joining us is the foreign affairs columnist tom friedman who is the author of the best selling and importantank you for being late." you can see the cover there. and thank you, tom, for coming in. >> thank you. >> and i wanted to get your response to the trump administration's response to the coronavirus right now, and how do you feel that the trump administration is handling this? >> i have a compassion for the administration that is trying to handle with a pandemic, and so i the only thing that i see is talking up the market, but we need to put the scientists forward and make sure that we are fully funding the cdc, and the best medical technologists, and to have the experts going forward and for the president to say that you should buy stocks right now is not what i am looking for. >> and the critics are suggesting that because the market dropped 1,000 points plus monday and another 1,000 yesterday and another 100-plus points today, and they say that he is more concerned about the stock market than the health situation. >> well, focus on the medical issues and put the medical experts forwa

tom friedman, thank you for staying with us.e top of the ticket. >> wichris, we're going to find out in the next two weeks probably. we'll see if south carolina, if joe biden wins there and not running in the earlier primary propels him, and we'll see if bernie can keep running the table in these states and at least build up a plurality of delegates going into the convention. he probably won't have enough to win on a first vote, there will probably have to be a follow-up. i do believe we're going to see the most unusual democratic convention that we've seen -- >> that's why this idea of super friends might happen. if somebody comes together -- i think it's hard to depict with bernie, i have to be honest with you, because he's uncompromising with his ideals >> i do, too. >> the idea of having other people around him who don't agree with medicare for all and what he wants to do with the tax structure, but you like all these people. all of you like they have to differing degrees. that concept is good. it's just who is superman or s

seen themselves as a civilizational project you see that famous columnist in the new york times tom friedman he said used to say you know you measure our success not by troops on the ground but kentucky fried chicken mcdonald's in hollywood it was or was a if you like a cultural project too and a few some years ago nato met leaders of the nato forces came together and nato leaders said look. our empire will fail if the world does not accept of vision as their vision for the future we can't sustain the hedge of money the empire without that vision and so walked to do we have it this munich security conference pompei it was said listen american values american ideals will prevail and that of course was influenced during my eye what happened in the cold war you believe it will and that will it will succeed because it we have the force to make it we have sanctions we have trade we have the dollar we have the military ok i mean this is a it sounds like a virtuous view of the world but it's very dystopian when you think about how it will be made into reality and i think in this is the disenchantme

tom friedman needs no introduction and with foreign affairs in the new york times and thrice won the pulitzer prize. to be focused on the middle east and one of which is a favorite of jerusalem is the textbook as an undergraduate. now let us turn to the man of the hour. a long resident senior fellow at the career center for the middle east in addition to reading his work on the website you can read on his own blog 25 years in florence one - - foreign service in the last overseas posting the deputy chief of mission in yemen and in 2003 during the iraq war serving as department spokesperson at us central command from the university of beirut and phd in political science from the university of new york the published articles of leadership and development and the middle east journal and the journal of middle east studies. i recall a conversation i had at the time with a mutual friend of ours former deputy ambassador to the united states i said us was lucky to send a deal with arabic to smooth the way that abdullah corrected me. know. the opposite is true. arab-american diplomats have a m

we've honored wives and provocative columnists, the likes of tom friedman, david broder, clarence pageiam safire. and and buchwald landers. some of the past honorees are those versatile stars who crossed back and forth between print punditry and broadcasting. hunt, frank to ford, many of these past honorees hard toout as superb news reporters. they achieved greater fame as , tvors and columnists personalities, and publishers. relatively few of the past honorees, i'm thinking of helen foras, remained reporters their whole careers. our honorary tonight, bob woodward, is a reporter. it seems like this is all he ever wanted to be, not an editor in chief, not a bureau chief, not a regular columnist or a talkshow pundit. just a hard digging reporter. and what a reporter he is. arguably the greatest investigative washington oforter of our era, maybe all time. in five decades of coverage in the pages of the washington post and in countless best-selling books, bob has taken us inside some of the most opaque institutions of government, the white house, the supreme court, the fed, the pentagon, t

same way friends going back to lebanon during the civil war the civil war people like wright and tom friedman so crocker has always gotten along well and he knows they all knew maybe with the exception they all knew what the rules were and what to expect of them. i think that anne patterson was a little weary because she could sometimes be so candid she would sometimes say too much so we loved her but she could sometimes get in trouble son her hands always kind of got anxious when she was with the press. >> thank you. t >> thanks for the buck and an interesting discussion. i was in damascus with ambassador ford during that time. looking at the role of diplomats, a lot of what is not recorded because this is when things go right, the quieter actually not engaged in reacting to violence or in a crisis but actually through our work preventing crisis but that often doesn't get reported as much because things are normal. how do you see the role that the press does in creating the environment where it the work of presenting the crisis is more valued and the role of routine diplomacy might be more v

whatsoever, for example in publicealth we were talking about earlier, i pointed to friedman -- tom friedman to run t cdc. was a world expert inse infectious dis of course i would appoint somebody like that. judy: you are by some in the muslim community for your actions in 2011, the oassociated press reportia secret police surveillance program that targeteduslims, focusing on places where they worked, prayed, and socialize at one point under overicers were sent with the student to a rafting trip. you said it was justified to c keep tntry safe. there have been independent reviews since that showed not a single arrest was made attributed to the surveillance. mike bloomberg: that you are talking right after 9/11 when everyone was petrified of another terrorist at we were super careful to obey the law. number one it is the right thing to do a number two, we knew ople would be looking at it. we sent officerslinto mosques to en to the sermon the imam gave. the courts ruled it was within the law,d the k of thing we should be doing. i do not rember the rafting trip. we were very carefth. authoritie

people like robin wright and tom friedman. so, crocker has always gotten along well and he knows they all knew maybe with the exception of chris, they knew what the rules were for the press and what to expect of them. i think anne patterson was a little leery because she could sometimes be so candid that she would say too much and so we reporters loved her but sometimes she could get in trouble. she always kind of got anxious when she was with the press. but they would always be forthcoming if they had an opportunity. >> thanks for the buck and for the interesting discussion. my name is andre. i actually was in damascus with ambassador for her during that diplomats, a lot of what was reported as when things go right. in the quiet places when actually we are not engaged in reacting to violence or in a crisis but through our work presented in the crisis but that often doesn't get reported as much because things are normal. how do you see the role of the press in creating the environment where the work of preventing the crisis is

i think tom friedman was on and said it is less open now than it was five years ago and they have not allowed external individuals and they haven't allowed external individuals to look at the raw data and that is a serious problem. you cannot confront a worldwide pandemic and have the country that has most of the cases hoarding the data. it is also important to be able to test new interventions, therapies that might counteract the virus. china can't lock itself way and say we can handle this. we need part pagts. participation. >> that gets to who is in charge. the president keeps saying i trust president xi. you need to come from the top and associate pomp secretary pompeo needs to be backed up by his boss. >> and would a global health security unit have been doing this? >> i can tell you in the obama administration -- >> everybody stand bay. we' we'll wribring you more informan as we hear sdesktly frdirectly president. and we're also getting more information about the shooting in milwaukee. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate helps you. with drivewis

tom friedman made a column michael bloomberg has to disclose, michael bloomberg's funding my wife's museumng? >> even if it's not a corrupt -- >> that's not fair. >> hold on. >> that's unfair. >> yeah, let -- because -- >> can i finish my point? jonathan questioned my argument. i'm happy to send jonathan a copy of "winners take all," it's written for the question he asks. aren't there some billionaires better than others? they're not all donald trump. i agree with that. the argument i make carefully, and i'll send him a copy, even the good ones are part of a generational theft in this country that have seen the top 1% add to their wealth by $21 trillion and the bottom 50% lose $1 trillion of wealth in that period. and the good ones and the bad ones have all in different ways participated in that. if you use a tax haven, as michael bloomberg does in bermuda, you are part of that. if you have made money from the financialization of the american economy, you have been part of that. everybody does not have to be donald trump to be part of the problem of mplutocracy, an oligarch. >> my question

. -- milton friedman 1980's we are living in. tom: what is prime minister johnson's best outcome?ith the europeans and do deals with other countries, that is the aim. whether we will crash out in december, i don't believe that and that makes me positive on sterling. francine: what do you do about the swiss franc? it used to take the brunt of trade wars and now the coronavirus. david: for switzerland, they got on the list from the united states. in the you intervene path that is free where there is no political comeback is gone. it has infected the swiss dollar. the u.s. may put something on them that is quite horrible. the free option of coming into the market, manipulating a currency, giving someone else like iran such a problem, that is onset -- unacceptable, so the swiss franc could get stronger than ever thought possible because the snb cannot act. francine: has trade reorganized itself? southeast asia countries have done more trade among themselves than they have in the past because of the trade war. tina: we can go to the failure at the doha round to understand the unravelin

friedman of npr. she's been covering the trial of harvey weinstein in new york. thanks, rose. >> thank you. f: >> woodrinally, an encore report on an icon, actor tom hanks, who is nominated for his first best supporting actor academy award in this sunday's show. tom hanks was last nominated for best actor in 2001, and last won that category in 1995. innhe film "a beautiful day the neighborhood" hanks portrays fred rogers,ho hosted almost 900 episodes of "mister rogers' neighborhood" on public telesion. jeffrey brown talked wh the film's lead actors: hanks and matthew rhys, as part of our ongoing arts and culture series, canvas.. >> ♪ it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood ♪ >> ♪ it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood ♪ >> brown: tom hanks has morphedr into many ters over his storied film career, but in fred rogers, he says, hmet his match. the film, "a beautiful day in by marielle hellerwas directed >> mari, who is ironclad in hers dions about what she's going to do, she said, essentiay, "you'll get a wig, you'll get some eyebrows, you'll get a sweater and blue deck shoes. the rest is up to you. >> do you know what this is? it's lloyd! >> brown: his foil is a drivan