tom friedman, kathleen parker. marc morial. welcome to all of you and merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you. >> i suspect, tom brokaw, that families are getting together on this holiday, and there's gifts and there's good times but there's probably a little talk about where things are. in their family, in their community, and in the country. and if you look at one key indicator, it's pretty downcast. the direction of the country. and look at the polling from "the wall street journal"/nbc news poll. nearly 7 in 10 americans think the country is headed on the wrong track, in the wrong direction, and as economic anxiety seems to make this so much deeper than other periods of turmoil. >> well, that's because economic confidence, and economic security is the underpinning of well-being in the country. in 1968, which i loved through, there was enormous turmoil. but everyone could get a job. we still had a manufacturing base in this country. and even though we had guns going on in vietnam there was a lot of mon

and tom friedman, you've talked about this as being more than a foreign policy story. this, you know, represents tar irsquare and the arab spring. but there's something larger that's companying in the economy all over the world that affects president obama's re-election chance. >> we're seeing the democratization of so many things. we're seeing the democratization of information, which means democratization of weaponry, is everyone is becoming super empowered. we're seeing the democratization of innovation. tiny groups can now take on big companies and most of all we're seeing the democratization of expectation. everyone, whether you're in tahrir square or india or israel or wall street feels they're entitled to the same rights, participation and justice. and when all these people feel this, you've got just enormous energy now coming from the bottom up and i think it's going to be a huge leadership challenge for everyone to meet these expectations. it's what i feel about, you know, the arab spring sometimes when i look at what's unfolding there nowadays, it is that i f

avery friedman civil rights attorney in cleveland.ood to see you. >> good to see you. >> i richard herman, good to see you. happy new year. >> happy new year, fred. >> let's take a look at the list, greatest legal cases. we've ranked favorites. let's count them down. avery ranks dominique strauss-kahn which you died with warren jeffs. >> a tie. >> couldn't decide. >> you chose actress lindsay lohan as number five. you both agreed on number four rod blagojevich for corruption and sentencing deserved that spot. for number three penn state's jerry sandusky, and american student in italy amanda knox also at number three. first why didn't you put sandusky on your list? >> well, you know what, if cases were based on allegations, then casey anthony would have been convicted. i think the jerry sandusky case is an important case and it's opening up a lot of observation and concern about what goes on in campuses and college campuses and high school. but the bottom line is at this point we have some very outrageous allegations. let's see what ha

and i wondered, does he have any idea what milton friedman would be doing right now?nating is i think the ron paul base of the republican party has defeated dr the milton friedman base. i think what you're actually seeing more sort of hard moneyism take over republican party. we will discuss that some other time. msnbc political analyst ezra klein, also the "washington post" and bloomberg view. thanks for your time, man. >> thank you. >>> just ahead, a moment of geek starring birds. we'll explain. >>> america's secret remote control wars. just ahead. facial hair can be irritating. challenge that. new olay smooth finish facial hair removal duo. first a gentle balm. then the removal cream. effective together with less irritation and as gentle as a feather. new olay hair removal duo. >>> here's what we think modern american war looks like. troops say good-bye to their families. they ship out for places like iraq and afghanistan, where they fight insurgents, build alliances, try to help new governments get on their feet. too many of the troops come home injured. some of t

and i wondered, does he have any idea what milton friedman would be doing right now?ing is i think the ron paul base of the republican party has defeated the milton friedman base. i think what you're actually seeing more sort of hard moneyism take over republican party. we will discuss that some other time. msnbc political analyst ezra klein, also the "washington post" and bloomberg view. thanks for your time, man. >> thank you. >>> just ahead, a moment of geek starring birds. we'll explain. this new at&t 4g lte is fast. did you hear sam... ...got promoted to director? so 12 seconds ago. we should get him a present. thanks for the gift basket. you're welcome. you're welcome. did you see hr just sent out new... ...office rules? cause you're currently in violation of 6 of them. oh yeah, baby? ...and 7. did you guys hear that fred is leaving? so 30 seconds ago. [ noisemakers blow ] [ both ] we'll miss you! oh, facecake! there's some leftover cake. [ male announcer ] the new htc vivid. stay a step ahead with at&t 4g lte, with speeds up to 10x faster than 3g. ♪ what's goin

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professor mandelbaum and professor friedman, welcome. and, professor mandelbaum, the podium is yours. [applause] >> well, thank you. we are going to do a sequential duet, and i'm going to speak second, so let me introduce the first speaker. i'll be brief because to this sais audience and, i think, to our c-span audience as well he really needs no introduction. my friend and co-author, thomas l. friedman, is the foreign affairs columnist for "the new york times." he's a three-time pulitzer prize winner. he is the author of five previous books, all extremely influential, all bestsellers including "from beirut to jerusalem" and "the world is flat." tom, it's a pleasure to welcome you to sais. the floor is yours. [applause] >> michael, thank you very much. it's -- am i on here? can you hear me? it's great to be back here at sais. i didn't know i was a professor, but i am now, and i'm going to keep that pocketed. [laughter] so what mike and i are going to do, as he said s a sequential duet. we're going to kind of break up the book, this is ho

can get it all over europe that everybody's saying we don't want him it's not that we've got brad friedman brad great work you're doing brad thanks so much for being with us tonight. thanks and i have a scoop tomorrow at brad blog dot com showing that even republicans don't believe that photo id will keep so-called voter fraud from happening at the polling place check that out tomorrow it's great i'll check it out thanks brett. now turning our attention away from destructive voting laws to destructive homeland security laws the highly controversial national defense authorization act is still awaiting the president's signature and act contains an indefinite detention provision giving the president united states the power to use the military to indefinitely detain you without trial if he says you are a suspected terrorist they would protest across the country in response to the act including a dozen patriots with occupy d.c. being arrested in front of the white house last week but the department of justice announced on wednesday that the president will indeed sign the national defense author

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you got an endorsement from tom friedman who wrote this.rite it down, americans elect, what amazon.com did to books what the ipad did to music, what drugstore.com did to pharmacies america elects plans to do to the two-party duopoly to remove the barriers and flatten the incumbents and let the people in. watch out. what does it mean? what are you after? >> we're giving people directly the opportunity to express themselves in this campaign. americans elect has the focused goal on getting on the ballot in all 50 states and having the first ever convention online where the american people will take three functions that have normally been held in the hands of the parties and put them directly in their own hands. that is, shaping the process through the rules, shaping the issues that the candidates will have to deal with, and finally directly drafting or nominating candidates in 2012 a nonpartisan ticket, two people running from different parties will run as the third choice on the ballot. >> so the key is a nonpartisan ticket. elliott, why do w

with jill abramson, the executive editor of "the new york times", tom friedman the columnist and the bureau chief in washingn david leonhardt. >>lways in hindsight it's perfect 20/20 vision. i think in realtime journalists worldwide covered what was going and you know, saw that something big was developing and spreading. >> we're going to put 2011, charlie n that list of 1989, 1848. it's going to be one of those years. you feel right now we're present athe creation again. you know, we are all present athe creation of something. but what's so interesting about this, it feels like after world war i, after world war ii, after the cold war but this time there was no war. but we are seeing states tumble as if there had been a war but this time there was no war. >> i think of that as really the central question about iraq as we are leaving and about all of the arab spring. do we see this incredibly important strategic region of the world? start to follow a path of china and india. or does it remain vastly behind and not even catching? >>. >> we continue this with david recommend nick-- rem

he cofounded hellman and friedman. as a philanthropist he helped several projects including the news site bay citizen and started an annual concert called hardly strictly bluegrass. the san francisco recreation an park commission recently agreed to rename speedway meadows the center of the festively as hellman hollow. hellman was 77. >>> officers shot a man who they say opened fire on them during a traffic stop last wednesday. that man died from his injuries the next day. he is not identified. >>> this morning, police in menlo park believe they have everyone involved in a shootout. early yesterday, officers responded to reports of a group of armed men outside a home on hollyburn avenue. police say someone in the group shot at them before everyone ran. one officer returned fire. no one was hit. s.w.a.t. teams and the chp searched yards and found two rifles and three handguns. so far three people have been charged. >>> san jose police might be closer to catching the man who allegedly killed a fellow hells angels member.

avery friedman in land and richard herman in las vegas.y, gentlemen, she is suing for millions. she is suing the marriott chain and also suing the convicted peeping tom. is this going to be difficult, though, for her to try to establish this, richard, particularly because she's -- in the public view? she works in the public view, people have been seeing her. how will she establish if there has been some damage? >> well, she going to be able to prove the invasion of privacy claims no problem there. on the negligence and the intentional infliction of emotional distress i'm not so sure. she is bringing the case in tennessee, fred. sued for $6 million against marriott. and, you know, i think if she got anywhere close to a six figure offer she should take it and run. you know, she was prancing around naked on "dancing with the stars," just about naked, almost naked. i don't know what the damages are there. i don't know -- she's not going -- this is not going to be a lot of victory for her. lotto victory for her. i think the case will settle. i

our legal guys are back, avery friedman in cleveland, richard herman in las vegas.is is a very touchy topic and disturbing one for this family in particular. avery, the cleveland's children and family services takes away the child saying he's 200 pounds, 8 years old. he should weigh on average 60, 65 pounds. this is putting his life, his health in jeopardy and they had to intervene. how common is this for child protective services to do this? >> like never. i mean, i don't know that i've ever seen a case. i've beenen court with these child care workers or whatever they call themselves. your visceral reaction is having the government break down the door and pull out a heavy kid, take him away from his parents and throw them into foster care is outrage. more than 2 million kids extremely obese, fredricka. it's an epidemic. when you think more deeply, there are circumstances where the standard is either abuse or neglect. did the mother medically neglect this child to require this removing the child to put the child into foster care in order to save his life. we'll find

avery friedman, always great to see you. happy holidays. >> all the best. same to you.he best. >>> coming up from arab spring to wall street. 2011, the year of protests. that's next. i'm on an aspirin regimen now because i never want to feel that helplessness again. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. talk to your doctor, and take care of what you have to take care of. [ gargling ] oo-ay-ow. savings. savings. savings? progressive was the first to offer online quoting. you can do better. first to show comparison rates. ding! the "name your price" tool. oh! gosh, don't mind if i do. who was the first to offer pet injury coverage? we were. and when did you know you wanted to sell insurance? i said i wouldn't cry. um... whee! it's flo time. now, that's progressive. call or click today. ♪ sen♪ co-signed her credit card - "buy books, not beer!" ♪ ♪ut the second at she shut the door ♪ ♪ girl started blowing up their credit score ♪ ♪ she bought a pizza party for the whole dorm floor ♪ ♪ hundred pounds of makeup at the makeup st

he cofounded the private equity firm hellman and friedman. as a philanthropist he helped several projects including the news site bay citizen. he also started an annual concert called hardly strictly bluegrass. warren hellman was 77. >>> and the last group of american troops about 500 of them are now out of iraq. a convoy ended a drawdown that saw the u.s. go from 50,000 troops in august to 0. the top u.s. general in iraq stopped by to wish those soldiers well. some californiaed in a guard troops are just back from afghanistan. the 870th military police unit arrived in san jose last night as well as in oakland and in san francisco. they spent a year in afghanistan. it's in the south bay portions of san jose. looks like sar towing. >>> coming up 101 you may see rain. i saw a little bit in san francisco as he was coming into work earlier. but again not even really -- you won't even need your windshield wipers. >>> are cooler there. coming up you will take a check of the seven-day forecast. in the meantime gets check traffic. >>> not bad in the

avery friedman and richard herman joining us.his is heartbreaking for the family of robert champion, the drum major. it's ruled a homicide. how is this going to redirect this investigation? richard, you first. >> it's horrible, fred. they are going to unturn every stone to look into the hazing activities that have been going on at this university. frankly hazing activity that goes on at universities all over the country. not only universities but high schools as well. every now and then we see a fatality, everybody gets in an uproar. they rant and rave how hazing must end. it dies down for a while. an incident like this comes to fruition. it's horrible. this death was unnecessary. the band may be taken away from this university for a while. i think that's what's going to happen. >> also at issue here is a pattern. avery, investigators are looking at other allegations of hazing incidents on tamp us. this death is being linked to an alleged hazing on campus. how are investigators going to look at how far was this common knowledge o

earlier this month, neil friedman and i attended the annual code meeting and provided updates on not only what is happening at dbi but some of the features provided within the next few months for the new pts system and pilot testing for chromat q-matic, and a press ree for the new features being provided to the public. and also, representing dbi on channel 7 was built strong where he talked about the public affairs program on november 10 and played -- explained our role in enforcing the new state law enforcing carbon monoxide alarms to residents with fuel-burning devices, especially with the oncoming demand of heating. these alarms prevent injury and death from carbon monoxide, which is odorless and invisible and can only be monitored with technology, so please take a look at that. another item is to express my appreciation to james [inaudible] i want to extend my appreciation that james is representing the public and to the public of the category of service. happy thanksgiving to all, especially to the debbi family and their friends. that is all. >> is there any public comment on th

tom friedman, kathleen parker. marc morial.me to all of you and merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you. >> i suspect, tom brokaw, that families are getting together on this holiday, and there's gifts and ths

in order to defeat the viet cong psychological operations i expect so i could friedman counted on musical little fans to tip the scales we had a tanks with loud speakers alone and we had jeeps of loud speakers we had aircraft a good fly over with loud speakers and we had men that actually put the loudspeakers on their back they had little packs a day would and they would just walk right into the jungle and they would play it. the americans wanted to beats the vietnamese with military might but at the same time when that hearts and minds therefore they commissioned pro-american songs to win the movie. but when the vietcong intensified their attacks the us military strategy changed from now on ear resounds poured out of the backpack speakers. that hit the knees have a tradition that if you don't die close to home you know buried close to home here so will wonder forever so the americans actually used that start a campaign called the wandering soul and we produced takes that had funeral music funeral dirge is very sad music and in the background you had a voice of a dead father. telling its

>> guest: milton friedman was another mentor to me. i was in chicago and milton friedman was doing a tv show where he talks to the young. he had done a show called free issues versus for free success. sequel called syria of the status quo and sat with young people and had a discussion with them about economics and i was then a democratic socialist and i was supposed to argue with him and i would memorize something i've read in a book or something and i would repeat the argument that he would destroy it in six words and the camera would linger on my face when one of was over and try and discuss -- think of something to say. after the show went on for a week he took us out to dinner and he would take these dinners to teach us about his view of the world and why he thought the way he did and how to approach economic and i never became a libertarian or as free market as friedman was but he expanded my mind of what was economically right and just in that week. kissel i had feelings later in life, those people with additional they want contr

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