and joining us now, tom friedman. tom, thank you very much for joining us. i really appreciate it. my internal clock told me when i saw this column, this is out of sequence. he's not scheduled to write right now, is he? this isn't his day. tell us why you were moved to do this one. >> well, it was the holiday and i picked up the paper like everybody else and saw that robert mueller had indicted 13 russians and several russian organizations for basically intervening in our last election both to poison our politics and to tilt the election toward donald trump. and i waited to see what the president would have to say about this and he had nothing to say about it. and that struck me as not only appalling, but actually frightening. because up to now, donald trump, he's violated the norms that we expect in a president. his tweeting, his incessant lying, his general way he speaks about people, his diminishing of others in different countries. he's violated the norms of the presidency. but when the president of the united states does not react to a clear and present danger, then he's viola

tom friedman puts the question bluntly, will the president be able to lead? no question the president has in the last eight days seen and heard a lot that might affect his thinking, as have we all. he watched as we all did the full dimensions of the horror become known. he saw the vigils, thousands of classmates and students of the 17 fallen kids and staffers, friends, neighbors. he saw the students march to florida state capital and heard their calls for gun control. he listened to raw emotional pleas at the white house. >> we need to do something. and that's why we're here. so let's be strong for the fallen who don't have a voice to speak anymore. and let's never let this happen again. please. please. >> well, if you watch our cnn town hall last night, the president saw so many powerful, moving, and deeply thoughtful people confronting their elected officials, telling them that doing nothing is no longer an option. this morning, the president first put out a string of tweets, calling for arming and training teachers. then he listened to the head of the nra

. >> we're going to talk to tom friedman.as donald trump, of all the people he's criticized, not said anything negative about vladmir putin. >> i don't know. look at syria. he drew a red line when they attacked with chemical weapons. look at ukraine. he's giving them weapons. what you see is time after time the president engaging russia is a proactive american way. >> i don't think anyone probably knows the answer to that question. maybe there's some deep terrible secret. my guess is it's donald trump thinks the whole russia thing is fake news. it's undermining the legitimacy of his election. he never makes the slightest concession of interest. he's not going to say anything about this matter. it would have been better served to say the russians hacked the dnc and other e-mails. that's wrong and it shouldn't happen again. >> look at his actions. his actions are very aggressive. >> not sanctioning putin when congress ordered him to do it. >> we got another take. the president of russia tom friedman who said president trump is

. >> tom friedman is a columnist and a legendary columnist whose politics frequently reflect my own.e-of-the-road person, buu he went off the rails in the last couple of days with a column of his that went viral because of the anti-trump rabid audience that suggested that maybe he is not a attacking vladimir putin personally or imposing the sanctions right now because he has so much to hide or he fears so much that he is so deeply into the conspiracy that he is shaking in his boots. it is the most preposterous notion based on no fact and so tom friedman becomes a collusion-ista it is systematic of what the left is trying to do. >> sean: last word, larry. >> in addition to everything that we talked about about the russian reset, the czech republic under the bus and about to the hot microphone saying, i will have more flexibility down the election. we need to talk about the fact that obama took absolutely no action whatsoever one more time because he just knew that it would not have any effect on the election and to the extent that the russians are trying to help trump, they could not

"new york times" columnist tom friedman's piece about the president and russia in which he said, quote danger went viral, i spoke with tom earlier. tom, you call this a code red. you write, our democracy is in serious danger. president trump is either totally compromised by the russians or is a towering fool or both. but either way, he has shown himself unwilling or enable to defend america against pa a russian campaign to divide and undermine our democracy. i mean, i was really stunned by just his tweet, his response alone on the friday when those indictments came out. it was all about himself. it was nothing about manning the ramparts, how we're going to marshal the full resources of the u.s. government to make sure this never happens again. >> well, that's not surprising, i know, to you, anderson, or to me. because let's be clear. donald trump is still president of the trump organization. and donald trump fan club. and he moonlights as president of the united states, when it is convenient for him. his reaction is so off that it seems to me very clear now. he is either totally compro

roux doron and this piece of furniture was here when we when we go i think it's been here since tom friedman pretty much journalist and author i'll expose the story of how the new york times took over a house from which palestinians were forcibly expelled and the fact that the new york times is occupying the property through which to me from italy was forcibly hold during the night by like so many other palestinians is some symbolic because the new york times is reporting. for so many it's kind of justified coverup israel's expulsion of dispossession of palestinians and here the new york times goes beyond simply. the complicity of its reporting to becoming really a participant in this now. so unfortunately no one was home to answer my question but i was hoping to get to talk to the current residents here about the former residents of this home the palestinians who can no longer return for the subject of countless new york times articles in jerusalem this is on your part and pilfer r.t. . there's a fascinating bit of what another would never would have known that never would have known the th

. >> tom friedman said it's at the caliber of pearl harbor or 9/11. do you agree?> completely. >> donald trump is at the threshold of impeachment. >> sean: without any evidence, facts obviously don't matter to the fake news media. no evidence of collusion and no american, no member of the trump campaign willingly tried to help the russians. i know a lot of people are shocked by the indictment and there was a collective gasp from the main stream media today. why is anybody surprised? that's my question. russian election interference goes back decades. as we have been reporting an fbi informant that is talking to three separate congressional committees discovered in 2009 under cover for six years, all told in his life 30 years he noticed in 2009 was an informant about a plan that vladimir putin had to corner america's uranium market. this all started in 2009. then he discovered bribery, money laundering, kick backs, ra racketeering going on. and robert mueller was informed every step of the way and did nothing. and this informant is saying russia paid millions to a l

. >> tom friedman said it's at the caliber of pearl harbor or 9/11. do you agree? >> completely. >> donald trump is at the threshold of impeachment. >> sean: without any evidence, facts obviously don't matter to the fake news media. no evidence of collusion and no american, no member of the trump campaign willingly tried to help the russians. i know a lot of people are shocked by the indictment and there was a collective gasp from the main stream media today. why is anybody surprised? that's my question. russian election interference goes back decades. as we have been reporting an fbi informant that is talking to three separate congressional committees discovered in 2009 under cover for six years, all told in his life 30 years he noticed in 2009 was an informant about a plan that vladimir putin had to corner america's uranium market. this all started in 2009. then he discovered bribery, money laundering, kick backs, ra racketeering going on. and robert mueller was informed every step of the way and did nothing. and this informant is saying russia paid millions to a

tom friedman, always appreciate your perspective on the things that matter to us.being on the show. >> thanks for having me, chris. >>> okay. to the olympics. american skier lindsey vonn going for gold in likely the final downhill race of her olympic career. how did she do? the "bleacher report" is next. don't upgrade your seat. upgrade your airline. fly emirates. the best economy class in the world. of being there for my son's winning shot. that was it for me. that's why i'm quitting with nicorette. only nicorette mini has a patented fast dissolving formula. it starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. every great why needs a great how. >>> lindsey vonn brings home the bronze in what will likely be her final downhill. >> reporter: good morning to you, alisyn. this "bleacher report" brought to you by the 2018 ford f-150. last olympic run for vonn. she made history with the bronze. at 33, the oldest won to ever medal in olympic downhill skiing. in her last event, the alpine combined. what happened to women in figure sweeting? mirai nagasu and tinell both fell. the wor

. >> bret: tom friedman, "whatever trump is hiding is hurting all of us."aying basically what russia did, even if you take out the collusion stuff, it should've been been a red flare to any administration. >> i think that is true to a certain extent. if you think about the capacity russia has to meddle in our elections in the future, we certainly should be concerned. one of the think trump has going for him, his most outspoken critics so overstate their case. he's not showing anger, as chuck points out. you get comments about pearl harbor and 9/11. we will find out about the extent to which russia meddled. we should find out. it's important. it needs to not happen again. it's important this president speak out about it. it's notable the president hasn't spoken out. we know what it looks like when he's angry. he is clearly not angry about this. >> bret: we will follow up about what sarah sanders was talking about. an update on our favorite panelist. i have updated you about the health and status of charles krauthammer. of the questions i get on email and twi

. >> tom friedman said the election hack something at the caliber of a pearl harbor or a 9/11.u agree with that? >> i completely agree with that. >> donald trump now sits atld the threshold of impeachment. [boos] >> sean: um-huh. it just shows you the people in the media are nothing but liars and frauds. and by the way, they are really just an extension of the democratic party. by the way, speaking of liberal democrats, they have been in lock step with the media. you will notice they all say the same thing. they parrot each other. their fake, phony, talking points and their little bubble. so you have had democrats, the media, over a year pushing a made up, false narrative about so-called collusion, but now it's all beginning to start boomeranging back, as i predicted at the beginning of this year. everything accused donald trump of in his campaign of doing with russia is exactly what hillary clinton and the dnc and fusion gps and christopher steele are all guilty of. and people should go to jail and likely will go to jail over all of this. and unlike the media's fake news narra

>> tom friedman had a line.ed's primary qualification the s that he went to jewish summer camp. however, however, however, i will say all the great geniuses of middle east diplomacy for the last 20 years haven't done much either. >> keep the doors open at the white house. >> i'm not saying anything like that. i'm just saying everyone talks about george mitchell like the great genius. >> be a little less discreet. here is the question. if he is going to give this guy a walk around and sneak him papers, he is going to pardon him. that's what is coming. this family is untouchable. he is not going to let his daughter swing. he is not going to let his son-in-law swing or his son-in-law. if it comes that, all that mueller has to do is nail one of the family members and we're going to see which way this is going. when he starts patterneding his family members, this thing is going to have a whole new look to it. right. it all boils down family. everything that the president does revolves around family. well, first, revo

tom: vanessa friedman will be with us in a minute for fashion. we could do a makeover.walk. we are trying to get ahead of this. one of the great things which bloomberg does, and which others are trying to do and we are trying to do, is get charts out and have links behind them to explain why they are important, how they work. this has been really big. whether it is about nafta, cheese, rules of origin, how the exchange rate moves when trump talks against nafta. one of the things i am hopeful for, i think we have a more data literate generation coming up. they are more numerate and data literate. tom: we are going to continue, adam posen with us. we will touch upon secular stagnation as a theme today, and we must speak of adam posen's important article on globalization, and we do that with komal sri-kumar. another important conversation coming up with the basketball player and owner are cuban, and mark cuban. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: bloomberg "surveillance," we are having fun. nejra cehic in london, tom keene in new york. we decided to go smart. let's talk about mr. su

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