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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...

The top 1% and the biggest corporations of our country. he has conducted trade policy by tweet in a way that farmers are looking at bankruptcy and auto workers are looking at the potential for their jobs to be gone by the end of the year. the consumers are paying $1.4 billion more a mouth and everything from shampoo toing machines because of his so-called trade policy which i call the trump trade tax, and he's not done anything to build up the infrastructure of our country and all that comes with that in terms of elevating and improving the condition of working families. and so what does he do...

Because the reality of it is he has done nothing to help working families in america. he passed a tax bill benefitting the top 1% and the biggest corporations of our country. he has conducted trade policy by tweet in a way that farmers are looking at bankruptcy and auto workers are looking at the potential for their jobs to be gone by the end of the year. the consumers are paying $1.4 billion more a mouth and washing machines because of his so-called trade policy which i call the trump trade tax, and he's not done anything to build up the infrastructure of our country and all that comes with t...

How do you not fall into his trap where he controls the narrative with a tweet like this? >> i've said it many times. this president purposely distracts and attempts to distract by flame throwing. because the reality of it is is he's done nothing to help working families in america. he passed a tax bill benefitting the top 1% and the biggest corporations of our country. he has conducted trade policy by tweet in a way that farmers are looking at bankruptcy and auto workers are looking for the potential for their jobs to be gone by the end of the year. the american consumer is paying $1.4 billio...