that the soft power peace was made stronger as well and that's why he picked pepfar. general mattis said that foreign aid budget helps and if you cut it got to give him more money for weapons. i'm a huge believer that that framework does not say that we should cut the money. >> when donald trump ran for the presidency, he talked about being a businessman and that's why he was elected. do you in your experience running businesses and running a big business and creating a business, do you feel like you're a good sense of how he thinks? has anybody that you met in your time, in your career, repaired you to do with somebody like him? [laughing] >> well, in business you meet a lot of different kinds of people. [laughing] and you have to be good at adapting to different styles of working. i was in the new york real estate business or the new jersey casino business, and you know, , obviously i missed a whe different approach. but you know, you find things in common that you believe in. i think president trump would like to take some of this new money and that something that

often when i come here because i get to go to africa and see pepfar and the initiative and i can come back and say we really are measuring this stuff. there's a huge benefit to the u.s. in the long run in terms of having a stable africa and talking about the measurement and the way we make sure the money that we are getting together with u.s. government we make sure that done the best it can be. >> writers want to talk about the budget for second and you alluded to this. the government will shut down which we don't anticipate that if you could wave a wand and get one or two things done or get congress to do one or thing-- one or two things what would those be? >> while it's important to remember-- >> you can't leave that one. >> congress makes policies. the private sector in science deliver most of the miracles and those two need to go together. the internet was funded by darpa which is part of the defense budget. most of the advances that have been made are because taxpayers are so generous with the nih. way over half the money discovering how to cure cancer is here in the united sta

it is true that if you withdraw, pepfar, not getting hiv drugs is a form of shock. those people will not need foreign aid because they will be dead. i don't totally get the logic, and realize it would be a smart thing to do. you allow countries to lift themselves up so that they become self-sufficient. when the u.s. started giving aid after world war ii, a lot of that went to redevelop europe, some to develop japan. by the time you get to the 1960's, you have a very much a bifurcated world you have rich countries and poor countries and almost nothing in the middle. and partly because of science and economic development, a miracle took place which was that today, most people live in middle income countries. and they are not aid recipients. brazil, mexico, and fairly soon india, china. the book of the 7 billion people live in those middle income countries that are not substantial sources of aid and -- or substantial recipients of aid. and the low income countries and those countries in order to get stability, help, education, so they can have their own domestic tax co

we need to partner up with all the donors to go after things like polio eradication, the pepfar program on hiv is absolutely miraculous in terms of holding that disease can check for us to get a vaccine. a lot of the discussion is either with the congress of money allocated to these things or with the executive branch on the execution of these things. >> i'm back here four times a year. >> when the white house daily guidance came out last night, we learned that you are visiting the president today, this afternoon. talk about your experience with the president and what your message is going into the white house. >> i think this is a fairly interesting time because -- [laughing] >> yes, it is. >> budgetwise -- [laughing] since the was a demand to get the defense budget off and the nondefense not late too far behind, the defense overall would be making a 12% increase, assuming the omnibus passes without some big change, and that's pretty unusual speeders more than almost any time in the last decade. >> and more in the next decade. the discussion about okay, of that 12% increase, what are t

. >> we need to partner up with all the donors to go after things like polio eradication, the pepfar,, in temples of holding the disease in check to get a vaccine. >> tuesday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, perspectives on gun control from the march for our lives rally. wednesday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, former white house communications director anthony scaramucci interviewed by democratic political consultant bob shrum. >> when he got the job, just like building a condominium or just like building a golf course or just like developing a television show, he said, okay, i've got this job, i've got to go down to the swamp, i got to drain the swamp, i got to hire peop people. i think what he's learned is you're not going to drain the swamp hiring swamp monsters. >>> embedded journalists on their experiences in mosul, iraq, documenting the fight against isis. >> i'm trying to get you to care about someone that speaks a different language, born in a different country, has a different color skin than you do. totally different background. not born with the same privileges you are and try to make you car