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cloud Bloomberg. years ago, this is what we wanted. On set this morning, Richard Haas, the

Consulant Foreign Relations, are now joining us. The aerospace engineer from

a school in New Jersey, now associated for a few years with Harvard, Michael Porter joins us.

And Michael, I can only say your 1998 book on competition changed how America thinks.

I mean, it's that simple.

Our barrier to entry this week, Professor Porter, has been the traffic in New York City.

I experienced it, Tom, myself, person.

You had a barrier entry there.

I am dismayed by your update on our competition.

It goes into what Ambassador Haas has talked about with our disarray.

And you go right to the heart of it, an ineffective national discourse.

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