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david: your mother? dr. shah: my mom is in early childhood education specialist, and she started a montessori school iran that throughout my childhood. david: you grew up in the detroit area. i assume you are a superstar student. is that right? dr. shah: i was a good student. i grew up in an indian american community that was pretty focused on being a good student. david: you went to the university of michigan? dr. shah: i did. go blue. david: what did you study? dr. shah: i started as an engineer. i grew up in a family where you were either a doctor or an engineer. i quickly switched to literature, science and arts and started studying economics and policy. david: when you graduated from michigan, i assume you did reasonably well. decided to go to medical school. dr. shah: i did. david: medical school was not enough. you wanted to get another degree as well. dr. shah: in reality, i felt that i was supposed to be a doctor because i grew up with that. i got very interested in politics and policy, so i wanted
david: your mother? dr. shah: my mom is in early childhood education specialist, and she started a montessori school iran that throughout my childhood. david: you grew up in the detroit area. i assume you are a superstar student. is that right? dr. shah: i was a good student. i grew up in an indian american community that was pretty focused on being a good student. david: you went to the university of michigan? dr. shah: i did. go blue. david: what did you study? dr. shah: i started as an...
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david: what about artificial intelligence? is artificial intelligence going to enable you and others to say , we have enough information to know what something will be worth in terms of ensuring it or not? peter: artificial intelligence is finding its way into the business in a variety of factors. the first piece is getting much better insight into data that allows us to make better decisions on underwriting. it's also a great opportunity to serve businesses better in terms of call centers and different ways of using robotics and ai would be very helpful. but it is an emerging practice within the industry and one that is evolving very quickly. so it's also going to present risks that other companies, how they use it and how they use large language models and making sure the decision-making is very sound. so it's complicated but it is definitely benefiting the business today. david: the insurance industry has a reputation, maybe undeserved, for, let's say, somebody has a claim, their house burned down, and the insurance adjuste
david: what about artificial intelligence? is artificial intelligence going to enable you and others to say , we have enough information to know what something will be worth in terms of ensuring it or not? peter: artificial intelligence is finding its way into the business in a variety of factors. the first piece is getting much better insight into data that allows us to make better decisions on underwriting. it's also a great opportunity to serve businesses better in terms of call centers and...
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david: who helped start it? deborah: there was a group of people in utah that started as a publishing company. is not always a technology or subscription company. publishing records and genealogy to help people discover their past. david: you have risen up to run a publicly traded company, what's the market value? deborah: we are privately owned by blackstone in the transaction was at close to $5 billion. david: it was public? deborah: about 10 years ago. david: now it's privately owned by blackstone. presumably, blackstone would probably try to sell it at some point or take it public but not in the immediate future? deborah: they are the owners and our partnership with them is very close. david: how will you grow the company? it's the biggest in the united states, the biggest in the world. everybody wants growth, how will you grow the company, do you have new lines of activity you will get into or something like that? deborah: 75% of the united states has said that they are interested in family history. you loo
david: who helped start it? deborah: there was a group of people in utah that started as a publishing company. is not always a technology or subscription company. publishing records and genealogy to help people discover their past. david: you have risen up to run a publicly traded company, what's the market value? deborah: we are privately owned by blackstone in the transaction was at close to $5 billion. david: it was public? deborah: about 10 years ago. david: now it's privately owned by...
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david? >> reporter: david, the department of justice is willing to cooperate and turn over the transcript if several hurdles are cleared. in a letter sent late friday to the chairman of the big three committees looking into the impeachment of the president the doj official wrote, the transcript of the interview between robert hur and president biden that took place in october must be looked at by intelligence agencies to make sure there is nothing classified. after all the whole premise of the investigation special counsel hur was looking into classified information found at the home and personal office of president biden. once any classified information is redacted the white house would then be able to look at any sort of executive privilege if warranted. if that happens, that could definitely slow down the process for doj turning over the transcript to capitol hill. when it comes to executive privilege i'm told there is not much doj can do to block executive privilege n this doj letter to
david? >> reporter: david, the department of justice is willing to cooperate and turn over the transcript if several hurdles are cleared. in a letter sent late friday to the chairman of the big three committees looking into the impeachment of the president the doj official wrote, the transcript of the interview between robert hur and president biden that took place in october must be looked at by intelligence agencies to make sure there is nothing classified. after all the whole premise...
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david: and your mother? dr. shah: my mom's in early childhood education specialist and she started a montessori school and ran that throughout my childhood, right? david: you were a superstar student, is that right? dr. shah: i was a pretty good student and i grew up in an indian american community that was pretty focused on being a good student. david: you went to university of michigan? dr. shah: i did. go blue. david: why did you want to study? dr. shah: i started in engineering because i grew up in a family where you are either going to be a doctor or an engineer and i thought may be an outer designer was my sort of early plan. i quickly switched to literature, science and arts and started studying economics and policy. david: so you graduated michigan, and decided to go to medical school at university of pennsylvania? dr. shah: i did. david: medical school was not enough. you wanted to get another degree as well. dr. shah: i think i felt i was supposed to be a doctor because i just sort of grew up with that
david: and your mother? dr. shah: my mom's in early childhood education specialist and she started a montessori school and ran that throughout my childhood, right? david: you were a superstar student, is that right? dr. shah: i was a pretty good student and i grew up in an indian american community that was pretty focused on being a good student. david: you went to university of michigan? dr. shah: i did. go blue. david: why did you want to study? dr. shah: i started in engineering because i...
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david: any more sports teams? sheila: let's see -- [laughter] david: ok. shiela: no. david: where you are in life is where a lot of people would like to be. did you start out with a wealthy father and mother? sheila: there were not wealthy, they were middle-class. david: middle-class. so you might describe what happened in your family growing up. you begin your book with a relatively sad situation. you might describe what happened in that situation. sheila: it is a case. now, we are going to go all the way back to the 1950's, early 1960's, and this is the time when women had very little leverage and control over their own lives. my father was one of eight african-american neurosurgeons in the country. and that put us in a social status up here. he then decided one night he is just leaving. and he just left us cold. my mother suddenly went from here to here in society, in the eyes of society. her friends left her. she literally had a nervous breakdown. i was working at jcpenney and i came in and found her on the floor of the kitchen in convulsions. and that was the tim
david: any more sports teams? sheila: let's see -- [laughter] david: ok. shiela: no. david: where you are in life is where a lot of people would like to be. did you start out with a wealthy father and mother? sheila: there were not wealthy, they were middle-class. david: middle-class. so you might describe what happened in your family growing up. you begin your book with a relatively sad situation. you might describe what happened in that situation. sheila: it is a case. now, we are going to go...
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david: well, you survived that. but after you accomplished about global immunization program, you said you wanted to do something different. so you decided to leave. what to do next? dr. shah: i was at gates for a while. after president obama got elected, i got a phone call to join the obama administration. it had always been my dream since i left medical school to work for gore that i would get a chance to serve in the administration, so i moved to washington, d.c. david: so you wanted initially to work for the secretary of agriculture, who i guess is tilde secretary of agriculture -- dr. shah: [laughs] it is, yes tom vilsack. , david: he has had a couple of tours of duty in the position. you later got asked to be the head of usaid. what is usaid? dr. shah: the united states agency for international development is america's prime development and humanitarian agency. it was founded by john f. kennedy. it has a very clear and direct mission. the idea is bringing dignity, security, hope and opportunity to the poorest
david: well, you survived that. but after you accomplished about global immunization program, you said you wanted to do something different. so you decided to leave. what to do next? dr. shah: i was at gates for a while. after president obama got elected, i got a phone call to join the obama administration. it had always been my dream since i left medical school to work for gore that i would get a chance to serve in the administration, so i moved to washington, d.c. david: so you wanted...
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david: how long did you run uab? dr. vickers: i was there for nine and a half years, almost 10 years. david: when memorial sloan-kettering approached you, did you say, i'm a great surgeon, i got what i want right here, this is my native state, i don't need to leave? dr. vickers: it was more of the former, like you said. i have a good place. i have a good job. i have built a level of trust in the community. i have a compelling mission, and i think i need to really think very hard about leaving it. i would say there are very few places that would intrigue you enough to consider leaving it, and memorial sloan kettering is one of them. david: as you rose from an only child in alabama to where you are now, you must have encountered a fair amount of racial prejudice. dr. vickers: i had my share of it. i learned early on from one of my mentors at johns hopkins -- he was one of the faculty there, and he reminded me that people will often have difficulties with you, but don't make their problem your problem, and so one of my earl
david: how long did you run uab? dr. vickers: i was there for nine and a half years, almost 10 years. david: when memorial sloan-kettering approached you, did you say, i'm a great surgeon, i got what i want right here, this is my native state, i don't need to leave? dr. vickers: it was more of the former, like you said. i have a good place. i have a good job. i have built a level of trust in the community. i have a compelling mission, and i think i need to really think very hard about leaving...
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david: your business is global. what is the biggest place where you have the most people, france, europe, or the united states? thomas: europe. 20% of the business is in france. 40% in europe. 20% in the u.s. and 20% in asia. david: growing a business the end acquisition or are you going to do something like that? thomas: as i said i started with 80% life insurance and now we are at 20% having cap the same revenue which meant that we had to do transactions of the company you mentioned earlier, the ipoed in the u.s. and we did transactions in the area of 30 billion euro. david: as the ceo of a company, do the insurance people come to you and say we have a big risk that we will underwrite or do they leave you out of the underwriting business? thomas: it depends on the size. normally they are doing their own business so we have a clear grid of competence for underwriting and it is about 99% of all risks done in the entities and so it should be. there are some risks that i have to take a decision. david: let us suppose
david: your business is global. what is the biggest place where you have the most people, france, europe, or the united states? thomas: europe. 20% of the business is in france. 40% in europe. 20% in the u.s. and 20% in asia. david: growing a business the end acquisition or are you going to do something like that? thomas: as i said i started with 80% life insurance and now we are at 20% having cap the same revenue which meant that we had to do transactions of the company you mentioned earlier,...
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david: you were interested in music. sheila: right. david: and you were an accomplished violinist. sheila: despite my father's issues he was a great pianist. he could sit down and play anything. there was always music in our household, and my mother even played the piano. when we moved into illinois, district 89 said it was mandatory to pick up an instrument. i picked up the file in and fell in love with the instrument. it was the foundation of my life, my sanctuary, and i became really good at it. david: you graduated from high school and went to college where? sheila: university of illinois. david: were you playing music on the side? sheila: no, i was in a very middle-class community. i didn't know about sat prep, i didn't know about a lot of things in preparation for college. that upper-class, white people had. the problem was, they said you have to take an sat test, and i was like what is an sat test? i went one saturday and took it and i have the lowest scores you can imagine. i told my music teacher in high school, i don't understand these scores. she said oh my god, this is
david: you were interested in music. sheila: right. david: and you were an accomplished violinist. sheila: despite my father's issues he was a great pianist. he could sit down and play anything. there was always music in our household, and my mother even played the piano. when we moved into illinois, district 89 said it was mandatory to pick up an instrument. i picked up the file in and fell in love with the instrument. it was the foundation of my life, my sanctuary, and i became really good at...
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david: let's talk about the economy. united states has a situation where we have reasonably good girl -- good growth in 2023, over 3%. europe has not grown quite as well. why do you think the united states is pulling away from the european and chinese economies in terms of our growth. is it something about the american business environment that the united states has recovered from covid may be better than europe did or china did? thomas: a couple of factors, fiscal stimulus, the fiscal stimulus in the u.s. was higher than it was in europe and fiscal stimulus leads to more demand. secondly, there is a lot of on shoring happening or reassuring happening from somewhere else into the u.s., which is obviously something that creates growth. certainly, when you look at your demography, this is much healthier than what we have in europe. david: recently we've had high interest rates are high inflation. i assume you got through that well, but now we will go into an error will -- where interest rates come down and inflation seems
david: let's talk about the economy. united states has a situation where we have reasonably good girl -- good growth in 2023, over 3%. europe has not grown quite as well. why do you think the united states is pulling away from the european and chinese economies in terms of our growth. is it something about the american business environment that the united states has recovered from covid may be better than europe did or china did? thomas: a couple of factors, fiscal stimulus, the fiscal stimulus...
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david: so it is behind us now. as will rogers once said, the country is never safe as long as they house is in session, right? so you never know, but it may never come back, right? sec. mayorkas: one would hope not. david: so let's us talk about the border. it appears there are a lot of people coming in over the border. this is obviously one of the subjects that some people want to impeach you over. is it that we are getting more people coming in over the border illegally or just the appearance of that? sec. mayorkas: oh, no, the number of encounters at the southern border is very high, but it's very, very important, number one, to contextualize it and number two, to explain it. from a context perspective, the world is seeing the greatest level of displacement since at least world war ii. i think a recent report was that there's 73 million displaced people in the united states. and so the challenge of migration is not exclusive to the southern border, nor to the western hemisphere. it is global. and when i speak to
david: so it is behind us now. as will rogers once said, the country is never safe as long as they house is in session, right? so you never know, but it may never come back, right? sec. mayorkas: one would hope not. david: so let's us talk about the border. it appears there are a lot of people coming in over the border. this is obviously one of the subjects that some people want to impeach you over. is it that we are getting more people coming in over the border illegally or just the appearance...
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david: have you done that? ruth: absolutely. david: it's safe? ruth: it's so safe that within 15 seconds people are so bored. david: you don't need a helmet? ruth: you need a helmet with many drivers on the road. ♪ david: so for our young woman watching this or young man, what are the recommendations you have to get ahead in the finance world and technology world? is it be smarter than the other people, be nicer, be harder working? what does it take to be successful? ruth: there's no substitute for hard work. hard work gets you up the learning curve faster. i think the other, i've already said, work for somebody who is going to take a risk on you and give you runway. very importantly, we each need to do that for someone. when i was asked to run technology on the equity trading floor, a senior partner called me into his office and he said, i will be your air cover. we use military terms, a lot of military guys. i will be here air cover. i think everyone needs air cover and i think we all need to be your air cover. i think you will soar, but if y
david: have you done that? ruth: absolutely. david: it's safe? ruth: it's so safe that within 15 seconds people are so bored. david: you don't need a helmet? ruth: you need a helmet with many drivers on the road. ♪ david: so for our young woman watching this or young man, what are the recommendations you have to get ahead in the finance world and technology world? is it be smarter than the other people, be nicer, be harder working? what does it take to be successful? ruth: there's no...
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david: it is behind us now. as will rogers once said in paraphrasing him, the country is never safe as long as the house is in session so you never know. [laughter] it may never come back, right? sec. mayorkas: one would hope not. david: talk about the border. it appears are a lot of people coming over the border. this is one of the subjects people wanted to -- some people wanted to impeach you over. is it that we are getting more people coming over the border illegally or is it just the appearance of that? sec. mayorkas: the number of encounters at the southern border is very high. but it is very important number one to contextualize it and to explain it. from a context perspective, the world is seeing the greatest level of displacement since at least world war ii. the recent report was there are 73 million displaced people in the united states and so the challenge of migration is not exclusive to the southern border or to the western hemisphere. it is global. as i speak to partners across the atlantic, it is t
david: it is behind us now. as will rogers once said in paraphrasing him, the country is never safe as long as the house is in session so you never know. [laughter] it may never come back, right? sec. mayorkas: one would hope not. david: talk about the border. it appears are a lot of people coming over the border. this is one of the subjects people wanted to -- some people wanted to impeach you over. is it that we are getting more people coming over the border illegally or is it just the...
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david: it's an incredible story. you started with virtually nothing and built up a great reputation in so many different areas. i wish i bought your stock when you first came here. bill it's not too late, david. ♪ so, what are you thinking? i'm thinking... (speaking to self) about our honeymoon. what about africa? safari? hot air balloon ride? swim with elephants? wait, can we afford a safari? great question. like everything, it takes a little planning. or, put the money towards a down-payment... ...on a ranch ...in montana ...with horses let's take a look at those scenarios. j.p. morgan wealth management has advisors in chase branches and tools, like wealth plan to keep you on track. when you're planning for it all... the answer is j.p. morgan wealth management. her uncle's unhappy. the answer is i'm sensing an underlying issue. it's t-mobile. it started when we tried to get him under a new plan. but they they unexpectedly unraveled their “price lock” guarantee. which has made him, a bit... unruly. you called
david: it's an incredible story. you started with virtually nothing and built up a great reputation in so many different areas. i wish i bought your stock when you first came here. bill it's not too late, david. ♪ so, what are you thinking? i'm thinking... (speaking to self) about our honeymoon. what about africa? safari? hot air balloon ride? swim with elephants? wait, can we afford a safari? great question. like everything, it takes a little planning. or, put the money towards a...
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david: i've noticed that. dr. vickers: you want to ask the question, why am i dropping weight even though i have been tried for the last five years had nothing happen. new onset diabetes at for some reason now, i don't have a history of it, i'm over 65 and i'm developing diabetes. then subtly, although not early on, it's a case where either somehow my urine turns darker i -- dark or i began to have some shades of change in my eyes are my thumbnails that begin to look a bit of yellow, what we call, jaundice. david: you call weight loss a sign of something not good. i know it's not directly in your area, but ozempic, which is now a very popular drug to reduce weight, some people said it might cause some type of tumors. are you an advocate of ozempic for everybody or for some people? dr. vickers: i think as the new glp-1 inhibitors, which are these drugs that really affect how we feel about being full become further advanced, i think it's going to be an overall seachange for american health care, including cancer. be
david: i've noticed that. dr. vickers: you want to ask the question, why am i dropping weight even though i have been tried for the last five years had nothing happen. new onset diabetes at for some reason now, i don't have a history of it, i'm over 65 and i'm developing diabetes. then subtly, although not early on, it's a case where either somehow my urine turns darker i -- dark or i began to have some shades of change in my eyes are my thumbnails that begin to look a bit of yellow, what we...
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david. david: thank you, jackie. a spokesperson said israeli military withdrawing all troops from southern gaza and ziti ragaini ellie prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying there's a plan to enter rafah saying "we're working constantly to attain our objectives first and foremost release of all the hostages and achieving of total victory over hamas. this victory requires entering rafah and eliminating the terrorist battalions there. this will happen, there is a date". netanyahu prompting the state department saying they can't support such a date. >> we don't think israel can effectively evacuate 1.4 million people and that a full scale invasion into rafah would have an enormous impact on the civilians there and impact the deliver of humanitarian assistance and hurt israel's national security and it's the kind of operation we can't support. david: joining me is former navy nuclear engineer and served our country for 25 years brent sadler. brent, thank you for being here. this is a mess. netanyahu going in and we hav
david. david: thank you, jackie. a spokesperson said israeli military withdrawing all troops from southern gaza and ziti ragaini ellie prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying there's a plan to enter rafah saying "we're working constantly to attain our objectives first and foremost release of all the hostages and achieving of total victory over hamas. this victory requires entering rafah and eliminating the terrorist battalions there. this will happen, there is a date". netanyahu...
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david? david: okay. going to be a very important decision. thank you very much is, david, appreciate it. former acting attorney general matthew whitaker joins me now. thanks for being here. i first want to take us back to what happened with donald trump today because he's facing in new york this gag order, we don't know exactly how the judge is going to rule on whether he's violating it or not, but could what we saw this morning -- trump going out and campaigning -- be considered something that he shouldn't be doing with a gag order? and if so, isn't that direct election interference with his campaigning for the presidency? >> yes, it would be, david. good to be with you. i think the judge is going to be more focused on what he's sending out on truth social about witnesses especially. i don't think, you know, he is certainly entitled to campaign, and he is certainly entitled to do it outside of court hours on wednesdays and on weekends. but that being said, we are very close. if this court m
david? david: okay. going to be a very important decision. thank you very much is, david, appreciate it. former acting attorney general matthew whitaker joins me now. thanks for being here. i first want to take us back to what happened with donald trump today because he's facing in new york this gag order, we don't know exactly how the judge is going to rule on whether he's violating it or not, but could what we saw this morning -- trump going out and campaigning -- be considered something that...
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david: i see. do you think technology will still be centered in the united states largely around the silicon valley area? deborah: what's amazing about what technology has done over the last 20 years is now you can start an app anywhere in the world. you can live anywhere. you can have aws and set up and not have to have a system administrator or a server you have to build. now it is so much easier with these tools to look at a problem you have and solve it anywhere. i think that distributes the ability for us to bring technology together any place. david: artificial intelligence, ai, is changing the world and has changed the world dramatically, people believe. what will ai be able to do for you or not do for you? deborah: one of the most incredible things is gen ai is coming and changing things. so much of what we do every day already involves ai. last year, the 1950 census came and you had millions of pages of records that are handwritten. people going door to door and writing it down. we had don
david: i see. do you think technology will still be centered in the united states largely around the silicon valley area? deborah: what's amazing about what technology has done over the last 20 years is now you can start an app anywhere in the world. you can live anywhere. you can have aws and set up and not have to have a system administrator or a server you have to build. now it is so much easier with these tools to look at a problem you have and solve it anywhere. i think that distributes...
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david: do you provide flood insurance? i have a home in nantucket, i'm always worried of when the flood will come. is it hard to get? peter: it's hard to get but we do provide flood insurance. as does the government. david: what's the fastest growing area of insurance? what are people most interested in, home insurance? peter: home insurance is a more complicated one across the united states. i think one of the biggest growing areas is what we call excess and surplus lines, it's a market that sits alongside the regulated market. that has been growing significantly across the industry, as well as for aig. david: what has been the biggest challenge for the insurance industry over the last five or 10 years? peter: i think it's understanding the unpredictable risks of whether it was the pandemic, understanding what could happen with potential war break out. but also climate change. as i said before, having that type of hurricane activity -- we've had 100 natural disasters reported through nine months of this year. that just ha
david: do you provide flood insurance? i have a home in nantucket, i'm always worried of when the flood will come. is it hard to get? peter: it's hard to get but we do provide flood insurance. as does the government. david: what's the fastest growing area of insurance? what are people most interested in, home insurance? peter: home insurance is a more complicated one across the united states. i think one of the biggest growing areas is what we call excess and surplus lines, it's a market that...
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david: ok. dr. goodall: for some reason, although i had not been to college, he believed i could do it. he had been looking for someone for 10 years he told me to help them study not just any animal but our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees. david: so, he said -- how long had you worked for him before you said you could do this? dr. goodall: a year. david: did he just give you guidance or tell you where to go? dr. goodall: no. he did not have money. it took him a year to get the money. tanzania, where the chimps were and are, was still part of the british protectorate, and the british authorities said, we won't take responsibility for this young girl, but leakey never gave up. they said she cannot come alone, so who volunteered? that same amazing, supportive mother. david: your mother came to africa to help you study the chimpanzees? dr. goodall: well, she did not do the study. she looked after the camp. [laughter] david: you are supposed to live with them, right? dr. goodall: live with them
david: ok. dr. goodall: for some reason, although i had not been to college, he believed i could do it. he had been looking for someone for 10 years he told me to help them study not just any animal but our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees. david: so, he said -- how long had you worked for him before you said you could do this? dr. goodall: a year. david: did he just give you guidance or tell you where to go? dr. goodall: no. he did not have money. it took him a year to get the money....
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david: you did pretty well at harvard. bill: yes. david: when you graduated, you then did what? bill: i graduated and worked for my dad. my grandfather and his brother started a firm for financing real estate developers, what you might call a commercial mortgage brokerage. and also raised equity financing for developers, sold property. and i went to work there. i spent a little under two years there before going to business school. david: you went to business school at harvard? bill: i did. david: after you graduated from harvard business school, what did you do? bill: that is when i started a hedge fund. david: you said, i am out of harvard business school, i do not need any more experience? i'm just going to start a hedge fund? bill: yes. i had started investing in business school with a classmate. actually, i went to harvard with a plan so i could someday be an investor, and there were no courses on investing in harvard, but there were courses on finance and accounting and competitive strategy with michael porter. that was the backdrop for my education about investing. i said
david: you did pretty well at harvard. bill: yes. david: when you graduated, you then did what? bill: i graduated and worked for my dad. my grandfather and his brother started a firm for financing real estate developers, what you might call a commercial mortgage brokerage. and also raised equity financing for developers, sold property. and i went to work there. i spent a little under two years there before going to business school. david: you went to business school at harvard? bill: i did....
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david? >> david: rachel scott tonight. rachel, thank you. >>> this evening, the alarming images coming in from haiti. the u.s. military evacuating some american personnel before the sun came up over the weekend. tonight here, abc's matt rivers, who has reported extensively on haiti for us, with the troubling images now coming in. >> reporter: tonight, a gang-led rebellion putting haiti on the brink of collapse. this elderly woman shot in the leg, desperate for help. and with the u.s. military helicoptering nonessential personnel out of the u.s. embassy under the cover of darkness early sunday, secretary of state antony blinken traveling to jamaica tonight for an emergency meeting with caribbean leaders. it comes after coordinated gang attacks to overthrow the government of acting prime minister ariel henri. the man behind it all, a warlord called barbecue, demanding the acting prime minister step down. we spoke to him over the weekend. if ariel henry resigns, will you stop fighting? [ speaking in a non-english language ] "
david? >> david: rachel scott tonight. rachel, thank you. >>> this evening, the alarming images coming in from haiti. the u.s. military evacuating some american personnel before the sun came up over the weekend. tonight here, abc's matt rivers, who has reported extensively on haiti for us, with the troubling images now coming in. >> reporter: tonight, a gang-led rebellion putting haiti on the brink of collapse. this elderly woman shot in the leg, desperate for help. and...
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david? >> david: not taking any chances. pierre thomas leading us off, pierre, thank you. >>> we are also tracking a monster blizzard slamming the u.s. at this hour from california to nevada to colorado. they are warning of life-threatening conditions in some areas. snow in some places up to 5 inches an hour, up to 12 feet of snow possible. winds topping 100 miles an hour. torrential rains at lower elevations. and this all moves into colorado and texas, where it could fuel those fires. tonight, whiteout conditions. this is soda springs, california. people warned to stay inside, told to keep several days of food on hand. even ski slopes have shut down. yosemite national park closed to visitors tonight. abc's faith abubey from california now. >> reporter: tonight, rare blizzard warnings for the sierra nevada mountains as the biggest storm of the winter slams california with up to 12 feet of snow, life-threatening conditions, and impossible travel in the mountains. >> some of our highest peaks have seen winds in excess of 140 m
david? >> david: not taking any chances. pierre thomas leading us off, pierre, thank you. >>> we are also tracking a monster blizzard slamming the u.s. at this hour from california to nevada to colorado. they are warning of life-threatening conditions in some areas. snow in some places up to 5 inches an hour, up to 12 feet of snow possible. winds topping 100 miles an hour. torrential rains at lower elevations. and this all moves into colorado and texas, where it could fuel those...
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david letterman. david, thank you so much for being here. >> david: it's of pleasure and thank you for inviting me and i'm sorry it took me so long to get back. >> stephen: i think this is just the right timing. i don't think i would have been ready before this. david, you know. i was on your show ten times. you now have been on my show and we've had a chance to talk off the air. we've done podcasts. even with all that experience, deep intimate experience, it's hard to get to know someone in a pure interview situation. >> david: i understand that. >> stephen: i do want to know the heart of all my guests so we here at "the late show" labs have come up with something we call the colbert questionert which has been home to aerospace tolerances to penetrate the defenses of any guest and person and have them be fully known to the american people. are you ready, are you prepared, do you have the courage to take the colbert questionert? >> david: i admire you overselling the bit. >> stephen: i learned it from
david letterman. david, thank you so much for being here. >> david: it's of pleasure and thank you for inviting me and i'm sorry it took me so long to get back. >> stephen: i think this is just the right timing. i don't think i would have been ready before this. david, you know. i was on your show ten times. you now have been on my show and we've had a chance to talk off the air. we've done podcasts. even with all that experience, deep intimate experience, it's hard to get to know...
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david: how they stay there. you must feel inadequate because now you are the second wealthiest man in the world. is that right? the granddaddy of all silicon valley startups was hewlett-packard, started in a garage in 1939. in 2015, it split into hewlett-packard enterprises and hp inc. recently, at the economics club of washington, i sat down with enrique lores about how he has led the company following the split. which company is better? enrique: i have a very unbiased view. hp inc. it is not only that we do printers and pcs. we think we are the company that is more flexible. we are working to make employees productive, to make employees engaged. this is what we stand for. david: the main business today is computers. and to some extent printers. those are the main businesses. i can tell from your accent you are not from baltimore or washington, d.c. where did you grow up? enrique: you're very astute. to tell i'm not from the u.s. is very difficult, i know. i'm originally from spain. david: how many companies in
david: how they stay there. you must feel inadequate because now you are the second wealthiest man in the world. is that right? the granddaddy of all silicon valley startups was hewlett-packard, started in a garage in 1939. in 2015, it split into hewlett-packard enterprises and hp inc. recently, at the economics club of washington, i sat down with enrique lores about how he has led the company following the split. which company is better? enrique: i have a very unbiased view. hp inc. it is not...
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david: did yo-yo ma give you lessons? david: no. [laughter] david: why did you call it salamander? sheila: mythically, it's the only animal that can walk through fire and still come out alive. ♪ david: one of the reasons that you became financially successful was a company that you helped to build called black entertainment television. sheila: that's right. david: when did you start that company? sheila: i can tell you we went on the air january 25, 1979. before that, it was just getting everything in place. i ended up having to sell my violin, my precious violin that my parents mortgaged the house for, to pay the rent on the offices. it was the old american trial lawyers building, which is now a hotel in georgetown. but it was just these sacrifices that you have to make in life. david: you started this with someone you met when you were in college? sheila: yeah. [laughter] david: so, what was the concept behind black entertainment television? what were you trying to do? why was there a need for bet? sheila: what you have to understand, bet was born during the birth of all cable.
david: did yo-yo ma give you lessons? david: no. [laughter] david: why did you call it salamander? sheila: mythically, it's the only animal that can walk through fire and still come out alive. ♪ david: one of the reasons that you became financially successful was a company that you helped to build called black entertainment television. sheila: that's right. david: when did you start that company? sheila: i can tell you we went on the air january 25, 1979. before that, it was just getting...
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david: and you got it? dr. shah: i did. david: what was the challenging you have there? you wrote about it in your book, but why don't you describe the challenge you had to do there over like two or three-year period of time you were there. dr. shah: this project was really their big initial effort. bill and melinda had read an article about a disease called rotavirus that was killing 400,000 kids around the world every year. and in that same article, they pointed out that a company, merck, was rolling out a vaccine in the united states to address rotavirus where kids actually didn't die of the disease. and so they had a very simple question of, why couldn't we get the vaccines to every child on the planet? in particular those that need , them to survive? david: so your project was to get this vaccine to everybody in the world, essentially every child who needed it? dr. shah: every childhood vaccine that existed to every child who needed it. we started a global birth cohort of about 105 million kids at the time. we assessed the data and concluded that probably about half
david: and you got it? dr. shah: i did. david: what was the challenging you have there? you wrote about it in your book, but why don't you describe the challenge you had to do there over like two or three-year period of time you were there. dr. shah: this project was really their big initial effort. bill and melinda had read an article about a disease called rotavirus that was killing 400,000 kids around the world every year. and in that same article, they pointed out that a company, merck, was...
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david: wow. so if someone goes into your store in india and buys a $5,000 personal computer, do they call you up and say we just sold somebody a $5,000 personal computer? they don't call you about that? enrique: this summer we were in india, so i went to stores without telling them who i was. you should see their faces when i go into their store, they look at me, i ask them about what products they were selling and at some point i said, you know, i am the ceo of the company. and they became white. [laughter] david: they didn't believe it? enrique: after a while, they believed it. some of them would look at the web to make sure it is me. [laughter] david: why should somebody want to join hewlett-packard as an employee? why is it better than working at apple or one of the other competitors you may have? enrique: when i became ceo, i defined four objectives for the company. one of the four objectives is to become a school of talent. our value proposition to employees is that they can join the compan
david: wow. so if someone goes into your store in india and buys a $5,000 personal computer, do they call you up and say we just sold somebody a $5,000 personal computer? they don't call you about that? enrique: this summer we were in india, so i went to stores without telling them who i was. you should see their faces when i go into their store, they look at me, i ask them about what products they were selling and at some point i said, you know, i am the ceo of the company. and they became...
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david: you did that i 10 years old. you told your mother you would like to go to africa and see the chimpanzees and what did she say? dr. goodall: not the chimpanzees, i would've studied anything. david: what did your mother say to anything? dr. goodall: my mother attribute a great deal of who i am and what i've done to the wise way that she brought me up. she was supportive. so when i said i wanted to go to africa, everybody laughed at me, how will you do that, africa's far away, it's dangerous, and you are just a girl. remember this is going back 70 years now, but my mother said, if you really want to do this, you are going to have to work really hard, take advantage of every opportunity. and if you don't give up, hopefully you will find a way. david: you save your money and you told your parents you were going to africa, they didn't say, that was nice to talk about, but you can't do it. dr. goodall: my father was still away, they divorced. and it was my mother. and she just said, well, stick with it. if you want to d
david: you did that i 10 years old. you told your mother you would like to go to africa and see the chimpanzees and what did she say? dr. goodall: not the chimpanzees, i would've studied anything. david: what did your mother say to anything? dr. goodall: my mother attribute a great deal of who i am and what i've done to the wise way that she brought me up. she was supportive. so when i said i wanted to go to africa, everybody laughed at me, how will you do that, africa's far away, it's...
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david: you were a german speaker, i assume. thomas: yes. david: did you learn french as well? thomas: i learned french in school. it was my third language. at the time i did not know how valuable it would be that i learned french. david: in the united states, you often hear people saying i want my little boy to grow up to be an investor. they want them to be a doctor or lawyer. you never hear them say you want my boy to grow up to be an entrance person. did your parents tell you to be in the insurance world? thomas: not at all. after i finished my studies, i was not really ready to decide in which industry i went, so i went into consulting to prolong a little bit the journey and test certain industries. during that consulting time, i did amazing projects. some were in insurance. others were in women's underwear. others were in i.t. distribution, so i saw very different sectors. i really liked the insurance sector at the time because i saw exactly what you mentioned earlier, that there is an industry that is deeply rooted in society because we are basically promoting and ensuri
david: you were a german speaker, i assume. thomas: yes. david: did you learn french as well? thomas: i learned french in school. it was my third language. at the time i did not know how valuable it would be that i learned french. david: in the united states, you often hear people saying i want my little boy to grow up to be an investor. they want them to be a doctor or lawyer. you never hear them say you want my boy to grow up to be an entrance person. did your parents tell you to be in the...
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he's in david's company. he eventually becomes the commanding officer of david's company. but through his letters, we were able to decipher that some of david's early letters are most likely written by him. so most likely dictated by david. but written by john louderback to send messages home and the as we follow these letters through the conflicts, you really start to see the individual personalities come through. you see different penmanship, different grammar, different phrases that are used by the writers. for example, this is one of rachel's letters. she uses a blue ink almost exclusively through the war. there's a few thatreot. but. but she's really this ith is one of the ways you could quickly tell that it was one of rachel's letters. d here she draws a picte a a u. flag with the words union forever on it. this is the only one that she ilstrated. but again, it it giv isuch a personal touch. it it's so important to to see who these people were, what, you know, why were they writing these letters and it's it again, they really become these individuals instead of just,
he's in david's company. he eventually becomes the commanding officer of david's company. but through his letters, we were able to decipher that some of david's early letters are most likely written by him. so most likely dictated by david. but written by john louderback to send messages home and the as we follow these letters through the conflicts, you really start to see the individual personalities come through. you see different penmanship, different grammar, different phrases that are used...
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david. mike, it's the law itself. we've seen the law used against exxonmobil once and it failed. partly because of the fact that they have this clause law that few don't need a victim to define fraud but in fact, the very definition, you go into the federal register and look up the definition of fraud, meaning of fraud in and dishonesty. i'm going to "it now"usually implied under state law is the term fraud or dishonesty as matters like larceny and left and resulting in financial loss". there was not a result in financial loss here. there was not a victim. >> that's absolutely right and basic tentative law and for there to be a crime, there needs to be a victim and there was no victim here. talking about some of the most sophisticated financial operators in the world in new york city and all led to president trump again. what this is is this is a campaign fine masquerading as some sort of legal fine and know what they're doing and they know the impossibility of coming up with half a billion.
david. mike, it's the law itself. we've seen the law used against exxonmobil once and it failed. partly because of the fact that they have this clause law that few don't need a victim to define fraud but in fact, the very definition, you go into the federal register and look up the definition of fraud, meaning of fraud in and dishonesty. i'm going to "it now"usually implied under state law is the term fraud or dishonesty as matters like larceny and left and resulting in financial...