gordon's forecast has alarmed robert samuelson. if he's right, if could be our next nasty economic surprise. the -- our political system's cope -- as groups battle harder for bigger shares of a stagnant pie. without an expanding government, racial, ethic, generational and other conflict worsen? a zero-sum game. one group's game is another's loss. this is no formula for social peace. unquote. >> question. are we in for a decade of political and social unrest? >> i think more than a decade. i think those gentlemen are right. there's no question about it. if you take the share of the lay bosh first that's working, that's diminishing. the baby boomers who the best skilled -- passing on. it's being replaced by tens of million of folks who are coming in immigrating legally and illegally from third world, lack the skills and lack the education, lack the abilities and they're replacing these baby boomers and i do agree once it starts growing at such a sluggish rate, then you begin a battle of all against all for control of the resource tha

. >>> and marcus samuelson is here. brand new recipes. look at him.the food. >> now over to michael. >>> almost ready for the workout while you watch. a live event with my personal trainer. giving away some of my secrets. but first gio benitez got her top three workout secrets. >> reporter: we have heard it a million times. no pain, no in. but what is the pain that makes hollywood's finest look the way they do. so to see how celebrities work out, we're here to meet the lady behind the body. trainer to the stars mitchell is responsible for some of the fittest bods around, including michael strahan. do celebrities maies make reque? >> they are no different than us, they want six pack abs issue -- >> or eight pack. >> but you have to make the commitment. >> reporter: and the one weight loss tip for anyone -- >> being patient. gain over ten years, and they wake up, all of a sudden they want to lose it now. be patient and start eliminating things slowly and the weight will come off. >> reporter: what's the method? sumo squats for lower body. >> up. back do

i also had the fun experience of having a conversation with marcus samuelson.ery hot, popular chef whose restaurant in harlem, red rooster, you ought to try. i had a conversation with dr. maya angelou who has now gone off to glory. and a conversation with jill scott. those are the individuals that i have been fortunate enough to engage in that setting. >> she is a singer, plus. >> you can say that. she is a singer, an actress, a poet. i call her a force. >> let's watch a little bit of this. [video clip] >> i thought that we should talk about where you come from. and i do not mean philly. >> ok. [laughter] >> and where i come from. and where every living human being, and the late, have come from. because it is the only place on earth that is the cradle of humanity. we ought to start out by talking about africa. in cairo, egypt, working, learning arabic. one of the six languages that you command. moving to ghana, learning swazi. it would be so wonderful if you would just say a little bit about this long love affair you have had with african culture. >> i am an af

coming up, marcus samuelson is here live. can you smell it?back. >>> yes! yes! so exciting. wait a minute, look at that, marcus. they have already started. >> i knew it. >> also a pleasure. >> say -- >> marcus is here, not just because he brings us tasty treats, he has a beautiful brand new book, "marcus of the off duty: the recipes i cook at home." it's full of your personality. >> thank you. >> we live in the united states of flavor. >> we do. so diverse. people come from all over the world to come here. so our food is so flavorful and just -- it's just great to be a cook today in america. >> and you cook at home. >> yes. >> i love the different chapters. and you talk about the music that you play. you do that too, like "happy"? >> you have to set the mood right when you're cooking with your guests or family. >> i hear it playing right now and you can't help but be happy. >> you can't help but be happy. >> and last time, you were cooking -- >> who was it? >> michelle obama. >> just michelle obama. >> and i know you have it in your book as we

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even paul samuelson, a few years ago, weighed in to say wait a minute. if trade and investment is used to move good jobs overseas, it's not always going to be best. now we have people who were also weighing in to say if you look at the greemts and the investment protections and the imbans fbalance, we need to mak a difference. so that's the good news. politically speaking in congress, we have some great champions, nancy pelossi and harry reid have done a great job in putting the stops, the breaks, on fast track for now. but they're going to need a lot of support as we go forward. and the people like cheri brown, elizabe lilizabeth warren and k ellison have been tremendous champions for fair trade. but too many democrats want to keep getti inting the campaign contributions from big business, they want to stay respectable in that cocktail party circuit and hope that their base doesn't notice. but our job is to notice. even more important are the republicans in congress. the republican base agrees with us. we need a different kind of trade policy. the probl

even paul samuelson. a few years ago some of you remember weighed in to say, wait a minute, you know, if trade is really used, trade and investment is used to move good jobs overseas, it's not always going to be best. and now we have people like joe stiglets, paul krugman and jeff sachs who are saying if you look at investment protections and the imbalance for investors and workers, there are some real concerns here. and we need to think about it again. so that's the good news is that we are ready. politically speaking, in congress, we have some great champions. nancy pelosi and harry reid have done a great job in putting the stops, the brakes on fasttrack for now. but they're going to need a lot of support. and the people like chery brown, elizabeth warren, keith ellison have been tremendous champions for fair trade. but too many democrats, too many wishy washy democrats, they want to keep getting the campaign contributions from big business. they want the elite media. they want to stay respectable in th

in the words of robert samuelson the welfare state is taking care of government. other priorities of being squeezed out from investment and infrastructure and human capital to international programs and defense spending which is expected to shrink 40% over the next decade. there are things that can be done to address the other problems i mentioned even though there are no quick or magic bullet solutions and i will in conclusion did a quick list of some of these things. the effort to push back against the growing autocratic repression must be continued and expanded. a lot has been going on in this area but more needs to be done. president obama's statement on defending civil society made last month in a speech to the clinton global initiative is a step in the right direction if there is real follow-through. the effort by the house foreign affairs committee, elliott angle through reform of the governance structure of the surrogate radios and radio liberty and radio free asia, an important step to account for the information offensive being carried out by russia and

robertwords of samuelson, the welfare state is taking over the federal government. human capital to international programs and even defense spending which is expected to shrink over 40% over the next decade. there are things that can be done to address the other problems i mentioned even though there are no quick or magic bullet solutions. in conclusion, i will give a quick list. the effort to put -- pushback against the growing autocratic oppression must be continued. more needs to be done. president obama statement on defending civil society made last month in a speech to the clinton global initiative is a step in the right direction if there is real follow-through. the effort by the house foreign affairs committee voiced to reform the structure and radio liberty and radio free asia is an important step for the information offensive that is being carried out by russia and other autocracies. the difficulty of achieving successful democratic transitions is important for civil society and protest activists to learn lessons from past failures such as the need to prepa

aaron samuelson from politico will join us in that discussion. "washington journal" comes your way tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. we'll see you then.