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Two-state solution. >> the news is fake because so much of the news is fake. >> both the president and i strongly support a free and independent press. >> that very dynamic there is spoken of and written about today in "the new york times." columnist tom freedman wrote about the five administrations of donald trump, saying in part, and this is his lead paragraph, should it be clear by now that there are five different trump administrations swirling before our eyes -- trump entertainment, trump c...

You for being late and optimist guide to the age of accelerations. ill tell you what is accelerating is this tension between what the white house does and how the media is covering it and the reaction to the saying. do you believe this is media hysteria or is there cause for concern? >> you know, the question of immigration and in this age of acceleration and theres 65 million migrants and refugees on the road today and thats more than at any time. this is going to be a long-term challenge for a...

Information overload and all of that. and, you know, thats just where we are. i dont know if there is anything to do about it. but you have a suggestion or a remedy, i guess. and a part called anchoring which, of course, we relate to since that is our career. what can you do if you feel disoriented and dizzy? >> well, you know, what i really argue is that the proper governing unit for the 21st century is what i call the healthy community. the single family is too weak. the federal government is ...

Of the right, its also the demise of the left. that the social democratic left has lost its voice everywhere all the way from japan to netherlands. that had something to do with the end of the cold war because the fall of the soviet empire which we all applauded in many ways also tainted everything to do with the left. and undercut the kind of opposition that we now need against this right-wing populist. >> everywhere you see it, you see immigration. and that was, of course, trumps first issue. ...

You for being late" an optimist guide to thriving in the age of accelerations. ive just started the book but already enjoying it. agree orr disagree with friedman, he reports of fascinating companies and countries, notices new trends in technologies and always writes with passage. he always makes me think. now for the last look. staking away an el disasterly persons driveers license can mean a loss of freedom. in one country it can main a gain of something else. raman noodsal. japans national ...

"the new york times" columnist thomas friedman. his new book is thank you for being late. and thank you so much. great honor to have you here today. talk about these accelerations. you say there are three. >> what is reshaping the world, not just changing the world, but reshaping politics, geopolitics, the community, is the fact were in the middle of three vast accelerations at the same time in what i call the market, mother nature, and mothers law. the market is digital global zashz. not your g...

I always love ticking off whats happened in the past decade. 2004, the permanent republican majority. karl rove said 2006, nancy pelosi, 2008, the obama revolution. around for a generation. two years latereri, the tea par. two years later, obama is re-ele re-elected. now trump destroys boat parties. it usually takes a generation for a party to take power. now it takes two years. >> i think whats going on in our politics is both parties are blowing up. >> seeing the end of the parties. >> and the...

Im not guess you. i understand where youre coming from. >> you see where this could happen? very much so. i was afraid of it. >> is it going to happen in italy, in france? is it going to happen in the netherland? >> i think it is. >> germany? >> the thing with accelerations, they keep going until they eventually run out. mother nature isnt slowing down. >> accelerations keep going until you crash. >> i do worry about that. i really worry about that and how we find the balance to anchor people in...

I go to a public bathroom, theres people who dont look like they should be there. i go to work, theres a robot studying my job. two things that anchor my world, my community and my job, theyre both in such a vast process of transformation. theres lot of people who feel unmoored. the trump phenomena, the brexit phenomena. somebody please put up a wall against these accelerations are reflections of that. >> you wrote one of your landmark books, the lexus and olive tree 1999, in talking about the o...

Around me like a chain, but i never was afraid it would die. you can dance in a hurricane, but only if youre standing in the eye. and i think these accelerations are like a hurricane. and trump and brexit is about putting up a wall to slow them down. i think you have to build an eye. the eye for me is the healthy community. thats a platform of dynamic stability within it. >> did you see trump coming? >> um, i certainly didnt see him coming, but i took him seriously from day one. i never had to a...