anyway, walter isaacson of perella weinberg wl ins.> breaking overnight the u.s. and canada striking a deal to replace nafta. peter navarro will join us live. >>> new this morning, general electric removing its ceo and taking a $23 billion non-cash charge for its power business. >>> plus tesla shares jumping after elon musk reaches a settlement with the s.e.c. the final hour of "squawk box" begins right now ♪ >>> live from the most powerful city in the world, new york, this is "squawk box. >> changes changes at ge. good morning and welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc live from the nasdaq market site in times square i'm joe kernen along with andrew ross sorkin and melissa lee. becky's off today. our guest host this hour, walter isaacson who has had so many different jobs and is truly -- you know, andrew wrote a book and everything, but you've got to admire this guy >> i do. he's the top of the top. >> he is i agree. >> well, churning out books, at least. i don't have any tv shows like y'all have >> you're here you've got everythin

and if that's not impressive enough, she is also the subject of the latest book by our walter isaacson who has previously detailed the lives of geniuses like benjamin franklin, einstein, steve jobs, and leonardo da vinci. walter sat down with dr. doudna to talk about how these innovations could change humanity as we know it. >>> in 2012 you and your team created a new tool using something called crispr to edit our genes, our dna. for the lay person explain what crispr technology is. >> crispr is for altering the dna in cells, the code of life, if you will. it's based on a bacterial immune system, the way bacteria fight viral infections. >> crispr technology is almost like a word process where you say i want to change this mistake i've made in spelling throughout the paper. you could do that throughout the human genome? >> that's a great analogy. >> take me through the sequence of how a crispr cas9 system works, from the very beginning of it, it's spotting something to cutting it up. how does the whole process work? >> the process of gene editing using crispr cas9 begins with the protei

. >>> and our walter isaacson probes the origins of life, the universe and everything with theoretical physicist, brian green. >> uni world is a proud sponsor of "amanpour and company." when v. coleman found add collection of unique hotels, she had bigger dreams and those dreams were on the water. a river, specifically. multiple rivers that would one day be home to uni world river cruises and their floating boutique hotels. today, that dream sets sail in europe, asia, india, egypt, and more. bookings available through your travel agent. for more information, visit uniworld.com. >> additional support has been provided by -- rosalyn p. walter. bernard and irene schwartz. sue and edward wokenheim iii. judy and josh weston. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> welcome to the program, everyone. i'm christiane amanpour in london. an estimated 7,500 migrants are heading north through mexico fleeing violence and poverty in guatemala and honduras and hoping to reach the united states where they plan to seek asylum. reporters on the ground say the migran

r,night, we hear from journalist, profesnd author walter isaacson. his biographies of influential figures range from leonardo da vinci to ada lovelace. isaacson believes that those who thrive at the intersection of onarts and sciences are th who will become a part of history. >> i had a mento sin new orleant of a family friend, great novelist, walker percy anhe said there were two types of people come out of louisiana, preachers and storytellers. he said, for heaven's sake, be a storyteller. the world has too many preachers. i like to take on subjects for my biography that stand in the intersection between the arts and the sciences, because whether it was benjamin franklin or steve jobs or leonardo da vinci, i think that's what gives creativity. steve jo, whenever he did a product launch which shows street signs, showing that intersection of the arts and sciences. that's what leonardo da vinci's vitruviaman's all about. and when einstein was looking for the theories of relativity, he pulled out his violin to pl mozart. franklinurse benjam flying a ki

our walter isaacson speaks to executive editor dean baquet. >>> welcome to the program, everyone. i'm christiane amanpour in london. it has been five days since the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in indonesia and now the big question, where is the desperately needed aid? survivors are still without clean water, electricity or enough to eat. with more than 1,200 people dead, a number that is sure to rise, and over 61,000 people displaced. the government is being blamed for being too slow and compounding the disastrous aftereffects with a tragically disorganized relief response. and this in a country that's seen more than its fair share of earthquakes and tsunamis. meanwhile, crews about the ground still struggle to keep up as search and rescue teams continue their grim work. correspondent matt rivers joined me from the thick of it in palu, end knees, the region that has been hit hardest by these rolling disasters, and i spoke to him about what he's seen. >> matt rivers, you have been on the ground for a few days now. what are you noticing regarding the rescue effort and the bo

. >> walter isaacson's says that franklin changed from a supporter of the king of parliament to beingdisillusioned and insisting on independence. is this what you found? . >> yes. part of my previous book yes essentially that is it. he gradually came to see that america was not simply uninterested in aspirations but they could be hostile then his skepticism of the british empire deepened. >> which accomplishment do you think franklin was most proud of? . >> i think by the end of his life's work in paris and also in pennsylvania as well. so it depends which part of his life not his writing and don't think he is proud of it he was very competent but i don't think he would regard that. >> but yet he supported his friend who is a poet. >> yes. but he had a cataclysmic lead is *-asterisk career. so in the 17 twenties james ralph had a burning idea to support the government so he published this astonishingly rude satirical perm - - poem to the king and it goes the line that he used was incredibly rude and so then they gather their supporters together and had a campaign of vilification on th

. >>> walter isaacson, former chairman of cnn, kevin delaney with us, dan morgan, and mike santoli. onset good morning to you all. walter, i would love to get your take what it means what we're seeing, love for ipad, love for mac. the optics out of brooklyn what's it telling you? >> i'm glad jon is in williamsburg it is exciting i am a fan of the old mac book air, and the mac book line that's been declining in recent years. people like me that need a small computer like that,that mac book air is going to be transformative again i was blown away, too, by the a 12 x processor being in an ipad which makes it a great device for creativity, for making movies and the apps that will be developed on top of it, that's what makes an apple product like the iphone of the ipad great, trying to guess the brilliant apps people will develop some of it will be professional. if you're on an airline, instead of having the paper for the pilot and flight crew, they now all use ipads. there are so many different things like that in every different industry from the creative industries to simply the manuf

we begin our one-hour presentation with biographer walter isaacson in his native city of new orleans louisiana. >> i think when you write about history you have to realize that human memory is fallible. even if you're

i'm walter isaacson, and ts is my brief and perhaps spectacular take on what's it's like to write about people. >> woodruff: walter has wrten some remarkable biographies. you can watch additional brief but spectacular episodes on our website, pbs.org/newshour/brief. on the newshour online right now, vaccine exemption rates among infants and school-aged children have been quietly rising, according to new data from the centers for disease control and prevention. we explain what that means for the threat of disease outbreaks and more on our web te, pbs.org/newshour. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online and again here tomorrow evening when shields and david brooks dissect the week's political news. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and see you soon. ng >> major funor the pbsn newshour has bovided by: >> kevin. >> kevin! k in. >> advice for life. life well-planned. learn more at raymondjames.com. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made possible by the corporation for blic broadcasting. and by contributions to

he told walter isaacson about his amazing career and why he and a cellist could drop into a school nearime. >> you had an education that was wideran wide-ranging because of your parents. it wasn't focused on dance initially. >> no, the whole concept really was just having the opportunity to engage with as many different things, then we'd see where it went. i can assure you, ballet was not the intention. it was enrichment of a sort. what i realized is that i liked to be on stage. it happened to be a way to get on stage, so i stuck with it. as things went along, some things stuck harder than others. you know, my brother, you met him. >> you were both studying chinese. both studying dance. >> dance and music, different instruments. lots of different opportunities, as i said. then, you know, as you get older, you start to realize the ones that really -- where you have a foothold. >> but do you think a broad-based education, everything from the sciences to the humanities to the arts, helps you be more creative? >> i think it is essential. i think that the idea of creativity is all about how

. >>> and our walter isaacson obes the origins of life, the universe and everything with theoretical physicist, brian green.

our walter isaacson sits down to see what it would take to rescue a democracy in distress. >>> welcome to the show, jill. >> thanks so much for having me. >> and on the bestseller list with a sprawling, wonderful narrative history of the united states. >> who knew? >> and your theme is in your title. one of the greatest sentences ever written. what are these truths? >> well, these truths and the declaration of independence that are self-evident, political equality, popular sovereignty, and natural rights. and this is a nation founded on an idea, those particular three ideas. and unlike other countries founded on a common ancestry or common heritage or a chain of leaders, this is a nation that is founded on those ideas and so the way the book works is to try to figure out where did those ideas come from? they have a particular history. and then to ask whether the course of american history since the founding has belied them. >> the idea of equality, of course, is written by the people who write both the declaration and the constitution, but as you point out in your book if it's madison

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york, a proving ground for the great actors, dancers and musicians of tomorrow and he told our walter isaacsonareer and why he and the cellist, yo yo ma, could unexpectedly drop into a school near you sometime. >> you had an education that was very wide-ranging, because of your parents. it wasn't focused on dance initially. >> no. i mean, the whole concept really was just having the opportunity to engage with as many different things. and then we would see where it went. and i can assure you, ballet was not the intention. it was enrichment of a sort. what i realized is that i liked to be on stage. and happened to be a way to get on stage. so i stuck with it. and as things went along, some things stuck harder than others. and, you know, my brother, you've met him. >> and you were both studying chinese. >> we've had chinese. >> dance and then you -- >> dance and music and different instruments. and lots of different opportunities, as i said. but then, you know, as you get older, you start to realize the ones that really -- where you have a foothold. >> but do you think a broad-based education an

we begin our one-hour presentation with biographer walter isaacson in his native city of new orleans louisiana. >> i think when you write about history you have to realize that human memory is fallible. even if you're looking at people's oral histories done right after the meeting, they may contradict notes taken in a meeting. as as a journalist and historiai like to combine the discipline by going into the archives look at the documents, but when possible interviewing people and saying what was it really like, what happened in the meeting? you have to get sort of multiple sources before you say here's what i think the truth really is. when you doing somebody who is alive, kissinger, steve jobs and mike is, you can keep growing and growing project realized that you then have to find other sources to try to cooperate what they said. >> when you're writing about contemporary figures, do you have to try and find the balance of you don't want to maybe make them upset or is that something that you consider? >> yes, i think for me i tend to like the people i write about. i deeply admired a

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and professor of history at tulane university walter isaacson. is hour. >> great panel. i want to start with walter really quickly. walter, i can't be shocked. none of us can be shocked by anything that goes on any more. i just thought last night was the most tacky, classless display for the president of the united states using the united states supreme court as a political prop, so many of them do. but they don't call them over to the white house and they don't have all the justices sitting there in an attempt to show some, some unity and have the president of the united states turn into a political pep rally. i've never seen anything like that. i'm wondering if you have. >> no. that's what donald trump does. he turns them into pep rallies. he turns them into reality shows. that's what he knows how to produce. the problem for joe and people like yourself is it's successful. he is somehow articulating what a lot of people feel, which is boy, i guess everybody ganged up too much on this guy. it was unfair. and i think it was astonishing that donald

>>> thanks to the great walter isaacson >> thank you >> we got to go. >> make sure you join us tomorrow >> melissa you are great. >> my pleasure "squawk on the street" is next ♪ >>> good monday morning, welcome to "squawk on the street," i am carl quintanilla jim cramer is back to the post 9 and david faber is here. >> u.s. and canada reached that agreement on trade and flannery is out on ge 10-yr is below 308 we'll begin with the ge shake up again electr general electric is removing flannery >> stocks sending higher, canada and the u.s. reached a deal. tha they'll join mexico to revamp. elon musk agreeing to pay a $20 million fine and give up his chairman seat for at least three years. let's get straight to john flannery, out of ge and now is larry cope thomas horton is the lead director the company announced will take a $20 billion non-cash charge for the power business david, you have been all over this all morning long and talks among other things of the huge cultural shift to bring someone from outside >> as chairman and ceo interestingly as well, mr. culp taking that job, he has b