mr. friedman: the pentagon seems to be shocked. mr.ally focused on an and libby make another point on the economic reality. opportunityredible in green infrastructure and job-intensive projects like retrofitting buildings and building the weh-capacity lines that carry solar and wind from the places where it is generated to the cities where it is needed into a variety of other similar projects and that is exactly what the global economy needs now. we have what larry summers and others have called secular stagnation. others have different labels, than 100 years, the developed countries have had a consumer demand economy with henry ford's aphorism. we have been recycling middle income wages back into a consumer lists economy. -- consumerist economy. the combination of hyper wages totion, flinging lower cost venues and matching them with i.t., the combination of that phenomenon and the introduction of intelligence ato automation which makes fallacy. the long-held assumption which evidence has proven to be true that automation creates more

mr. friedman: today? mr. gore: today. every day. and, our visual impression of sky is that it is vast and limitless. now, the news is we have gone three years in a row without an increase in the annual emissions. suggesting we might be at an inflection point. i do believe we are. but the bad news is that we are still adding to that cumulative amount. today, aon tons nontrivial fraction will still be there some 10,000 years from now. if we were to magically putting it up there tomorrow, half of it would fall out in a matter of three decades. that's really amazing. mr. friedman: we can have that impact. mr. gore: we can, if we choose to. so the cumulative amount now traps as much heat energy every day as would be released by 400,000 hiroshima atomic clouds exploding every four hours. -- every 24 hours. that is a lot of energy. oceans. into the it has a lot of consequences. ocean-based storms are getting significantly stronger. and this could disrupt the water cycle because the evaporation rate of the oceans increases. we get these mas

mrs. friedman out of this house to be dealt with immediately and they believed him because my father all of his life was a great trickster among other qualities. >> could you talk a bit about the-- i mean, his career in brazil. you really did have a remarkable covering up and your career has been in uncovering. >> yes, one of the dramas between my father in me was this contest over, you know, here's my father who is specialty that is not just photography, but altering images. after a rather extraordinary sort of granulation from hungary to denmark where my father had to set up an export import filmmaking distribution business , my father went on to brazil where he took photographs of the amazonian outback for the government, sort of more wpa style photographs. the kind i kind of love, but ultimately my father's career after arriving in new york, was working literally in the darkroom altering images in the days before photoshop. he did a lot of that. his main clients was making perfect prints from-- making perfect copy so you could not tell the difference between the original and the copy an

mr. friedman, i have my own blog. would you read my blog? i thought, oh, my god. parking guy is now my competitor. what just happened? i said write it down for me. he wrote it down. it was on a piece of receipt paper. i went home. he was ethiopian. wrote about ethiopian politics. i thought about him for a couple days and decided this is a sign , from god. i should actually pause and interact with this guy. but i didn't have his email. the only way i could do it was park in the parking garage every day. i did that for four days. we finally overlapped again in the morning. i stopped my car in the gate. i said i have your email. i had his name. he happily gave it to me. that night i sent him an email. i repeat all the emails exchange in the front of the book. they are quite funny. i said i have a proposition for you. i will teach you how to write a column if you will tell me your life story. and he basically said, i see you are proposing a deal. i like this deal. so he asked that we meet at peet's coffeehouse in bethesda near his office. and we did that two weeks lat

mrs. stewart. e e surgery was to correct a congenital defect known as club feet. i was assisting dr. friedman. the procedure was a success? we still have to remove the cast, but we're very confident. dr. howser, what happened the following week? pao yang's parents came to see me. they were very upset. they wanted to suspend treatment immediately and to discharge their son from the hospital. what was your reaction? well, i was stunned. pao yang also has a congenital hip problem. we had planned further surgery. did they give you any reason? it has something to do with their religious beliefs they practiced in laos. they felt the surgery was offending the spirits. spirits? you mean like banshees and goblins? there's no call for sarcasm. i apologize. his mother suffered a miscarriage. the family was told by a h'mong holy man that they had been cursed. the miscarriage was punishment for allowing doctors to meddle with god's work. how did you feel? i was angry. these people were choosing to put their religious beliefs before their son's welfare. i have no further questions. are you aware if the depa

friedman. then there's elliott cohen who encouraged those to join the trump administration. but the times report mr. cohen suggested the caveat that many foreign policy hands would enlist only if there were credible people leading national security agencies and departments. he said he received a vituperative e-mail in response. after exchange with trump transition team changed my recommendation. stay away. they're angry, arrogant screaming, you lost. will be ugly. there were reports the transition team was struggling to find qualified people to take posts in the trump administration. another troubling sign the state and defense department say they have not yet even been contacted by the trump transition team. as for the secretary of state job, the trump camp has suggested it is down to either rudy giuliani whose astounding conflicts of interest we'll detail shortly or john bolton whose extreme hawkishes is so out of step with the trump administration, many are bewildered he's even in the conversation. ben carson had been floated as possible secretary of health and human services. obviously, the man

friedman was part of a purge >>> the u.n. secretary-general and the french president said yesterday that mr. trump must honor the 2015 paris agreement, it aims to shift the world from fossil fuels to cleaner energies. the president elect has called climate change a hoax. this is what he said back in may. >> we're going to cancel the paris climate agreement. and stop -- unbelievable. and stop all payments united states tax dollars to u.n. global warming programs. >> the president elect has not talked about climate change since the election. senator bernie sanders told us on monday that mr. trump's views are a concern. >> what this guy is talking about in terms of climate change should frighten not only the people in this country, but around the world. because if the president of the united states does not believe that climate change is real, if he's not going to be aggressive in transforming our energy, that goes to the entire world. >> the president elect chose myron ebell to lead his epa transition team. he said that climate change is, quote, not based on science, but a political consensus.

friedman. skip this.em , they don't go into the nuts and bolts of what he did before the convention and leading up to it. >> let's go to the dates. you start with what year? mrlarson: i start with 1781 with the commander at yorktown. that is when the critical. begins. you know, it is two more years to the peace treaty, but we have important evidence that i cover in the new book, in "george washington, nationalist," such as the new burks -- newburgh conspiracy. that is featured in the new book. i cover growth in that. from the time to he was sworn in, which was april/may of 1789. the other book goes a little further and carries it into the presidency. newburgh -- e mr. larson: the newburgh conspiracy? >> yeah. mr. larson: it is when the soldiers, a year and a half after yorktown before the peace treaty has been signed. the army has moved up north. york,re occupying new also charleston, but there may basis new york. york.ir main base is new was paying their payments, the requisitions and requests to congress. the troops had not been paid for a few years. there was a growing sense that the union was collapsing. they could not even get a form of the federation c

mr. trump, be that as it may. i am definitely a free trade guy. as the nobel prize-winning trade friedmanaid, free and the more unfair the better. if china wants to manipulate their currency down and subsidized their export so we get lower prices, that is great. i am all for it. they send us goods, cameras, clocks, we send them greenbacks. every dollar we send overseas comes back to this country. free trade builds jobs. automation create jobs. my brother-in-law is a robot specialist and i am a telik medications engineer. low prices and free trade. we are a pacific rim country and we can have the kind of economy that china has if we follow their motto. guest: well said. i knew milton friedman. i used to have dinner with him in san francisco quite a bit in the years before he died and he was the greatest economist of the 20th century without question. he taught us that free enterprise is the greatest anti-power. when i used to have dinner, it is so find this gentleman mentioned it, i remember before he died, i asked, what are the --ee things that if you were three things that you would incr

mr. hutchinson is going to join us. his name has been thrown around for a possible place in -- >> not by you. asa. >> he's our guest after the break. later, nasdaq naming a new chief adena friedmancing robert greifeld. they'll join us in a bit. e? a basketball costs $14. what's team spirit worth? (cheers) what's it worth to talk to your mom? what's the value of a walk in the woods? the value of capital is to create, not just wealth, but things that matter. morgan stanley >>> welcome back to "squawk box." president-elect trump in the process of putting his cabinet together. one name thrown around for attorney general joining us this morning from orlando ahead of the republican governor's conference is arkansas governor asa hutchinson. good morning to you. >> good morning. great to be with you. >> shall we ask, do you want the job? >> well, the answer is no. i'm have been happy as governor of arkansas. incredible things are happening in the state. it is good to be down here with 31 other republican governors talking about what's ahead with the donald trump presidency and it's great to see vice president-elect mike pence who is a colleague of ours who we know is going to have a gre