馃攳
Exclusive: Bill Gates Talks Divorce, Jeffrey Epstein, Elon Musk - YouTube
Channel: unknown
[0]
bill gates co-founded microsoft nearly
[2]
50 years ago at the forefront of the
[4]
computer age that changed the world and
[6]
since then he's been using the fortune
[8]
that earned him to change the world the
[10]
gates foundation giving away tens of
[12]
billions of dollars over the past decade
[14]
he also famously predicted the world was
[17]
unprepared for a pandemic in a 2015 ted
[20]
talk that was unfortunately accurate and
[22]
has been viewed now 43 million times
[25]
well he's sounding the alarm again this
[27]
morning his new book how to prevent the
[29]
next pandemic
[30]
is out today it's also been a year of
[32]
upheaval in his own life after he and
[34]
melinda his wife of 27 years announced
[36]
their divorce one year ago today so bill
[38]
we have so much to catch up on it's good
[40]
to see you good morning good to see you
[41]
well i think this is the definition of
[43]
what they call a hard sell you're out
[45]
here promoting a book how to prevent the
[47]
next pandemic and you know people are
[48]
sick and tired of hearing about the
[50]
pandemic they have covid fatigue why is
[53]
this the moment to have this
[54]
conversation
[55]
well i don't want us to wait uh until we
[58]
forget about how awful this has been i
[61]
mean we've had tens of millions of
[62]
deaths you know trillions of dollars of
[64]
economic loss
[66]
education loss mental depression
[69]
uh and with a few key steps we can make
[72]
sure this won't happen again there's
[74]
something strangely optimistic about
[75]
this book you've got a whole bunch of
[77]
ideas on how to actually prevent the
[80]
next pandemic one idea you compare it to
[82]
firefighters we need kind of a global
[84]
firefighting team that's ready to
[88]
find the next pandemic and respond to it
[90]
how would it work
[92]
well in firefighting we're all trained
[94]
to know that you know there's the exit
[97]
the us alone has over 300 000 full-time
[100]
firefighters so we take it seriously
[102]
because if one house burns down it can
[105]
uh you know affect an entire community
[108]
pandemics are even worse and we didn't
[110]
practice we weren't ready to go a few
[113]
countries that were more ready
[115]
like australia have 10 percent the
[117]
deaths that we have so
[119]
uh the debate about exactly how to
[121]
invest in that preparedness now is the
[124]
right time even though we're still
[126]
trying to get out of this one yeah
[127]
you've argued that basically pandemics
[130]
um
[130]
disease is inevitable but pandemics are
[132]
not and if you spend billions now you
[134]
save trillions later is that a pretty
[136]
good summary of the book yep tell me a
[138]
big return tell me about um
[140]
you have this germ team that you propose
[143]
we have the world health organization
[144]
why isn't that enough well they're not
[146]
funded actually uh to go to countries
[149]
and practice they're not funded to fly
[152]
in where there's an outbreak so they
[154]
need about a billion a year 3 000 more
[157]
people
[157]
that would stay dedicated to pandemics
[160]
you know pandemics don't come very often
[162]
so it's easy to to take your personnel
[165]
and go work on other things and here
[167]
we'd make sure that this team had those
[169]
skills and was always practicing by the
[171]
way in some ways we were lucky with this
[173]
pandemic it certainly could have been a
[175]
more contagious virus and it could could
[177]
have been more lethal
[178]
yeah the lethality uh you know ends up
[181]
being about 0.3 percent uh smallpox is
[184]
30 percent so
[187]
this is not the worst case all the more
[189]
reason
[190]
to make these investments in
[192]
preparedness when you look at how the
[194]
u.s and the world responded to covet 19.
[198]
whether it's masks or vaccines or
[201]
shutdowns closures it's become so
[204]
political i wonder if if it happened
[206]
again if it was march 2020 all over
[208]
again with covet 19 would we even be
[211]
able to mount as effective a response as
[213]
we did last time around it's been so
[216]
politicized yeah it's unfortunate that
[218]
uh
[220]
we didn't get trusted voices in both
[222]
parties talking about the benefit of
[224]
masks and vaccines
[226]
so that it wasn't a political issue i
[229]
think everybody does support the health
[231]
workers who are heroes
[233]
i think they support the innovation
[235]
where we got the vaccine out faster
[238]
than ever before and that has saved
[241]
millions of lives even that vaccine we
[243]
can make a better one where you never
[245]
get infected uh
[247]
so
[248]
you know innovation uh like in many
[251]
areas is where i see a potential for a
[254]
consensus and for avoiding most of the
[257]
damage yeah the book if you want to geek
[259]
out on some of the innovations and where
[260]
the technology is a vaccine you can
[262]
inhale a pan vaccine it's in there but
[265]
let's talk about misinformation because
[267]
that has been a hallmark unfortunately
[270]
of this pandemic president biden rather
[272]
famously said last july that
[274]
misinformation on social media is
[276]
killing people do you agree absolutely
[279]
uh it's been weird that you know
[282]
vaccines have been attacked as you know
[284]
being overall that negative or there's
[286]
some conspiracy here it's terrible well
[288]
some of it affects you you're part of
[290]
these conspiracy theories that is a very
[293]
weird thing that just because i support
[295]
vaccines save millions of lives people
[298]
are saying no i you know i make money
[300]
from vaccines or that i'm trying to you
[302]
know cause death or track or
[305]
uh a lot of strange stuff
[307]
hard to understand why that is well you
[310]
know misinformation is obviously a big
[312]
issue that a lot of folks like you are
[313]
worried about
[314]
elon musk just recently announced moves
[317]
to acquire twitter i wonder if you are
[320]
concerned about the proliferation of
[322]
misinformation given some of his views
[323]
about
[324]
expanding what he refers to as free
[326]
speech on twitter and what you think of
[327]
the acquisition
[329]
well the digital realm has facilitated
[332]
you know kind of
[334]
interesting but wrong ideas spreading
[336]
very quickly and we need to innovate so
[339]
that digital realm is more of a positive
[342]
thing of getting the truth out and that
[344]
people are seeing hey this is false do
[346]
you worry about elon musk well elon
[349]
you wouldn't want to underestimate elon
[350]
what he did at tesla is amazing helping
[353]
with climate change what he did at
[354]
spacex uh you know will he this time
[359]
make that improvement you know should
[360]
there be laws that strike a better
[362]
balance of uh free speech versus you
[366]
know conspiracy theories confusing
[368]
people um
[370]
you know elon thinks he can improve
[372]
twitter well
[373]
i don't i don't know specifically what
[375]
it'll do but uh
[377]
you know it it
[379]
it is there's an opportunity and we need
[381]
innovation in that space well let's talk
[383]
about you personally it's been a period
[386]
of transition it was actually one year
[387]
ago today that you and your wife melinda
[390]
filed for divorce how have you been
[393]
coming to terms with this
[395]
well the divorce is definitely a sad
[397]
thing uh
[399]
you know i
[400]
have responsibility for
[402]
causing a lot of pain to my family
[404]
um
[406]
you know it was a tough year i feel good
[408]
that uh
[410]
all of us are moving forward now you
[412]
know my oldest got married uh melinda
[415]
and i are you know continuing to work
[417]
together so
[418]
um
[419]
you know it was sad and tragic but uh
[423]
you know now we're
[425]
we're
[426]
moving together yeah she did an
[428]
interview recently and she talked about
[430]
times in her marriage she said she was
[432]
lying on the floor
[433]
crying
[434]
um what was it like for you to hear that
[436]
and to hear it publicly
[437]
well
[439]
this was a
[440]
a very tough thing we had
[442]
a lot of amazing things in our marriage
[445]
the kids the foundation uh the enjoyment
[448]
we had uh
[450]
and so it's a very hard adjustment uh
[454]
you know i know divorces are different
[456]
but uh you know just a complete change
[460]
you know we were partners we kind of
[462]
grew up together um and now that
[465]
that's different we're not married
[467]
frankly there were allegations of
[469]
extramarital affairs and when she was
[471]
asked about that in the interview she
[473]
said that is a question that bill needs
[475]
to answer
[476]
so here you are now did that happen were
[478]
you unfaithful in your marriage is that
[480]
one of the reasons there was a divorce i
[482]
certainly made mistakes and i i take
[484]
responsibility i don't think delving
[486]
into the particulars at this point is is
[489]
constructive but yes
[490]
uh i
[492]
um
[493]
caused pain
[494]
and i i feel terrible about that
[497]
what have you learned from that i mean
[499]
you were someone who has this voracious
[501]
appetite for knowledge and divorce is an
[504]
experience that can be a journey to
[506]
learning something about yourself and
[508]
change hopefully what have you learned
[510]
about yourself
[518]
you know
[518]
there's areas like
[520]
climate or you know health where i i
[523]
have expertise and on personal matters
[525]
like this i
[527]
i'm
[528]
you know i
[530]
i don't think of myself as an expert i
[533]
uh should be very humble about
[536]
you know success uh
[538]
you know has a a tricky aspect to it um
[543]
so
[544]
you know i don't i don't have great
[545]
advice for other people yeah um i have
[548]
to ask you about jeffrey epstein
[550]
melinda mentioned that that was one of
[552]
the strains your relationship with him
[554]
and um you know what i guess the
[556]
question is real simple i mean why did
[558]
you continue to meet with him when you
[560]
met him he was already a convicted sex
[563]
offender um
[564]
you know and do you regret that
[566]
i certainly
[568]
made a huge mistake uh not only meet him
[571]
in the first place but
[572]
i met with him a number of times
[576]
i had a goal of raising money for global
[578]
health i didn't realize that in a
[581]
meeting with him
[583]
almost downplayed
[585]
the incredibly awful things he did you
[588]
know i learned more about that over time
[589]
but uh you know i'd add that to the list
[592]
of big mistakes including you know where
[594]
melinda's advice was sound and i i
[597]
should have followed it sooner than i
[599]
did and you never saw anything where you
[601]
thought
[602]
this doesn't feel right linda kind of
[604]
had a visceral reaction the first time
[606]
she met him
[607]
no he was a
[609]
a bad person uh
[611]
and
[613]
you know
[616]
i had a reason that i thought those
[617]
meetings would lead to something good
[619]
but uh i shouldn't have done them and
[621]
finally on this topic you recently gave
[623]
an interview you said you'd marry
[624]
melinda all over again um she says you
[627]
guys are friendly um
[629]
not necessarily friends but friendly how
[631]
do you see the relationship moving
[633]
forward well one of the things
[635]
we built together is the gates
[638]
foundation and we love that work
[640]
uh you know we've got all the resources
[643]
i was lucky enough to get we've got
[645]
warren buffett uh committed uh massive
[648]
resources and so making sure that is
[650]
spent well saves lives melinda and i
[653]
love doing that work together so i feel
[654]
very lucky that i i still have that with
[657]
her as well as you know we've got these
[659]
three incredible kids i know and i heard
[662]
they're all moving out of the house so
[663]
you're you're an empty nester for sure
[665]
now i've got a big empty nest
[668]
all right bill thank you so much thanks
[670]
for being with us and again the book is
[671]
called how to prevent the next pandemic
[673]
chock full of ideas it's out today
[678]
hey thanks for watching our youtube
[680]
channel find your favorite recipes
[682]
celebrity interviews uplifting stories
[684]
shop our favorite deals and so much more
[687]
with the today app download it now
Most Recent Videos:
You can go back to the homepage right here: Homepage