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Obsolete. millions of truck and taxi drivers of self-driving cars, will it ever be newspaper columnist and news anchors? joining us is thomas freeman, driving in the age of the acceleration author. you are very optimistic in this book. i appreciate that because i love optimism. but i wonder as i read it, or people wired from an evolutionary standpoint to detect this change? >> and technology in particular, is now faster than the average human can adapt. i think people are feeling that accelerati...

Intelligence. >> you know, richard, i was -- we talked about foreign policy apparatus and what donald trump -- who donald trump is picking, i read an early version of your book this summer. of course its barbecue time, so what am i going to do? >> i made a few he had itedits. >> its extraordinarily relevant now, at least the version i read was right after brexit. theres been a continuation, sort of an acceleration of the pattern that caused you to write this book. again, not only a world in disa...

Drivers of self-driving cars, will it ever be newspaper columnist and news anchors? joining us is thomas freeman, driving in the age of the acceleration author. you are very optimistic in this book. i appreciate that because i love optimism. but i wonder as i read it, or are people wired from an evolutionary standpoint to reject this change? >> and technology in particular, is now faster than the average human can adapt. i think people are feeling that acceleration. one of my favorite quotes is,...

On occupied lands the palestinians claim for their state. >> for years, weve seen an acceleration in the growth of these settlements. frankly, if these current trends continue, the two-state solution is going to be impossible. >> reporter: officials are now worried with u.n. backing, palestinians will push for sanctions, boycotts and take israeli soldiers to the international criminal court. >> what this resolution just did is it gave the palestinians ammunition in their diplomatic and legal war...

U.n. vote was a last resort, after struggling for the past eight years to convince israel to halt settlement construction on occupied lands the palestinians claim for their state. >> for years, weve seen an acceleration in the growth of these settlements. frankly, if these current trends continue, the two-state solution is going to be impossible. >> reporter: officials are now worried with u.n. backing, palestinians will push for sanctions, boycotts and take israeli soldiers to the international...

Saying we were innocent bystanders going along with international communities about settlements. its misleading and disingenuous and thats an important part of the historical record here. >> when the white house has spoke out about this, we heard from ben rhodes, deputy national security adviser who said this is -- in so many words, he basically said, this is in reaction to the fact theyve, in the eight years that obamas been in office they have not seen a slowing down of settlements. they have ...

Does the united states government believe that the western world is occupying palestinian territory? yes or no. >> youll have to ask the united states government that. but i want -- >> well you ask them -- >> in response to what you just said before that, the obama administration says that this abstention is in line with previous administration stances on settlement activity. this is ben rhodes -- >> not since jimmy carter. and i would -- >> absolutely not, jim. the fact of the matter is biparti...

>> elise, thank you very much. tonight, israel and president-elect trump are clearly on the same page against the obama administration. lets get reaction from the white house. were joined by deputy national security adviser ben rhodes. thanks for being with us. i guess the question today, and ill ask it to you here, is this president obama getting back at prime minister netanyahu? >> absolutely not, jim. the fact of the matter is, bipartisan policy of the u.s. government for decades has been to ...

Europe. these people will be hitting -- jihadists will be hitting the europeans for no other reason than they cant get to moscow or washington. >> with that in mind there is a new isis magazine. after the attack in france, the magazine put out advice on how to choose a truck for an appropriate attack like this. it read pick a truck large in keep in mind control blgt. reasonably fasten in speed of of rate of acceleration. heavy in weight, assuring destruction of whatever it hits. double wheeled g...

Technologies suddenly sped up faster than ever. we were on a moving sidewalk that went from five miles an hour to 35 miles an hour. because we went in 2008 to the worst recession since 1929, a lot of the social technologies we needed to go with that to help people adapt and adjust to this acceleration, they froze. and, chris, were living now in that disjunction. think what happens between 2007 and 2008 to a lot of mitdal class people. because of 2007 machine software start devouring white collar...