editor in chief of bloomberg businessweek, joel webber. let s start in the business section. a story that is fascinating came out a couple of weeks ago. it is about a trifecta of individuals, well known individuals, warren buffett, jeff bezos, and jamie dimon talking about fixing the health care system. right. the biggest guys around. the details around this still remained kind of hazy. what will actually be the solution in health care? how are they going to try to fix this? they re trying to find a ceo who can spearhead this initiative in the three companies. amazon.com, berkshire hathaway, and jpmorgan. what has been interesting, and where we try to pick up the narrative is the reaction within the industry. because the health care industry, amazon is at the door, this is a big deal. that is where we picked up. julia: this is not what we were expecting as a foray into the health care. we should make the point that at the moment they are tackling the situation with their
flying debris, but the driver walks away. truckin and fare thee well. the grateful dead end their legendary 50-year run with one last show in chicago. while fans may be disappointed. why the band is flying high today, monday, july 6th, 2015. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a monday morning. savannah has the morning off. we ve got the number-one deadhead in the house, hoda kotb kotb. hey, how are you? not exactly. not exactly. okay. on a monday morning, that s good. how about yesterday? were you watching the soccer game? i watched very little at the beginning and then i jumped in a car and if you missed the first 16 minutes, you missed everything. can i tell you what i did? three minutes until 7:00 went out and walked the dog, came back at 14 after and thought i was seeing things. i literally thought that things started at 6:00. i
there and obviously there are a lot of unanswered questions to this day about his personal life is personal finances. what was interesting is that people who were close to him did agree to talk and i had to assume that was with his permission, so i m surprised a little bit disappointed i spent time called invading the kremlin spokesman and pressed him over and over to try to make this happen and finally he said, you don t need to meet the president to interview him. you know everything there is to know about him. he has said it all. look on our website. there is some truth to that. he is somewhat he is very open. he talks a lot in the key is to read it all and balance what you can with other sources. host: steven lee myers is the author and here s the book: the new czar, the rising rate of vladimir putin. mr. myers, thank you for being with us on book tv here in miami. book tvs live coverage of the miami book festival now continues at the chamber of commerce here in miami.
decision and he might very well do what he did the first time, groom a successor who will officially become president and he will remain on as, you know, prime minister again or at that point a more informal role, but he is definitely not going away soon. host: did he sit down with you for this book? guest: he refused for this book and i tried very hard. i have interviewed him before the couple of settings and thought it would be great to talk to him about the things that i don t know, frankly, and that i could not learn. i would love to talk to him more about the war and the rest of his family experience there and obviously there are a lot of unanswered questions to this day about his personal life is personal finances. what was interesting is that people who were close to him did agree to talk and i had to assume that was wi his permission, so i m surprised a little bit disappointed i spent time called invading the kremlin spokesman and pressed him over and over to try to