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Are -- whose reputations are on the line by how they treat a lifetime appointment need to think very long and hard because this is about some very deep questions in our society. >> your new book, "winners take all" you write about people saying theyre changing the world for the better. except that despite the best efforts it is not working. you write in part, quote, i saw the rich and powerful given rise to what i call fake change, incremental private-sector fixes to our social problems that dis...

Change and we need to learn how to make real change. >> anna and maria, thank you very much. anna and i will be back tuesday night at the new york public library. if youre in new york, come by and well hear more about his new book. well get more on that. if you have tickets, see you there. if not, sorry, its sold out. i cant help you. more "a.m. joy" after the break. more "a.m. joy" after the break. you wouldnt accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? fl...

Incredible control that people with a lot of money have changing the way the country is. there is an elite component. there are people with a lot of money that want these policies, right? >> the reality is donald trump, you know, occupies so much of our imagination today its easy to forget in my view, hes a pimple on a boil on a very diseased body of politic and all of our attention goes to that pimple, but we have a lot of problems that let him be possible from which he emerged and my hope is w...

So generous. until you consider that america might not be in the fix its in had we not fallen for the kind of change these winners have been selling. fake change. with me now, the author of the new book, winner take all. good to have you here. >> so the basic these sis about that we have a world that is broken in many ways. the people holding themselves out as problem solvers are complicit in the breaking. >> the trump presidency didnt begin in january 2017. and i think one of the things thats p...