tom friedman joins me now in tampa. he is a columnist for the "new york times" and puleiter prize-winning author i am pleased to have him here with me for a conversation about the republican party's convention in tampa. welcome. >> good to be here. >> rose: you write about many things, entrepreneurship, foreign policy, but also domestic issues. here we have a party coming together to talk about how they see the world and nominate a candidate. >> one of the things that struck me last night was that the stories, each of the speakers told, about their immigrant experience, whether it was nicki haley talking about being the daughter of immigrant parents. others, ann romney referring to her welch. it is a strike contrast between the kind of pride they take in coming from immigrant families who started with nothing and built up significant wealth and achievements all of them, and the party's sort of position on immigration right now. when you looked around the hall -- >> and the nominees during the primary. >> exactly. there

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redone and reinvented and downscaled and made a local and changed you know guys like ruben and tom friedman simply want to find other ways to keep running all the stuff we're now running at the scale and in the manner that we're running it they want to keep wal-mart running they want to keep the interstate highway system running and it's understandable because it's all stuff and it's already run it and we're used to it and it makes us comfortable but i think the mandates of reality are different and they they are giving us a different signal that we have to make changes we are now compelled to make changes in the everyday life of. an advanced society or at least let's say a ceasar id that wishes to continue being civilized now james howard kunstler i was reading a piece block piece by a billionaire lives out in the hamptons a new york and he was expressing genuine fear that event at where he could see where the populist uprising could resign. ult in people finding him and his buddies out there and seeking retribution for having destroyed the economy so these these top one percenters are top

as tom friedman has described in his book, "the world is flat," advances in technology, travel, commerce, communication, and broken down barriers between nations and individuals, globalization has had a flattening effect, leveling the playing field for all of us. this hyper connectivity is in powering engaging people around the world, both friend and foe alike. how do we stay ahead of terrorists, spies, and hackers? intelligence will continue to drive our investigations. we must ask ourselves -- what do we know about these threats? what are the gaps in our intelligence? what human sources can we develop to cultivate to fill these gaps? each of us, government leaders and everyday citizens alike, must ask ourselves what vulnerabilities we may have overlooked. we must also place even greater emphasis on partnerships and information sharing. no single agency, no single company, no single nation can defeat these complex global threats alone. in these days of tight budgets, working together is essential. it is the only way to work. finally, we need the right tools to address shifting threats.

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tom friedman talked about the same policy, the policy of assassination in's reelover hamas -- israel of hamas and hezbollah. >> [inaudible] >> yeah, there is. there we go. okay, yeah. can you hear me now? >> uh-huh. >> okay. um, there's a theory that when you assassinate terrorists, other terrorists come in, and you've also antagonized the family. and in this case, we're antagonizing pakistan which is far more important than afghanistan. it has nuclear missiles, it's a much bigger country, it's very strategically located. and, apparently, the state department has objected, hillary's objected, the ambassador to pakistan, for a while the american ambassador didn't think this was a very good idea. um, and yet there's -- obama seems to go ahead with it. i mean, there was the story about the kill list. >> um, so really as i see it there are two, two actually separate questions there, and i will separate them out. one, the substance of one i don't actually agree with, and the substance of the other i do. the first you're touching on, there has a longstanding debate over the last decade abo

the argument here, fascinating argument, it does go counter to tom friedman.not flat. it is still very bumpy and all economics is local. >> yeah. absolutely. i think you can see that everywhere. tom friedman's thesis was that globalization was going to make the world very flat, we were going to be on an even playing field, all these emerging nations were going to eventually take our jobs and prosperity but the fact is since 2008 the world has become bumpier. you can see it from the fall of the financial crisis but the split in the european economy right now. you can see it in china. so politically and economically the world is getting bumper. >> richard florida who wrote about this years ago with the flight of creative class, rise of the creative class, was he ahead of his time in terms of the talent, clustering of talent in key parts of the world. >> i think he was very pressing and i think this idea that growth is local, all economics like all politics, is local. i think that that's becoming a big thing. you can see it all over the place in california, for e

tom friedman of studio 57, welcome. >> thank you. >> it's hard not to have a strong reaction to it.? >> telling an important story about how we have fallen behind in the world. think about what that ad focused on. he was talking about the ought the industry and what happened. basically back in the '80s, people said japan is the big threat. the way you think about it, japan really threatened two american industries, consumer electronics and autos and challenged one american town, detroit. what this ad focused on. where we are today, globalization and that merger challenges every american town and every american industry. that is what is new. >> so the challenges come from where then? >> the challenges come from the fact that when i sat down to write this book with michael, i actually went back to the first edition of the book i wrote in 2004-2005 which is "the world is flat" which is about the world getting connected. i opened that book up to the index. facebook wasn't in it. when i wrote "the world is flat" facebook wasn't around, twitter wasn't around. linked in wasn't around. we'v

tom friedman is here in studio 57. welcome. >> thank you.t came out. it's hard not to have a strong reaction to it. you start with that ad, which was a controversial ad at the time. why start the book with that? >> well, you know, clint eastwood was really telling an important story about how we have fallen behind in the world. think about what that ad focused on, jeff. he was talking about the auto industry and what happened. now, basically, back in the '80s, you know, people said japan is the big threat. when you think about it, japan really threatened two american industries, consumer electronics and autos, and challenged one american town, detroit, which that ad focused on. where we are today, 30 years later, which is the merger of globalization and the information technology revolution, that merger challenges every american town and every american industry. that is what is new. >> so, the challenges come from where then? >> well, the challenges come from the fact that, you know, when i sat down to write this book with michael, i actuall

it was like we are -- according to tom friedman, we're living in the stone age in this country in termsf infrastructure. it's not so. >> he was comparing it to china. >> maybe to china. >> not to europe. >> believe me, i was glad to get back to even, you know, the worst of our infrastructure. >> you were in paris, italy. i think -- >> france. >> the eurostar -- >> germany may be -- >> the trains we were on. all three trains were -- >> really? okay. >> you know who they need? they need -- heising has this service he's rolling up now, swisher, that goes in -- he's a genius at cleaning public rest rooms. you outsource that, and do a roll up like auto nation, and they need him over there to -- >> when tom -- >> -- to get things clean. it was hideous, hideous in places. i walk in and walk out. i don't -- you know -- >> i do that at newark airport, too. >> i do, too. if you wash your hands, you're opening up a whole new -- anyway. sorry. >> it's you. oh, let's get to today's national forecast. erik fisher joins us from the weather channel. eric, welcome from wherever you are in the country ri

if you haven't seen tom friedman's column in "the times" today, check it out.im yesterday on our air and haven't read the column, make sure you make time for it. his point is we need a conservative party. he said the ryan nomination ensures we'll have a real debate when it comes to serious issues for the budget. he thinks that funny because the bar for the campaign is so low that trying to get anybody to talk about serious issues is -- >> he sounded pretty exasperated yesterday. >> i had an interesting analysis of the election that, it has nothing do with big issues, it has to do with very, very micro targeted stuff in zip codes where they're going to be targeted like three voters that are going to turn the election in swing states. no big social security debate, no big deficit debate. it's about some swing voters in some zip codes in ohio or florida. >> that says voters still do not want to confront the most serious of issues that face this country, i think, right? they're not willing to go out and make that huge leap and say you know what, social security and

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