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Aforementioned thomas friedman, pulitzer prize-winning author and columnist for the "new york times." among his best-sellers, his most recent "thank you for being late: an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations." thank you so much for being here. >> great to be with you, brian. >> so if i'm one of those democrats and i say to you, tom friedman, no, we can walk and chew gum at the same time, we're going to have this conversation about income inequality, about poverty, race, and immigration, what do you say back to me? >> well, we should have this conversation. it's really i th...

No, you say, the left wants a revolution now. okay. i'll give the left a revolution now. four more years of donald trump." it is to our great benefit that joining us now the aforementioned thomas friedman, pulitzer prize-winning author and columnist for the "new york times." among his best-sellers, his most recent "thank you for being late: an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations." thank you so much for being here. >> great to be with you, brian. >> so if i'm one of those democrats and i say to you, tom friedman, no, we can walk and chew gum at the same time, we're going to...

Poverty, race, and immigration, what do you say back to me? >> well, we should have this conversation. it's really i think how you balance it. i think at a time when the top 1% of our population has the same wealth as the bottom 90% we have a huge inequality problem. we need to talk about redividing the pie in certain i think very intelligent ways around health care, education, and jobs. at the same time i want to be growing the pie. and democrats almost never talk about growing the pie. i watched hillary clinton's convention, you know, back in 2016. >> i remember. >> i was really struck. they...

>> well, i think he makes the right point, but i think larry and the republicans are not really fully explaining what they really mean when he says he doesn't understand what planet they are coming from. the democrats talk about income inequality, and what they want to do is solve that problem by punishing people at the top. where republicans want to solve that problem by elevating the job opportunity and income to the middle class and the job opportunity and the income for those below the middle class. you can sell the inequality problem two ways. the way the democrats want to do it destroys ...

Recent polls. voters in blue wall state in trump country rate trump on the economy. four in ten voters in all three states. this ismichigan, wisconsin and minnesota say the economy has improved. a fourth say it's not improved. what's breaking through? >> i don't really think the big gdp number that we got today is breaking through in the way that trump and the white house would like it to because we just have this long term structural inequality problem in america. people understand that in the form of their paychecks in they hear gdp is going up 4%. they hear the stock market is going up big ...