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of tom friedman's intellectual stature who agree with him.ut it this way, the fear that -- last night's debacle is that on election day we'll have troops on the streets allegedly there to protect the system, but really they're there to intimidate voters and have them stay home. and in similar ways we'll have people from the right wing coming out there and heckling people who are standing in line, trying to drive them away. and it's going -- it could make a mess of election day and delegitimize it as the president has been arguing. >> david gergen, tell us how the two things are connected. the callout to supporters to quote/unquote watch the polls along with again the president's deliberate attack on the legitimacy of the election last night citing a whole host of things to weren't true when we have heard, for instance, from the director of the fbi that there's no evidence of widespread fraud. tell us how the two things are conducted. the attack on the legitimacy with the poll watchers, with frankly lawsuits, right, that are trying to keep bal

i will say, it's gotten great reviews, stephen from the new york times and tom friedman and a lot ofeople that do not like donald trump too much, they have given it rave reviews. this is a great deal, but we have many others like this. our country has been stagnant for many years. we did nothing but give our money away and give our jobs away. and now, we stopped that, we stopped that 3.5 years ago. reporter: [indiscernible] [indiscernible] -- reporter: [indiscernible] pres. trump: i spoke with the kingdom of saudi arabia. at the right time, i think they will come in, i do. it is a very big and historic moment. i think everyone agrees. we will have other countries coming in fairly rapidly. reporter: [indiscernible] do you think indoor rallies are safe? pres. trump: i think we have a governor of nevada who would not let us use outside venues. the night before, we had a massive outside venue. but we had other outside venues the next day in las vegas. the governor made it impossible for the people to do it. our people, the people to do it. and forced us into an indoor rally. we did not w

in his latest column, tom friedman says the media feeds trump supporter as daily diet of how outrageous he is they are attracting to his attitude, his willingness and evident delight in skewering the people they hate joining us is op ed columnist at the "new york times. great to have you. great to see you again tell our audience, tell all the good folks watching why in your view humiliation is the most under estimated force in american politics today? >> well, brian, it goes back to a broader, you know, thought i've had since i've been a journalist now since 1978 as i look back on the stories i've covered and the people i've covered. i really spent a lot of my career covering people acting out on humiliation and questing for dignity, whether it was vladimir putin after the fall of the soviet union, china after a century of humiliation and it's been clear the trump campaign, his followers basically really weren't caring that much about trump. they actually hate the people who hate trump much more than the liberal elite. so many white working class voters who were democratic voters found

and tom friedman of the "new york times" wrote an op-ed overnight that i think sums it up pretty well. he says, when extremists go all the way, and moderates just go away -- and by that he means not vote -- the system can break and it will break. you know, tom friedman, who used to cover lebanon and israel and other places where he saw regimes topple, he said he's seen this happen and that's his concern now. but what about that idea, that there is a risk here that people will all just be turned off by this? >> well, yeah, absolutely. look, there's a dire warning that you're describing that we should all take very, very seriously. but in the course of a normal hard-fought campaign, when you see candidates go negative, relentlessly negative, bitter, divisive, that's a low-key way of doing voter suppression. because what we know and there's a fair amount of political science literature about this, is that it makes people disgusted and it makes people decide, i don't want anything to do with any of these people and they stay home or they don't vote or day pass on that particular office wh

tom friedman, former cdc director.agree it's troublesome, but can the president do that? >> anderson, if you think about what makes a vaccine work, it has to be safe, effective, and trusted. and if they cut corners and stop a trial early to rush something into people's arms, we're not going to know whether it's safe. we're not going to know whether it's effective for all groups such as the elderly. and we're not going to have the trust in it that's needed to get it used. we all want there to be a vaccine available as soon and safely as possible. but if you look at what this administration has done with masks, when to close, when to open, what to do with schools, what you've seen is a per sis temperature a -- consistent overruling of science that's backfired. it's why we have lost so many millions of jobs and lost over 200,000 people. backs science is the way to get back to a new normal. >> clearly the president doesn't feel the same way. do you know if he would have the power to override something that the fda would no

. >> in a tom friedman article, dutch column, huey subject -- in a tom friedman article, he suggested that the candidates select the fact checkers. it would be terms, virtually impossible. ultimately it has to be the role of the media that plays important roles as fact checkers. michael: we were talking about the selection of moderators earlier. this question is from christian. " there has never been a latino moderator. they are the largest ethnic voting block at 32 million eligible voters. will you commit to having a latino moderator this year? are any in consideration? " >> one of the most difficult things we do is in selecting our moderators to find diversity in aremedia, whether you talking about television stations and to those in positions of power, and i am not talking about hispanics, but blacks and asians. we do our best in our selection makessed -- process to sure we have diversity. the announcement this year, which will come hopefully by the end of the week, there will be diversity. i will not indicate that we will be perfect with every group, but you will see diversity. mi

social distance, and it's really a travesty that they won't do what is easy and known right now. >> tom friedman, thank you very much for joining us. once again, let me remind our viewers his classic book "from beirut to jerusalem," something everyone should read. there is the cover right there. >>> a quick programming note for our viewers. later tonight the journalist bob woodward will sit down with anderson cooper for the hour to talk about his new book "rage." be prepared to hear unreleased audio of interviews with president trump. >>> we'll hear more on a top trump spokesman and his false claim the government scientists are plotting against the government. >>> we're also watching the ominous conditions along the gulf coast as hurricane sally approaches. go from old to new. from worn to wow. the beautiful bath you've always wanted, done right, installed by one expert technician, all in one day. we've been creating moments like these for 35 years, and we're here to help you get started. book your free virtual or in-home design consultation today. you know when your dog is itching for an outing

. >> i want to listen to something that veteran columnist tom friedman said sounding the alarm aboutresident's actions. >> you know, i began my career as a journalist covering lebanon's second civil war in its history and terrified to myself ending my career as a journalist covering america's potential second civ war in the history. >> you believe that? >> i believe what happened in the last few days is a six-alarm fire. i think it's def-five. the president of the united states has told us either i will win the election or delegitimatize the election. those are the choices, folks. >> do you think that's hyper bollic? he feels it genuinely? do you share the same worry? >> i unequivocally share the same worry. we are already in a civil war. we have been in one for quite sometime. that's the nature of the polarization and we have two very, very divided sides and feel very, very strongly and the only question is if trump loses and if he disputes it and rallies the supporters behind it will that civil war turn even more violent than it has been already? i do see as others have said, i do

this weekend on fox news sunday, chris wallace will speak with a former cdc director tom friedman andf to mike pence marc short. check your local listings for showtimes. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight, that is it for this week and this special report, we are one day closer to the election and getting covid-19 behind us. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thank you very muc much. 46 days to go, the focus tonight is on the battleground state of minnesota, look at the crowd there tonight. at ten electoral votes on november 3rd and folding actually began already by mail and in person in minnesota. good evening everybody, i'm martha maccallum and this is the story tonight. moments away from president trump arriving in bemidji minnesota, this crowd gathering as i pointed out, a pretty good sized crowd at the airport, he should be landing shortly.

amount of information about trump, it's pretty clear now, that's going to change their mind. >> tom friedman, as usual, thank you so much for joining us. "from beirut to jerusalem," a classic. it's still out there. i love that book, and you're doing amazing work. thank you so much. there's the book cover once again. >>> coming up, the police chief of rochester, new york, is stepping down amid outrage over the death of daniel prude afteren encounter with police. we're getting new information. we'll share it with you when we come back. these are all great. and when you get a big deal... en encounter with police. we're getting new information. we'll share it with you when we come back. l like a big deal. ♪ priceline. every trip is a big deal. woi felt completely helpless.hed online. ♪ my entire career and business were in jeopardy. i called reputation defender. vo: take control of your online reputation. get your free reputation report card at reputationdefender.com. find out your online reputation today and let the experts help you repair it. woman: they were able to restore my good name. vo:

just yesterday a powerful column in "the new york times" of all places by tom friedman, a strong critic of this president, describing what's going on in his home city minneapolis since they voted to defund the police. listening how a mother had eight bullets fired into her car with children in the car, another having shots fired into the front door of her house, the whole place falling apart. african-americans, the black community in minneapolis complaining because there are no police. that's what's going on, and it's true around the country, not just in relation to crime but if you look here in california for example, the poverty, the inequality, the homelessness, the squalor on the streets. it democrats are in charge of all these places. accountability, that's however system works. leaders should be accountable for the policies they implant and decisions they make and when they keep getting bailed out by the federal government for the consequences of their failure, you lose that accountability. that's the same reason i supported getting rid of the state and local tax deduction in the

an interesting piece by tom friedman in "the new york times" talking about the community that he grewp in in minnesota and he said community leaders in north minneapolis are unnerved by the notion of dismantling the police force for a vague alternative at a time when their neighborhood has experienced a surge in gang shootings, looting's and drug dealings, all exacerbated by the pandemic, spiraling unemployment, and demoralized police officers, who after the floyd killing, don't always have been numbers over the will to show up. that i think well-defines the concerns a lot of people have in the suburbs of minneapolis and in other places across the country where they are seeing this violence. he's referring to a coalition of black-and-white families together who don't want to see the police defunded. they want to see reforms put in place, definitely, but they want to make sure there is a ceiling number of police officers, because they simply don't have enough people to control the streets. >> listen, martha, the first time he was asked about defining the police said absolutely not and

. >> i get the tom friedman argument, the world is, indeed, flat. final question, is it in the best health interest of the american teen that i've cited in my hypothetical that the italian health care worker get vaccinated before he or she does? >> absolutely. because, again, at the end of the day, we need to end this pandemic. this pandemic is going to continue to spread if we don't stop transmission chains, we don't prop up, keep health systems functioning, we're not protecting those most vulnerable to catching pit. the american teenager's interest from a health perspective is making sure that we can stop this earlier, from an unemployment future perspective, it's in your interest that we do the same. >> thomas boyky, thanks so much. it's a provocative issue, i appreciate you being here. >> my pleasure. >> what are you saying on my smerconish facebook and twitter pages. what do we have? facebook, "if we target problems areas, isn't the u.s. the biggest problem area?" says jamal. well, there's something to be said for that. his argument, jamal, is

i will say it has gotten rave reviews, even from "the new york times" and tom friedman and a lot of people that don't like donald trump too much, they have given it literally rave reviews. so this is one deal but we have many others like this. look, our country has been stagnant for many years. we did nothing but give our money away, give our wealth away, and give our jobs away and now we stopped that. we stopped that 3 1/2 years ago. reporter: [inaudible] president trump: i spoke with the king of saudi arabia. at the right time i think they will come in, yes i do. this is a, this is a very big and very historic moment. i think everyone agrees to that. but we'll have other countries coming in fairly rapidly? reporter: [inaudible] president trump: i think this. i think you have a governor of nevada who wouldn't let us use outside venues. you know the night before, i think you were there, we had a massive crowd. it was an outside venue. we had other outside venues the next day in las vegas. the governor made it impossible for the people to do it, our people, the people to do it and forced us

listen to tom friedman of "the new york times" here. >> i began my career as a journalist covering lebanon'ssecond civil war and its history. and i'm terrified to find myself ending my career as a journalist covering america's potential second civil war in its history. i think what happened in the last few days is a six alarm fire. i think it is defcon five. >> governor, who is right? is this defcon five or is joe biden right, another trump rant trying to distract us? >> well, you know, i hope joe biden is right, but i'm worried that tom is. you know, we have -- this president has shown consistently his carelessness in use of language and his lack of understanding or worse maybe it is his understanding that the things he says actually have consequences. and the behaviors of citizens and sometimes people in official positions. what i think democrats have to do is show up in force, to deliver an overwhelming victory for the biden/harris ticket and for democrats up and down the ballot, and then to move on to smooth transition and to prompt action on the issues that face the american people, fro

. >> rick, did -- does -- you know, we had tom friedman on the program last night who, you know, is legitimately worried about, you know, civil insurrection. the president encouraging violence if he doesn't get his way on the election. are you worried about what's going -- are you worried about american democracy? >> well, i know that last night on the program, he said it was a six-alarm fire. i had a piece yesterday in slate calling it a five-alarm fire. so we might have a slight difference. here's what i think. i think we face a small risk of a catastrophe. the real question is are we going to make it through where one candidate has enough of a margin that it's not going to be plausible to try to contest the election? if the election's really close and it comes down to looking at ballots in pennsylvania and whether or not, you know, there were problems in how those ballots railro ballots were counted. i think we could be in for something much worse than the 2000 bush versus gore type situation because, now, we're much more polarized. we have really incendiary rhetoric coming from the president

so you'll have peace and we're getting tremendous, i must tell you tom friedman wrote a great piece in the new york times, it was a 12 on a scale of 10. new york times, of all i mean i must tell you i respected them for doing it because i didn't think they had it in their genes to be able to write good about me but they said that it's an unbelievable deal and a very important deal so we have two countries. we have many others that we're negotiating with right now and the palestinians will be brought in, because all of their supporters all of the people that give them lots of money are coming into the deal, so otherwise they will be left out in the cold. brian: mr. president the reason why is because there is no flip side to this. what you did is reestablish relations with israel, unlike the previous administration where they seem fractured and then you broke off relations with iran who are terrorist nation, and then the other nation said i see iran as a threat to and israel is not a threat. after they built some quiet trust, you asked them to come forward, and they have. president trum

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. >> right >>> when we come back, tom friedman on the big issues of the day.ts of things out there stay tuned, you are watching "squawk box" right here on cnbc. give you my world ♪ ♪ how can i, when you won't take it from me ♪ ♪ you can go your own way ♪ ♪ go your own way your wireless. your rules. only with xfinity mobile. >>> welcome back, everybody. tiktok's chinese parent bite dance says it will follow china's newly amended rules on exporting technology that could make any sale of tiktok's u.s. operations more complicated or even impossible we are awaiting the next chapter in the tiktok saga and the trade war between the united states and china. for more on this, let's bring in our next guest, tom friedman he wrote about the u.s. and china and trade in a column where he said to deal with china trump should learn german. he's the author of the book "thank you for being late" and many others. thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you for being with us. >> explain your quote on this. if he wants to deal with china he needs to learn how to speak g

tom friedman gave it phenomenal reviews.d the first breakthrough in middle east peace in decades, a deal with israel and the uae. the deal with israel and the uae, and i will tell you we have representatives over right now i'd other people are saying, we want to get into that deal. we want to get the hell out. let's get them all back. don't forget, we are energy independent. there used to be a reason. now we have a reason. it is called israel. but, and we have very good partnerships over there. we have some countries that have treated us very well and we are put to take care of those countries. but we are energy independent for the first time and that is a very good feeling. [applause] our military has never been stronger. it is new and it is beautiful. 100% of the isis caliphate in iraq and syria. and we killed the founder and leader of isis, al baghdadi. killed theely, we world's number one terrorist for decades, qassem soleimani. we killed qassem soleimani. big step for the middle east. we kept america out of wars. the al

tom friedman is right, we should be worried that this guy has gotten into the oval office and dirtied with this kind of hate. it is outrageous for our country that we all love. okay, go on to somebody else. i got to take a breath. >> jason -- look, no -- i appreciate it! i felt the same way. and i said last night after i watched it that it was like watching an abusive relationship. trump's the abuser and the country is the abused. and jason, i wrestle every single daily with how much trump to show the viewer. i am as restrained and limited as i can be without hiding the news from the viewer. but having to watch him for 90 minutes bully and -- you know, as we said, that warrish behavior. i guess the other side of it that maybe can restore some of our faith, let us ease up on -- and god bless claire and chamomile. if the polls are right, the counterpoint would be, it's not workin working. >> well, it's never been working. the guy lost by 3 million votes to hillary clinton. trumpism has never been about the people. he rose to power because he had a condensed and passionate group of peopl

even experts critical of president trump in the past like tom friedman call it a major breakthrough. you explain what does it mean for u.s. national security? why is it happening now? >> yes, thank you, george, great to be with you. so this is the first peace agreement that happened in the middle east in the last 26 years. this is between israel and the united arab emirates. then just last week president trump announced the second peace agreement he was able to broker in 29 days. so we have two peace agreements being signed at the white house between israel and arab countries. this really signals the end, we believe, of the arab/israeli conflict. there's still a lot more work to do but for 70 years in the region you've had the arab countries not wanting to interact with israel in a substantive way that led to a lot of people using hatred to do extremism, to -- which led to terrorism all throughout and america over the last 20 years has been very, very distracted with the middle east. we've had hundreds of thousands of troops that have been through the middle east. we've obviously had

tom friedman a liberal columnist in the times said it was a good deal.omised was a universal deal with the palestinians and that is farther from reality than it was when trump came into office. the biggest problem and the frustration you heard from the speaker is that the president isn't cutting the deal that americans need, which is to provide more stimulus to the economy and to help people in this time of crisis. >> sandra: here is chuck schumer's response to the deal as well. listen. >> does the president deserve credit for the abraham accord? >> look, normalization between the nations of israel and other countries is welcome news. i want to see the details of the agreement. >> sandra: matt, doesn't a response to a deal like this sort of play into the hand of those who say, you know, they aren't going to give this president a victory no matter what? i hear you keep tying it to the coronavirus relief package and if fears that nancy pelosi doesn't want to get something done because it could help the president before election day? >> no, i don't think so