i think tom friedman -- am i wrong that tom friedman isfr considered the person who is most consistentlyshington, d.c., over his entire career? >> tucker: probably ever come up probably history. >> but i do think part of this nkis party elders are may be concerned that joe biden could blow it, but that's exactly why i think he has to debate. the questions about his mental acuity's and his capability, if he doesn't debate, all of those will definitely be on the table. i think he has to step up, he owes it to the voters, i think that he has to prove the president is wrong when the president says he has lost a step, he has dementia, he's sleepy, i think debates are the way to do that.up >> tucker: isn't that already up for debate now? biden is hiding, he says it's because of the coronavirus, trump is essentially the same age asam biden, he's physically fit, biden is staying home, trump is everywhere. biden is conceding he doesn't want to answer unscripted questions and he is still ahead. why did they change that formu formula? >> it's a good point, i can see the strategy but i don't think i

i think that's what tom friedman was trying to get out.tion to helping the joe biden could just skate by, win the election without having to debate. i still don't think that's possible. >> tucker: can i give you my theory of the case? my theory is that you are such a good person and you believe so fervently in our system and that's a compliment. that it's too offensive to you personally to think that anybody of either party could ever be elected president without standing in a presidential debate hall. you won't allow that that could happen. >> and don't you think there are enough americans that think like we do, that that would be so offensive that it would definitely be a reason not to vote for that person, if they skipped a debate? >> tucker: yes. i fervently hope so and maybe i'm getting too cynical as i get as old as i'm becoming. i'm starting to think, i mean, if you won't even take questions, if you say certain questions are out-of-bounds by their nature, you're a public servant. you have to answer all questions. it's our government

tom friedman has been a columnist atco "the new york times" for 25 years.or in that quarter-century, nality and cliche mongering to a kind of art form, like picasso, hean wastes nothing. there's not a single piece of my conventional wisdom floating around washington or new york city the tom friedman hasn't managed to whip into a hasty column at one time or another. naturally our ruling class would love to see him, they read tom friedman on the peloton every morning and feel affirmed. he is as dumb as they are. we refer you to the column this morning because there's no question it's taste of things tf come and very soon.

"new york times" journalist tom friedman on "the beat" to explain. plus, bill barr's clash with the famed southern district of new york is back in the news because prosecutors there just indicted a woman linked to jeffrey epstein for a sex trafficking plot. we have that development later. brand new legal story. but our top story right now is of course, and sadly, this pandemic raging across america. coronavirus cases hitting a new daily record right now across the wires. 53,419 cases just in the last 24 hours. that is an all time high. this is still obviously and enduringly a humanitarian crisis which brings upon the further risk of greater economic crisis. new signs now that the trump administration's failure to curb this virus, pushing to reopen, sending mixed messages on masks and the other guideline issues, all of that, indications rattling the economic projections about whether or not the u.s. will really turn a corner. we'll get tom. let's look right here at the facts. over 50,000 new cases in the last 24 hours. you see where we are in the uppe

molly, why does it feel like tom friedman is talking to the biden camp directly?> the biden campaign strategy is to run up the clock without ever having to play the game. the media are helping assistant that campaign strategy by providing air cover so friedman is talking to the biden campaign but also trying to change the rules in such a way as to help the favored canada of the media come obviously joe biden. you know and alluded to the problems that biden will have been a debate so you have seen people talking about maybe we can change things to make it a little easier for him. but you are also accurate to note that the trump campaign better be aware that this is the biden campaign strategy. they never want to have joe biden enter the field, enter the actual playing field. they think that will go well with him and all the support they get from the media, it likely will. so the trump campaign and people who support the trump campaign really need to think through just calling out the strategy and not allowing it to just happen. there isn't that much time left. >> l

tom friedman has been a columnist at "the new york times" for 25 years.at quarter-century, friedman has raised banality and cliche mongering to a kind of art form, like picasso, he wastes nothing. there's not a single piece of my list conventional wisdom floating around washington or new york city the tom friedman hasn't managed to whip into a hasty column at one time or another. naturally our ruling class would love to see him, they read tom friedman on the palatine every morning and feel affirmed. he is as dumb as they are. we refer you to the column this morning because there's no

tom friedman can think about that on his own.to ask you about this, there is a lot of money and politics. everybody has a lot of money, but some of the senate races are seeing it going to the democrats. they have raised $322 million. the republicans $297 million. obviously that's a lot of money. what are you hearing about any concern in regards to the republicans being able to hold the senate this year? >> it's very much in jeopardy. the latest poll, i talked to republicans this week that are really worried about losing the senate and losing, red states like iowa, montana, even georgia. the races they are looking very competitive. these fund-raising numbers are off the charts for democrats. when i was covering the house in 2018, when they still had control. he would see these candidates no one had heard of raising a million dollars or more for the slow level house campaigns. now you are seeing these senate candidates raising million dollars in these races that they don't even win. there is a a lot of momentum of donors on the dem

tom friedman. go ahead, last word to you, sir. >> you just have to hope that people understand that, when you're up against mother nature, chris, she's just asking you three things. are you humble? do you respect my virus? two, are you coordinated in your response? and, three, is your response built on chemistry, biology, and physics, not ideology, politics, and an election schedule? if it's the former, you have a chance. if it's the latter, she will hurt you or someone you love. >> tom friedman, i am not surprised to hear that you have dialogues with mother nature. i just hope you haven't been messing around with any aliens. >> not at all. >> because if you had, you get the demon seed and then we got a problem. thank you, very much, for giving us the truth, my brother. stay healthy. >> always. thanks, chris. >> all right. look. we got enough on our hands with this pandemic. i knew that he was going to say something about the election. i knew this was going to happen. but it's all about how you dec

what does this mean to the analysis of tom friedman, pulitzer prize winning "new york times" columnist author of the best selling book "thank you for being late" joins us to discuss the ruling and more. in context for you, tom, you said biden shouldn't debate the president if the taxes aren't on the table and if there isn't a fact checking team independently developed in real time so that truth is at a commodity and you can't hide things. now what? >> my point is that for many americans this will be the first and longest time they see joe biden during this campaign. these three debates. they're going to be huge. because of the coronavirus the vice president, you know, has to really limit his exposure. he has a lot riding on these debates. my point was simply that people make rules for debates all the time. what size the podium should be. who should be the questioners. why not make telling the truth a condition? it's not a bad idea. why not make equal transparency on revealing one's tax returns? biden disclosed his tax returns the last three years. why not trump? these are -- and for tr

tom friedman writes very well. i am going to stay away from writing about politics.wants to debate trump. he is a dufus. cory booker, amy klobuchar, i saw him the night before in south carolina. he did very well. he can debate everywhere he wants to. joe biden will trounce donald trump in any debate. we should get a picture of them side by side so you can see how fit joe biden sand what a slob donald trump is. tom friedman is dead wrong on this, and i'm sure the biden people will agree to debates but donald trump won't be around. joe biden has debated against the most articulate bright people in my life. i'm sorry. i like you, tom, you're a nice guy, but that's a waste of ink. >> unambiguous, james. let me ask you about second quarter fund-raising. some of the challengers of some of the republicans. it has been a question. as i asked somebody last night, how is susan collins going to run for re-election on confederate statues and sports teams named redskins and indians, but system of these numbers that some of these challengers have raised for second quarter or q2 in

tom friedman writes, quote, some presidents before they get in trouble in an election try to wag thedog by starting a war abroad. donald trump seems to wag the dog by starting a war at home. be afraid. he might get his wish. many of those federal agents are under the control of the department of homeland security, which as you may recall, was created right after the attacks on september 11th. i am joined now by the first secretary of that cabinet department. former pennsylvania governor tom ridge. secretary ridge, it is always an honor to speak with you. thanks so much for being with us. tom friedman continues to say president trump is part of this wag-the-dog effort is taking the page out of the middle east dictator's handbook by trying to turn the american people against each other, and presenting him as the singular source of law and order. what do you make of that? >> well, i'm disappointed in my president because it seems like it's a reality tv approach toward dealing with a very, very serious problem. and if they're serious about dealing with the -- with urban crime in chicago

tom friedman, as usual, thanks so much for joining us.lways great having you here in "the situation room." stay safe out there. >> thanks. you too, wolf. >>> just ahead, as texas reports another staggering one-day death toll, we're learning about painful choices being made at local hospitals. and we'll get an update on the packed hospitals in florida right now, where new cases may be leveling off, but the crisis is not. (vo) verizon knows how to build unlimited right. you start with the network j.d. power has named the most awarded for network quality 25 times in a row. this network is one less thing i have to worry about. (vo) then give people more plans to mix and match, so you only pay for what you need. that is so cool! (vo) include the best in entertainment and offer it all starting at $35. with the most advanced iphone yet-- iphone 11 pro on us when you buy one. because everyone deserves the best. this is unlimited built right. only on verizon. now every bath fitter bathbath fis installed quickly, safely, and beautifully, with a lif

"new york times" journalist tom friedman on "the beat" to explain. plus, bill barr's clash with the famed southern district of new york is back in the news because prosecutors there just indicted a woman linked to jeffrey epstein for a sex trafficking plot. we have that development later. brand new legal story. but our top story right now is of course, and sadly, this pandemic raging across america. coronavirus cases hitting a new daily record right now across

the president and the former vice president are obviously going to be having those debates are a tom friedmanconomist said there should be a number of qualifiers to that debate including fact-checking afterwards. do you see the president having any kind of problem facing off one-on-one with joe biden on the stage? >> not a bit. he will be focused. he only has to remind people that when he came in he made our country stronger in four more years he will make our military stronger and our economy stronger and bring us through the covid virus and get our economy back on track. they just want to make a pick at the president any chance they get. people will be able to relate to what he's saying because he is honest with the american people and he will be fine when he gets on that debate stage. joe biden is the one that needs to worry. john mackey were running in the special election for the seat that johnny isakson had to leave. president trump endorsed you but the governor pointed kelly leffler and now the democratic leaning public policy polling has you ahead of senator leffler and that primary o

to criticism democrats are nervous about how biden will perform, new york times opinion writer tom friedman said biden should refuse to pay trump unless he releases his tax return to commissioner presidential debate commits to a nonpartisan real-time fact checking team writing trump might very well lie and mislead forcing biden to have to spend the majority of his time correcting trump before making his own points, not a good way for biden to reintroduce himself to the american people. some conservatives call that an offramp for biden to cancel the biden campaign is focusing on trump, slamming his administration's coronavirus response after the us surpassed 3 million cases, and leading again over allegations russia paid bounties to kill american soldiers. >> is out there not doing a damn thing about the fact that there is overwhelming evidence that vladimir putin has gone and is paying significant bounties to kill american soldiers in afghanistan. if my son were still alive having spent a year in iraq i don't know what i would do. how do those parents feel, all of you who serve feel, look w

tom friedman, thank you very much for that. great talking to you, sir. >>> just ahead record new coronavirus numbers in arizona. the mayor of tucson is standing by to join us live. plus a closer look at what went wrong in california. leading the governor to put almost 75% of the population back into near shutdown. this is nothing new. throughout our history any time something bad has happened to us ...we've recovered. every time. we fall, we rise. we break, we rebuild. we stumble, we learn. we come together. we work together. we innovate and create. we meet up and get to work. we find our way forward. every time. this has been the key to our survival, the key to our growth that whenever we thought we were at our weakest, this is when we became the strongest, became the best version of ourselves, and found our way home. together. masimo. together in hospital. together at home. from grills to play setsutdoor together in hospital. and more one of a kind finds. it all ships free. and with new deals every day you can explore endless

"new york times" columnist tom friedman writes "trump might very well lie endlessly for the entire debatep to spend a majority of his time correcting trump before making his own points." that's not a good way for biden to reintroduce himself to the american people, let's not kid ourselves. these debates will be his introduction to most americans who've neither seen nor heard from him for months if not years." voters are just now being introduced to kanye west, the candidate, the rapper tells forbes the idea to run came to him in the shower and he hired elon musk as an advisor but hasn't filed any paperwork or hired any staffers. west tells forbes he's done supporting trump and finds biden flawed. "a lot of times just like political parties, they fill all blacks have to be democrats. this man, joe biden said, if you don't vote for me then you are not black." it's unclear how westward fair so for now biden's continuing voter outreach as best he can. >> the phrase, everybody's been woke up. guess what. the rest of the working class people in america have been awakened. >> it's another sign o

tom friedman, the former director of the centers for disease control under president obama. joining us tonight. what is your overall assessment of where we are tonight in this epidemic in this country? >> we're losing. the coronavirus is going to get worse before it gets better. that's correct. the question really is how much worse is it going to get and how soon and how much will it get better? and that is within our control. we need to have a concerted national attack on the virus. right now we don't have that. what we're seeing is some cresting of cases in the south but still at a very high level. the u.s. is an outlier. if you look at what cases have done here versus europe, for example, we have many times more and sadly many times for deaths. >> let's listen to what was said today about the reliability of the statistics we have. >> we're seeing it's 152,000 have died so far. but the truth is that the data is now going through a series of channels that end up at a company that's run by teeter teal who is a close ally of president trump. and the goal is to try and down pl

fauci or tom friedman today noted it could be one in 20 people in arizona may be infected at this point. so, you know, we all need to do our part. and we're not seeing this kind of discussion coming from the top. and as i have said before, when politics -- when you have mixed messaging, politics fills the void and we have an acute infection of politics in our public's health. >> arizona's population is 7.3 million people. one in 20 would be about 360-some-odd thousand people who would be positive and not even know it. he's referring to kinds of the people who would be in his kind of hall of heros, a national garden. an executive order said the federal government would invest resources in restoring the monuments that have been defaced or destroyed and directed the national endowment for arts and humanities to spearhead efforts to build a national garden for big names in american history. he's naming some of the people he thought would be in that hall of heros, harriet tubman, a number of military orders, including the late supreme court justice antonin scalia. as a person who is part of

. >> sandra: you just had tom friedman and "the new york times" basically saying that joe biden shouldn'tate unless the president turns over his tax returns. i will continue that conversation with you in just a moment, let's bring in judge andrew napolitano, we are 11 minutes past the hour awaiting these key rulings from the supreme court. your thoughts, judge? >> we will wait in a few minutes to know where the court comes down on this. so in the case of his tax returns which were subpoenaed by two different congressional committee is, the court has to decide is there a legitimate legislative purpose to this. is it legitimate oversight? the benefit of the dow should be given to congress because the subpoenas are presumed to be valid. in the case of a criminal case, the president has made the extraordinary claim that he is immune from investigation while he is president. he is immune from prosecution while he is president but because evidence dissipates and witnesses forget things, it would be hard for me to believe that the court is about to find that he is immune from investigation. agai

coronavirus cases are rising in 40 states across the country as new york renters phase 4 tom friedman the "new york times" and he's the author of "thank you for being late" and many other books tom, good to see you it's been a while. >> hey, becky. great to be with you >> tom, i want to play off something joe was just talking about. we're waiting on results from astrazeneca on the phase one results of the coronavirus vaccine candidate. and one thing i think about with you is you always focus on science and ingenuity. i think it's been kind of amazing to watch there have been a couple hundred potential candidates for a coronavirus vaccine. that's amazing i wonder how you think we're doing in terms of ingenuity, using science to battle this disease. >> well, if you factor out the terrible losses from the virus to human lives, the number of people that have been damaged, we wouldn't ever have designed this moment deliberately becky, i think we're on the cusp of an era of massive creative destruction, the likes of which we've never seen when you think about the combination of factors that

as tom friedman points out, this is really a page right out of the textbook for tyrants.ators and authoritarian regimes do when their people turn against them is to pit their own people against each other. and that's what he wants to see happen. make no mistake about it. reports -- i heard a report this morning on fox news of a trump surrogate claiming that the entire city of portland has been decimated. that's not true. we heard similar things about seattle. and that kind of autonomous zone, that they had taken the whole city away, when really it was five or six blocks. the facts matter. the other thing that matters is i want to make an appeal to the federal agents that are on the street of portland and about to deploy to other cities. i was a federal agent for 25 yea years. when i led fbi offices, one of the things i had to make certain of that i wasn't asking agents to do something that would put them in legal jeopardy and take them outside the scope of their employment. i'm here to appeal to those dhs agents today and say there will one day be a legal reckoning for wh

steve: so speaking of debates, leader, i'm sure you saw that tom friedman in the pages of the new yorkave his basement to debate donald trump unless he agrees to two things. one, to release his tax returns for 2016, 2017 and 2018 which i think the supreme court is going to decide whether or not congress gets it later on today and the other thing is he should not agree to debate unless there is a live fact check during the presidential debate about 10 minutes before the end, somebody is going to say okay, donald trump, you said this wrong, and joe biden, you said that wrong. do you think something like that is a good idea and could it possibly be fair? >> it is only democrats that are so fearful of their nominee that they literally write, do not debate, do not come out of the basement, do not talk because you can't hold a rally because no one is going to show up. you have no ideas and what you stood for for the last 40 years you have to change. that shows the strength. what i truly believe is what president trump is talking about about rebuilding, renewing and restoring america. we've w

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adrina friedman, an important conversation coming up. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ tom: good morning.ua and london and i am tom keene in new york. we are watching the news flow out of houston and china on the closing of the houston consulate by the united states of america, this of china. looking for the tit for tat and the speculation over what city it will be in china. is a four letter word. "he word is "sell. joins us on the tesla derby. let's head to first principles. his tesla an automobile company? but it trades more like a technology stocks. the multiples at which it trades that are more like a micro technology company than an automobile company like ford or general motors. their pe multiples are generally in the mid-triple digits and tesla's are many times that because of the growth expectations that lie ahead. tom: do you believe the china numbers? ,f this is a revenue story there is some point where that ends ask china. is there a truth to this china story? garrett: sure. they just entered into china late last year when they finished constructing their factory near shanghai.

abc's dan harris talked to tom friede inclifoonan operate in person only if a county off the state's watch list for 14 consecutive days. friedmantting nationwide standards helps. >> one of the things concerning to me we have a different set of everything, procedures, dashboards, indicators, messages in different communities, different states. i think the more we're on the same page, the more likely we are to really focus on fixing the things that need to be fixed, like rapid test turnaround, like contact tracing, like universal masking when we're near other people and the more we're on that same page and tracking that, the better we're going to do and the more likely schools will reopen. >> here in the bay area, every single county with the exception of san mateo is on the state's watch list. testing inside yosemitelpark co covid-19. mare poe is acounty public health says alou no employees, residentsei last month. no policy changes will be made, just something to keep in mind if you are traveling there. >>> and trader joe's is in the process of re-branding products that some have called racist, an online petition calling for th