[applause] and, you know, that's an interesting story because david friedman - do you know david friedman, our great ambassador? well, david was one of the most successful lawyers in new york; maybe the most successful lawyer in new york. but he loves israel. he loves this country, but he loves israel. and i said - called him. i know how much he feels about, you know, the heart. he'd go there all the time. i'd say, "david, would you like to be the ambassador to israel? you're giving up a lot. you're giving up one of the great practices in new york city. would you like it?" it took him about two seconds to say, "yes, that's what i want to do." and he gave up his law practice. [applause] he gave up a lot of great clients. he became the ambassador. and a lot of conflict was taking place. a lot of bad feelings, a lot of bad will. we have to get the people of our country, of this country, to love israel more. i have to tell you that. we have to do it. we have to get them to love israel more. because you have people that are jewish people, that are great people - they don't love israel enough.

. >> rabbi friedman thank you so much. we'll take a quick break and come back to mosaic in just a moment. >>> good morning. welcome back to mosaic. i'm rabbi eric weiss and honored to be your host. we're in the middle of a conversation with rabbi pam frydman and also the current president of the board of directors of the northern california board of rabbis. welcome back. >> thank you so much. >> we were talking about the role of rabbis at large and certainly within the context of representing the northern california board of rabbis. one of the things that people don't know about, the board is very much noted for its klieg yal ty in part because it doesn't necessarily take official stands on issues that might actually cause internal frictiontion among the members and we support each other and other stances we take out there in the community whether an issue a round same-sex marriage or around conversion or issues around civic issues at large. so i am wondering if you can talk a little bit in that context about how it is tha

the organization that peter friedman has just started is very much on the peter thiel donor list.ut up more than half of the $9 million to get started. >> what is the case -- who wants this? is there demand? >> for friedman and some of the people who are working with him on the ground, they say there is interest from organizations, little economic development groups who are just interested millionaires to set up these kinds of city states. the idea, the sales pitch is that they are not working directly with any of the local governments. they are leaving that to secondary agencies. you would set up these semiautonomous regions and under british common law as adjudicated by retired judges, they would hire to run things. they would then be immune to local law. >> that is what is interesting, the justice system is more important than the tax breaks. friedman talks about some resources of functional loss being a leading indicator for economic success. there will be some law or something, but there are a lot of freedoms as well, and it is going to be economically successful. >>'s argume

we turn to thomas friedman making his debut on the beat.eat to be here with you. >> what does it say to americans, and should it matter that so many editors and leaders in journalism are taking this position? >> i think it really comes down to the fact that there are two simple issues here. one is that if we let a president use congressionally appropriated defense funds for ukraine in order to intimidate the president of that country to take his rival in the next election, we are basically saying it is okay for all future presidents to enlist foreign powers. can you imagine how much money someone could raise from enlista or from iran? we would never again have a legitimate president. someone who you said well, i like or don't like him or her but they're legitimate. we would never again have a legitimate president. and that would be a prescription for political chaos. secondly, if we'd let a president in the face of these charges not allow the key witnesses to testify, those closest to the process, giuliani, pompeo, mick mulvaney, if we don'

the marshall museum in lexington who helped me when i was doing research around liam nd a lisbeth friedman, early american code breakers. it is wonderful to speak to this incredible conference and i'm struck in walking should museum the sort of dolls and the representation of rosie the riveter, which is the most common image of women and their participation during the war and certainly while that was an extraordinaryly important ontinue bution to america's military prowess and the allies, we only recently are coming to realize the extent to which women contributed to brainwork during the war. to military intelligence and to the field of intelligence in general. this talk is not specifically about women. it is about intelligence, but the fact is because women were not in combat roles in world war ii, they were able to contribute in other ways, intelligence being a really significant way n which women contributed. my book is about 10,000 american women who came to washington during the war to do a signals intelligence work. they comprised more than half of our code breaking force. so it was

senior director for environmental risk the institute for economic freedom doctor greenstone milton friedman and the honorable stephen benjamin mayor from south carolina. so you are now recognized to give an oral presentation of your testimony for five minutes. >> i am pleased to be here today how to limit the federal government fiscal exposure by reducing risk this is an area on our high risk list since 2013 recent disaster has shown the need for planning and for investing in resilience the statement discusses climate change in the us and the federal government faces exposure from climate change risk and the extent the federal government has invested in resilience the economic effects of climate change could be significant and not easily distributed across sectors and regions of the us. for example the southeast and midwest to great plains region have greater combined economic effects because of property damage and changes in the other two regions. law the estimates are due to modeling and to better manage climate risk earlier the share we reported the federal government faces fiscal exposu

trump attendsdent the nato summit, we are joined by ben friedman.sident trump arriving there early this morning. the nato summit -- ben friedman -- he has already had an influence on the organization reflected here in the washington examiner, nato announces a $30 million increase in spending -- defense spending in advance of the president's arrival. guest: nato leaders have learned to deal with trump better over the last few years. announcing spending increases that might have been likely for other reasons, and attributing them to him so he can take credit for things. i think that helps them get along with him. nato has increased spending substantially. u.s. -- nato, since since 2016 has gone up billions, they say a lot of that is inflation in the response to what russia did in ukraine. i do not know how much of it is really due to trauma. it is nice to say it is due to trump. host: in addition to the spending, what do you think the administration, and president trump explicitly -- specifically his goals are? what areas of policy do you think he --

ken friedman. thanks for being with us, insight. again, "what happened to giuliani?" not a statement with anni ic exclamation. >>> and helping propel president trump to the white house in 2016 and now his democratic rivals are campaigning to win back their support. coming up, we speak with teamsters president james hoffa about today's president's forum his group is hosting in iowa. ♪ ahhh ♪ you are the one ♪ light of my life ♪ i love you so please be my wife? yes! yes! save on a gift that says it all. ♪ only at jared >>> we are less than two moss away from the iowa caucuses and today six 22 democratic contenders will take questions at a presidential forum hosted by the teamsters union. among the largest unions in the country with 1.4 million members. the forum comes at the 2020 field competes for support among working class voters, many of whom broke for trump in 2016. joining me now, james hoffa, president of the international brotherhood of teamsters. appreciate you joining us. start with 2016. as we said, democrats typically get the working class vote but in 2016 t

david friedman, our ambassador did is fantastic job. we did a fantastic job. they want to spend $2 billion. i said go check it out. we can do it for 250,000, maybe 300,000 and we have a better location and any location we could have had and it has been open for a long time. friends of mine like jerusalem stone, it cost a fortune. over there it wasn't so expensive. i also recognized israel's sovereignty over the golan heights. and what was bigger, what we did for israel in terms of moving the embassy to jerusalem, becoming the capital of israel or the golan heights which you have been looking to do for 52 years, you have been having 52 meetings in the golan heights. i said which is bigger, which is more important to the jewish people? neither. what is happening? what you did by terminating the iran nuclear deal is bigger. i think that is true. could be true. i sort of agree with that. we are taking a historic action. in a few moments i will sign an executive order to combat anti-semitism. this action makes clear that title vi of the civil rights act which prohi

recent interview with morgan friedman saying stop racism and his response was, morgan friedman said stoptalking about it. last month what's your reaction? >> i agree with that to some extent. to the extent that again, for the civil rights industry that i mentioned earlier, keeping place front and center is good for business. it means it gets, it doesn't really belong. it's at test, a side issue. maybe that's what morgan friedman was getting at. but everything isn't about race and racism. yet, that seems to be the direction we are getting too often in. >> hello. i've seen this several times in the last few years, in terms of black professional life, he knows quite well that he's given pertaining to the blacks who have entered the professional supposed, increased tremendously from the late 60s into now. that has not been expanded as much during the previous years. they made progress but they come from conservative racist groups. as it relates to the black policy, i'm one of them. many do and that statement he made, he's conservative. any of the teachers unions don't support that because th

. >> fortunately no one was hit or shot by the police for friedman or already in the park at the time though shots were fired. they were chasing four people accused of robbing a lowes hole home improvement store for the suspects are in custody now for the shooter bill has not been found. councilman reed give what went on as scheduled. >> of the orinda city council suspends an ordinance that restricts short-term rentals. councilmembers extended a recently approved ordinance through november 2020. rental house will be required to personally greet guests and stay on the property. the vote comes in response to the deadly shooting of five people at an airbnb rental home on halloween night. >> i want to thank you guys. it's hard to describe what a positive impact this ordinance has had on our section of the neighborhood. we are not saying random stream of cars coming in and out anymore. no strangers roaming around and i think we all have a much greater peace of mind. >> the city council is exploring ideas for a stronger and more permanent ordinance. every be introduced several new airbnb in

the history of friedman book goes back to the 10th century emperor also the 1st established the lastresting place here for his father he had a church built on this hill and a convent. became a paletta in it a seat of power visited by emperors and kings and the town junior lated quite a bit of wealth during the middle ages. it's high season each reading book during an advent weekend like this one and it's really the perfect place to get into the holiday mood. of course there is also a christmas market here and it's doing very good business. let's see what brought other visitors here. in cleveland book i let the machine is always a nice asian letter to us flail it's one of the tournament's a good has a special chalmers wilson look at the crooked buildings and then think of the people who live in them horizontally and the it's fantastic when different why did you come all the way from florida to greenland bork i actually been living in germany for 2 years now but this is my 56th christmas market that i visited in germany so i'm quite a fan of german christmas markets it's good to see yo

author thomas friedman making his debut on "the beat." >> great to be here.t comes down to the fact that they're just two core simple issues. one is, if we let a president use congressionally appropriate defense funds from ukraine to intimidate the president of that country to take out his rival in the next election, we are saying it is okay for all future presidents to enlist foreign powers in tipping our election one way or the other. can you imagine how much money someone could raise from saudi arabia? how many cyber warriors someone could get from russia or iran? we on never again have a legitimate president. someone who up, i like or don't like him or her. we would never again have a legitimate president and that would be a prescription for chaos. secondly, if we let a president in the face of these charges, not allow the key witnesses to testify. those closest to the process, giuliani, pompeo, nick mulvaney. if we don't let them testify, we are saying we no longer have a separation of powers. we have a monarchy. if we let those things happen, the americ

wayne friedman has a potential long-term solution in the north bay. and abc 7 news reporter vic lee is here in san francisco with the city's latest short-term solution, a new navigation center. >> navigation serntcenters are basically homeless shelters with extra resources. they are low threshold, high service residential programs for adults experiencing homelessness. the newest center is the city's largest with 200 beds. a group of neighbors fought aainst it for months but was unsuccessful. >> there are two sides to this debate and we want to know what you think. >> what will be the biggest impact of the navigation center. will it help the homeless or hurt the neighborhood? the poll is open at abc7news.com/vote. >> we'll leave voting open as we go live to vic lee to kick things off. >> he got the first look inside the new center today. vic? >> reporter: i did, ama. the new navigation center is along the embarcadero near beale street and will open by the end of this month but not without controversy. just outside the navigation center, stark reminders

i began going to asia and so i came back and i talked with my bosses, bob rubin and steve friedman, and i said, i get the feeling that china is about to take off and i would like to do a deep dive and look at opportunities in china. when i made the first trip there in 1991, and we have five people in the hong kong office. when i left to go to treasury in 2006, i think we have 1500 people in greater china. i put the pedal to the metal. david: today, we have two greater economies in the world, china and the u.s. in your view, is there a clash between the two of them inevitable leading to a real-war and not a cold war? sec. paulson: i would begin by saying that china is a strategic competitor. there are some compelling differences when we look at our national security interests. there also are some important shared interests in terms of global stability and things like climate change. but to get to your question, i am concerned, really very concerned about what i see as a militarization of the u.s. view towards u.s.-china. i will tell you what i mean. i take national security very seriousl

into this debate stepped up very influential economist named milton friedman and he wrote an essay ine new york times in 1970 said the idea that businesses have social responsibility putting in skeptical quote marks 23 times in the essay the idea that businesses have any social responsibility is absurd. only people can have responsibility businesses aren't people and furthermore, businesses already have a goal they have to fulfill. that's to make as much money for their shareholders as possible. this today sounds like a very normal way of thinking but this is the new idea new york times was presenting it as a big name making a new argument. friedman was saying that businesses core constituency wasn't there police, wasn't the customers, wasn't the community that surrounded them it was the investors the people that put up the money. once the switch happened the way business operated began to change. from 1948 to 1973 in the united states the wages of the average american worker grew by more than 90% and the lowest paid worker that got the biggest raises of all. starting in 1973 this cha

we trade not for exports we trade for imports we can't eat exports this is a point that building friedman made many many many years ago and we can see the consequences already we're seeing the consequences of the president's policy declining manufacturing and i would have one of the things. i think that trade is a basic human right i think i have the right to exchange my labor. labor and my whatever i produce with anybody i want anywhere in the world unless unless there's a national security issue involved otherwise it's a freedom that i should be able to enjoy just like my freedom of speech freedom of assembly i should be able to exchange that those those products that i can produce yeah and you better come up with a good reason for me not to be able to do that yes but when you trade you do so under certain constraints and rules and there are rules around financial transactions around intellectual property rights around other things honesty and so on and so if when we set the rules of the trading system if we set them only for the convenience of the profits of multinational corporations

living in the rules that the boys as we said to this are going to missions who passed with milton friedman's policies before the newlyweds in the rest of the world she was the 1st experiment in the last 30 or 40 years os implemented to our development who is mainly focused on the concentration of our economy and the trickle down economy. ideology these demonstrations have relieved or release some energy who was very tied up inside of the people of mine of the people heart that it wasn't able to get to the end of the months without having to spend with credit so i think that when everything is privatized you can not access to the basic rights that should be grand where anted so i think this is one of the main issues whom people in the streets are. protesting on if the privatization chicago privatization model is the same can you really look at the dead the wounded and detained in chile today and compare it though premier as policies and positions policies. i think that the context of course are different between dictatorships not only that human one. but all the dictator city in the seventy's

we trade not for exports we trade for imports we can't eat exports this is a point that building friedman made many many many years ago and we can see the consequences already we're seeing the consequences of the present. i mean trump top program to take you to the nato summit me in london where the french president in mannion my car is giving a news conference this hour let's listen in suggesting i've never suggested substituting a europe of defense to nato. but this has to be within nato the same as the united nations that is not correct. yes it's really balancing is not possible unless there is this american and your. security and balance. depends on the security that we want with russia france that is concerned i'm not at all night eve. we know the questions of interference the violations of human rights which can exist including on the chemical question which is startling let france taking on her responsibilities. i have always been very clear about the family interests acuity interests and the sovereignty of our european partners and allies were intangible. on this subject for those

and their liberalism or that the doctrine of milton friedman has introduced and this was really a monetarist school of economics i just tweak the money supply and somehow this leads to growth and we have the result of this now 4045 years later where the central banks who are controlling the monetary spigot the monetary policies they have this great prop policy where they print trillions of dollars they give it to their friends on wall street 1st who buy assets with it and there trickles down through the economy every single layer where it doesn't what doesn't well what i'll do what i was going to say was that it has the effect of becoming available to other parts of the economy but at higher and higher interest rates so yeah i get a payday loan loan at 3000 percent annualized return it started off as a 0 percent loan to a billionaire on wall street but you're point the money doesn't trickle down is not a fact of money velocity which is a kind of a measure of how how much the money is trickling down is at historic lows it's almost at at 0 and we see a lot of distress in these financial market

milton friedman cooled it taxation without legislation and yeah they'd be as well to sort out their current series they would to be taxing billionaires and do you know let me ask you a question you know where you get the expression daylight robbery from you know. we get it from we used to have a thing in the in the u.k. called window tax and in fact throughout europe where people were taxed on our window and this tax went on in the u.k. for 17180 years and wanted peace finally debated whether this tax was a good or bad thing in parliament they cried out daylight robbery daylight robbery and that's because in order to avoid paying tax many people locked up their windows and this was no small sacrifice to cool see no snakes there was no electricity not even gas and electric. lighting and we live with tallow candles and so the whole last day lights and they lost the fresh air in many many incidences of d.c.s. in the industrial revolution much worse these cramped damp when dentist weddings and that's where the expression daylight robbery derives from right i think also in london architecturally

wayne friedman has a potential long-term solution in the north bay.porter vic lee is here in san francisco with the city's latest short-term solution, a new navigation center. >> navigation serntcenters are basically homeless shelters with extra resources. they are low threshold, high service residential programs for adults experiencing homelessness. the newest center is the city's largest with 200 beds. a group of neighbors fought aainst it for months but was unsuccessful. >> there are two sides to this debate and we want to know what you think. >> what will be the biggest impact of the navigation center. will it help the homeless or hurt the neighborhood? the poll is open at

some of the people that are working with friedman say there organizations.m whether it is economic elements or interested billionaires who want to set up mini city-states. directlynot working with any of the vocal governments. -- local government. it is british, adjudicated by retired judges who they would hire to run things. ben they would essentially --==0000 -- they would a sensibly -- essentially be immune to look a lot. they wouldk about -- essentially be immune to local law. >> they said let's create these, there will be some law but i guess it will be economically really successful. >> the rule of law is the most important thing. also, the british common law system is adjudicated by retired british judges. that is the ideal model over any other. why that as opposed to any other code of laws or ethics? they do not have the best answer for those involved. carol: he said we can sell property. >> -- poverty. >> that is one of the loftier sales pitches. carol: you mentioned peter thiel and other people in the tech industry. of the coin advocates. they are very into the idea of building t

maybe that is what morgan friedman was getting w at is everything isn't about race and racism and get that seems to be the direction that we are going to often these days. >> host: and vinny in pennsylvania. welcome to the conversation. >> caller: hello. i've seen mr. riley several times. i can tell he's a conservative and the positions held. [inaudible] he knows quite well statistics pertaining to the numbers that have entered the professional schools and graduate schools. it hasn't been expanded as much. they made progress but nothing with affirmative action. it comes from groups as it relates to the politicians who don't serve the community as well but there are many that do. what he says about schools for teachers unions most of them don't have the same kind of standards but i respect with reference to affirmative action it is wrong and he knows that that is not true. thank you very much. >> host: anthony in pennsylvania. your response? >> guest: the track record isn't something we need to speculate about. i mentioned the situation that the system in terms of what happened after r

we received a letter of opposition from the attorneys zack, friedman and patterson representing the property the deputy city attorney here to answer questions you have. right now i am presenting to the secretary the letter from sf heritage, 2000 signatures and the letter and packet from the lawyers. this concludes my presentation. i am happy to answer any questions. there are representatives in attendance who would like to speak on behalf of the application. >> thank you, rick. do you want to go right to public comment? okay. we are going to start. we have lee hepner here from aaron peskin's office. >> thank you. i am just rushing over here from supervisor peskin's bedside. he is recovering from surgery. he thanks you for scheduling this special meeting on the eve of a holiday. it means a lot to the supervisor. he would be her personally if it were not for his recovery. thank you for helping schedule. we are proud to have the highest number of leg bass see businesses on the registry. this is a special business and this is a real treasure in the neighborhood. it is in business 23 years and fa

. >> you mention disapprovingly the essay milton friedman wrote to maximize shareholder value and what i agree with that if you aim for that only you will this if you are in other pursuits then you could be profitable long-term have we reached a point where shareholder must be reformed quick. >> it depends what you mean by ,reformed so also with john mackey ends socially conscious capitalism but i don't think there's any single right answer for all economies probably your goal should be profit-making to capture the market share if you're doing something to interact more with the environment then we would need a broader range of conception but you need to make money to stay in business overreacting is i think he just went too far. >> i have two more questions with a rapidfire round so the other question i wanted to ask you, fortune 500 companies strike me as being very different creatures to the trump organization to be privately held orie cargo that don't have hr with the political reaction of social media trump prefers to hang out with other people if you look at the guest list there'

. >> reporter: psychiatrist susan hatters-friedman has studied the disorder and says it's surprisinglyer from some form. >> the woman may have some idea that she's pregnant intellectually but she pushes it from her mind. until she can no longer do so, because she's suddenly giving birth. and certainly, a young woman's own experiences of abandonment could contribute to denial of pregnancy. >> reporter: possibly explaining cindy's odd behavior is a painful backstory. as a small child, cindy and her sister were both given up for adoption. they were on a bus, en route to an orphanage. >> and at the last minute, their brother pulled her sister off the bus and left her. >> reporter: left cindy. >> alone. >> reporter: by herself. >> she's just a little girl, almost 3 years old, on this bus alone, who's sent off to some orphanage. >> reporter: must have been traumatic for this child. >> it's abandonment again. but we only can speculate what sort of emotional damage that may have done to cindy very early on in her life. >> reporter: still ahead, andrea and heather, about to find out their mothe