For the first him and his campaign, donald trump is under siege. In the past 24 hours he has benn four body blows from carson, Carly Fiorina, and jeb bush. Lets come from the religious angle, courtesy of dr. Carson. [bell] carson one of my favorite bible verses. Of theility and the fear lord are riches and honor in life. And thats a very big part of who i am. Humility and the fear of the lord. I dont get that impression with him. Maybe i am wrong. Faith was aer heard big thing until just recently, so i do not even know about what ben carson. All of a sudden he becomes this great religious figure. I saw him yesterday quoting something and he was quoting on humility, and it looks like he memorized it two minutes before he made the quote. Dont tell me about benca cars. His carson backed off comments and said he did not want to get into a gladiator fight with trump. That was just one front of the war on trump. On the second front is Carly Fiorina. It is all about how Rolling Stone quoted t
Hello, and welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. And i am anna edwards. A general election in greece. The markets already seeming to have cast their vote, sending the euro to a fresh low. The euro weakens to its weakest levels since 2006 in asian trading. That follows and Magazine Article that says german chancellor Angela Merkel is willing to accept a greek exit from the eurozone. And this makes it the European Central bank in favor of largescale sovereign bond purchases. Ecb president mario draghi said the risk of deflation in the eurozone could not be entirely excluded. Within that statement, of course, and other events, the greek election now has less than three weeks to run, and europe is facing a turbulent start to the new year. So parties in greece are campaigning, and Elliott Gotkine just got back from athens, where he was covering the election and he joins us now. Good morning. Exaggerating the risk of an exit . Good morning, and happy new year. Look it is not a bad politica
Have an idea, when you think the resources have been thrown at ebola, that it might be realistic to see it under control . I dont think youll get date. Y to predict a its hard, given that it could spread out to lore locations locations. Thats got to be a big concern. Getting all the surrounding ready so that if a few people show up there, there are Treatment Centers and getting peoplet into those Treatment Centers is the right thing for the patient for the community. Because of that uncertainty, im hazard a guess. This month, the basic infrastructure in the three to get inis going place. The tent camps are going up fairly quickly. Volunteering. So its great to see the energy the next, well, 30 days, pieces will come into place. We do a lot on primary health care. We do, that weng focus on, which is about saving childrenss and is through primary health care. Thats a deep specialty of our foundation. The outliars,at outlyers, you get less of your kids dying. There are countries like ghan
I thank you so much. Delighted to be partnering with bank of america and to kick off this series, i cant think of anyone better or more timely to have a conversation with than bill gates. So appreciate you joining us this morning and to all oaf you who are here. You were going to start off in a i thinks unlikely but absolutely fitting topic, which is the subject of ebola and the crisis in africa and potentially beyond africa. Recently foundation announced it is donating 50 million to help with the response. Of us think about whats happening with the disease and the spread of it, we have to ask questions that really relate to leadership, right . Health its our global institutions, whether its individual countryings and their country countries, and lack thereof to respond. Mr. Gates, obviously you spent the last, really, more than a decade, focused on Global Health challenges in africa. Here comes a big crisis of the sort that weve been worrying about and warning about. Role of you feel