thomas friedman: yeah, it is going to get painful. only question is if market or mother nature or political leaders will deliver the pain, but the pain is coming. terre: do you think we have time to change? tarja halonan: i hope so. we kind of know that whether it is already too late, but if we postpone it tomorrow, at least it does not help the situation. so it is time to act now. ♪ tarja halonan: i think so that our children and grandchildren will say that, mommy, granny, did you really think that you did not see this? it cannot be solved at your desk. it has to be also taking a risk to try, try to make an effort in practice. and learn by doing. be ready to say that we tried enough, but now perhaps it is a new way. so, i mean, to take a risk to make a new action. kwame anthony appiah: we have to think of ways of incentivizing people to do the things that would be good to do. we have to give tax advantages to green businesses so that the technologies develop, which will mean that our industries are making money on the world's carbon

and that is where we pick up with pulitzer prize-winning journalist thomas friedman. did we as individuals play in what went wrong? what can we do better? thomas: well, when someone comes to you, selling you a home mortgage, and telling you the only thing they need to do is check if you can fog up a knife, and not show your income statement, that is a pretty good sign that it sounds too good to be true. it usually is. you know. also, should we really have to pass a law that tells bankers, "you cannot give a loan to someone who can't pay it back?" i mean, do we need to pass a law to do that? so people were doing such manifestly obviously unsustainable things because they always thought that, what i call ibg or ybg, i will be gone or you will gone. i will sell you this mortgage, because i will be gone. i will package this into 1000 bonds, i will sell it to somebody in dusseldorf, and i will be gone. they pawn it off to another investment bank in france and they will be gone. you cannot pay for your house? now that the money is actually due, no problem. just sell it, beca

for more, i'm joined by the great pulitzer columnist thomas friedman.s book not knowing who was going to win the election and yet we have a president who lives with sin napses. he listens with his tongue. he's just there, you know? this book, in explaining why a trump, he's no regular guy. he's not a walter mondale or hillary clinton. he's not a regular political-class politician. >> a couple things have happened. one, i profile in the book what happened in 2007. it seems like an innocuous year but the iphone came out in 2007. facebook went global in 2007. twitter went global in 2007. airbnb started in 2007. android came out in 2007. it turns out, that was an amazing technological leap forward and we completely missed it because of 2008. so right when our -- >> because of the economy dropping? >> exactly. right when our physical technologies took off, all of the social reforms really froze and a lot of people got caught in that dislocation and that's one reason for brexit and for trump. >> trump appeals to people who were disturbed by this. he's exploit

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would thomas friedman support that? of course not. so, this is just madness.owever, the anti-trump media loves this kind of stuff. i will give you another very simple example. it has to do with speculation. >> do you think flynn acted alone when he made that phone call to the russian ambassador in washington? >> i don't think that anything in washington happens alone. >> bill: now, that man, congressman seth moulton, is a tron pager. also, he has no blinking idea whether general flynn acted alone. he couldn't possibly know. wolf blitzer, generally a responsible guy, asked a speculative question based on nothing. there could not have been any credible answer that shed light on the flynn situation. so, why bother with that 90 speculation? the answer is there are millions of trump haters who will sit there in front of the tv hour after hour after hour and watch this kind of bilge. and that is why they do it. summing up, there is no credible evidence at this point that the trump campaign cooperated with the russians in the hacking of the clinton campaign. none. th

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the actual heart and soul of the american jewish community. [ cheers ] >> my name is thomas friedman, as we say in the new york times, no relation to david friedman. we have a great panel this morning. rob mali, former senior advisor to president obama in the middle east. michelle, former secretary of defense and former everything important on the middle east, okay, for several administrations. i want to begin by posing a question to all of you, what strikes me about this moment as someone whose like the three of you followed this region and this conflict, most of my adult life, is i haven't been here before. haven't before to a time and place where israel was more free to be whatever it wanted to be. i can't imagine a time when the country surrounding it were weaker. when europe was more distracted, and when we had the administration in washington that either didn't care or wouldn't care about whatever israel does. martin, start with you and go down the panel. what do you think this means? do you expect to come out of this really unique situation for the israeli government? >> not mu

and that is where we pick up with pulitzer prize-winning journalist thomas friedman. viduals play in what went wrong? what can we do better? thomas: when someone comes to you, selling you a home mortgage, and telling you the only thing they need to do is check if you can fog up a knife, and not show your income statement, that is a pretty good sign that it sounds too good to be true. it usually is. also, should we really have to pass a law that tells bankers, "you cannot give a loan to someone who cannot pay it back?" i mean, do we need to pass a law to do that? so people were doing such manifestly obviously unsustainable things because they always thought, what i call ibg or ybg, i will be gone or you will gone. i will do this mortgage, because i will be gone. i will package this into 1000 bonds, i will sell it to somebody, and i will be gone. they pawn it off to another investment bank in france and they will be gone. you cannot pay for your house? now that the money is actually due, no problem. just sell it, because we know that house prices only go up. then you wil

thomas friedman writes this in the "new york times." gentlemen, we're attacked on december 7, 1941. attacked on september 11, 2001, and we were attacked on november 8, 2016. that most recent attack did not involve a horrible loss of lives, but it was devastating in its own way. pearl harbor, 9/11, a democratic election. brad, you care to jump on that? >> i think it's an outrageous perversion of history to allege somehow the russians skewed our election to the point that they determined its outcome without evidence to write such an article, it's patently false on its face. >> bill: brad, your family was directly affected by 9/11. >> for him to allege that what he is alleging with the russian intervention in the election is akin to that, i mean, it's beyond words. >> bill: joe, can you defend it? >> no, i would say it does speak to, i think, why there really does need a bipartisan look at all this. so that look, if none of this stuff happened, if nothing flynn did was wrong, great. then why don't we air it out so you stop this kind of jus

flynn did that was supposed to be the worst thing that happened since the bill biblical plagues thomas friedmannd dan rather, the godfather of modern media fake news, talking about how this is the greatest prices we have seen in modern political history, again, what happened? should be know what happened before we freak out and lose our minds? >> martha: an excellent question, richard, when you dig into "the new york times" piece, which started off declaring that there had been so much contact between the trump campaign and russia that it was just so dramatic in the nature of it that they just had to dig and dig. then, they dug dog and dog and d anything at all in terms of a nefarious connection. they may but we don't know that he had. >> martha, you are right. we don't know. i think the media is being rough. i think the reason why the media is being so rough as everything to do with the fact that the circle the wagons of the haven't released any information. a little bit of advice for the donald if he is watching, the first thing you do is you release these transcripts to the intelligence comm

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we will be right back with thomas friedman to talk about how the rest of the world views what is goingn in washington. ♪ al: for a global perspective on the trump administration and the news of general flynn's resignation, we are joined by tom friedman, foreign affairs columnist for the "new york times" and the author of the best-selling book, "thank you for being late: an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations." book, thomas. talking about huge changes taking place in the world, technologically-driven, among others. who is going to benefit from it, and i worry about it. thomas: i think we can all benefit from it. what is interesting all of our , political parties in america and europe, the whole industrial world are actually blowing up. the republican party blew up here. it was a garden and donald trump was an invasive species. we see the democratic party going through a similar split. we see it in europe. why is it going on? these parties are designed to answer questions of the new deal, the industrial revolution the early i.t. revolution and civil rights and women'

thomas friedman is explainer of things going on. new book is out. i spoke to him earlier. terms of the overseas reaction. even if it's short-term and temporary ban, long-term ramifications. >> look at it two ways. one is ban itself, do in iraq, so contradictory, asking iraqis now to join us in battle against isis in mosul and asking all sunni muslims to join us. at the same time saying you're banned from coming to our country for the next 90 to 120 days at least. at the same time they're watching cnn and the news, what they're seeing is incredible sign of health in our society. embrace of pluralism. people going into the streets all over the country actually to resist this ban. i don't think the message is just one way. think about what a remarkable country this is. we twice have elected a black man who defeated a woman who ran against a mormon. who does that? it's beautiful thing about america but don't sense that donald trump embraces that. >> if you're in iraq right now and u.s. forces on the ground, president is talking about taking your oil, which he's talked about du

brennan and david ignatius for bringing enlightened conversation and we will be right back with thomas friedman to talk about how the rest of world views what's going on in washington. scwaryks. >> from a global perspective on the trump a -- driving in the age, your 7th book thomas talking about huge changes taking place in the world technologically driven among others. who is going to benefit from the and what should i worry about. >> i think we all have a potential to benefit but i think what really is interesting for you covering politics right now is the political parties in america and i believe europe the whole industrial world is actually blowing up. the republican party basically blew up here. it was a fallow garden and donald trump is an invasive species. we see it splitting and we see it in europe. why is this going on. these parties were designed to answer questions on the industrial revolution, the early it revolution and civil rights, women rights and racial rights. i think what parties are together to have to respond to, what i call in the book the age of acceleration. the fact th

when you have someone like thomas friedman saying these are 9-11 type events and pearl harbor-type eventsthis won't end zone. >> neil: now we're hearing attorneys are filing a brief in court saying the trump administration will rescind the travel ban, but it sounds like they're setting up a stage for refiling. how -- >> that makes perfect sense to me. you don't have to fight it in the district court again. you don't have to appeal it to the security. just write up a new one that resolves the issues that weren't really clear. smart. do it. >> neil: do you think that the way he went about it, obviously it wouldn't be rushed or that could compound the controversy? >> what do you mean? >> neil: in other words, re-visiting this and starting from scratch just might get -- this order could get it. >> no, no, no. i think the controversy had to do with what the white house counsel had to explain and that is it doesn't apply to people with green cards and apply to this one or that one. it's not a religious ban. it's not a muslim ban. 88% of the muslims in the world are not banned. come on. deal wit

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[applause] thomas: my name is thomas friedman. no relation to david freeman. ter] thomas: we have a great panel this morning. rob, former senior adviser to the president in the middle east, former everything important on the middle east for several administrations. i want to begin by posing a question to all of you. what strikes me about this moment as someone, like the three of you followed this region and this conflict most of my dough life, is having been having been to a time and place where israel was to be what it ever -- whatever it wanted to be, i cannot imagine a time when the countries surrounding it were weaker, when europe was more distracted, and when we had an administration in washington that either did not care or would not care. about whatever israel does. martin, let's start with you and go down the panel. what do you think this means? what do you expect to come out of this unique situation for the israeli government right now? martin: not much. [laughter] martin: hi, everybody. great to see you in such large numbers. i have had the honor of c

satisfied that these two republican secretaries of state have actually made the connection that thomas friedman has made, that the department of defense has repeatedly made in its quadrennial defense reviews between our overreliance on carbon and between the harms of climate change and a less stable world, a world in which climate change is what the defense department has so often called a cacatalyst for conflict. they then reflect a little bit on what's going on with their party. here goes the report. "the opposition of many republicans to meaningfully address climate change reflects poor science and poor economics and is at odds with the party's own noble tradition of stewardship." you'd never know it nowadays, but the republican party was once the party of teddy roosevelt. they point out that 64% of americans worry a great deal or a fair amount about climate change and a clear majority of republicans acknowledge that climate change is occurring. they go ton point out that 67% of men's, two-thirds -- of americans, two-thirds of americans support a carbon tax with proceeds returned directly to

. >> pulitzer prize winning thomas friedman of the "new york times". >> to your successors of the nextiggest thing journalists need to keep in mind? >> be accurate. we have an example of that. very few journalists said trump could pull this off. don't get the nomination. i knew the country was angry. >> president trump was underestimated. he understood the anger in middle america so much better than the national press. >> everybody has an opinion about the press. do you have any questions for me in my role? >> i do. >> republican nikki haley of south carolina, former governor, and now president trump's u.n. ambassador. >> do you think the media has shown bias more now than they did in the past? >> you know, it's always a question i get every election cycle. and my answer is always the same. i give a little benign smile and i say, you know, bias like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. >> what has changed is that there are so many more sources of information now. and many of them rely heavily on opinion instead of just straight news. that can be confusing to news consumers. >> and peo

yet, we have seen the left and the media up in arms almost to the point of craziness, i mean thomas friedmanre is november 8th. have you people like dan rather saying this is worse than watergate. yet, there is no information there. there is no credible information there pointing to any wrongdoing. so and have you got elizabeth warren tweeting that there is a serious cyber attacks from russia. no there wasn't. that's a load of crap. you know, it's just not true. so i mean there is just this insanity that is happening right now in the country and it's really wrong. ainsley: richard, what is your response? because lisa is right nothing here is illegally what is happening between president trump and russia. >> here is what we know is true. general flynn resigned. trump accepted his resignation because there was some -- something went wrong. we don't know what it. ainsley: he mislead the vice president. he didn't till the truth to the vice president. >> but he also engage new conversations with russia. ainsley: that's not illegal of course he is going to do that. >> i'm not saying that's i will

liz: thomas friedman is saying the election victory equating it to 9/11 and pearl harbor. bad to be cozying up to putin, and john mccain is right. but to talk to each other in the new york-d.c. bubble and talking to each other and coming up with crazy of headlines. thousands of people died in 9/11 and thousands of people died in pearl harbor, it's ridiculous. ashley: also, it's wrong to compare his presidency, all one month of it or less to horrific events, pearl harbor, 9/11, how dare you make the comparisons, they hated him on the campaign trail and they're so upset he won they're doing what they can to up end him. making suggestions he's unfit and what are they suggesting now? >> it's not four weeks since the president took office. liz: they're talking about impeaching him. stuart: four weeks tomorrow. how about that. it's nationwide protest day, in fact, a day without immigrants. well, i'm an immigrant and i'm at work, and i'm staying. my take on that at the top of the hour. ange... at t. rowe price... our disciplined approach remains. global markets may be uncertain..

thomas jefferson. and has a film -- you talked about individualism being the second major criterion but i heard you bring up conceptual thinking weiss.erion, are i'm wondering, are there other people like milton friedmanritage foundation inducat. particular, i come from the foundation of economic education, you're talking about flake. we celebrated our 50th anniversary when i was assistant was assistant to the president there in 1996. we want to see you have that same kind of success. have you looked into other organizations that would be naturally allied to? the second thing is in regard to the criterion you mention things like individualism and time. t when i travel throughout asia and europe, choices a big thing that is respected for americans. the last question in regards to rule of law versus rule of manna markets. how are those? >> okay, there's a lot there. you're very important you are.e. thank you for calling in. this is your third call i hope it will not be her last. look, what i want to say choose that we are definitely partnering up. flag is partnering with other like-minded organizations like turning point usa, like the heritage foundation, like the centennial institute. there's a myriad