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They're right. are those 60% correct that the economy will be better next year because if we do continue to get more growth i think people will become more optimistic about income mobility. >> but just going back to the wage gap and difference that republicans and democrats feel about the wage gap because i feel that most interesting. if you look at the numbers, there is a wage gap. a big one. a study on pay data shows ceos makes 257 times the average worker up from 181 times in 2009. >> there's a huge pay gap. there's also a racial gap. frankly if you look at the amount of cash on hand of the...

Customers. and yet we don't understand all that much about how attention works. and that was kind of the impetus for writing this book. because i went through all the research, 1,000 research studies and interviewed dozens of ph.d.s to understand what is attention and how can that be applied to the real world? >> when you talk about leveraging your credibility, is it saying something quickly so that people then trust you so they want to hear more? >> so the research shows that we have huge amount of deference towards experts, we pay attention to experts. in fact we trust experts among any othe...

Will be signed. what impact will it have? i assume the iranians didn't fall out of bed last week they have a pretty good idea how our government works and who has the authority and who doesn't but what kind of impact might this have? >> the iranians understand us very well. mr. zarif, the foreign minister got his graduate degree from the university of denver. in fact there are more american ph.d.s in the iranian cabinet than there are in the obama cabinet. so they understand this. the cotton letter will make things a little more difficult for the united states. it's pretty clear this plays int...

What's been going on with cuba and everything else, but don't you think this plays into a prodder middle eastern strategy? over the weekend president obama gave a speech announcing the end of the afghan war. you seem to think isis should be more of a priority in terms of what's going to affect us here at home than maybe the taliban coming back in as our forces leave afghanistan. >> yeah. well in washington there's this -- for all the ph.d.s that are piled up around this city, i mean, i'm sure half the homeless people here probably have ph.d.s but the lack of imagination, the lack of vision is ...

>> to send him to jail, to prison for two years for this offense was absolutely no justification for it. >> it was indefensible. ugly behavior. it just took my breath away. >> how could they do that? >> this is america. this is justice? this is, you know, the country we live in? >> every geographic photographer in the last 30 years would be in jail. you come back in with money, do you report it? they had not countersigned. >> he had been convinced by guys with ph.d.s it had to be done for the safety of our science and our fossils. and it was so totally wrong. >> peter larson was made an exampl...