even proponents of reform are scared and lack of trust issue is real issue, once something is passed and becomes law the administration will go in and change it and won't be what the congress passed. >> ab stoddard, ana navarro, cornell, thank you for being here. thank you for watching "state of the union." head to cnn.com/sotu for analysis and extras. missed any part of today's show find us on itunes. fareed zakaria "gps" is next. >> this is "gps" the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. we have a terrific show for you today starting with sochi. i will talk live with michael mcfaul, the outspoken u.s. ambassador to russia, who has just announced his resignation. we'll talk about the games, the security threats and, of course,

the mastermind behind it all, vladimir putin. then, a seasoned investor warns of the event everyone is worried about. the great fall of china of the chinese economy. something that will slow growth across the world. the tiger mom is back. why some ethnic groups succeed more than others. racism or research. we'll talk it over. then technology seems to be moving ahead at warp speed. self-driving cars, computers playing chess and more. but where are the jobs? two m.i.t. experts explain the paradox. syria is a calamity, egypt is a mess, but i will bring you one bright spot in the aftermath of the arab spring. but first, here's my take. is hamid karzai crazy?

that's what many americans think and on the face of it, the afghan president has said lots of odd, inflammatory an contradictory things. over the past year he has wondered whether the american presence in afghanistan has done any good at all, refused to sign an afghan/u.s. security pact and called members of the taliban his brothers. this week "the new york times" revealed he had been conducting secret negotiations with the taliban. what can he be thinking? maybe karzai is looking at what happened to one of his predecessors. in 1989 the soviet union withdrew from afghanistan, the president it backed stayed in power, but within months a civil war broke out forcing him eventually to seek refuge in a u.n. compound. in 1996 the taliban rode into kabul, captured him, denounced him as a foreign puppet, castrated him, dragged his body through the streets and hung him from a traffic light.

for good measure they did the same to his brother. there are many important differences between the past and president but karzai is probably looking at the evolving geopolitical landscape. the u.s. has tired of its longest war, debating only the size of the small force it will leave behind, mostly for training purposes. the taliban continues to have many strongholds in significant parts of the country. and pakistan continues to support the taliban from across the border, support that is likely to expand as america withdraws and islamabad seeks to fill that power vacuum. so karzai might be playing an erratic game of brinksmanship in his negotiations with washington, but he might also be trying to navigate a post-american afghanistan. while american troops might well remain and some american aid will continue, afghanistan is going to look very different in 2015 than it does today. consider these fact from a highly intelligent forthcoming

book "war front to store front" by paul brinkley. in 2009, afghanistan had a nominal gdp of $10 billion. of that number, 60% was foreign aid. 30% was the cultivation of poppy and the production of raw heroin which is informal and underground. that leaves 10% of the economy, $1 billion, of self-sustaining legitimate economic activity. during the same year, the united states military spent $4 billion per month to protect a country with a real annual economic output of $1 billion. kabul is a metaphor for the country, brinkley said to me. it is a city sized for 500,000 people. it has grown to 8 million. who have been drawn to the city by the massive influx of foreign money, military and nonmilitary. but that money is going to slow down significantly soon.

what happens then? he asks. brinkley worked for the pentagon to start up and build companies in iraq and afghanistan. fascinating experiences he recounts in the book and he came to the conclusion that the single most important task in both countries was to create a self-sustaining economy which the united states paid very little attention to. he's pessimistic about afghanistan's prospects and said the national hood there is worsening. imagine living in nation, he write, in which your national government was totally dependent on charitable donations from other countries. would you respect that government? would you not assume they were puppets of the international donors who were propping up the government? hamid karzai might be pondering just these questions as he plans his next crazy outburst. for more go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "time" column this week. let's get started.

joining me now live from sochi, russia, is michael mcfaul, the u.s. ambassador to russia, who on tuesday announced he would be leaving his post to return to stanford university. over his more than two-year tenure, he has been deeply critical of the putin administration and accused by the kremlin of arrogance and undiplomatic behavior and hounded by pro-regime media outlets. mcfaul is in sochi as part of president obama's official delegation. welcome, mike. let me ask you, do you think at the end of the day it was a mistake to hold the games in sochi? this is essentially a war zone, or very close, perilously close to a war zone and russia could have held the games anywhere. this is the southern most part of russia. was this a mistake?

>> well, that decision was taken long before my time in government. whether it was a mistake or not is for others to judge. i know we've been working closely with the russian government for the last two years i've been here in preparation for these games. our focus, number one, of course is security. as of today, we have about 150 people from the embassy and united states here working closely with the russians to focus so we have a safe and secure games. >> mike, when you look at whether it's syria, snowden, american adoptions, it feels like russian/american relations are in bad shape and the re-set hasn't worked. why are they so adversarial? >> well, i wouldn't put it that way, fareed. i would say we did re-set relations five years ago with a basic premise, that if we engage with the russians we do have some common interests and through cooperation, it can be

good for russia, good for the united states. when you think about our core national security interests, whether it's afghanistan, iran, chemical weapons in syria, trade and investment issues or reducing nuclear weapons in the world, those are all areas where we cooperate with the russians. it doesn't mean we don't have our disagreements. the list -- go ahead. >> let's take a look at one of those. in an interview last week you said one of your two failures you admitted to, you couldn't get the russian media, particularly the pro-russian media, to stop fomenting the rumor the united states and russia were trying to foment regime change in moscow. henry kissinger on this program said he thought on ukraine, washington should be much more or at least more sensitive to russia's interests and concerns and he said putin is probably assuming that we in washington think that kiev is a dress rehearsal for moscow.

is that a fair -- is that fair that we should be more concerned about russia's interests? >> my job here is to explain our policy and to be as transparent as possible about our support for civil society, about our engagement with regimes around the world, but most certainly russia. to say i failed, i said that, because if i look at public opinion polls, most russians still believe that we're seeking to foment regime change in russia. having said that, i'm glad you added regime-oriented media because there is a real debate in this country and if over the spread of the country that may be still the case, when asked to evaluate my work in russia, 91% of those polled on a liberal outlet, approved it. only 9% disapprove. so in that respect, i think we've made some progress in trying to explain to the russian

government and to the russian people exactly what we do and don't do with respect to support for civil society, democracy and human rights. transparency is our policy. >> do you believe that the russian government leaps the phone conversation between victoria nuland, the state department official, who said f the european union with regard to their passivity on ukraine? >> well, i haven't seen any confirmation that it came from the russians. i've been down here in sochi during this period. i can say the russian government does have tremendous capacity when it comes to listening to conversations. i've had one of mine put on the web before a couple years ago and most certainly we respect their capacities. we don't respect what i consider if it's true, to be a real breach of diplomacy.

that's just not the way we do business between countries. >> mike, before you were a diplomat you wrote a article in foreign affairs in 2008. it was a tough piece on putin's russia. really tough. now is it easy to understand in that context why the putin government and why putin himself probably mistrusts you. >> i don't want to make it about me personally. i think my record as an adviser to president obama, which really goes back seven years, not just the five years, i've been with the government for five but with him for seven, we have developed a very, you know, clear strategy for how to engage with russia. we've achieved a lot through cooperation and mutual respect. and i would hope that president putin understands that in the same way that i wrote that foreign affairs piece, i also was part and, you know, intimate player in developing that strategy which i think has made

russia better off and the united states better off. >> 30 seconds, mike. did putin say anything to you in what was your -- what i assume will be your last meeting with him? >> i haven't seen him yet. i'm sure -- i've exchanged conversations about these very issues with him personally and i hope i get to see him before i leave russia to thank him. i've had a fantastic time here as a u.s. ambassador. it's been a -- i'm very proud to represent my country here. >> michael mcfaul, thank you for joining us. we look forward to hearing from you back at stanford. lots more on the show including a dire warning on china. one says the second biggest economy is going to have a sharp slowdown and he has data to prove it. there's a saying around here,

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financial markets around the world have been tumbling, most dramatically in many of the emerges markets once considered super stars, brazil, turkey, south africa, argentina. think emerging markets don't matter to you if you don't live there? think again. my next guest says another emerging market is on the verge of crisis, china. and if its bubble bursts your wallet will surely be lighter. ruchir shara is the head of emerging markets at morgan stanley and author of "breakout nations." welcome, ruchir. >> you have a powerful presentation on china you made in the "financial times" and other places and i want to take

you through it. we have your charts here. the first point you make is if china slows down this is going to be a big problem because if you look at it, china's contribution from global growth which used to be 10% only a decade ago, is now 36%, which is essentially almost twice that of the united states. so it is the single country that has been powering the global economy. so if it falters, you say, watch out for everyone. >> exactly. the old saying use to be, the u.s. sneezes the rest of the world, now we have to watch out if china has a major tumble the rest of the world will be impacted by that. that's what's been impacting u.s. stock markets and developed world, that if china really slows down they know this is going to have an impact in the u.s. as well. >> the reason you think china is

going to have an impact, you have a great chart on this, china went through a huge debt binge, it basically accumulated a lot of debt and if you look at your chart, what you see is, you know, we think that the united states' deficits went up after the global recession because we had stimulus, well china had stimulus on steroids. look at what happened, it -- you know, the chart almost goes vertical the last five years, right? >> exactly. you know, i used to be really optimistic on china. and i was a bull on china for much of the last decade. but something began to shift out there after the crisis in 2008. i think they really panicked, they really figured out that the need to put a lot more government spending to work, a lot more stimulus to work and we saw this result. >> so it used to be that with $1.4 of debt, they could produce $1 of gdp growth. now they need $3.4. this is highly inefficient growth now. >> yes, that's right. the level of gdp growth is falling be the level of investment remains very high and more and more match-up after the

problem -- >> more and more highways more and more shopping malls hoping this will generate economic growth. >> yes that's right. i think that's the real problem as far as china is concerned. it still wants to grow at 7% to 8% but it's a middle-income country now. it's at a level of development and a level of globalization where more than half the people live in cities and not rural areas but it's difficult to get growth rates of 7 to 8%. japan, korea, taiwan, a similar stage of development they grow 5 to 6% or so. it's this unrealistic growth target of trying to grow at a very fast pace which is what is getting china into this trouble of too much debt. >> so what you're predicting is that china's economy will not just decline to 7% which is what a lot of people are saying, but a good bit below that. >> yeah. >> could be 6% or even lower. >> yes. because if you follow the historical template the growth slowdown could be 4 to 5%, the average growth rate for china

over the next five years if you look at the 30 most extreme cases in terms of a credit boom and china has had the most extreme case of developing countries. >> if that happens, ruchir, a real minority view, growth around the world will slow down because china as you pointed out in the first chart has been fueling global growth, so i mean we will see a slowdown in the u.s. this is a global -- this will have seismic consequences. >> i think it depends on how it plays itself out. i think if china wants to keep growing at 7% and the next year or year after that you have a major abrupt slowdown of 3 to 4% that will have a huge effect. >> better to deal with it now than to push it off because you will be creating a bigger bubble that will burst more badly. >> that's been our point that last three to four years had to settle for a lower growth rate they wouldn't have accumulated this amount of debt. now they have a new leadership,

talk about reform but the single most important reform to focus on is stabilize the level of debt. otherwise they will have a bigger problem going ahead. i don't think they can avoid a major economic slowdown but to avoid a full out crisis they need to deal with this right away, accept a lower growth target and play for the next five to ten years rather than trying to hit 7.5% year in and year out. that is unrealistic. >> you've been right around the other emerging markets. if you're right about china, we will all unfortunately notice. up next, what in the world? amid all the chaos in the post-arab spring middle east one country is getting things right. i will explain right after this. ? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'm going to have to rethink this thing. it's hard to imagine how much we'll need for a retirement that could last 30 years or more. so maybe we need to approach things differently, if we want to be ready for a longer retirement. ♪

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now for our what in the world segment? it's popular these days to say that arab spring has gone badly awry. i tend to think it's a bit early to make these judgments. think of what america looked like in 1779 three years after its revolution. but if you were to compile a midterm report, syria would get a failing grade, egypt's revolution has faltered badly, libya is a mess.

but there is one spark of hope for the revolutions of the middle east, and it's a country that could be a model for all the others. tunisia. which was the birth place of the arab spring. what has tunisia done right? well let's start with history. tunisia has been quite different from egypt and its neighbors for centuries. it was the first arab state to develop a modern constitution, all the way back in 1861. over time, tunisia has developed stronger civic institutions than its arab neighbors including a human rights league that was founded nearly four decades ago. and the demographics are largely homogenous. while syria and iraq are divided along sectarian line, shia/sunni, 98% of tunisians are sunni muslims. the choices that modern tunisians have made. tunisia's military has stayed out of active politics. contrast that with egypt where the military controls anywhere from 10 to 40% of the economy

and business, four of egypt's last five presidents came from the military, and the one that didn't, mohamed morsi was, toppled by the military. another factor behind tunisia's relative success is the foresight of its civilian leaders. three years ago, tunisia had a similar trajectory to egypt. both nations voted for islamist leaders whose movements have either been suppressed, banned or exiled. look at what happened next. in egypt, when a fresh speight of protests began, president morsi refused to reach out to his detractors. he was removed by force. in tunisia the coalition government actually stepped aside off its own accord, handing power to a temporary government. now that is how democracy is supposed to work, by making

painful compromises. in cairo, people didn't make those kinds of concessions. egypt's islamists wanted to push through a constitution that would be unacceptable to liberals and then to rule by presidential decree. tunisia's new constitution which was approved overwhelmingly by a majority of islamists has hailed as the most progressive constitution in the world. last month i hosted a package at the world economic forum in davos with top leaders from the arab world. one of them, tunisia's rasheed ganuchi explained why the islamist party willingly stepped down from government in tunisia. we had two choices, he said. either we stay in power and lose democracy or we gain democracy and give up power. he chose the latter. it was a selfless choice but a savvy one. i won't be surprised if he and his party are back in power later this year. the tunisian model is not flawless but it has powerful

lessons for the rest of the arab world. this is a country that has learned the most difficult lesson of democracy. how to be inclusive and how to compromise. it has learned this lesson without the west, without aid money, without compromising on its religious idea, remember the new constitution firmly enshrines islam but alongside women's and minority's rights. before we start blaming washington or the west for not doing enough in the arab world, let's learn from tunisia that local leadership is the key. and that right now, there is little of it in the arab world. up next, are some races superior to others? it sounds like an appalling question but two professors say they have very interesting data. right back.

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serious health problems, even death, but fortunately so far no one's reporting getting sick. less than two weeks after a winter storm paralyzed parts of the southeast, the same region now bracing for another storm and it could be a doozy. snow, sleet, or freezing rain could hit memphis, birmingham, and atlanta starting as early as monday. another round of wintry weather could hit north georgia and the carolinas tuesday night and wednesday. coming up on cnn newsroom, the justice department's landmark announcement on same-sex marriage. we'll break down how it will change life for those couples. we're back at 2:30 eastern. "fareed zakaria: gps" continues right now. are some ethnicities, races and religions superior to others when it comes to worldly success? to some that sounds like an idea that smacks of racism. to my next guest a serious argument to be made with serious research. amy chua first courted

controversy with her book "the battle hymn of the tiger mother." she is a law professor at yale as is her husband jed rubenfeld, the co-author of her latest book "the triple package." what got you interested in this? welcome to the show. >> well, you know, we're both teachers at yale law school. a few years ago we noticed some strange facts. we were looking around and said what's up with all these mormon students? we noticed there were more cuban-americans than you might have expected and more nigerian-americans. we thought maybe yale is unrepresentative. we decided to check. and sure enough, asian-americans, indian-americans, nigerians, cubans, mormons, are quite a bit and a few other groups are disproportionately successful in this country. >> and the numbers are staggering. so new york city has an exam for its selective schools, and last year, what were the results?

>> it was astonishing. i think it was something like i don't know, maybe something like 1 77 whites and smaller numbers for other groups and 640 asian-americans and, you know, that's on a standardized test and even more stunning, many of those kids who got in are actually, you know, the children of restaurant workers or taxicab drivers. they're not all the kids of engineers. so it's quite startling. >> you decided to look into this. and, you know, what's the basic finding? >> i want to stress one thing we found that was quite surprising at the outset, shocking success that asian-american kids have, 140 points higher on their s.a.t.s and more admissions to schools, it disappears in the third generation. so research has been done on this and third generation asian-americans have no difference in their academic performance between them and other americans. so, what we are saying completely debunks the stereotype of the model minority. it shows that the success is not

innate, it's not biological. instead, cultural factors are at work. we decided to look inside those cultures, those groups, families to try to see if we could see what was happening and try to learn from it. >> what is the cultural factor at work here that makes it so that these immigrant groups, that certain immigrant groups, succeed? >> it's not just immigrant groups. the mormons are a non-immigrant group. amazing despite their enormous differences, what do mormons an nigerian-americans and chinese-americans have in common? they actually have three features in common that we're calling the triple package. the first is a deep sense of exceptionality. now this exceptionality can come from many sources. it can come from a sort of your group that you belong to or your family, or just an innate talent or a parent that instills you with that sense. >> may think of themselves as the chosen people or mormons a special kind of religion or that kind of thing or very much a family thing where we're special.

>> absolutely. and -- or the nigerians here are disproportionately to very successful groups in nigeria with a proud royal heritage. what's interesting the second quality is, insecurity, which seems like the opposite of a sense of exceptionality and insecurity we mean, you know, a feeling you haven't quite done enough, not quite good enough, and the third is, impulse control. and the crux -- >> you know a lot about psychology, it's based -- the most famous experiment that they've done with children about the marshmallow. >> the marshmallow test. >> describe it. >> famous experiment done 30 years ago. you give kids a treat, marshmallow, a piece of -- something they like, and you ask them to see if they can wait 15 minutes before they eat it. tell them if you do wait, you'll get a second one. the question was, do they wait or don't they? and -- >> the ones who waited when tracked later in life turn out

to be more successful on almost every dimension. >> a finding stumbled on. walter mitch whole originally did the marshmallow test decided to track them 30 years later, every measure, academic, occupational, income, staying out of jail, these kids who actually waited the 15 minutes, did better. the question is, are there cultural factors that induce that. that strengthen that kind of willpower and impulse control and there are. >> my question about this, first of all, it's very pleasing to hear that indians are supposed to be part of this group because i'm an indian-american, but what i wonder about, is if there is something within the culture that makes, you know, people of indian origin succeed, how come india has been such a mess for so many hundreds, maybe thousands of years, same could be said of china, if these are cultural traits, god knows china had these cultural traits for hundreds of years and until 30 years ago, china had no growth, was a totally dysfunctional country.

>> that's a great question. i mean that's not how we're using culture in this kind of essentialist way. you know, confusionism in a way. obviously culture in this country, you have the heritage and then you come to america and it's suddenly this mishmash, interacting with american society. one of the driving forces of the triple package is insecurity. often the insecurity of being an outsider. you know, that feeling of being an outsider and also being insecure financially, you know, you're the one with a funny accept, you don't know if you can survive, that's part of what generates drive. what's interesting about this -- these three qualities no one of them alone generates drive. if you are just insecure that doesn't lead anywhere. if you're only feeling superior, that can be complacency. this combination of a sense of insecurity with a sense of exceptionality that often

generates this feeling of, you know, a drive, like i need to prove myself. >> do you think that there's some lesson people can learn? can you learn these cultural traits? >> undoubtedly. we show in the book there are many individuals, not from these groups that we discuss in detail, who also have all three of these traits. president obama is one. justice sonia sotomayor. these are individuals who didn't come from the groups we're talking about and yet you can see if you read their biographies they have these traits and it helped them succeed. >> you're not saying be jewish, chinese, indian. you're saying think of yourself as special, be a little insecure and driven and -- >> more disciplined. >> delayed gratification. >> nothing genetic. knowing about the superiority of one culture. these are underlying almost psychological traits. you could call them cultural traits, but they are accessible in theory to everyone. >> final thought. >> i guess we would just say, let's not be afraid to look at facts.

if we've reached a point in society where setting a u.s. census statistic gets you accused of racism and stereotyping we're not going to learn anything. anyone can achieve at a high level and we're hoping that some people might find something useful in our book to achieve what they want to achieve in their lives. >> jed, aim my, pleasure having you on. >> thanks for having us. >> up next, why the new machine age is great for economic growth, great for innovation, but it might be bad for you unless you watch what comes next.

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s the first machine age was the era unleashed by the industrial revolution. it was a period when great new inventions changed the world. think of the steam engine, electricity, cars. well, my next guests say there is a second machine age happening. erik brynjolfson is a professor of management at m.i.t.'s sloan school. andrew mcafee at digital business, and they are the coauthors of "the second machine age." this age they say is different

from the first one. welcome both. >> thank you. >> the second machine age begins, you say, 15 years ago. what happens? >> one of our early indications that things were really different was when gary kasparov, the chess champion, lost to deep blue designed to play chess. we used to think of chess as one of the highest expressions of human intelligence and then the match with deep blue showed us something different. more recently another ibm super computer called watson showed us that human beings were no longer the best "jeopardy" players. it beat ken jennings and brad rutter by more than three to one playing their game of "jeopardy." we keep seeing computers able to do more and more. >> the point as i understand it is that the first machine age was all about muscle power, that you were substitutes muscle power. used to be human muscle power or of animals powered stuff. you know, the steam engine or electricity replaced that. but now you're saying, the

second machine age replaces brain power. >> that's right. the first machine age was all about relaxing the limits on human muscle power, animal muscle power, steam engine, internal combustion engine, allowed us to move the world, manipulate the world better than before. but the second machine age is much more about relaxing the constraints on cognitive power, mental power, and we expect that just as the first machine age this is going to lead to an inflection point in human economic progress. >> and, again, the key difference here that you talk about is in the first machine >> you needed human beings to control these machines. >> right. >> what you're now doing, computer is replacing human being. i talked about this, put your thesis out, you're absolutely right. the human being gets in the way. when we need somebody to operate these machines, the computer has no sentiment, no emotion, does

the same calculation every time and doesn't sleep. >> in many cases he's right. first machine age we replaced muscle power. we had control system, that meant human. as we augment and replace mental power, it's not clear whether humans will be a substitute or compliment for these new machines. in many cases the whole operation does run smoother without humans. >> an example, before we get to the caveat, lets give people the example and the book about tax preparation. >> that's a perfect example. with tax preparation, the folks at intuit and have taken the process and codified it. once they digitized tax preparation, they can easily make a copy, 10 copies, 100 million. >> they cost $39 and they do tax preparation as well.

>> oftentimes better, don't make mistakes. copies are for zero cost, although they sell them $39. each copy is a perfect replica of the original. each can be transmitted anywhere in the world almost in assistant in aiously. they are free, perfect, instant. that's characteristics we didn't in the machine age. they lead to weird and wonderful economics. >> tax preparation, two out of the three constituencies are better off. first of all, those of us consumers with tax advice have access for 40 bucks a piece. the team at intuit created a great amount of value. so they captured a lot of value. that's great. the third constituency is cpas, the army of people around the country who do tax preparation for a living, this is a challenge to them. it's putting pressure on their employment and wages. >> they are going outfit business. >> there are about 17% fewer human tax preparers than there were before. when have you a continuing tal

market, it tends to be winner take all market. one or two or a few will dominate the markets. you don't need hundreds of thousands of local operators. what we're seeing with tax preparation is a microcosm of lots of industries. >> you guys end the book optimistically. i want to give you a chance to explain that, even though i think a lot what can you do rising productivity and machines replacing humans even at the very high end of the food chain. >> for now we're still adding jobs every month to the economy. we have not totally decoupled job growth from economic growth. the right policies for now are to stimulate job growth. job growth will come along with it. lets get our infrastructure in great ship. lets get our immigration policies correct, fix educational system and a create a great environment for

entrepreneurship. not because they get rich and we love rich people but because they are the great engine of job creation. that's the right econ101 playbook. >> am i going to be out of the job. >> not any time soon. >> we have to reinvent the ways we work with computers. that's the part that's lagging. the technology is racing ahead. our skills, organizations, economic policies are lagging behind. we want to change the conversation with this book and get people thinking about how to speed up that part of society. >> i'm going to try to get back and get to know my digital better. up next, why bigger is better even when it comes to religion. you make commitments. and when you can't live up to them, you own up, and make it right. some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where it's needed most. but i know you'll still find it when you know where to look.

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this week marked the anniversary of what is said to be the first electronic message between two heads of government. it brings me to my question this week. who were the two leaders that exchanged that first e-mail and what year was it? a, george h.w. bush and john major in 1991. bill clinton and carl bildt in 1994. bill clinton and nelson mandela in 1995, or george w. bush and

tony blair in 2001? stay tuned and we'll tell you the correct answer. this week's book of the week is the one we were just talking about "the second machine age." it combines a powerful understanding of technology and economics to shed light on one of the most important trends at work in the world. even ibm's super computer watson couldn't have brine a book this smart yet. now for the last look. china home to the world's fastest train, longest bridge, largest freestanding building, longest war and biggest source of tourists in the world. in china bigger is most definitely better, even when it comes to buddha. massive buddha statutes built around the country for decades. this towers over crowds almost as much as this 300 foot buddha in eastern china does. in 2002, the tallest statue in

the world, 500 foot spring temple buddha unveiled in china. it's almost 200 feet taller than the statue of liberty. why is buddha on steroids? tourists. this buddha brought in $200 million. these two giant buddhases in their birthday suits unveiled in china were taken done after an uprare. maybe some thought about the core teachings of buddhism, which are about a rejection of materialism, inner strength, medication and mindfulness, not supersize. the correct answer to the gps challenge question is b, tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of an e-mail message from then swede of prime minister carl bildt to president bill clinton. it was very formal, mostly a

congratulations on the use of the global internet system and clinton's embargo with vietnam. we've checked e-mails carefully and not a single emoticon or lol. thank you for watching my program. i'll see you next week. the following is a cnn report. from harsh beginnings to the heights of power, vladimir putin has ruled russia for over a decade. >> they want a strong guy in charge. they have got a strong guy in charge. >> from the kgb to sochi. a very public leader who remains a mystery to many. the power of vladimir putin. >> the international olympic committee has the honor -- >> since this a