dramatically changing right now. i think that is the kind of balance the president has to show and it s too early to tell if he can or he cannot. i think the situation is still uncertain but one certainly hopes that he will do well and he seems rather imaginative and bright so i hope he will. i m curious, dad, were you surprised by hillary clinton s loss? yes, of course i was. in fact, i was so surprised that i went to sleep thinking that she had won. i woke up at 7:00 a.m. in the morning, put on the television and literally my whole body just rose and jump out of bed. everything at once. i was stunned. stunned. so on this show, you talked about one of the biggest problems that you foresaw coming in the next decade, and it was rising income inequality.
community, one of the top three, the united states, china and russia. so the president-elect on the campaign trail has often talked about china and he s talked about vladimir putin often criticized for being a little too cozy with him for having some sort of bromance with him. make every effort but do so calmly and patiently knowing what is at stake. i think our role in the world even if not dominant in simplistic fashion is still pre-eminent and america is needed to pull together some larger coalition that can deal with global problems and in that larger coalition of course america, china, and a changing russia could be pre-eminent. so talk about what the president-elect is going through right now. the process of selecting leaders
when you have stagnation and a rather severe case of unemployment, the sense of social injustice can be terribly demoralizing and politically in the long run very dangerous. could this be what you were talking about? this and brexit and what people expect will be happening in italy and france and germany in the coming year. in part so. we have very major dilemmas. our system responsive to public needs and public sense of dissatisfaction and public feelings of being exploited, those are realities. to that we have to add a new one namely the political system itself lacks firm structures, cohesion, unity. dr. zbigniew brzezinski. thanks, dad. i ll see you at thanksgiving. you re coming to me, right? i hope so. for not too long. not too long. i ll have a nice dinner for
were right before the election or the night of the election, what everybody s perception was of what a donald trump presidency might look like, it s breathtaking how different the tone he has set on everything from who he s considering to be in his administration to his policy proposals that he s said a number of things. we were talking about them earlier. climate change. torture. he said he s not going to look at the libel laws and embracing the new york times and looking at mitt romney and now you have nikki haley. it s dramatically different from what anybody would have expected and if he does indeed go with someone like mitt romney over rudy giuliani, that sends a really strong signal that he is genuine these are not just people that he s looking at to send signals that he s actually willing to embrace his opponents and folks that no one would have expected he would actually seriously consider. jeremy peters, final
he s talking about infrastructure. he s talking about loosening regulations on banks but interest rates have been going up. we ll get to that in a second. he s talking about bringing back coal. coal is up. spending more on defense and giving drug companies an easier hand for prices. can i ask about hospitals? obviously there s going to be some sort of health care reform. why do you see hospitals going up? most health care providers i talk to say this change as a positive. for pharma, biotech and folks like that, it s good because they ll have less regulation and able to raise prices more. the potential repeal of obamacare worries people about hospitals because you ll have fewer people insured and that actually ends up costing the hospitals money. so the last thing that i just want to talk about is what