a conversation with new york times columnist thomas friedman about freedom. over the past 20 years i have had the pleasure and privilege of speaking with some of the best herbalists in the country. some have even won a pulitzer prize, which is the highest compliment in the newspaper world. none, except our guest tonight, has ever won three pulitzer prizes, two for his reporting from the middle east and one for his commentary. tom friedman joined the times in 1981. he was bureau chief in beirut and jerusalem. he has been the chief diplomatic correspondent and chief white house correspondent. columniste became a -- a foreign affairs columnist for the paper. he does that twice a week. and somehow, he still finds time to write six best-selling books, to host six television documentaries, numerous seminars, and conferences, and to be with us here tonight. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> are subject is freedom. a big word. i would like to start by asking what is your definition of freedom? >> it is granted to be with you. you and your brother, bernie, were a

. >> a conversation with foreign affairs columnist and three-time pulitzer winner thomas friedman. he talks about national security and the freedom of the press. he is interviewed by former cbs news reporter. this a little more than an hour. [applause] >> our subject tonight is freedom. a big word. i would like to start by asking what is your definition of freedom? >> it is granted to be with you. you and your brother, burning, were always great. people i admire as a young journalist. a treat to be with you here today. think.w, let me i am not a philosopher, i am a journalist. let me answer your question in the context of journalism. if you started this story this evening by asking me, what was the greatest story you ever told? i just turned 60 and i have been at a few times for 33 years. really thee one that most amazing? i would tell you it was tire r square for-- tahri the original revolution that overthrew president mubarak. when i came home and people asked me about it and i would say this was the most amazing story i ever covered and they will say why? it was the most apoliti

st from is a blog po would say an anti-arab site that thomas friedman giving his instructions fomroma middle eat diplomat. it was like somebody was there with a cell phone, took a picture. i did not know was going on. boom, and you just have got to go with it. i do not know how to fight it. >> is there a danger, and this thought just occurred to me, that at a certain point if you amount of your privacy you are also yielding aspects of your freedom? >> oh, there is no question about it because it is on your mind all the time. you start to edit yourself. i'm doing that right now. in the sense that, you know, i that therelip up now is no such thing as local anymore, ok? when we did this seven years ago or we had done this 20 years if i mixed up something -- if i make a mistake, make a full of myself whatevermething angry, -- it would, maybe somebody would tell somebody. there is no such thing as local anymore. you are in a search engine. marvin kalb, bam. and you just, you got a live with it. i do not particularly like it but it has upsides. you can learn about, you're in contact with m

the internet and webs and all of that, and most important, our guest new york times columnist thomas friedman for sharing his thoughts, his insights about big questions. i am very grateful to you. that is it for now. i am marvin kalb. say, goodow used to night, and good luck. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] thank you very much. we now have about 15 or 20 minutes, and we can, that is to say you can, ask tom questions and what i would like to do is suggest you come up front where there are two people with microphones, and your voice will be heard if you come right up here to the microphone. please identify yourself. let us know what you're associated with, university or whatever, and please ask a question and not make a speech. >> i am a retired navy captain, and thanks for all of the great work you do and mr. kalb, thanks for putting this on tonight. a couple things. first, i have a book from paul brinkley -- >> oh, good. >> i have a two part question. how would you rate the trust factor of america in t

a conversation with newer times columnist thomas friedman about friedman -- freedom. i've had the pleasure, the privilege, speaking some of the best or worst in the country. some had even won a pulitzer prize which is the highest compliment in the newspaper world. none except our guest tonight has ever won three vote surprises, and one for his commentary. tom friedman joined the times in 1981. beirutbureau chief in and eventually slip your guest and the chief white house correspondent. >> in 1995, he became alumnist. columnist. somehow, he finds time to write six best selling books, posts six television documentaries, numerous seminars and conferences, and to be with us here today. thank you very much. [applause] freedom.ct tonight is big word. i would like to start by asking what is your definition of freedom. >> first of all, it is great to be with you during you and your always greate were for me, people i admired as a journalist. tell bernie i said hi. i am not a philosopher. i am a journalist. so let me give you -- to answer your question in the context of journa

and tonight a conversation with new york times columnist thomas friedman about freedom.r the last 20 years i've had the pleasure, indeed the privilege of speaking with some of the best journalists in the country. some had even won a pulitzer prize, which is the highest compliment in the newspaper world. now and accept our guest tonight has ever won three pulitzer prizes, too for his reporting from the middle east and one for his commentary. john friedman joined the times in 1981, bureau chief in beirut and in jerusalem, he has been the paper's chief diplomatic correspondent and the paper's chief white house correspondent. in 1995 he became a columnist, foreign affairs columnist for the paper. he does that twice a week. and somehow he still finds time to write six best-selling books, rose six television documentaries, numerous and seminars, conferences, and to be with us here tonight. thank you. thank you very much. [applause] our subject tonight is freedom, a big word. and i would like to start, tom, by asking what is your definition of freedom. >> well, first of all, ma

i'm just saying, thomas friedman, he said somebody comes to this country they go to our schools, theya around and staple a green card on the back of it and hand it to them and grow the jobs here instead of new delhi. >> joe, 25% of all new businesses started in america are by people who were not born in the united states. >> my god! look at the tech companies! and look who started those tech companies! le a lot of first generation immigrants have come to this country and made sure the resolution was here on the internet, not somewhere else across the world. it is short-sided and stupid, that on that end of the scale, on the high end of the scale, that we are not trying to embrace and keep those people in this country to create american jobs. so, mika, big news, obviously, in the merger world last night. and we have got brian roberts coming on, don't we? >> yep. coming up, comcast is said to buy time warner cable for on $45 billion in stock. we will talk about the huge deal with the ceos of the respective companies, brian roberts and robert marcus next on "morning joe." ♪ spokesperson:

] [captions copyright national able satellite corp. 2014] >> three-time pulitzer prize winner thomas friedman was interviewed by marvin kalb. this is part of the series co-hosted by george washington university and harvard university. >> the kalb report is funded by a grant from the ethics and excellence in journalism oundation. >> from the national press club in washington, d.c., this is the kalb report with marvin kalb. [applause] >> hello and welcome to the national press club and to another edition of the kalb report. i'm marvin kalb and tonight a conversation with "new york times" columnist thomas riedman about freedom. over the past 20 years i've had the pleasure, indeed the privilege, of speaking with some of the best journalists in the country. some have even won a pulitzer prize, which is the highest compliment in the newspaper world. none except our guest tonight has ever won three pulitzer prizes, two for his reporting from the middle east and one for his commentary the tom friedman joined the "times" in 1981, was bureau chief in beirut and then jerusalem. diplomatic ef cronet and

the newsmakers and national security and freedom of the press with thomas friedman. night we continue this with a live two-hour program. the managerial skills. it makes mount vernon a successful operation. a mix of possible for washington to be away for eight years. aboutre's something abraham lincoln that she saw the potential and helped develop it. it's help polish them up for washington society, the political parties they had where they invited a lots of very important will. she will did a lot of power. >> the involvements in the political career is right from the beginning. she becomes much more active in 1921 when they contracted polio. >> monday night at 9:00 eastern by von c-span. conversation about the first lady's and their contribution to the nation, live at 8:00. the washington examiner had an article today about comments made by former senator jim demint on cbs'face the nation. he was quoted as saying conservatives do not feel like they are represented in washington. he is not the president's of the heritage foundation to several republican lawmakers. you

thomas and george brooks. they settled down and promptly organized a local unit of the union club in philadelphia base, pro union link and policy organization. they then began to register friedman to vote. and by the mid-1967 the local clansmen decided they had enough of this and decided they were going to intimidate the men by hooding up and riding through the black part of town and showing them who was in charge. but thomas and brooks were former soldiers and veterans. they fought in the war an war ig one and they were not going to run now. like a lot of former soldiers they were with their guns, so they ordered her to the political townspeople and they hunkered down behind the barrels and watering troughs in the 15 men came riding through town and they just opened fire. for the vigilantes, they were left behind this kind of pile of fluid and roads and guns in the middle of the street and he goes out and collects them and add them to his arsenal. there's two points to the story on the narrative of my book. the u.s. army had been for these men their home, their school, their political club, a stepping stone into political office. of the 1500 identifiable african-american men w