also, james wolfensohn has many claims to fame. yes, he ran the world bank but he hired paul volcker when he started his own investment firm. i ll talk to him about the global economy and more. later, an inside look at the silicon valley facebook, paypal, facebook, zynga. reid hoffman has been at the ground floor of all of them. and why is one of america s friends, india, friends with one of its sworn enemies, iran? playground politics are at large. i ll explain. but first, here s my take. we re going to hear a lot of polarized rhetoric over the next few months. the republicans and democrats will seem to disagree about everything. but there is one huge and important area where there is a possibility, a possibility of bipartisan action. that s tax reform. most americans, republicans and democrats, dislike the tax code. their right to do so. america has what is arguably the world s most complex tax code. the federal code plus irs rulings is now 70,000 pages long. the code
because of these budgets, but also its ideological and strategic mind-set, seems on a separate course, which considers the u.s. as china s sworn enemy and believes that a conflict between beijing and washington is inevitable. so the big question for u.s./china relations in general is are the grown-ups really still in charge? and specifically, do the civilians in china s communist party control the military? you can read more about this in my column in this week s time magazine and on time.com. we have an important show for you today. first up, larry summers, in his first interview since leaving the white house. the president s top adviser on economics talks to me about jobs, recovery, and much more. then, what in the world? playground politics on the world stage. did president obama insult the brits? does america now have a new best friend? next up, a terrific gps panel with bernard-henri levy among others. we ll take a look at guns in america. this country has more guns per ca
party but for politics. i remember the article of senator brown and i thought he called this is socialist nation event in washington, dc between painting hammers and sickles on the face of children. but for once i will say i agree with a radical lastist here, i want, like senator group, all democrats to run on the merits of obama care but i would throw in the stimulus package, and cash for clunkers and bailouts, and cap and trade, and spending hundreds of millions to build mosques in the middle east when we are $1.6 trillion in the hole this year alone. i would love to ask the senator, how long can you keep this nonsense up? if you look at detroit, which is at 40 years of democrat control and union control, it is a disaster zone because socialism has never worked and it never will and in its current form
browns wants to stop all foreclosure. a former democratic pollster is not surprised but for his party he loves, he is concerned. patrick, good to see you. this is the time to hand out the goodies. guest: less than 30 days from the election and this is what happens in politics. but this stopping foreclosures is, i am sure it is a coincidence. i want you to know, any doubt you had that this is sip california, is cynical, is wrong. neil: oh, good. they argue they are frozen because they discovered there were paperwork problems and overriders. guest: and it has been going on for months. i am sure they got know phone calls from treasury and treasury
neil: another attack on the target of the tea party, by senator brown of ohio saying this is driven by anger and divides us. and some say the senator is correct. i am kidding. kidding. phil, maybe beginning with tina, what do you thing of that? guest: well, this is traditional liberal politics, playground politics, takes one to know one. they are the ones who are dieding based on race, dividing based on gender and on class and they turn around and say, well, it is the tea tea partiers who e ratist. they are wrong. that is why people will vote