today we're talking with the economist jeffrey sachs, professor at columbia university, former advisor for the united nations and author of several books, including a new foreign policy beyond american exceptionalism. a jeff, thank you so much for joining us. look, you've been out there famously saying that neither of the 2 candidates who just ran for president united states met your minimum threshold. but we've seen something very unusual, which is a massive, massive landslide, even popular. but anyway, you count for a former president, united states, donald trump would love to get your take. well, he won a big victory and i hope that he will do what he says he will do, which is and to warn you crane. i hope he will stop the wars that have been i going on. i also in the middle east, obviously, and the tensions with china. it remains to be seen. i a let. let's see what happens this. this was obviously very big victory. do you think there's something that's really happened inside the american body politics about forever, wars that it was involved in shame about guys is real concerned ab

represent the nation. among those voices of the critics, that would be a prominent economist, a jeffrey sachs. i'm a for a non folder for in november. i will not vote for a candidate to 1000, meet the minimum threshold for being president of the united states. and we have 2 candidates, clean candidates that don't and so i decided that i'm not voting period. the ground and they look like the devil a looks of scope, but listen, you stupid bastard vision to kind of gosh for like a smack. and in all fairness divide, he was the 35 years ago, a zillow's donald trump would invoke adolf hitler. she's a very low, i q individual system is a rock. we call that a sore loser. we can go through another person who's a dummy. do you think don't trump is a fascist? yes, it is very weak and incompetent person with an extremely low i q the, i agree with senator kennedy's completely on that. so i think mr. nixon is an effective leader of his party question before us is which point of view and which party do we want to lead united states? i find myself in so much agreement with mr. mondale for a humble national p

jeffrey sachs.hen we sit there and talk about covid and scientists and public policy and the question you are asking, there were things happening right at the beginning in march of 2020 that you had a doctor from minnesota that was talking about how six-foot foot of distance was not going to work and masks were not going to work. nobody really said anything. i cannot think of the guy's they might now but i know he is up from minnesota. he talked about it later. dr. jeffrey sachs is also a liberal progressive. it is funny where he is at now today. he came out after being part of a big study and said everything points to the virus coming out of a lab. he did not say whether it was malicious or it was just a mistake. but the people they had making the policy, fauci, the other people in charge of the cdc and whatnot, they kept on the wet market that it came from, a natural environment. yeah. having somebody like him. something else that dr. jeffrey sachs came up with was, this is a bit off-topic, but th

with hindsight and think about things that could've been done differently read but i did note, jeffrey sachs who is now somewhat controversial figure when he comes russia and he advised the government early on is calling for marshall plan for russia massive economic assistance whether not that would've been thes difference s unclear. but we did not rise to the challenge of the moment. >> i agree with you critically about the marshall plan and know that when i was interviewing people for the book of the in a russian psych portion would've made a big difference in the u.s. that well well the u.s. collapse in congress would never voted on this we moved on to other things pretty so think right there and not sure how much influence we could have had over the things you describe very well in the book. small about private in the loans which was yeltsin would lose the election and put it together raise money for him and you know for a fire sale price some of the most important assets in russia rated in the mentee had been with mud and made a difference in the beginning buth of course we are what we

look with hindsight and think about things that could have been done differently, but i did note jeffrey sachs who is now a somewhat controversial figure when it comes to russia, he had advised the yeltin government early on and calling for martial plan for russia, but we did not rise to the challenge at the moment. >> i really agree with you, particularly about the martial plan. and the book i wrote on u.s.-russian relations, they said it would have made a difference. and the u.s. was, well, the u.s.s. r collapsed and congress would never voted on this and we moved onto other things. i think you're right there and i'm not sure how much influence we could have had over the schemes that you described very well in the books. first of all, about the privatization and then the loans for shares, which was, you know, when they thought with a yeltsin was going to lose the election and then a fire sale price some of the most important assets in russia, i don't know how much we could have had and could have made a difference, but of course, we are where we are now. let's move on now to the first, if yo

to with hindsight and think about things that could have been done differently, but i did note jeffrey sachs, who's now somewhat controversial figure when it comes to russia, he he had advised the yeltsin government early on and he was calling for a marshall plan for. russia massive economic assistance. whether or not that would have made a difference. it's unclear. but i do think that we did not rise to the challenge of the moment. yeah, i really agree with particularly about the marshall plan. i know when i was interviewing people for the book i wrote on us-russian relations. i mean, the russians i talked to said it would have made a big difference. and the us answer to that was, well, you know, the ussr collapsed. congress would never have voted on this. and you know, we moved on to other things. so i think you're right there. i'm not sure much influence we could have had over the schemes that you describe well in the books. first of all, the privatization and then the loans for shares, which was, you know, when they thought the yeltsin was going to lose the election. and so the oligarchs

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