and tom friedman is a great golfer.. >> you gave me some great tips. for those of you that will know what i'm talking about, if you know how kenny perry or jay haas picks the club up like this and gets his wrists in this position right here and then then way you explained it to me was your hands move far less than with the big shoulder turn and it allows the club head up here to stay open right? >> the big thing is -- yes, this alternative swing -- >> the a swing which is in the book. i tried it. it worked. >> see. i've got a personalized copy for you too. we need to make golf simpler. minimal practice maximum benefit. i'm working on this with derek jeter right now. he's getting into golf big-time now. it's a simple back swing. for people who don't have a lot of time we have time together. >> you don't want to hit something. that jeter character, any athletic ability there? you've seen mine. is it similar, would you say? >> pretty close. >> you don't really have to answer. so i have a lot of questions, but this just rel

tom friedman was against nato enlargement. george tenet. there was a debate, but it was not liberal/conservative. it was over kosovo. it was partisan. china coming into the wto. very tough claim. but again, it was not -- we cared up. we had a substantial effort. it did not break along partisan lines. but we worked through the leadership, with one particular instance. one night i was in my office and larry summers came in and said i think that mexico is about to go down the drain. we have very little time. if we do not loan them $40 billion, they are going to collapse. so, we went in to see the president. the president said we have to do this. let's see if we can get the congressional leadership on board. we brought the four leaders down . larry talk to the leaders about how the precariousness was. they all signed up. they said they would go back, check with their caucuses, give us a green light. we heard from three of the four, but we never heard from newt. three days, 40's, five days. finally called him and he said, i can't persuade six gu

tom: i do not think it is just democrats. back in the 1970's when milton friedmanking back at the great depression and talking about what his teachers had advocated as policies in the great depression, and saying what he would have advocated, he would have called for in situations like that, and i think in situations like this, for coordinated monetary and fiscal expansion. with interest rates at such extraordinarily low levels now as in the 1930's is a once in a century opportunity to pull all the infrastructure spending we are going to be doing over the next generation forward into the next five years, and do it over the next five years when interest rates are extremely low and when the government can thus finance it at such extraordinarily good terms. matt: we have a national infrastructure crisis here, bridges,ads and airports are at levels that are critical and certainly not worthy of a first world country. tom, do you agree we need to fix that up? tom: i think with the stimulus 2009 they blew the opportunity to do more in terms of infrastructure. the other mo

i have a network of friends out there that i'm in touch with tom friedman from "the new york times." we have exchanges back and forth and chuck todd and i talk a lot. these our moderator of "meet the press" and our political director in washington. and in other folks as well. we are not a very large group, the old political journalist and would like to stay in touch with each other. >> why aren't you on the letterman show? >> i don't know what's going to happen tonight. date and i've been very close for a long time and is kept is very tight. i was on his first show when he went to cbs and we've been talking back and forth about a couple of things that i did send an e-mail today saying, david tonight, tonight i'll the eyes of america will be on you you're the departure of an icon. i been so proud to be your friend here but if you screw this up i'll never talk to you again last. [laughter] >> it's odd for me to be speaking to an icon breaking his journalistic rule and saying, i'm so grateful for what you've done for my father and so many people who were members of the greatest generati