we are happy to introduce lillian bradley and howard friedman. welcome vivian and howard. let's just jump in. vivian, what is pj library? >> pj library, pj stands for pajamas, is a program of the jewish confederation of san francisco. it provides wi children's book and music to kids in the bay area starting by six months to the age of eight. we also have another program low in our community which are chapter books and graphic novels that are free into his content for kids 9 to 11 years of age. >> is pj library a local program? >> it is an international program. it was started in the u.s. but is currently in 12 different countries and in the past 10 years has given away 12 million books in the united states and canada. >> i know we will come back to pj library. how do we talk about the jewish community library in san francisco? >> it is a full-serwe are basically only dealing with jewish topics. it is really with the whole gamut of the jewish experience. not only religion, but culture, history and from every perspective imaginable. we have a small branch at the palo alto jc

joining me now, "new york times" op-ed columnist, tom friedman.he olive tree," among many other best-sellers. so, tom, you've long expressed concern about the election, about its aftermath. did you ever think things would get to this level? the president, trying to get the secretary of state of a state to find votes that don't exist, and so many congress members and senators, going along with him. >> you know, anderson, first of all, great to be with you, and happy new year. i -- because i'm a tuesday-night-for-wednesday columnist, four years ago, i wrote the column of morning after trump won. and i included, in that column, a quote from a friend of mine, leslie, an immigrant to the united states from zimbabwe. and leslie said, you americans, you -- you kick around your country like it's a football but it's not a football. it's an egg. be careful. you can drop it and you can break it. i began it with that quote. i can't remember, now. i never dreamt, though, i never dreamt, that four years later, anderson, that we would actually drop it, by our ow

wayne friedman has more on the countermeasure they filed today in napa county superior court. >> the tasting room does not mesh with the normal mold. it's one among seldom wipies in the industrial park. except for the absence of vines it has the same dputs as any other winery. owner matt duffy is suffering just the same, if not more. >> i can't continue to do business like this. >> along with 50 other wineries and restaurants in napa and sonoma counties, he's filed suit against governor newsom for his outdoor dining and tasting ban. >> it's just to be able to reopen. >> together we can reduce the spread of covid-19. >> it's designed to help people like jim goth who has a restaurant at sonoma county airport. >> business here is down 90%. >> they're basically restricting us from making a living. >> about a hundred yards away, will owns a bakery. since the pandemic and closures he's had to lay off 60 employees. the suit is for them as much as for himself. >> we've done outdoor distancing and it's been working. >> even with the vaccine they say the situation has been dire. >> we can't si

tom friedman is here next. >>> president lincoln struggled to abolish slavery. enduring progress is called in a cauldron of both principle and compromise. >> lincoln understood the declaration of independence in such terms as a promise -- >> that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men. - [female narrator] five billion people lack access to safe surgery. thousands of children are suffering and dying from treatable causes. for 40 years, mercy ships has deployed floating hospitals to provide the free surgeries these children need. join us. together, we can give children the hope and healing they never thought possible. it's a mission powered by love, made possible by you. give today. >>> united states of america ushering in a new chapter this week. president joe biden making it clear his administration will be nothing like his predecessors with a focus on truth, science and transparency. let's bring in now "new york times" columnist tom as friedman, author of the book "thank you for being late." good to see you. i appreciate you join

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let's bring in now "new york times" columnist tom friedman.r of the book "thank you for being late." thank you, sir. good to see you. i appreciate you joining us. i know you're feeling relieved. you're feeling grateful, but we've got some huge problems we face as a country. what do you think of day one? and what do you think of what's ahead? >> well, i think a lot of day one. i think president biden's off to a good start and don, you've been talking tonight about the contrast. you know, president trump declared war on the coronavirus, but it was as if on d-day eisenhower said to the troops okay, i got these boats, these landing craft, here's the guns, here's the helmet and there's this beach over there called normandy. take the beach and call me when you get there. that's basically what we did. we armed the states to some degree with vaccines, but there was really no coordinated plan to deliver it, because we had a war with a general awol. the exciting thing right now the general is there, he's in charge. they have a plan. don, i'm an nba fan.

let's now come back to here, london, where i am to richard friedman.ichard, what do you want to ask our panelists? does china's place in the global supply chain and our need - for their goods, mean that america and the rest of the world _ is powerless to stand up against the litanyi of crimes against humanity? like the uighers, hong kong, cybercrime and intellectual property theft? _ richard haas, there's been a lot of china bashing under donald trump. what do you think might happen under a biden presidency? well, i actually think there'll be a significant degree of continuity, american perceptions across our political spectrum have changed towards china. and the reason is not that america has changed, but china under xi jinping has changed. this is a more repressive china. the state role in the economy is growing rather than shrinking. it's militarily a much more powerful china and it's a much more assertive, even aggressive china. and i think the biden administration will have to react to that and might do so differently. it will do so differently. i

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"new york times" foreign affairs columnist tom friedman. the best seller "thank you for being late." good to see you, brother. how you feeling this eve? >> good to be with you chris. i'm feeling hopeful. i watched president-elect biden and, you know, vice president-elect harris give that address today. in washington. there was something beautiful about it. and it just remind you what happens when you turn the noise machine down. and you get two decent people just trying to figure it out and lead by bringing people together and not by dividing and enraging. i am feeling hopeful. it is going to be a long slog, though, chris. i really draw on the experience now these days of the whole war against muslim extremism after 9/11. i tell you the biggest thing i learned from that. that you need a war of ideas and it's got to come from within. what do i mean? i was in israel on neefr9/11 an sat down with israeli experts and said what have you learned about suicide bombers? they said what we've really learned is we can catch one, we'll catch another, b

. >> it's christmas in january for danielle friedman. >> prada, michael kors, kate spade, some are harder to get than others. >> she's paid for a shipment of unwanted holiday presents, which she'll flip and resell through online marketplaces like posh. >> when i put up a prada bag i'm going to sell it. >> friedman works full-time, but her side hustle, buying an selling overstock handbags, has generated $35,000 in extra income in just two and a half years. >> there is obviously a big, big demand for this type of merchandise. >> marcus shen runs b-stock, one of oo a handful of online auctio platforms where retailers can off load excess or return merchandise to buyers like friedman who look forward to the holiday purge. >> after the holidays, we typically see about a 30% increase in returns. this year, with covid, we certainly expect that to be up. >> b-stock's buyers have access to more than 50 major retailers. last year, that amounted to over $5 billion worth of retail sales. auctioned off through the site all of it turned through a network of nearly 2,000 distribution warehouses across th

going to talk about it with tom friedman, best-selling author of a number of books.t's it like in washington now? >> i walked with my daughter and her husband this morning, anderson. it's sad. the city is a maze really of cement blocks preventing suicide bombers, military vehicles. i was able to get a mile from the capitol, close enough to hear the band playing. and it's just sad that this is going to be the backdrop for joe biden's inauguration but we'll get past this. they will be lifted. i hope the barriers around the capitol aren't permanent. i think it important not to let a few thugs reshape the face of this beautiful city. >> i do think it going to be one of the extraordinary things about this inauguration is just how different it looks from what we are used to seeing, you know, the first lady and the president getting out of a vehicle, walking for a certain amount of time, and i'm wondering what sort of the message overall is sent because of this backdrop. >> you know, anderson, this is just such a bizarre year from the beginning to end. the combination of co

tom friedman thinks this is pretty frightening and he's right. watching a profound change taking place in american society, and it's happening fast. the stakes could not be higher. there's a clear line between democracy and tyranny, between self-government and dictatorship and here's what that line is. that line is your conscience. they cannot cross that. government has every right to tell you what to do, and controlling the behavior of citizens is one of the basic prerogatives of any organized society. they can prevent you from committing murder or rate or speed walking or jaywalking, that's all allowed. but no democratic government can ever tell you what to think. your mind belongs to you, it's yours and yours alone. once politicians attempt to control what you believe they are no longer politicians. they are by definition dictators. if they succeed and controlling what you believe then you are no longer a citizen. you are not a free man, you are a. so yes tom friedman, it's frightening. it's everywhere all of a sudden and no one is pushing bac

molly: more on this now tom friedman.hank you so much for sparing us a couple of minutes as new year's goes on the way on saturday, appreciate it. thought to be more contagious. your thoughts on this, is it likely that's spread across the country if we are seeing it in 3 states with people with no travel? >> how widely it spreads, time will tell. something important to keep in mind about the strain. it's still stopped by masks, it's still stopped by vaccine and people who get it still can be cared for well if they're treated promptly and effectively to reduce the risk. what it does mean that it's more urgent that we get vaccine out widely and we follow the 3w's, wear a mask, watch your distance and wash your hands. molly: earlier this week there had been 3 million doses administered across the country. estimate that was given by the folks that said the vaccines would be across the country was much higher, we are not meeting the goal, why not and what can be done? doctor: one easy to solve and one harder to solve. what's e

we package the hostility to the yankees into a hostility to the friedman. dr.ing said what happened at the end of his career was america had repackages the resentment the over resentment of segregation into our resentment of the federal government that was sponsoring diversity and civil rights laws. and hostility to government became the prevailing theme in politics. he said george walsh has revised his speech into minor classics that never mention race, and say his only goal is to restore the role of local government from pointy handed bureaucrats and tax spam liberals. -- we turned away from the message of dr. king for a largely 50 years in the gridlock you. it's happened before. my thesis is that race and always has been freedoms gate in america. it can swing open when we make it swing open. it can swing closed when we let it swing close. but it's always at the center. we tend to bounce off of race to get on to other topics and lose the wonder of it. and the nuclear potential in the associations that come across racial barriers. now we aren't in another peri

we're going to have adena friedman, ceo of the nasdaq, and i don't know what it says about overall fed, you know, priming the pumps. there's a lot of money sloshing around, and these billionaires that are just playing around, laughing while they're doing it, they're closing in on tri trillionaies during a pandemic while everyone else is in food lines. what's equity justice, versus -- what was that yesterday? give me a little primer on that, will you what's the difference between equality, justice, and equity justice? that was biden's thing yesterday, talked on and on. >> oh, oh. >> with gme yesterday. >> you know, i'm in my own head with this gamestop story. >> you're worried about it i see the concern. you know how you get, you do get anxious. gamestop has got you very anxious this morning, and i don't want you to take it personally >> we're going to show you clips of this in a little bit, but i also had an opportunity to spend yesterday afternoon interviewing the ceo of robinhood who we're looking forward to that, who really has been the founder of the movement of retail investment,

>> david rubenstein, larry fink of blackrock, the name that stood out for me is edina friedman, nasdaqof the most woke ceos pushing for diversity rules, and guess what? she's going to a conference that is, you know, put on by the least woke people in the world maybe. [laughter] so there you have it. and one of the reasons, from what i hear, the saudi royal family, they have a lot of money, and they're going to spread it around. they're going to, you know, do what investors or do. and wall street is looking to cash in on that. the larry finks of the world, the david solomons of goldman sachs, james goldman of morgan stanley and adena friedman of nasdaq. last year with, or again, there was basically a boy coot. -- boycott. this year everything's forgotten. liz, back to you. liz: yeah. short memories. yeah, interesting. charlie, thank you. good report. charlie gasparino. okay, forget fortnite and call of duty, gamestop becoming the center point of the biggest battle in the market right now. andrew left, the same short seller -- famed short seller, fending off hackers after his apocalyptic

our thanks to our friend tom friedman of "the new york times." as always please come back.ther break for our coverage. >>> and coming up, another pulitzer prize recipient and a former member of congress standing by to talk about the search for profiles in courage amidst all the villains. villai. quit cold turkey. kidding me?! instead, start small. with nicorette. which can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette ♪♪ ♪ oh, this is how it starts ♪ ♪ lightning strikes the heart ♪ ♪ the day has just begun ♪ ♪ brighter than the sun ♪ ♪ oh, we could be the stars ♪ ♪ falling from the sky ♪ ♪ shining how we want ♪ ♪ brighter than the sun ♪ oroweat bread. gathering, baking and delivering the goodness of nature... from one generation to the next and from seed to slice. >>> this is not as liz cheney says just some action. she characterized it as the biggest betrayal of any president of the united states in our history. >> congresswoman liz cheney chair of the republican conference again was one of the tenacious ten, the ten republicans who crossed over, voted to impeach th

wayne friedman spoke with first responders. >> reporter: like a magnet. the rugged sheer power of water and rocks colliding on the sonoma county coast. at blind beach it is up close, hard to resist and as the ocean reminded us yesterday can be deadly in an instant. >> today is a recovery operation for two children. >> reporter: a tragedy compounded by the loss of their father 40-year-old michael wyman of petaluma who appears to have died while trying to save them. the fire chief was one of the first to the scene. >> his wife was sitting on a rock. she couldn't say too much except she was crying and saying where's the kids? >> reporter: it began when despite high surf warnings the family took a trail down to the beach. what happened yesterday? a typical sneaker wave. the family was along the cliff. they thought they were safe. a wave came in. they had nowhere to go. it washed them out to sea. despite a search until dark yesterday rescue crews from the state and county could not locate the 4-year-old boy and his 7-year-old sister. only a trace as paramedics

>> it was really i think to a great extent milton friedman and mostly it was known as a famous new york times magazine article that was the business of business saying that business must have a single unitary goal of increasing value to shareholders, serving shareholders and mike as in, also a great guy and a great scholar sort of double down on that and made a very powerful argument starting in 1976 about how a corporation if it didn't have that singular goal, it wouldn't know how to make decisions. it would get confused and do all six of things that would end up being ineffective for the shareholders. that all happened in the 70s. that's the decade i think where this notion of there should be a singular goal. it should be efficiency and that efficiency, they believed would make the world a better place. it would be less expensive products and more value for shareholders and investors, etc. etc. so they stop thinking about the question of is it just that or is it a little more complicated picture. that went out the window, it's just that. >> roger, if not logic there's some history beh

that's 82 year-old holocaust survivor tova friedman celebrating international holocaust remembrance day. >>virtually with the jewish community around the world. friedman arrived at the auschwitz death camp when she was 5 more than 1 million people were killed there. today marked the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp then. the first time survivors were. not able to gather in person today because of the pandemic instead the day was commemorated online like so many things are and more than 400 holocaust survivors in austria and slovakia went to vienna to get their first covid vaccines today, somewhere brought by shuttle or ambulance, others where taking their thanks to their children. none of them though wanted to be photographed from the front because of a lasting fear being recognized as jews. still to come. words of warning from the department of homeland security about how it's actively working to >>and welcome back to our kron 4 coverage of the storm. >>you have a storm that was most fears last night, but it is certainly not done with the bay area this evening. we'r

. >> looping the sonoma county coast, wayne friedman, nbc 7 news. >> the danger remains. this is what it looks like in pacifica today. look at the waves. a high surf advisory remains in effect until 11:00 tomorrow night. there is a high incidence of the sneaker waves. drew has more. >> yeah. sneaker waves can start out looking very benign. it's essentially just two waves traveling at the same speed but those two waves can combine into a larger much stronger wave and that wave pushes farther ashore and can take the feet right from under you and pull you into the ocean. that ocean water is so cold that once you're in the ocean's grip, you can go into shock because that water is so cold. it's called cold water paralysis. you can't even rescue yourself once you're in the dprip of the ocean. we deal with this a lot in the wintertime. that continues overnight tuesday as well. until 11:00 p.m. tomorrow. we're tracking more rain in the days ahead. we'll have that in the full forecast in a few minutes. >> all right. still ahead, new questions about a fatal hit and run. there is a

tom friedman, thank you.ood to see you, especially during these moments. >> you all as well thanks, andrew >> let's get to cnbc headquarters, jim cramer joins us now jim, one of the things we have been talking about, back to the markets just briefly here. you saw yesterday people scratching their heads, it was up i have been trying to figure it out. it's like the markets are bigger than every individual obviously, and the markets don't necessarily have a conscience but the market is made up of a bunch of individuals, all of whom have consciences but then again there's so much trading and everything else going on, that maybe it is machines. maybe it isn't individuals anymore, but how do you put that together to decide, wow, it's really agnostic to these new backdrops, and just does its own thing, goes up again today. >> i think you're right about the idea that it's machines. if you listen to all the people from 5:00 a.m. and on, you're hearing inflation trade, sell tech and buy the industrials because they're

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moment what we're hearing is that the investor class has no responsibility in kind of wacko milton friedman esque way to anything but their own self aggrandizement and they have no responsibility just society whatsoever it's a complete breakdown of the social contract and we're now into a chaotic period paul tudor jones looked at this and he said you know what big coin is actually a bet on humanity and where is buying into these plays that flame to the societal breakdown as wall street's recommending now of course why wouldn't they then you need to decide on your own volition do i want to be a part of the problem and invest in the destruction of america or do i want to buy big coin and invest in humanity and hope that the idea of america survives this meltdown yeah and i think it's important that it's more globalized like people and our telegram group they come from all corners of the earth i feel like a big quinary don't feel like americans like if this system has to collapse and then it has to collapse because that's what's that's the motions that outcome the fate is is written in stone a

richard friedman has been looking at what 2020 has taught us.rk. hejoins me now. thank you very much for your time. hgppy thank you very much for your time. happy new year to you. with great respect, we don't need a psychiatrist to tell us we had a difficult year, but what has it taught you about us? well, it taught me that humans are actually pretty resilient. i'm used to seeing people who suffer with depression and anxiety, and it showed me that although i know what surveys have shown americans, more anxious and depressed and we were a year ago, most of us are not clinically depressed or anxious. we're stressed, we're emotionally, economically stressed, but we did make it through 2020. the vast majority. this is not to belittle the tremendous loss and loss of life and the tremendous grief of this country and other countries that withstood, but we managed to get through a very, very difficult time and humans are more resilient than they often give themselves credit for. you wrote recently that we've undergone a big psychosocial stress test. wha

tom friedman is joining me right now. did you ever think it would get to this level?resident is trying to find votes that don't exist and so many congress members and senators going along with it. >> anderson, great to be with you and happy new year. because i am a tuesday night and wednesday columnist and have been for my career. four years ago i wrote the column of "the morning after" trump won and i included of a quote of a friend of mine, of an immigrant in zimbabwe. you americans run your country like a football. it is not a football. be careful. you can drop it and you can break it. i ended my column about trump winning with that quote basically, i began it with that quote. i never dreamt that four years lat later, anderson, that we would drop it by our own. that one faction of our party would be willing to throw that egg on the ground to advance themselves is truly shocking and wednesday is going to be a historic day in american history. it will be the first time in our history that we'll see a legislative attempt in america. >> that's what it is. >> what makes

i think it was put best by my late colleague famous economist milton friedman.said that those people who put equality before liberty are not likely to have much of either but those people who put liberty before equality are likely to have a large measure of loath. and so when people talk about inequality, inequality of income in a free society the where reason there is inequality of income is because one person satisfies his fellow man more than another but then there are other issues that produce inequality that is caused by government such as occupational licensing laws like new york city. at one time to own and operate one taxi you had to go out and buy a medallion a license that costs $700,000. that gives nine people the right to get into taxicabs in these taxicab owners will pay politicians political contributions to keep such a restriction. i think what we need to do, we need to make sure that there is what some people call a level playing field that each person has a right to pursue his own objectives without interference by others. mark: isn't that the p

friedman, thank you. i always learn a lot. dr.ve lives president and sage advice, stay calm and do all you can do not to let down your guard. in the meantime, fuhrer of republicans -- publishers gathering together and not to publish any books by donald trump, or anyone seemingly to do with donald trump. do you think that republicans are upset about this? wait until you hear about a prominent democrat who just told me enough already after this. >> do you think he needs to address that, with the case of publishers who now sort of wipe out 200 plus officials who might be entertaining a book from serving in the trump administration? is that going a little too far? >> well, my sense is that joe biden believes in our constitution, believes in free speech and for that reason i think would probably say that everybody has a right to be able to express their views. i think that's the right course. i think our country is stronger when everybody has the ability to say what they think. neil: all right. leon panetta is a very powerful democrat,

kennedy, milton friedman in some ways archetype. and guys like bill gates that are other strong modernists. each of these comes out and as it evolves they reject the worldview that came before them. modernism rejected base and religion so many believed in reason and science. they don't believe in scripture or revelation. part of it there's a rejection that comes before. there's this alignment between traditionalist ethics and the modern science that drove america for many decades and so the progressivism came along then it talks about the flaws and failures in the previous worldviews. modernism didn't completely realize the limitations of modernity and so the environmental movement has come out of that because it has been producing economic progress and there are externalities coming out of that so people tend to have strong environmental views. in the last few years we've had and antiracism movement and the whole wok world ideology is a progressive mindset and basically arguing that america has inconsistent with its founding values

tom friedman thinks it's all pretty frightening.ght, but not as usual for the reasons you think. we're watching a profound vein demand change taking place in american society. the states could not be higher. it's a clear line between democracy and tyranny between self government and dictatorship. that line is your conscience. they can't cross eyed. government has every right to tell you what to do, controlling the behavior of citizens is one of the basic prerogatives of any organized society, that's why we have it. government can prevent you from permitting murder, rape, it's legitimate. but no democratic government tends to ever tell you what to think. your mind belongs to you, it's yours and yours alone. once politicians attempt to control what you believe, there are no longer politicians. they are by definition dictators. if they succeed in controlling what you believe, you're no longer a citizen, you're no longer a free man, you're a slave. yes, tom freeman, it's frightening. almost every one of them joined the mob of sensors, h

they also have a casting of the friedman by john quincy adams which i found the most single most upliftingd riveting sculpture on the subject of abolitionists done in the united states. the interesting thing that's done of the free months casting, jesse has a fragment of one of the candidates from fort right near where robert gold shaw and the massachusetts 54th commemorated in the movie glory, where they met there and. she takes that cannon fragment and sends it to the sculptor. it's melted down as part of the sculpture. there is this deliberate constructed effort to create this abolitionist shrine in their homes, as a way of understanding the life they want to live. the principles they will live for. it's little wonder that humboldt not so highly of fremont. this is the guy that they've been waiting for and it kills him that he did win the presidency. you are so close but humboldt never gives up on us. certainly got frustrated, he kept talking about the fact that i feel like i am half an american, but that half i'm withholding has to do with the fact that i really don't like your politic

. >> laura: dinesh, speaking of the establishment listening to the media, "new york times"'s tom friedman is now actively routing for the death of the g.o.p. >> keep stressing the party until it blows up. it really became a political colossal that rented itself to the night to whoever could energize its base. but for the country to thrive? that party as is currently constituted must die. >> laura: dinesh, from the man who propped up china for the last i don't know how many years, we are going to take our cues from him? remember when china was supposed to be more liberated and freer afteror joining the wto and the great globalist predictions? where do we get some comeuppance for those predictions? >> the way i read those comments behind them is the recognition of a very important truth. and the truth is that traditional republican party by itself cannot win a majority. the make america great again movement, the trump movement by itself cannot win a majority. but together they have the potential ofof winning a majori. if the republican party can be thein party of rule america, working class

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