did you see what happened coming in any way? honest answer, i didn t. i didn t i don t want to say that i didn t see that we were going to have problems. i did. i wrote articles saying that there were going to be problems. did i think that we were going to be on the edge of did i think we were going to see a bank like lehman brothers go under, that aig was going to almost falter and we re going to be living in this 9%, 10% world of unemployment, and people were talking about 25% unemployment. that part is what i didn t get. one of the things that you re both hitting on i don t want to ruin the drama of the story, but i don t think people at large i didn t even i went to m.i.t., and i studied economics and so on, and i was as confused by this as i think all of us are. i don t think anybody realized this is one of the points of this movie and this book that we were living within a day away from a major international catastrophic economic melt down. my mom always talked
imersed in wall street and business. did you see what happened coming in any way? honest answer, i didn t. i didn t i don t want to say that i didn t see that we were going to have problems. i did. i wrote articles saying that there were going to be problems. did i think that we were going to be on the edge of did i think we were going to see a bank like lehman brothers go under, that aig was going to almost falter and we re going to be living in this 9%, 10% world of unemployment, and people were talking about 25% unemployment. that part is what i didn t get. one of the things that you re both hitting on i don t want to ruin the drama of the story, but i don t think people at large i didn t even i went to m.i.t., and i studied economics and so on, and i was as confused by this as i think all of us are. i don t think anybody realized this is one of the points of this movie and this book that we were living within a day away from a major international catastrophic econ
translator: i stayed outside the whole night. the water gushed in when i opened my door. i was washed away, but i held on to a floating tree that came my way. i struggled hard to cling to it, to stop myself from going under. but i did go under. during my struggle, a totami mat came floating towards me. i jumped on and stayed there. i was washed away. circling around some houses. my daughter was also swept away. i still don t know where she is. thousands upon thousands of people are missing right now in japan. help from around the world is pouring in to help find those missing people and to recover the bodies of the dead. we ve seen crews of people on land and in the water, packs of search and rescue dogs, all the stuff you normally see.
but i did go under. during my struggle a mat came floating toward me. i jumped on and stayed there. i was washed away circling around some houses. my daughter was also swept away. i still don t know where she is. reporter: in the middle of all of this destruction, stories that give us hope, this woman was home and had just gone into labor as the earthquake and tsunami hit. she says she spoke to her unborn baby and said not yet. translator: when the baby was born, it was right after i heard that bodies of 200 to 300 people were washed up. rather than happiness i felt a twinge of guilt. i cried. i m happy. it s just with mixed feelings. reporter: and people who
problem. they owe so much of our debt they can t see us go under. they would be ruined if they did something percept sean: good point. we the power. secondly, we should remind ourselves we are the most powerful nation on earth. our gdp is three times china. if you count their people in poverty our gdp, 10 times china. our military dwarfs their military. some being so frightened, timid. i think it is part of something you talk about a lot. it is an of the president to understand american exception alism. we are an exceptional country. we are by far the leading country in the world. we should start acting like the leading country in the world. if we don t somebody else is going to tart acting like the leading country in the world. what going to start acting like the leading country in the world if we are not the leading country in the world, who is, that?