. >> thank you to the aspen institute and everyone. i'm so glad to be back talking about this is an appropriate back story that yes, four years ago as a journalist i felt i had to do something that it was a so easy just to make the political worse but that there was something of an understanding of what was t going on and that's a problem. so we spent and that scale of individuals and the study of conflict as a system. and then clicking everything else in place. and then to make everything makes sense. and those who have been through ugly conflicts getting to a better place. and the environmental activist in england and regular frustrated democrats in new york city and republicans in rural michigan. it is a good conflict. that is encouraging and patterns of what happens so the book is how more of us can do the same. >> you talked a little bit about the context of defining this and the realm that that most naturally and those intractable divorces and to help viewers and listeners understand the framework so you talk about how this appea

you've already wrecked on the aspen a institute. >> i'm not ragging on the aspen institute. naudible]ed i member six or seven years ago before trump was nominated walking across the institute in thinking about how everybody there was involved that we love free trade et cetera et cetera. we have taken trips across to america when i was in "time" magazine. i began to see the resentment of the people who free trade made it great by the go to walmart on a sunday afternoon on a flatscreen tvv set. that was half the price of what had been a few years earlier. and they couldn't catch the early bus to go to the maytag plant because they moved to mexico. this resentment building up and frankly a resentment though somewhatur racist. definitely anti- immigrant and why is everyone trying to speak spanish in our schools we cannot get the job in the plant now et cetera. and those of us who believed in that davos aspen consensus got it wrong. we were unaware of the legitimate resentments that were building up in society in which the prosperity of the '90s left people behind. oxen think that

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technology and outsourcing may have made us a richer nation that you have already ranked on the aspen instituteaughter] that i remember six or seven years ago before trump was nominated walking across thinking have everybody there was involved in that we all love free trade et cetera. we had taken trips across america when i was at time magazine. and i began to see the resentment of the people of free trade to go to walmart and get a flatscreen tv that was half the price that then on monday morning they can catch the early bus to go to the maytag plant andes there was a resentment building up that was anti- immigrant and everybody trying to speak spanish in our schools and we can't get a job in the plant. and those of us who believed in that god it wrong. we were unaware of the legitimate resentments building up in society which the prosperity of the nineties left people behind. >> i think that is a fair and accurate assessment of what happened. so where do we go from here? you are at a great american and university. you have a platform. you are walter isaacson. >> i think it begins with reinve

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he's also the executive director of aspen institute and he joins us from pennsylvania. let's start with what we saw last night. three presidents. do you think any of them will make a difference to the race at this stage? >> i think the die is already cast, kim. really, frankly, i think really what these three presidents are doing is trying to gin up turnout. but in the case of donald trump, he really doesn't appeal to swing voters. so i think it's a mistake to bring him in to swing states like pennsylvania nevada, michigan, georgia, arizona. not a smart move. you know, president obama did not have a good track record when he was president in terms of midterm elections. and of course, joe biden has an approval rating in the low 40s, and so he's underwater. but right now, i think, really, the race in pennsylvania, at least the senate race is one where dr. oz seems to be surging. the polls have tightened. in fact, i think they're dead even. and in an environment like this, dead even will accrue to the party in power. on the other hand, we have a democratic race in pennsylv

one of the things that i worked on over the past year was co-chairing this commission with the aspen instituteeople from the right, people from the center, people from the left. co-chairing this institute of information disorder. >> okay, when you say people from the right, people from the right that are real people from the right? people that are part of fox news that are pushing this? people from the former right? >> people that are from the former right. >> that's not the right. >> -- >> that's what makes these commissions, and i'm not insulting your commission, baloney, because that's not the real organization that's pushing this garbage. that's the george bush republicans that are watching this at home, hiding. >> we need more of them to speak up. we need to have -- if these are majority aryan values in this country, we need to unleash and unlock the majority. and far too many people are standing on the sidelines willing to play here no evil, speak no evil, see no evil to exactly what they're seeing. this is exactly why holding advertising -- accountable is so important. this is why the p

so this particular definition was created by good jobs champion group this month and published aspen institute and families and workers went and it's a good definition signed on to by hundreds of labor research and other stakeholders including ourselves here but runs out everything about a good job good jobs are jobs that provide stability, mobility and voice to workers and pay families same wages and critical benefits, healthcare and paid leave and accessible to all regardless of race, any other demographic integration create opportunities for career advancement and economic mobility in workers with good jobss have a voice in their workplace and free to organize and advocate for their interests. that does not describe the majority of jobs in the united states today, describes a small share of them and not just groups outside the government interested, now the government has gonee into this, too and thy are vocal on what a good job is vocal making sure they put up federal dollars making sure unities where this is going have a definition of what the job is so it's noteworthy about this definiti

according to the aspen institute's annual state of play report, which surveys youth sports parents, childrenst since before the covid-19 outbreak. the rebound was driven largely by increased competition, which is up 32% from a year ago. willie. >> that's great news. another thing bouncing back, mee -- mika is travel. on a flight from san francisco to chicago. it's the latest in a string of violent incidents on airplanes. on top of that, the tsa already has taken roughly 5,000 guns this year, which puts the agency on track to break last year's record of 5,972 firearms detected at check points. joining us now, tsa administrator, david pikosky, great to have you with us this morning. >> thanks, willie. >> let me start on the gun question, it boggles my mind, people don't know you can't bring a firearm on their carry on package. >> nearly every person said i forgot it was there, i didn't know it was there. that in and of itself is a problem. the other thing i would emphasize is we're probably going to break the record we broke last year, almost 6,000. we'll probably be over 6,000 this year befor