walter isaacson has a question for you. walter. >> yes.morning from microsoft in which brad smith, the general counsel there and others, are releasing a report saying that microsoft has discovered all sorts of russian fake accounts, fake sites, that are there right now to hack the midterms. if the president of the united states keeps sort of half defending russia and saying, women, we're not even sure they did it, is the government doing things that will try to protect us against russia hacking the mid terms or are we just going to have to rely on private corporations like microsoft? >> that's a good question and it comes down to kind of that divide between his advisers and what they say and what the president himself says. now, his advisers came out into the white house briefing room just several weeks ago and said that russia remained a threat and remained a threat in 2018. they started detailing all of the things that the trump administration is doing to go against, sort of protect the u.s. election from this kind of meddling. but it ge

joining us is walter isaacson, and of course the former cnn chairman and ceo walter, good to see you. good morning >> good morning, carl. how are you? >> not bad i want your take a how the president framed this in person yesterday and how the think the conversation may or may not move forward with dorsey and sandberg on the hill next week? >> it's a very complex conversation at one extreme you have russians or iranians putting in real fake news, trying to destroy our system certainly much a google and facebook to try to guard against that then you have the next layer, which is the strange paranoid sites like alex jones, which i don't know why conservatives would defend he's not particularly conservative he believes people in mass shootings and fake -- you want to stop that what happens is when they decide to incent responsible news, and people's definition of "responsible" is different however, i just searched trump on google news first thing that pops up is fox news, then cnbc, cnn, a few others it tends to skew to the bigger outlets, because google is an algorithm. it's not some po

joining us with his take, walter isaacson, advisory repartner, former cnn ceo always great to have yourughts on these things, criticism from some quarters about not using enough judgment in types of content allowed on the platform, interesting perspective from the president, saying they're putting their thumb on the scale too much. how do you think this changes the debate, does it change at all the pressures that companies face to do or not do something >> what's somewhat amusing is he is saying at the same time as his wife, the first lady is decrying what some of social media has done to younger people, i think you have to try to figure out this balance of being a platform in which you don't have any real say over what content gets put out on your service and being a publisher in which you curate things. since the prodigy case in 1995, when section 230 of the communication decency act said you can't be held liable if you have a platform that allows people to post things and you don't try to curate it nowadays we're getting into the mix where companies like twitter and facebook do have

walter isaacson with us here in new york. >>> coming up, would you believe over a thousand dead in puerto rico as a result of hurricane maria? it's certainly now matching what the people on the ground there had been seeing and saying. we'll explain when we come back. >> if you look at a real >> if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here with really a storm that was just totally overpowering, nobody's ever seen anything like this, what is your death count as of this moment? 17? >> 16, 17. >> 16 people certified. 16 people versus in the thousands. you can be very proud of all of your people, all of our people working together. 16 versus literally thousands of people. >> that was the president early on eager to diminish a humanitarian crisis. eager to point out that while still sad, the loss of life in puerto rico was relatively minimal. well, the new death count by the government of puerto rico has leaked out today. of course, it's staggeringly high. over 1400 people

for all of it let's bring in walter isaacson into our conversation.f the aspen institute, if you ask me he's a distinguished person of any kind. biographer of franklin, einstein, kissinger, jobs, and da vinci and professor of history at tulane in his spare time. welcome back to our studio. what do you make of his choice of those who words, corruption and cruelty? >> they're very simple words. they're very true. and they go to the heart of what's going to be a problem for this administration, because it is a lot of corruption. just people at the trough, for money, simple corruption. and it gets -- you know, sleazy, congressmen on the white house lawn, getting phone calls to dump stock when he had insider information. and then you have cruelty, a country that is intentionally cruel to people. and just character, a lot of people lying to us. >> our friend steve schmidt sees this as a lack of rigor, a lack of standards in all tiers of the trump operation. >> you know, when you set out to destroy norms, norms get destroyed. we have norms in our society, wh

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finally, cant end the year without recommending walter isaacson's biography of the life ofdavinci, a great book, fascinating work. we like to think a lot of davinci as this towering figure in heart and sculpture but he kind of got bored and picked up projects and end them and not finish them, and he left behind a lot of unfinished products, which must have frustrated hit clientele no end but i don't think he cared. nonetheless, an intellect of endless curiosity, which is what drove his art and his science, and the man way ahead of his time in many way, especially in scientific endeavors. that is a biography that is a must on your list. have to read the biography of divine which da vinci. that was my year. >> book of the wants to know what you're reading. >> we're live from the fourth annual mississippi book festival. in a few minutes we'll be back if a one author discussion on the history of the south. that will be happening live in a few minutes from mississippi state capitol in jackson. >> here's a look at some books being published this week. ann coulter shares her or session vaca

finally what i've been trying to be for some time is a book by walter isaacson called "the innovators". they've come up with great ideas that we have seen in the tech world. i don't read fiction. i read nonfiction. some of it is eclectic. usually it is related to work i'm doing in congress. i am grateful to have the help i have from the library of congress to recommend books to me that we can go read and return and asked for other resources if we find something that interest us. >> book tv wants to know what you are reading. send us your list on twitter, instagram, or facebook. book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. . .

because that could be dangerous but it doesn't really matter but then walter isaacson wanted his butt buck back and another said everything that i just said with that twist of care and actual pancreatic cancer. but with early surgery. and then to put himself at unnecessary risk. it is easy to go down the rabbit hole. it is always about the data and the quality of the data. and then always but this is another one. with the george w bush administration. so this occurred months after september 11, 2001 before the united states invaded iraq and with those rogue nations or rogue groups basically start giving those routine decisions one -- vaccines we -- vaccines we have generations of people had been vaccinated. and then we risk. so to make that recommendation i voted against it because that smallpox vaccine if you have been exposed you have to make sure you have gotten that vaccine. so you really need face to face contact it's not like measles. so to stand here and then walk away. so within two hours they could catch the measles. it is never the ace of dramatic infection and also the smal

internet's effect on our lives has drawn praise from a number of terms to the historians like walter isaacson and musicians and copyright commentators. his new book is somewhat brighter as a follow-up to those, how to fix the future in which he does see vital ways in which we can fix the future relationship with technology seeking examples of hope and places all over the world from estonia to india to silicon valley itself. joining in the conversation tonight is christopher schroeder himself a technical entrepreneur, advisor and investor whose books start uprising chronicles the business boom and the modern middle east of dubai, cairo and more please help me in welcoming them both to politics and prose. [applause] let me start by thanking politics and prose. it is an amazing community of people who love books and probably in washington that's pretty much everywhere is amazing. we think c-span making people who love books an and hundreds f wonderful books connect in a powerful way and of course thanks to all of you for being here tonight in this wonderful conversation this will be the high poi

joining us now, walter isaacson and host of msnbc's politics nation and president of the national action poll numbers, especially given we read a column written by bobby gindah last hour. on a lot of issues, tax cuts, guns, abortion, the supreme court, president trump has talked to them and you could argue conservatives haven't had a president who has done this in 20, 30 years. so on the issues, you know, you could see why some might stay with him, but these poll numbers, what's your take? >> you have a certain type of racism that appeals to a certain type of race, but he's been doing things such as cutting taxes, doing things against abortion, and certainly the economy is doing quite well. corporate profits were up, unemployment is down. so i think that is why, to me, it is not why the only -- you know, why is he at 36%, that's a pretty solid base that he hasn't been -- hasn't gone below. you know, he jokes about he is better than abraham lincoln in the republican party. i think he forgets the history of how the republican party was started and what abraham lincoln was like. if these po

as you see with us we have sam stein, walter isaacson.t omarosa thinks he's unhinged. >> omarosa can secretly tape the president of the united states inside the white house, the fact that his lawyer and so-called fixer is taping the white house, what do you think the russians and the chinese -- >> what a useful idiot is what they are thinking. the fact that he would bring in someone close, that he would be so unbelievably reckless to bring in someone close who would audiotape their conversations. what kind of people do you have around you? again, he needs a wall around him. white house reporter for the associated press jonathan lam erelameer is with us. kasie hunt is with us. >> joe, are the google dolls cool or uncool? >> that's a good one. let me tell you something. the google dolls are cool. amazing. iris amazing. you know what if you don't like the dolls, if you don't think black balloons aren't the best songs of the '90s turn off the tv right now. >> and eamon javers is here. >> he often sings his questions to the white house staff a

and finally, can't end the year without recommending walter isaacson's biography of the life of da vinci. great book, fascinating work, we like to think of da vinci has this towering figure in art and sculpture but what is interesting was he got bored and would pick up projects and end them and not finish them, and he left behind a lot of unfinished products which must have frustrate evident hid cline client tell but he didn't care. an intel electric of -- intellect of -- he was curious but everything and that is a biography that is a must on your list. have to read the biography of da vinci. that was my year. >> booktv want foot know what your reading. send it your reading list at book tv on twitter, citizen gram or facebook. -- instagram or facebook. book tv, television for serious readers. >> you're watching booktv. on c-span2. television for serious readers. here's tonight's primetime lineup. at 7:00 p.m. eastern, fox news host greg gutfeld offer his is take on top news store has has covered. than at 8:30. the law professor reports on hate in america. and offer his thoughts on how to

walter isaacson, thank you for being with us as always.>> coming up, president trump holds a signing ceremony for a bill that was supposed to honor senator john mccain, but the president refused to mention the name john mccain. what's wrong with him? plus, the president uses a firing of peter strzok to call for an end to the russia probe, which has already put a lot of his people behind bars and got 'em pleaing with prosecutors. >>> also, a relaunch of the clinton e-mail investigation is what donald trump wants as well. basically, he wants everything that will distract from what he did during 2016's campaign. we'll talk about that and much more when "morning joe" returns. ♪ be right back. with moderate to severe crohn's disease, i was there, just not always where i needed to be. is she alright? i hope so. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of crohn's disease after trying other medications. and the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief and many achieved remissi

jake, help >> i wondered why you told about that >>> when we come back, walter isaacson on the challengessocial media, including jack dorsey defending twitter from criticism on both sides of the political spectrum dow's down 20 points and the s&p down about half a point. back in a moment the digital divide is splitting this country. we have parents who are trying to get their kids off of too much social media and computers, and then we have parents who would only hope their children have access. middle school is a really key transition point, right. the stakes start changing. students begin to really start thinking about their futures. what i like about verizon's approach is that it's not limited to just giving kids new tools, it's really about empowering educators to teach in different ways, and exposing kids to more active forms of learning. giving technology is not a total solution. teaching technology, now that is. running a small business is demanding. and that's why small business owners need more. like internet that's up to the challenge. the gig-speed network from comcast business

. >> when -- they valued it at $5,309 as walter isaacson reminds us in his biography of jobs, fast forward to the day and history is made at 11:48 a.m. eastern as apple becomes the first publicly traded u.s. company to reach a $1 trillion market cap throughout history the company has consistently redefined modern technology, up ending our expectations and relationships with these devices from imacs, to ipods to iphones. and the company has evolved with those products back in december 2005 it was actually the ipod that accounted for more than 50% of revenue now less than 1% instead it's the iphone that accounts for nearly 60% of company sales. apple has sold more than 1 billion iphones. also taking advantage of a booming service business including the app store, apple pay. since then the stock is up nearly 300% as cook introduced new products like watches, speakers and wireless earphones and returned more than $275 billion to shareholders. there are challenges for apple ahead. analysts say -- >> the maturing cycle has been a bearish argument for a long time joining us now to discuss about a

when we come back later on today, walter isaacson will weigh in on tesla, which is now forming a speciale board to evaluate musk's proposal to take the company private. as we go to break look at some of this morning's s&p gainers. and the dow a up 81 points s&p is up 11, back to 2833 at ally, we created a savings account with a great rate. but if that's not enough, our app helps monitor your spending too. and if that's not enough to help you save, we could start a carpool. look at this traffic. don't worry. ok, if that's not enough we'll start a trainpool. oh i have a meeting in five minutes. and if that's still not enough... i got it. we'll just create a shortcut. we'll do anything, seriously anything to help you save. ally. do it right. talking 4th quarter? yes. the digital divide is splitting this country. we have parents who are trying to get their kids off of too much social media and computers, and then we have parents who would only hope their children have access. middle school is a really key transition point, right. the stakes start changing. students begin to really start thin

. >>> coming up our guest host at the top of the hour, walter isaacson, former editor of "time" magazinehe with the clinton news network for a while we'll talk politics, trade and social media security and more >>> and central bankers are gathering in jackson hole for the annual economic symposium. esther george speaks to steve liesman at 7:30 a.m. then tomorrow on "squawk box," we'll hear from james bullard, loretta mester, stay tuned you're watching "squawk box. >>> time for the executive edge. we'll start with bitcoin news. the u.s. securities and exchange commission rejected applications for nine bitcoin-based etfs. the proposed funds were filed by pro shares, direct shares. the s.e.c. expressed concern about fraud and manipulation of the bitcoin markets. bitcoin is in the mid 6,000. 6,417 today. up a little. >>> also keep an eye on the australian dollar. it's been under pressure as additional pressure mounts on the australian prime minister to step down. this comes after three of malcolm turnbull's top cabinet members resigned and threw their support behind his main rival. we'll kee