Tonight. This is real money. [ music ] this is real money. You are the most important part of the show. Join our live conversation for the next half hour on twitter at ali velshi or on facebook. Com slash ali velshi. Im in washington, d. C. Where the world bank has its headquarters. For those of you who dont know, the World Bank Provides technical assistance. Weve brought real people on the show to he willlous straight issues in our lives. But its true that many of the worlds problems get solved by socalled big people. Im going to introduce you to some of the giants dr. Jim yong kim. But before i do that lets go to Something Else that is happening in washington. Executives got grilled on capitol hill over their proposed mega merger. Lawmakers demanded assurances that the mega size comcast would not drive up prices. At stake is what is good for big business good for consumers . In february comcast announced its intention to gobble up time warner cable, which holds the number two spot. T
We could find ways to address that and honestly they werent all my ideas. George walker and barbara and others were involved in developing those ideas, democrats and republicans developing those ideas in virginia. Because i believe there are bigger problems within our system and our system is not unique. I think there are problems in systems all over the country. That is why i pushed the study resolution. This was just an incremental change. We change an important piece of the Mental Health picture but the real work lies ahead. We have to reform the system and our work will be a failure unless we do. We have to use this opportunity of the study resolution to spend four years working very hard, very intensely at the virginia process. We have to see what works and what doesnt and we have to come back with real changes over the next four years. In virginia at least its incremental to change that we passed. Did it go far enough . Well i think we change what we could change this year. Polit
Finally, in pop, they will not let it go. Disney is driving kids and moms crazy. We will kick it off with everyone what everyone is talking about. Could it bp is with carl icahn and ebay . An agreement has been reached with carl icahn, ending the fight before the shareholders meeting. Icahn has been pushing two separate ebay from paypal. Im well aware of carl icahn plus push to separate ebay from paypal. It is a nobrainer that paypal should be spun off. I do not think in this case that they should be together. There is no reason they should be together in our opinion. By act, it would be helped Management Team that is separate and can go their own way. The multiple would go up dramatically, and also, the health of the company would be better. It is going to be an argument. The phoneerviews over and daily letters to ebay shareholders have made his mission abundantly clear to the investing public. He was also not too keen on the leadership of john donahoe. Skype was going to be sold by t
On bitcoin i think it might prevent bitcoin from being around in 2050. Sorry. The issue of the crypto currency these are all completely solvable if there is a pointer to it. The amount of security that you have to put in to make sure that they can be secure or outside of what i would even be willing to deal with with a masters and computer security. You have to really protect your self and its best to have a laptop, separate computer that you keep off line that you are only using to keep your wallet. There are some other ways to do it, but as it shows there are a lot of issues in the exchanges. We are still new to this and trying to figure out how it is entirely solvable but it has to be usable for people. There has to be a demand that we are not getting through paypal or credit cards or other things that is going to make it as an exchange for you and me. As far as the brought a change this might be familiar to some of you. This was written in 1996 the declaration of cyberspace. The go
There are new fears today that russia may be planning an invasion of ukraine where tensions raise in protests and protests have seized government buildings there. Jeffrey posted satellite images on twitter saying they are proof of a build up near the ukrainian border. Reporter the government in kiev says that they do have intelligence that is agent provocateurs who are orchestrating these up risings. They have made arrests of russian citizens inside their territories who have plans to further destabilize the situation. This goes in line with what is going out of the United States government. Speaking in front of the commission for security in corporation for europe said that there is little doubt moscow is behind the disruptions. The evident is overwhelming that this was a very carefully orchestrated well planned, well targeted, well coordinated effort. I dont think that we have any doubt that the preponderance of evidence indicates that here. Secretary kerry and foreign minister lavro