tom friedman said, this country will become the most dominant economic power in the 21st century. the answer to that question, which country, he says, is mexico. there was a huge amount of reaction to these bold reforms. then the economy slowed down. your popularity slowed down. the question many people are asking, what happened from your vantage point? >> i think that we would have to review everything that happened in one year. that is long we have been in this administration. a lot of expectation was generated in mexico as of the starting point. after i took office as president of mexico, we signed among the main political forces, and agreement we called the pact for mexico. it was a vision that was aimed at making changes, structural adjustments that allow mexico to grow economically and have greater social impact. this is accomplished the next day after i took office. it is to the supposed that we were building this pact with the main political forces of mexico. i think this is also gathering the processing, such a short period of time, 18 months, to launch structural reforms

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tom friedman said there country will become the most dominant economic power in the 2 1st century. the answer to that question which country he said is mexico. so there was a huge amount of reaction to these bold reforms, then the economy slowed down. your popularity slowed down the question many people are asking, what happened from your vantage point what happened? >> i think that we would have to review everything's that has happened in one year and a half. that's how long we have been in this administration. >> a lot of expectations were generated in mexico as of the starting point. and the following day, the next day after i took office as president of mexico, we signed among the main political forces of the country and the federal government, an agreement we called the pack -- which would of course gather a vision that is aimed at making changes, structure adjustments that allow mexico to grow economically and have greater social discipline. and this is accomplished right the next day after i took office. and obviously it is to be supposed that during the transition, that is

. >> reporter: during a press briefing on friday cdc director tom friedman referenced incidents startingwith the anthrax scare that potentially exposed at least 80 cdc workers. >> the scientists failed to follow a scientifically derived and reviewed protocol that would have assured that anthrax was inactivate and that the material was confirmed to be sterile before it ever left the lab. that should have happened, and it didn't. >> reporter: this week another government health agency discovered decades old vials of what we now know are viable forms of smallpox. these errors coupled with mistakes in 2006 involving live anthrax and botulism lead to one key question. >> how could this have happened at the cdc that all these agents were released in the last decade? >> i ask the same questions. >> reporter: dr. friedman is likely to face that question again next week. he is scheduled to discuss the latest anthrax scare in front of a congressional committee. erica edwards, nbc news. >>> now at 6:00 new details emerging about the mass shooting at the navy yard last fall, and a critical piece of

i think it was tom friedman who once said for myself i'm always suspected by the palestinian side, byde in all of this and among my own people i'm seen as a self-hating jew, the ones who want to be critical. it's very difficult territory on that front, a journalist can only expect if he's really doing a good job, both sides are criticizing his reporting. >> let's broaden this up and out up a twitter message i saw. this is damion cave, a "new york times" correspondent. he wrote "what's interesting about the case is the debate over the role of a journalist expressing sympathy, empathy." i agree with that. >> the people they're covering it. >> it is a normal human reaction. you have to understand you try to balance things, you try to put in the facts that really matter but at the same time you can't stand before a mother who has lost two of her young children who regrets that they ever went out to play football on the beach seeing them, you know, blown into pieces. in this kind of a situation it's very difficult not to have empathy, not to have a human -- the human emotion, that is part

tom friedman did a documentary on this. so i wonder if he could respond a little bit too bad it also if you do accept that view do you see opportunity for corporation between the west and iran in environmental areas? >> on syria, myself, i believe president assad made the mistake at the beginning of the crisis shrinking the opposition. he could have better treatment preventing the crisis but second, today, the reality is that the assad government is part of the integrity of the states and nation of syria. believe it or not if assad today collapsed it was going to cover serious? who has a better alternative? what is the alternative? do we have a united position and? do we have a united war in syria? the fact is that the army and the security establishments of syria still are relatively united. compare syria with iraq. what is the problem today with iraq's? the u.s. made a big mistake to resolve the iraqi security system in the beginning. for 10 years the u.s. invested billions of dollars to educate or to train or to organize

tom friedman did a documentary around this. so i wonder if you could respond a little bit to that and also if you do accept that view, do you see opportunity for cooperation between the west and iran in environmental areas? >> on syria, i -- myself, i believe president assad made a mistake at the beginning of the crisis, treating the opposition. we could have a better treatment preventing the crisis. one. second, today the reality is that there's assad government is part of integrity of state and nation of syria. believe it or not, if assad today is collapse, who is going to govern syria? who has a better alternative? what is alternative? who is alternative? do we have a united position? do we have a united war in syria? the fact is that the army and the security establishments of syria still are powerful, relatively united. compare syria with iraq. what this problem today with iraq? the u.s. made a big mistake to dissolve iraqi security system and army at the beginning. for ten years the u.s. invested billions of dollars to ed

director tom friedman faced questions from congress yesterday about the mishandling of live anthrax and. he admitted the cdc lacked a pattern of safety standards. >> the fact nobody was harmed and there were no releases does not excuse what happened. what happened was completely unacceptable. it should never have happened. >> this is like saying i didn't know the gun was loaded but somebody got shot. you should always assume it is. for somebody to say i didn't think the anthrax was live isn't acceptable. >> everyone agrees it's unacceptable. so how did it happen? >> that is the big question. one of the questions being raised is has the cdc become too complacent over the years? they are so used to handling all these dangerous pathogens. that's just not okay. the questions you've been hearing from a lot of other people outside is has there become a culture problem? is there just such a complacency that there needs to be a culture change? >> while he was speaking to law makers, he said he is going to personally oversee those changes. what are the changes he wants to have happen? >> they st

tom friedman in april 2013 when you resigned wrote that that it was an arab spring before there was an arab spring. he described you as a new generation -- what was needed was a new generation of don't leaders whose primary development, their own people, not the enrichment of tribe, sector, party. and part of the difficulty and failure of the arab spring was noncorrupt, that there was not enough support and the arabs, u.s., israelis for noncorrupt institution-focused leadership. do you agree, has the arab spring failed and are these the reasons why the arab spring has failed? >> i'd like to still believe it's a nature of a work in progress, although it's hard to use those words to describe the state of play when you're looking at the extent of violence and extremism that has taken place and continues to take place. nevertheless, you know, from time to time, i think it's really important to try to take a step or two away from what you see, to put it in perspective. i think it's useful to look at the experience of other nations and other revolutions, going back -- not that far back in hi

tom friedman called the mishandling of life anthrax "unacceptable" at a hearing. hearingne of witnesses after more than 80 staffers were potentially exposed. this portion is two hours. and >> good morning. you the subcommittee today and him and him and the subcommittee today examines the center for disease control anthrax incident last month that potentially exposed dozens of from you potentially exposed dozens of researchers to live and you and anthrax because established cdc policies were not followed. you last friday, the director and you and you announced corrective actions being taken. are you corrective actions being taken. the review identified a fundamental flaw -- the agency had no written plan to ensure the safety of workers and proper handling of live biological you agents. the department of agriculture agriculturetment of the disinfectant they used was expired. this is troubling, and completely unacceptable. the center for disease control is supposed to be the gold standard of the u.s. public health system, and it has been tarnished. we rely on cdc to

secondarily, let me quote my friend tom friedman one more time in the article he wrote when you resigned as prime minister. he essentially said to the palestinians, had messages to various people from -- in his excellent column. people may want to look at because but he said if there's no place, quote, if there's no place for a solemn fayad type of leadership and independent palestine will forever allude you. i think we heard today in these comments why tom wrote that and i think a lot of us in this room and perhaps, jane harmon is right. all of us in this room may agree with that. thank you so much for your service and joining the atlantic council. we're delighted that we can work what you. and best of luck to you and your people in the region. thank you. >> thank you. >>> in the last 13 years there have been several alternative theories regarding the september 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. join us tomorrow when we explore the theories. richard gage, the founder of architects and engineers for 9/11 truth will be joins us and talk about his group's position and take your call starting at

tom friedman called the mishandling of life anthrax "unacceptable" at a hearing.hearingne of witnesses after more than 80 staffers were potentially exposed.

tom friedman, he did say he doesn't anticipate that this will spread to the united states.ced in the united states, the probability of extensive spread is extremely small, in part because we have the ability through education to recognize cases, ask positionhysicians, me they take good travel histories, educate travelers in the area to monitor themselves for early recognition of symptoms, present to health care in advance, identifying they may be at risk and implementing it very prompt and effective infection control, all the way from the emergency room visit through the hospitalization, and that knowledge has been proven to effectively contain and stamp out epidemics of hemorrhagic fevers in the past. just this spring we had an incident with lhasa fever, another hemorrhagic fever sfwei introduced, three others identified and none of them spread. >> one of the reasons this one case that they were talking about where the man died is really stoking so much fear is that he was traveling from liberia to nigeria. he died after he collapsed in the airport there, which makes me wo

in part because believe it or not the iranians have cut hamas off -- >> tom friedman had a commentarytrol? meaning, we keep saying are we to blame? so, you know, are we to blame? or are there so many extraneous and sort of exogenous factors that we -- >> i think it would be a great mistake to assume that we're to blame for all this. i think there's specific mistakes that are made. but i think -- >> no one's really saying that. they're just talking about there's a vacuum in the world -- >> but the question is, what role are we supposed to play? >> not every single one. you don't think we could have had a positive effect on any of these situations if we had a more -- >> possibly. no, no, possibly. but we have this sort of ego maniacal view that everything that happens over there -- >> the american competitionalism thing -- >> -- has to do with us. >> thank god we learned we're not exceptional. >> iraq, no one wanted to stay in there. iraq had its own internal forces that were at play and when we left, that gave strength to those forces. you have isis. i don't think there's much that we