her. is she not a wonderful person? lovely, lovely person. carole, you, rudy and you looked interesting. did we put carole and rudy in the same room? we did. i will say she is the most gracious person ever to fill the madison square garden three nights. it was amazing last night! she s got a voice! so you both went last night? mika went last night. i went the night before. you have a lot of fans. i will tell you just unbelievable performance. strong voice. wonderful. i ve been to a lot of concerts. there was an intimate feel. uh-huh. with carole king and james taylor on that stage in the round and it could have been a small nightclub. it had this wonderful family feel in the garden.
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is that a computer-generated thing? some people suspect this youtube hit has been doctored in some way. looks good to me. is that good enough for you, mika? he is too close to the edge of the table! oh! all right. coming up that is a mitigating factor. good job, willie. thank you, once again, bringing to us the hard-hitting world cup news that other networks are afraid to show. next up is jim cramer. speaking of billions, warren buffett teams up with the gates to push billionaires to give away half their wealth. fortune andy serwer will give us the latest on this. the may numbers incredible. warmest temperatures we ve ever seen in the land areas measured
mika, but it s warren buffett and the gates challenge. it s a fascinating story about how these two billionaires who have been very philanthropic are saying it s time to 30e7b pony up. we shouldn t be the only ones doing it. four billionaires have decided to go ahead and sign on this dotted line. but i think what they are going to do is pressure some of these other very, very rich people to do that and, you know, it s a really interesting issue. you know, of course warren buffett has been outspoken about the estate tax. he is against passing on great majority of your wealth to your kids. a lot of people aren t going to be comfortable with that, but, so far, you know, john dorr and the mortgages from cisco systems and others have decided they will pledge 50% of their wealth to philanthropy. i remember during the
that s pretty special. what was the audience like? they were all smoking pot and they had no, they were it was a mix. young, old. it was really interesting mix. it was like a mccartney concert which is always a very special thing. i hadn t been to a concert in a long time. mika hasn t been to a concert since nat king cole in 54. it has been a long time. we re running out of time. it s a little better of after a happy subject, this is actually a little bit of a grim one. all right. it s about the next great financial crisis facing america. crisis of the states. the fact that the states are going bankrupt. there s a license plate saying your state, bankrupt. there is about 150 billion dollar gap between what the states are taking in and what they owe. the crisis is coming. this crisis is coming. there are 40 states that are near default. tax revenues have gone down for