, well humankind seems a bit of an oxymoron at times because it doesn't seem that humans are very kindban were last in power more than 20 years ago. and one man from belfast has known them well since those brutal, early days. despite the more recent media—friendly image, professor michael semple isn't convinced the taliban has changed. remarkably many of those same men that i knew 25 years ago are still in positions of authority inside the taliban movement. growing up in north belfast during the troubles in some ways prepared him for his future career as one of the world's leading experts on afghanistan. my father was a quantity surveyor, and so, you know one of the things i remember of my sort of you know childhood routine was you know every weekend being dragged down to the latest bomb sight, to see what had been blown up during the week, because my father was there with the measuring tape and trying to work out what it would cost to put it back together again. he then took his own measuring tape, of sorts, to afghanistan when he worked for the un during the first period of taliban r

i don't think we are going to eliminate the humankind component in my lifetime.be chicago or new york or the big cities where things unexpected could happen and you need a person to react. caroline: you said most of the women coming and have been enticed by a family member. talk to us about how you are recruiting. how have you thought about making it that much more enticing to bring people and if they don't have a family member already doing? >> we have to tell a story. we have to show women who are doing the job and they love it. we have a number of the month and a driver of the year. we have created a girl scout transportation patch. over 1000 girls have earned that. we have a new driver ambassador tractor-trailer that launched and that will go out to the non-trucking public and it will have hands-on learning environment. do i have the dna of this job? it will have a simulator in the back so you can sit down and try and see what it's like to drive a tractor trailer. caroline: it's always fascinating talking to you. come back when you can get us up to speed. alw

the root of the word philanthropy is to love humankind, where humans can thrive and have choices that they can control in their lives. the degree to which philanthropy is about impact, my shorthand for that is impact, it should not be about charity. i see philanthropy working as other forms of capital in some of the most innovative practices that proximate entrepreneurs are doing. there is a way philanthropy can be that flexible capital on the front end that i think is well leveraged and and partner with other forms of capital can be a game changer. ron: i do not know what is the chicken or the egg here, but the last figures i saw from brookings is the wealth of the median white family is still about eight times the wealth of the median african-american family. when we talk about these different measures and access to funding, whether it is private entrepreneurs, is that a core problem it all comes back to, the wealth gap? lyneir: 100%. this thought of, what is the role of entrepreneurs, and what is the role of capital toward entrepreneurship? there is a statistic about the gp in weal

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whether our health status dictates our opportunities and really looks at the history of how it impacts humankind in how we respond and in this moment where we are being assaulted on all sides by a number of great challenge is the one thing that is become deadly evidence in 2020 and 2021 his health is fundamental but is the key to ourda economic growth are connections in our stability and security and to our ability to live in the world that we are in now. i'm a physician who has spent v the last year working on the front lines at a hospital caring for covid patients but i also as mentioned run a program at harvard medical school where we are working to think about how we redesigned our system in orderur to be able to be more responsive to the vulnerabilities of covid and the ceo of global health which is a nonprofit that partners with government in africa to invest in the health care workforce on the fundamental front lines. in many ways one relies on the structure systems and political pieces and put policies in place to keep us healthy and safe. with that i'm very delighted to be a part of thi

the acknowledgment that there are other ways and we can lay these out to hold up the mantle of humankind she was concerned with capturing the way of life of her people and raising their values because what you don't know, you make up. but once you know it becomes extremely difficult even though we are in a time when all that is make believe we know the importance of the work foundation only because it is still under attack. it's still under attack. if it were not important it would have gone by the wayside but they are trying to kill us and not give value to it and it won't go away. their eyes were watching and when i went to high school [inaudible] but it's now part of what they call the canon. i don't care if you were in kansas, california, new york part of that may be shakespeare, foster, hemingway, hurston. there needs to be a voice that represents a multitude of things. women, people of color, anthropologists. there's something for everyone and if you really want to find out who this is, if you want more than anyone else in print. how many have read it? [laughter] thank you. do you

but we could discover could alter humankind and destiny on earth for the better so we have to do bothat's why saint jude was a big part of the mission and we were honored they unveiled the research center. they will raise key survival rates of childhood cancer across the world from that center. emily: meantime, i have to ask about this russia anti-satellite weapons test creating 1500 pieces of debris, endangering astronauts on the iss. what is your take on this and what does it tell you about the hazards of space travel? >> honestly, i don't understand it at all. it is not hard to shoot down a satellite. orbital mechanics says it is very predictable. i do not think russia or china or even the u.s. has to shoot one down for people to know they can. i don't know what was accomplished here other than not just endangering human beings at the space station, but it destroyed satellites. it will take out weather observation, things that can predict storms that could save lives. i don't see the good out of it. if there's a lot of kinetic activity in space and satellites getting blown up, it w

rsv is a major disease that affects a lot of humankind. we are recruiting rapidly in our finals.hat i next year we hope to have -- find a year we hope to have results -- by next year we hope to have results. that is just to mention a few of the vaccines that we are working on right now. in terms of oncology, we are working on next generation treatments for breast and prostate cancer we are working right now in lymphoma. we are very optimistic. we are optimistic that we can have a medicine that will make a difference. we are working on rare diseases. we have had a very big program of gene therapy against hemophilia, muscle dystrophy. in total, we have 12 programs. i could go on and on. david: that is a pretty impressive list. let me come back to a timely topic today. it is thought that the cdc may, as early as today, approve the covid-19 vaccine for children five to 11. when do you anticipate, if the cdc moves as expected, that we will have shots in arms? albert: i think immediately. we already worked with the u.s. government over the weekend, had discussions about logistics, oper

nuremberg forced us to look closely at the evil of humankind and what we're capable of perpetrating,e mass atrocities, crimes against humanity do not happen by accident. they don't happen by accident. they result of choices, choices made by individual human beings and world leaders. and sadly, when we look around the world today, we cannot say that the specter of atrocity is behind us. we see today the patterns, the choices playing out around the world even as we speak, the oppression and use of forced labor of the uyghurs in xinjiang, the treatment of the rohingya by the military junta in burma, the rampant abuses, including the use of starvation and sexual violence, to terrorize civilian populations in northern ethiopia. whenever we hear that kind of poisonous hatred, wherever we see our fellow humans being dehumanized, it doesn't mean we go to war, but we must speak out. silence as my dad would remind me, silence is complicity. silence is complicity. that's what nuremberg said, your silence is complicity. i've raised these issues personally with leaders around the world, our frien

the sweep of time, we have had many great failures but those have been the ordinary failures of humankindavery, the mistreatment of battle captains, warfare, on down the line, our virtues on the other hand have been extraordinary. we were the first large modern era democracy. we are the most successful multiracial country in history, it's difficult to think you might be seconds. canada, india? what people want to do is teach this complex reality in a way that makes kids love this country going forward and allowing us to keep it great. >> ben: it does seem to me like there is such a lack of appreciation, lack of gratitude for the moment that we find ourselves in our history, meaning that it is a safer, better, more wonderful place to be than almost at any point in human history, and yet we still have these media figures in particular trying to find ways to ruin the whole idea, do say that all of it is based on racial animus. on vindictiveness, on the crushing of the little guy, et cetera. i think there are a lot of americans who look at this and to say how can i possibly push back against

and we can lay these up like polls to hold up the mantle of the humankind. she was concerned with capturing the way of life of her people and raising their values. because what you don't know, you make up. you guess. you don't care about. but once you know, it becomes more difficult even though we are living in a time when truth and facts and all that and make believe, okay, even with that -- we know the importance of the work, foundationally. because it still under attack. okay? it's still under attack. if it was not important it would have gone by the wayside. if it was important enough -- to get value to it and it won't go away. their eyes are watching. september when it came out. eyes were watching god is still read in high school. when i went to high school. but now, it's part of what they call the cannon. it's part of the literature cannon. i don't care if you are in kansas or california or georgia and part of that cannon is hemingway, shakespeare, others. because there needs to be a voice, a multitude of things. anthropologists, people of color. there

other dictates our opportunities and really looks at sort of the history of how disease has impacted humankind and how we respond. and i think in this moment where we are being assaulted on all sides by a number of great challenges. the one thing that is become deadly evident in 2020-2021 is that health is fundamental. it is key to her economic growth, to our human connection, to our stability, tour security and to our ability to engage in the world we live in now. to speak very personally i'm a physician or spent the last are working on the front lines of mass general hospital caring for covid patient but also as was mentioned run a program global public policy at harvard medical school where we are working very much to think about how do we redesign our systems in order to be able to be more responsive to the vulnerabilities of covid and disease. and finally as ceo of global health which is a nonprofit with governments and sub-saharan africa to invest in health care workforce, , the fundamental frontline of our disease response. in many ways but one that relies on the kind of structure, syst

> cooper: harari has spent the last few years lecturing and writing about what may lie ahead for humankind >> harari: in the coming generations, we will learn how to engineer bodies and brains and minds. >> cooper: he has written two books about the challenges we face in the future, "homo deus" and "21 lessons for the 21st century," which, along with "sapiens" have sold more than 35 million copies and been translated into 65 languages. his writings have been recommended by president barack obama as well as tech moguls bill gates and mark zuckerberg. you raise warnings about technology. you're also embraced by lot of fos in silicalh. cper: i tt rt a contradiction? >> harari: they are a bit afraid of their own power; that they have realized the immense influence they have over the world, over the course of evolution, really. and i think that spooks at least some of them, and that's a good thing. and this is why they are kind of, to some extent, open to listening. >> cooper: you started as a history professor. what do you call yourself now? >> harari: i'm still a historian, but i think histor

very quickly a question on what they were reporting on, the p lanet for all humankind, but what aboutent biden, who's gone the re at a time of lack of movement in washington. >> he wants to say that america's back. he's saying that america's leading and at the g20 everybody wanted to talk to him. they wanted to know what america is doing, but this country has had a one term president and another o ne term president and there has been a 180 in terms of climate change. congress is somewhere else. right. and he certainly president biden acn get all of his agenda in the next three weeks and we will all say, there it is but it is not as ambitious on climate as president biden wanted to be, at least in the current support. >> to your point, the two sides see climate in an entirely different way. if you are foreign leader and you see united states come to the table, you know if this is a democrat they will pull climate on the top of the agenda. if it is republican, it will not be on the agenda. you see that not just from the presidents but from voters. this is back in january but pew asked a

immediate practical way of dealing with this impending catastrophe, seeing of the greatest challenge humankinded, is to say, right, we're just going to stop no more coal, no more petroleum, no more gas is going to come out of the ground by this date. as kevin said, it has to be full decarbonization by 2030, so that should be the date. you say, how's is that remotely possible? it is more than remotely possible. it is eminently possible as we saw the end of the second world war. within months, turned the entire economy around from civilian economy to a military post between 1942-1945, u.s. federal government spent more money and a creek dollar terms that it to between 1789-1941. so now they say, no m money, nothing we could do. that is nonsense. they can fix this in no time at all if they wanted to. we had a program on a comparable scale, we could leave all fossil fuels in the ground by 2030 and switch to an entirely new clean energy economy. nermeen: george, i want to ask you about your recent piece which is headlined "make extreme wealth extinct: the only way to avoid climate crackdown." we he

look, south africa, botswana, these countries, these global colleagues did a service to humankind by finding this variant, right? absolutely. and yet we have to be asking the question if that were in the united states, how quickly would we have found it? the answer is that it's a patchwork across the country. that is something we need to see more of is more investment in these genotyping and geno surveillance systems and think about vaccine diplomacy. really the very countries who come forth with information, we cannot slap them with economic restrictions that really make it very difficult then for the next time a country to come forward and say, hey, we've got a problem here. that's something we've got to be thinking about as a global public health community and beyond. >> zeke, i think you've been talking about this issue that the cdc's ability to surveil is not as good as it should be or could be. how's it looking these days? >> it's looking better than a year ago, but it's still not up to snuff. we should be surveilling at least 20 and maybe 30 or 40% of all positive cases and do

investors who have looked at every headline as if the end of humankind were imminent have been punisheds, you'll get through this. >> and i think to be fair, a lot of people waking up to this news, their first thought isn't, oh, what's happening to my 401(k)? it's, i thought we were passed this and what does it mean for christmas and hanukkah parties, right? let's see what happens. it's great to talk to you, josh, appreciate you. and loving the fall-looking backdrop. it's very festive and puts me back in the thanksgiving spirit. >>> up next, how michigan republicans could muscle through new laws that would make it harder to vote in that state, without, by the way, the democratic governor's approval. we'll explain the loophole that would allow them to do that. would allow them to do that. nyquil severe gives you powerful relief for your worst cold and flu symptoms, on sunday night and every night. nyquil severe. the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, best sleep with a cold, medicine. ♪ ♪ 'tis the season to break tradition in a cadillac. don't just put on a lig

we know there is a lot the stake for the planet, humankind, but what about a stake for president bidenthere at a time of lack of movement in washington. >> yeah, he wants to say that america is back. he wants to say and he is saying that america is leading and at the g-20 everybody wanted to talk to him and wanted to know what america is doing. but this country has had one term president and now another one term president, there has been a 180 on policy and climate change. congress is somewhere else. and so. >> right, and it it can certainly president biden could get all of his build back better agenda in the next three weeks and we'll all say oh, there st. but it is not as ambitious on climate as president biden had wanted it to be at least in the current form. >> and the two sides to your point, the two sides see climate in an entirely different way, so if you were a foreign leader you see the united states come to the table, you know if it is a dem kraltic administration they will put climate on the top f it is republican, it is folt going to be on the agenda, you see that not just

he left out the part about the future of humankind being at stake, too. is the kind of thing that makes it so hard for governments to get ahead of the climate crisis. money is pumped into and out of the fossil fuel industry even faster than the industry pumps co2 into the environment. and some of that money, by the way, is in your 401(k). at this month's cop-26 climate summit, a weeks-long gathering of nations to discover solutions to the climate catastrophe, you know who had the biggest showing? fossil fuel. the grimy influence of the dirty energy trade seeps deep into our politics and into our daily lives. i get it. i'm an economicing reporter. oil drilling is wildly profitable. it keeps gasoline prices at bay. coal is disgusting, but it's cheap and abundant. and at a time when america is living in this world of heightened inflation, drilling off the gulf of mexico probably sounds enticing to many. and it seems that many consumers and voters prefer feel of more dollars in their wallet than cleaner air in their lungs. but we're going to have to decide th

no, 1.4 billion, 1/5 of humankind would probably be convinced that the communist party is correct, thatd states is trying to smear china and lead an international campaign against it. and the probable result would be that it would strengthen the chinese people's support for the communist party, because there is this long historical narrative, they call it the century of humiliation, about china being exploited, weakened, attacked by vicious foreigners. this is a version of history that every chinese who has been through the educational system there has heard. so if we were to boycott the olympics it would play into that narrative. we would feel better about not supporting the communist party, especially in light of what they are doing in hong kong, but it in no way would weaken china, and it would probably strengthen domestic support for the government. host: how many years did you spend in china? guest: i lived in china for about 12 years over the course of 35 years. in beijing, shanghai, and taiwan. host: what have you done over the years there? guest: i began as a diplomat at the ame

killing and affecting humankind across the globe. honesty and transparency have been at a minimum for many that should have been able to shed the most insight about covid-19. seemingly, the honest, factual, scientific opinions of many experts have been ignored or given way to those that claim there's nothing to see here, move along. director haines i want to thank you in advance for reaching out to schedule a meeting with me on this topic and the relationship between this committee and the intelligence community. i appreciate that. some call gain of function experiments the production of a chimera. in this case that means experimentally combininging components from two viruses into one. the terms are interchangeable. using what i have learned or not learned from the intelligence opportunities i have by the virtue of being on this select committee as well as what i have learned from my own open source research, i wonder if "vanity fair" or the intercept's foia request involving the coe alliance led by peter dazig and drastic, a scienc

no, 1.4 billion, 1/5 of humankind would probably be convinced that the communist party is correct, thatd states is trying to smear china and lead an international campaign against it. and the probable result would be that it would strengthen the chinese people's support for the communist party, because there is this long historical narrative, they call it the century of humiliation, about china being exploited, weakened, attacked by vicious foreigners. this is a version of history that every chinese who has been through the educational system there has heard. so if we were to boycott the olympics it would play into that narrative. we would feel better about not supporting the communist party, especially in light of what they are doing in hong kong, but it in no way would weaken china, and it would probably strengthen domestic support for the government. host: how many years did you spend in china? guest: i lived in china for about 12 years over the course of 35 years. in beijing, shanghai, and taiwan. host: what have you done over the years there? guest: i began as a diplomat at the ame

humankind, and they were slaveholders. to be very clear about the difference between having the conversation, wanting to have the conversation, and being honest about that conversation. and i think for a lot of -- >> right. >> a lot of african americans, one of the great frustrations, and particularly, in critical race theory is sort of emblematic of why we're frustrated is no one wants to be honest about the thing that's in front of you, and why it is constructed the way it is. so, it's, you know, you take this theory, we're talking about a graduate level law school theory. >> right. >> and acting like fifth graders of sitting in their classrooms having this discussion. that's not being honest. >> huh-uh. >> and so, the fact of the matter is these issues are out there. and one of the other frustrations is now that black folks are finally talking their truth. >> right. >> whether it's through 1619 project. >> right. >> or the death of george floyd. why do americans oh, my lord, jesus, why are we having that conversation no

the democrat party is the biggest griff in the history of -- grift in the history of humankind.sible instituted a travel ban. in other words if, what i'm saying more simply is trump did a travel ban to some of these same countries in the region, right, when there was a lot of unknowns, and they thought it could have worked. now a year and a half later we already know these travel bans do nothing. they've done nothing to stop the delta, they've done nothing to stop my other variant out there -- any other variant out there. they've done zero. joe biden then does it anyway after all calling donald trump's travel ban racist, and these liberals are out there, yeah, like a bunch of bozos. yeah, that a makes sense. this is a great rule. can't you just admit your guy's an idiot? this is unbelievable. we know they don't work. he does it again replicating what he himself called a racist policy, and where are the fact checkers in the media? like crusty the clown and bozo, yeah, okay, this is great. one more thing with this omicron, sounds like a transformer, can everybody stop with the fea