overlaying on this is the land of richard haass and international relations. the german defense minister right now rejecting chinese claims in the south china sea. this is condemning china on human rights. that folds right over into the combined tensions of beijing and their tone on chinese capitalism and wealth creation into the international sphere. matt: absolutely. and don't forget that merkel, macron, and xi have just had a conference together, or continued to talk about how they can better do business, so it is really interesting that they are issuing a statement about china on human rights. her boss needs xi to be in a good mood when they talk, right? there's so many moving parts here, but i thought richard haass was brilliant on this earlier. berlin has to be able to work with putin and xi, and that doesn't make berlin an easy partner for biden. tom: let's bring it back to finance. on radio and television if you are joining us now, it's been an interesting tuesday after a fourth of july holiday, shaken first by dd announcements -- by didi announcements

we continue this discussion, more on international relations with richard haass.ago his effort was my book of the summer. i can't say enough about it being the required brief read to get you up to speed on the dynamics of the world economy. thank you so much for joining us this morning. what do you worry about after a fourth of july? what's the thing within the entire sphere of your work with the council on, where is your reading, where is your research where you're trying to figure something out? >> i could give you a very long list of international things that worries me. you mentioned afghanistan. there's always china. people aren't talking about north korea. and it hasn't gone away. there's iran. the thing that worries me most is still us. what still worries me most is how divided this country is. our democracy is under assault from within and that's what worries me. if we can't come together as a country, there's no way we will be able to act effectively on the world stage. tom: you drove forward this discussion a lifetime ago, a world in disarray. after this

does that the diplomatic stage, we welcome a diplomat, richard haass, president of the council on foreignks for being with us. i do not know if diplomacy works like markets butll

there's an urgency that we don't see the policy world reflecting. >> richard haass thank you. think the one issue is that threatens u.s. security and the uk? >> i would agree that in the sort of not even the long term anymore but the short and medium term, the pandemic and climate change are overwhelming issues. the last six months, going to be six months tomorrow that biden will have been president and the last six months, a lot of it has been focused on u.s./china relations, u.s./russian relations. but the way that america i think can re-establish its global leadership most effectively is providing answers on these two questions because they're the ones with the climate refugees and pandemic refugees that we're seeing. they're the ones that are generating most dislocation, most pain around the world, at the forefront of people's minds. there is going to be a major climate change summit at the end of this year in britain, in glasgow, so far the west has not stumped up the money that it said it was going to stump up to help the front line countries in the developing world cope

jon: that was richard haass, the council on foreign relations president. good morning.de tom keene, i'm jonathan ferro, together with remain bostick this morning. update -- with romaine bostick this morning. up on the s&p 500 by almost 0.6%. a nice lift for big tech off of this move in the treasury market. yields are lower again, 1.33 80% on tens. yields are just relentless. tom: no question about it. the bid is there. it is sustained. romaine has only been looking at it for two hours and one minute. we look a lot at the pandemic this morning. emily wilkins on the brutal truth, which is the computer system of washington is archaic, it is a failure, and it puts soldiers at risk every single day, sailors at risk every single day because they are not in the cloud. what is the back story on what we saw yesterday from the pentagon? is this a secretary of defense who is just furious over this computer debacle? emily: what we saw yesterday, the huge news that the pentagon's and billion-dollar contract for micra soft is now set to be divided in new contracts between amazon and

joining us now is the president of the council on foreign relations and author, richard haass.thank you for being with us. the leaders said haiti needs to come together and figure out a path forward. but the reality is on the ground it's very chaotic. what's the appropriate role for the u.s.? >> i don't think haiti's leaders are going to organize anything. the history of this country is one of division and recent events have only made it worse. i don't think there's an argument for unilateral u.s. intervention. but i would suggest one of two things, working with countries putting together a coalition of haiti's neighbors in latin america. and the united states could provide logistics and intelligence or support. or possible through the united nations. haiti is a perfect example of an independent country that can't run itself. this was common after world war ii, called trusteeships. the idea is whether the world needs to step in, work with haiti and rebuild, reboot the country. what we've seen over recent years and decades is every effort we had has helped slightly and then thin

i think i can. >> richard haass, ed luce, thank you both. >>> we are just a few minutes past the topmpending tropical storm, the remaining portion of the condo building in surfside, florida was demolished overnight. it happened last night around 10:30 eastern time with controlled explosives. there was very real concerns that the rest of champlain towers south could come crashing down as well. >> bringing the building down in a controlled manner is critical to expanding our scope of search, as you know, in the pile, and allowing us to search in the area closest to the building which has currently not been accessible to the teams given the great risk to our first responders due to the instability of the building. >> demolishing the rest of the condo was sped up due to a tropical storm that could hit surfside as early as this afternoon. the governor of florida has issued a state of emergency as tropical storm elsa closes in. 121 people remain missing. 12 days after the building collapsed. 24 people are confirmed dead. >>> now to president biden marking the fourth of july holiday last ni

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