had come up to me and said who is this malcolm gladwell? >> a fellow canadian, someone who has more hair than me, i don't know, someone really curious, shared the object of his curiosity with as many as he could. >> we'll wait for that. malcolm gladwell, thank you for joining us and thank you for joining us on talk to al jazeera. when i was a little kid, i just really loved the news. >>news was always important in my family. >>i knew as a kid that was exactly what i wanted to do. >>i learned to read by reading the newspaper with my great-grandfather every morning. >>and i love being able to tell other people stories. >>this is it, i want to be a part of this. >>this is what really drove me to al jazeera america. >> welcome to al jazeera america i'm jonathan betz. live in new york. online enrollment on healthcare.gov has literally ground to a halt. >>> new spying allegations and report set to be published in el mundo newspaper,. >>> and syria sets a plan for getting rid of its chemical weapons. >>> and remember the life and legacy of rock pi

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malcolm gladwell, and kings of leon on the way. halloween is a week from tonight.s on thursday this year. a lot of halloween parties are happening this weekend. you better get a costume if you are planning to dress up. had to say, i kind of hate people who have great costumes. because i always feel look they should be putting that energy into something i deem worthwhile. but i like it. do like it when parents do it for kids. this one is adorable. a man in southern california, royce hutain, made a creative costume for his 22-month-old daughter. got a bunch of l.e.d. lights, velcro and did this. >> hi. like a baby tron. little light-up stick figure. by the way the kid is getting all the candy in the neighborhood. none left for anybody else. that was very cute. believe it or not, we came up with a way to make it even cuter. come on in, guillermo. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: ha-ha. you look -- you look ridiculous. do you think you, i think your arms went out, huh? your arms died out. oh, look at that. see, you don't pay the bill, that's what happens. >> i'll fix

that's what malcolm gladwell says.e perhaps second only to the bible, has a new book out on the subject. it's called "david and goliath: underdogs, misfits and the art of battling giants." malcolm, thank you for joining me. >> glad to be here. >> dave and goliath, one of the most famous stories in the world. you retell it. explain why. what is the real story? >> well, i think we have -- we have exaggerated the extent to which david is an underdog in that situation. and i think that feeds into a very dangerous line of thinking, which suggests the only way that we can ever drive his is by some improbable miracle. in fact, this is an insanely fun thing to do when i was doing my book, you talk to the endocrinologists, rabbis, israeli defense force people, anyone you want to talk to about the david and goliath story, the sling in david's hand is not a child's toy. it is one of the most devastating weapons in ancient warfare. david has superior technology, right? once he decided to break the rule, he's the guy in charge. and

. >> ma'am cool gladwell is out with a new book, in "david and goliath." he takes a look at the little guy facing big challenges should not be under estimated. ali velshi asked gladwell how playing by unconventional rules can lead to success. >> thank you for joining us. congratulations on the new book "david and goliath." you turn the story as we all thought about on its head. even the most critical thinkers among us would not have thought of another explanation than it was improbable that david would have beaten goliath. you take an entirely different look at this. you say not only was it probably that david would have felled goliath but statistically likely. >> yes, if you go back and read about ancient warfare, you discover that the sling with which david was armed, it was a devastating weapon. he's taking a rock, and he is rotating it six or seven revolutions per second in a leather pouch, releasing it flying at 35-meters per second. the stopping power of this rock is the equivalent of a bullet fired from a .45-caliber handgun. now he has the upper ha

. >> malcolm gladwell welcome. you turned the story of david and goliath on its head. another explanation other than it was improbably that david would have beaten goliath. you are saying that not only was it probable that he would have felled goliath but it was likely. >> yes. if you go back and read about ancient warfare, you describe that the sling with which david is armed is a devastating weapon.

malcolm glaad -- gladwell will be joining us tonight. we begin tonight with the fallout of government shutdown and the look at the true victims. no, not the families that rely on headstart. no, not cancer patients whose treatment was delayed that's so -- no! not those fame-whore panda cam pand yaz. look at me i'm nibbling on bamboo. [ laughter ] (bleep) but the real victims of the shutdown there we go. >> 28%. that's how many voters now say they have a favorable view of the republican partism it is the lowest score -- party. it is the lowest score ever reported for either party by gallun. >> when you shut down the government for two weeks in order to obtain nothing people don't like it. it hurts the republican brand. it's no surprise that establishment republicans are sounding the alarm saying the tea party groups tactics are a tad extreme. >> you cannot govern from one part of one-half of congress. the only out is for these people to realize they are in a suicide caucus. >> jon: they are not in a suicide caucus. i know that because i fo

the titletalk of -- of malcolm gladwell's remarkable new book. i start by asking what he means we don't always understand advantages and disadvantages. >> a lot of times things we automatically assume we'll be bad for us turn now to have a so themplicated result, strange fact that the talk about ministers andime presidents have lost a parent when they were children. the idea is no good could come of it, but for a small group of people good did come out of it. they learn about their strengths and ability to respond to adversity. >> you take individual stories and make a broader, political point. >> a lot of the book is concerned with the ways we overestimate certain kinds of power and authority. about howtory expected advantages, being a powerful army in a small country next door did not turn out the way anybody expect it. britain had lots of troops and armored guards. it turned into a nightmare. is the intuitive idea of what to count as helpful and hurtful needs to be reimagined. >> you take the vietnam war, where the power of the underdog was un

food for thought is part of malcolm gladwell's new book.on "gps." >> we just got to show you this. halloween we know coming up. one iowa dad is early but give him a pass. he has a really good excuse. sergeant first class traded his fatigues for a spider-man costume to surprise his daughter, jesse at school. he just got home from a deployment in afghanistan. she has no clue he's back. and then the mask comes off and the tears come out. look at that. we think even the sergeant got a little misty there. boy, welcome home. thank you for all of you do. we say to the sergeant and we hope you have good days there with your daughter and your family. >> i love those stories. next on "cnn newsroom," carlos dia diaz rolls in with a preview of the big games. >> an experiment i want to do here. oh! >> ohio. >> these are fans we have at ohio state. a preview. penn state taking on ohio state. we're live from the ohio state university. coming up. not at the rings. i can feel them looking at my thick, flaky red skin. do i tell them it's psoriasis? do i spea

malcolm glaad -- gladwell will be joining us tonight. we begin tonight with the fallout of government shutdown and the look at the true victims. no, not the families that rely on headstart. no, not cancer patients whose treatment was delayed that's so -- no! not those fame-whore panda cam pand yaz. look at me i'm nibbling on bamboo. [ laughter ] (bleep) but the real victims of the shutdown there we go. >> 28%. that's how many voters now say they have a favorable view of the republican partism it is the lowest score -- party. it is the lowest score ever reported for either party by gallun. >> when you shut

i spoke with the new yorkers malcolm gladwell and he had a different take on this age old tale.in. >> the sling david has in his hand is not a child's toy. one of the most devastating weapons in ancient warfare. he has superior technology. once he decides to break the rules, he's the guy in charge and then there's goliath with all of these hints in the biblical story of samuel that goliath is not what he appears to be. in fact, this is where rabbis come in. they have been putting this out for years. he doesn't sound like a big terrifying warrior. he's led down on the valley floor by an attendant. moves slowly. takes him forever to figure out that david is not intending to fight him in a sword fight and he says strange things as if he's not perceiving the situation properly and all of these have solved the puzzle by saying that he sounds like a guy with a tumor on your pitutary gland. goliath can't see. >> it turns the tale upside down, doesn't it. it's all part of malcolm gladwell's new book and he talks about it on "gps" this week. fredricka? >> thank you. we look forward to th

featuring malcolm gladwell. and for news updates throughout the day. recent series, the bible. knows how the story ends. the stone from the shepherd's sling strikes the phi philistine in the head. perhaps david wasn't the underdog we all thought it to be. it is the author's third book, since the tipping point and blink. i talked to him about his unconventional families

tomorrow night, lisa kudrow will be here, as will the fascinating malcolm gladwell, and we'll have musicrrow. >> jimmy: our first guest tonight is an entrepreneur and entertainer. he's an entrepre-tainer, really. his brand new tv network, revolt just went on the air this week please welcome the relentless sean "diddy" combs. ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: welcome. >> whoo! >> jimmy: that was an enthusiastic entrance. hey, who are you rooting for in the world series, anybody? >> um -- >> jimmy: red sox the cardinals. are you a yankees' fan? >> yes, definitely a yankees fan. >> jimmy: can't root for the red sox. >> definitely not. >> jimmy: or the cardinals either. >> jimmy, i just came from the bar down the street. they have an after hours thing down the block since i moved into the neighborhood. you are asking me too many hard questions. what's going on now, there is a world series? okay. >> jimmy: let's talk about football. i heard this week, you said you would like to become the first african-american owner of an nfl team? is that true? >> i think there is a huge elephant in the

and later this week, sean "diddy" combs, lisa kudrow, malcolm gladwell, and music from keith urban and cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: whether he be acting, teaching, painting, writing or just overseeing his family's franco-american spaghetti empire, our first guest lives a fruitful and fascinating life. his first novel is called "actors anonymous." please welcome james franco. >> you look very handsome. >> thank you. >> i thought your roast was very funny. i'm sure people bring that up a lot. >> it went well. i tell everybody i asked you to be on the roast. i had no idea what the roast entailed. you were going to do it but you were on vacation. you knew what the roast was? >> yeah, i have hosted like three of those things. >> i have never seen one. >> i can't believe you got into that without knowing what it was. which of your many jobs were you doing today? were you teaching, acting? >> i am actually shooting a movie in vancouver right now but i fly back once a week to teach. >> that's unbelievable. do the students -- is it a very popular class? is it hard to get in? >> i don't have

this week's book of the week is malcolm gladwell's latest. do i need to say more?goliath." a series of fascinating stories, including a wonderful retelling of the original david and goliath. he has his critics, and he'll by on the show to argue with them in a few weeks, but there's no writer today who has so much fun with ideas. that's an extraordinary achievement. >>> now for "the last look." in last century wartime warning systems were pretty low tech. but in the 21st century your smartphone might just be your best warning tool. in lebanon, for example, as sectarian violence spills across syria's border, app.s are being developed for avoiding riots, car bombs, even snipers. the military created l.a.f. shield, that highlights dang zones. user can be to swipe or -- another app. that uses crowd sourcing to pinpoint location of protests was downloaded 100,000 times in just one year. >>> the goal of way to safety, an app. under development, is to be able to locate a gunman just using the smartphones in people's pockets. it had identify the type of weapon being used an

and on thursday, lisa kudrow, malcolm gladwell and music from kings of leon.as vice president of the united states by winning a grammy, an emmy, an oscar and the nobel peace prize, a rare and historic feat previously-achieved only by barbra streisand. now he is webcasting for our very lives. watch "24 hours of reality: the cost of carbon" at climaterealityproject.org. please welcome vice president al gore. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. >> jimmy: how are you? >> i am doing great. thank you for having me on the show. >> jimmy: my pleasure. do you still travel with the secret service and entourage. >> i am not worth killing anymore. >> jimmy: i didn't notice this morning when i cam e to work, te first lady was here. >> they don't have the bomb sniffing dogs. >> jimmy: they didn't have anything. >> i to that line one time, i am not worth killing anymore. he said, "oh, yeah, you are." >> jimmy: that's very sweet. >> yeah, yeah, i think he meant well. >> jimmy: when you travel, you go to the airport? >> yeah, yeah, i try to get a-1 on southwest airlines. >

by malcolm gladwell. i saw it at the airport. picked it up.about how the little guy can beat the big guy, whether a ragtag basketball team that beats the big team? a ragtag little army that beats the big army or a kid with dyslexia, becomes the ceo of a company. when you read these stories, you go, oh, my god. i tore through the whole book. on the last couple of pages and don't want it to end. "david and goliath." >> isn't that unusual. i have a book, too. and i read it on saturday while i was holding -- called "the reason for life's hope" by billy graham. he is 95 years old now. his son franklin will be on tomorrow. i read the book in anticipation of our guest. >> next week. >> thank you, honey. so i didn't have to rush? anyway, billy is a dear friend, but this book -- i learned things about what napoleon said about jesus, about what all these people in history have said. it's fascinating. i'd never known that. it's $15 on amazon.com. >> wondering about the price of this bad boy? $39.99 at spirithalloween.com. $40. >> $40. >>> could be it you

this week's book of the week is malcomb gladwell's latest. it is compulsively readable.es of stories. he has his critics and he will be on the show to argue with them in a few weeks. that is an extraordinary achievement. now for the last look. in the last century wartime warning systems were pretty low tech. from air raid sirens to emergency broadcast systems. but your smartphone may be your best warning tool. as sectarian violence goes across the borders. the military created laf shield which allows them to highlight dangers. they can swipe and issue an sos to the army. another app that utilizing outsourcing was downloaded 100,000 times in just one year. and the goal of way to safety is to be able to locate a gunman which will record fgunfire and now we need an app to get the world's warring factions to stop fighting and make peace. the federal government has more than two million employees in total. colorado springs leads the nation. the city is home to three military installations. there are 55,000 federal work workers. thank you for being part of my program this week

tomorrow night, lisa kudrow will be here, as will the fascinating malcolm gladwell, and we'll have music tomorrow. >> jimmy: our first guest tonight is an entrepreneur and entertainer. he's an entrepre-tainer, really. his brand new tv network, revolt just went on the air this week please welcome the relentless sean "diddy" combs. ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: welcome. >> whoo! >> jimmy: that was an enthusiastic entrance. hey, who are you rooting for in the world series, anybody? >> um -- >> jimmy: red sox the cardinals. are you a yankees' fan? >> yes, definitely a yankees fan. >> jimmy: can't root for the red sox. >> definitely not. >> jimmy: or the cardinals either. >> jimmy, i just came from the bar down the street. they have an after hours thing down the block since i moved into the neighborhood. you are asking me too many hard questions. what's going on now, there is a world series? okay. >> jimmy: let's talk about football. i heard this week, you said you would like to become the first african-american owner of an nfl team? is that true? >> i think there is a huge elephant i

will be here, james franco will be with us, as will lisa kudrow, "sean diddy" combs, author malcolm gladwellhael franti and spearhead, keith urban, kings of leon, and snoop dogg. our funion budget will be through the roof. >> jimmy: our first guest is a very gifted and desirable actress-woman with a big hit show that all the cool people are watching. she plays dc crisis manager olivia pope on "scandal." see it thursday nights at 10:00 here on abc, please say hello to kerry washington. ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how are you? >> i am really good. >> jimmy: you look great. >> wow! settle down, everyone. they really love you. >> jimmy: it is you they love. me they have mixed feelings about. congratulations. this is i think one of the biggest honors you can get in, in show business, you have been asked to host "saturday night live." >> it's crazy. it is so exciting. thank you. thank you. yes. >> jimmy: are you excited about it? >> i am really excited. i feel like this is your world, the comedy thing. >> jimmy: have you not done anything like that before? >> i have done a little bit of

we have an interview with malcolm gladwell who has written a book about this. you of all people do not want to miss this. >> i want to find out who this source is and i will take some action. oh my, janet yellen's nomination is headed to the senate, the white house says the paperwork for her nomination to replace ben bernanke as federal reserve chairman is complete, and she'll meet with senators next week. cnbc is reporting that kentucky senator rand paul is planning to hold up the nomination until the passage of his bill making the government more transparent. >>> time to get to the sports headlines. >> reporter: baseball news and one of the season's most disappointing major league baseball teams is set to hire it's new manager. the washington nationals who finished ten games back of the division and four games back of the wildcard spot will replace davey johnson who retired after this season. after 17 years as a player and four years as a coach this is williams first managerial position at any level. >>> light work out at bush team, the series is tied at one

and on thursday, lisa kudrow, malcolm gladwell and music from kings of leon.r first guest followed up eight years as vice president of the united states by winning a grammy, an emmy, an oscar and the nobel peace prize, a rare and historic feat previously-achieved only by barbra streisand. now he is webcasting for our very lives. watch "24 hours of reality: the cost of carbon" at climaterealityproject.org. please welcome vice president al gore. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. >> jimmy: how are you? >> i am doing great. thank you for having me on the show. >> jimmy: my pleasure. do you still travel with the secret service and entourage. >> i am not worth killing anymore. >> jimmy: i didn't notice this morning when i cam e to work, te first lady was here. >> they don't have the bomb sniffing dogs. >> jimmy: they didn't have anything. >> i to that line one time, i am not worth killing anymore. he said, "oh, yeah, you are." >> jimmy: that's very sweet. >> yeah, yeah, i think he meant well. >> jimmy: when you travel, you go to the airport? >> yeah, yeah, i t

involvement in world conflict is a topic in, "talk to al jazeera", best selling author martin gladwells with our correspondent. >> they need to be taken more seriously as foes than is readily apparent. we should get away from language declaring one side the favourite and one not. when two different parties battle you can't have assumptions about who will win. each has their own set of advantages, and weapons of the spirit which are motivation persistent, anger, those things, which are the weapons that the smaller weaker party carries around with them, are every bit the equal of physical weapons. we can't dismiss the fact that it shouldn't matter that the viet cong was outraged that america was in their country. that matters a lot. that was the difference in their battle. >> you can wash the interview with malcolm cladwell together on, "talk to al jazeera." up next - jessica taff is live in st louis as the world series gets under way. >> thank you. obviously boston red sox trying to get past the shock and awe. we'll talk about game 4 tonight when we return in sport. when we return in sp

reading malcolm gladwell's new book.ites all these studies where trauma in childhood, in some cases death of a parent early on, dyslexia in some cases can actually lead people to huge heights of success. >> absolutely. >> doesn't necessarily make them happy but it can push them to -- >> it goes either way. extreme success or extreme troubles. high risk way. >> he's taken both paths. >> he's taken the opportunity to get treatment. >> what treatment does one go to for anger management? >> that's missing the point. my assessment at a distance, there's trauma stuff fuelling this. as we say, the men become warriors when they've been through aggression and trauma and physical violence childhood. even if they're just witnessing to it. >> would it be addressed in anger management rehab? >> this isn't anger management rehab. is he going to a psychiatric hospital? i imagine that's where he's going. >> would you let him on your show? >> like courts send people to anger management, don't they? >> outpatients kind of treatment. >> th

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we'll put up a link to new yorker article, written by malcolm gladwell about you.al years ago and how you put data and ideas helping your little daughter's basketball team win when you knew nothing about basketball. we'll put it up on the website. how david beat goliath, it was in the new yorker several years ago. everybody should read it. good to have you both. vivek, chris mullin, okay, i'll say it, go sacramento kings. >> say it with more passion. go kings! liz: go kings, means the l.a. hockey time. listen, go sacramento. we love the underdog here at fox business. good luck to you guys. >> thanks, liz. >> thanks, liz. liz: david. david: didn't give you the see cut sauce. tom sullivan by the way is a huge kings fan. liz: okay. david: is facebook a marketing flop? we look at a blockbuster report out today saying facebook is failing to satisfy its advertisers. we talk to the author of that report right after the break. >>> also, it is only three weeks into the fall tv season, already shows are getting the axe. we'll look at some winners, some of the losers, later i

malcolm gladwell, always good to have >>> good morning. it's 8:26 on this monday, october 7th.ng storms are on the way, and tom is here with a check of the forecast. tom in. >> just had a severe thunderstorm warningish yews you'd for winchester, for frederick county, virginia. can you see this is a line of some moderate to heavy rain. right now this area in the yellow and orange, we're getting heavy rain and maybe wind gusts, too, and up to near 60 miles per hour. just now sweeping through winchester in the northern shenandoah valley. now if that holds together, it will be getting close to martinsburg, charlestown and then sweeping across the rest of the pan handle of west virginia, so far thor south of there, too, there is a band of moderate to heavy rains advancing north and east and into the metro area about a another hour or two. stay tuned. frequent updates throughout frequent updates throughout morning february, 2013. a landmark transportation bill is up for consideration. even though it's backed by republican governor mcdonnell... ken cuccinelli joins tea party republica