city mayor, mike bloomberg, what he saidus a few weeks ago about the role of cities. >> if you take a look at most of the progress that has been made in climate change, it has all been done at the city level. even in this country. when we are fighting guns, obesity, trying to improve the school systems and bring down crime, those are done at the city level. >> people do tend to forget that. comes to everything from the control to climate change, it really rests with mayors. >> education, so much else. if you are a mayor, you are pretty close to the citizens because they will tell you what they think. >> coming up, more with bill white. we will talk about an issue near and dear to his own state. immigration. ♪ >> in today's global outlook, were focusing on the likelihood of immigration reform. here is the president earlier today on cnn. theor a lot of families, fear of deportation is one of the biggest concerns they've got. that is why we took executive actions, given my discretion, to make sure we are not deporting kids who

i've been riding in a car with mike bloomberg when he ran across a pothole and he called three guys about this pothole. you can say he is not a micro manager but part of his appeal is his attention to details and that he blew it off and left to the state assembly to conduct this investigation and have all of this come out and the stuff you mentioned about a lack of intellectual curiosity. >> he probably, i think, whether you like it or not, will some out and survive it. >> left himself no room saying i heard nothing about this and i was about it 8:30 yesterday and i was blindsided. if anything comes back that traces him that he knew, what do you do? how do you get out of it? when people looking back on things that may have happened to the mayors. >> sandy money. >> is it the same retribution i'm getting? >> he has also left a couple of key advisers. even if it never gets close to him personally he will lose other people because more indications that other people on his senior staff were involved and i think it's hard for him to keep anything on his staff that had any knowledge of this. th