again,aid over and over talking about peter thiel's decision.ow we are starting to look at it this time. so larry ellison is holding a fundraiser. if it looks like trump could sanders becomes the democratic nominee, where did these other wealthy tech leaders net out? taylor: and besides the highs in the technology leaders, who to the employee support? to behnology employs seem much more left-leaning looking at donations in the fourth quarter, bernie sanders got the most. lisbeth warren is popular. elizabeth warren is popular. they are donating and among the democrats they seem to support sanders and warren generally. theave seen reports with planned fundraiser that there are oracle employees who are clearly upset he is going to host the fundraiser. taylor: our thank you to bloomberg's eric newcomer, all things politics and the intersection of technology. now t-mobile has received and on -- a nod for its merger with sprint. does that mean for spence owner softbank and other wireless carriers? week, the show airs tonight on bloomberg tv and radio

new competitor in the big coin mining space in the united states and texas a group i guess led by peter thiel is kicking off what's called level one and their goal is to capture 25 percent of the mining global mining or hash trade they have access to great cheap energy in texas now this plays in 2 different ways number one obviously on them downside if you're a big miner like bit ferry probably the 1st and the standard setter of this industry i would say you know host of the annual conference and her island you know you guys are really sitting at a very privileged spot so here's a newcomer and they've got the raising $50000000.00 or $200000000.00 valuation they're going to grab 25 percent of the market that's that's. sounds like a negative but on the other side it means that the network becomes more secure because you have more cash power going into it which means that the price is going to go up and you guys are very early in the space i would imagine you're sitting on some bit coy so there's an actual there's a lot of upside to the fact that you're bringing in more capacity into the send as

the government or is this something bigger that silicon valley wants here for larry ellison and peter thielbe siding with president trump. to get to it's hard one reason somebody like larry decides to host a fundraiser for trump. certainly he is held fundraisers for republicans before. he was a supporter of marco rubio last time around in 2016. but certainly oracle has been on this super aggressive campaign to block amazon from winning this jedi defense department crowd contract. and president trump has been a big antagonist in getting amazon that contract to the point where microsoft won it and now amazon is suing the decision was -- suing saying it was influenced by politics. how was is being received by employees? re-code singy and oracle employees were upset or at least some of them were and that's not surprising. if you look at q4 fundraising numbers for some of the big tech companies come a bernie sanders is getting the most money so this is among the demo -- among the democrats prayed this is a group of employees that is largely liberal, supports democrats and among the democrats sup

people following the space are familiar with the term paypal mafia, elon musk, peter thiel, read hoffmanu tube founders you, you can go down the line, the entrepreneurs, the people who cut their teeth at paypal and went on to do big thing. what is the legacy of paypal in that sense it was a big problem at the time, digital money. arguably is as big as space or electric vehicles are today. is the legacy tackling big problems maybe is it something else what do you think? >> it is always hard to describe your own legacy. i hope my legacy is being built maybe in this company. >> i am the greatest in history. >> i am certainly not the greatest in history but i would like to contribute something. >> right. >> we got extraordinarily lucky, we got ambitious kids 20-odd years ago and now none us of are and we have kids of our own. we were young and stupid and decided that big problems were not too scary to tackle. we got into the habit of reaching for the stars in the case of elon literally i think it is pride and gratitude having the opportunity to be a part of that. >> i have to ask about affir

i mean, it was peter thiel and now a report larry ellison is also backing trump and there is a fundraiser seat expect a lot of business members there. i think nelson peltz is hosting that at his home according to "the washington post." now that he has done the tax reform and it's been largely a good presidency for business and the markets and the economy, whether he is able to line up more support than last time -- >> if bernie sanders starts solidifying his lead and looks like he'll get the nomination i predict we'll see a lot more of that, a lot more ceos publicly willing to align themselves with trump against sanders. >> does the market freak out or do they think oh, he is easily beatable and shrug it off? >> i don't know for sure but i've been hearing a lot of people say the reason the market went up on tuesday is because bernie won that primary and a lot of investors feel if sanders is the nominee then trump is going to win that's good for the market some of that sentiment is definitely out there >> without a doubt still early. >> right and fascinating. >> thank you >> sure. >>> as w

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his fellow board member, peter thiel, got him in there. he kept that quiet. usually, he posts these things on his facebook account, and i think when he got to congress he tonight want people, especially democrats, to say what were you talking about with trump last night. but he would not promise the people in congress that he would get their approval for the libra plan. he said i'll go through normal channels which means the administration, the guy he met with the night before. neil: yeah. his most vociferous opponents have been democrats though, and i'm wondering if that has changed his posture or his view of the world or his view of his critics or he just doesn't -- this guy who seems to brood, stay silent, the guy that you talk about, does he just, you know, hold back even all the more? >> well, i think he's learned he doesn't want to advertise who he's voting for. interestingly, yeah, i noticed -- you know, in realtime it seems significant now, when he went on his little united states trip in 2007, facebook was kind of burning, and he went on this trip tr