| | | | On GPS at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN:
First, Fareed argues that under President Trump, the GOP has become a party of "state planning and crony capitalism."
Trump has imposed tariffs and enacted a tax cut that will add nearly $2 trillion to the national debt over 10 years. Trump's administration has "behaved like a Central Planning Agency, granting waivers on tariffs to favored companies, while refusing them to others." As lobbyists and executives line up "in true Soviet style" to seek exemptions, the favoritism advances Trump's own agenda, as he helps key battleground constituencies in the 2020 election.
It's not a conservative agenda, Fareed says, but it's "what so-called conservatives are doubling down to defend."
Next, Fareed interviews NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. As the alliance celebrated its 70th anniversary at a summit in London this week, Stoltenberg shared his views with Fareed on the criticism NATO has faced from Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron, how the alliance is holding together in today's fractious era, and how it views Russia.
Fareed then speaks with Nigel Farage—Brexit Party leader and by all lights the UK's foremost Brexiteer—who predicts with certainty that Brexit will happen, argues that Brexit is about global engagement rather than a British withdrawal, assesses the forces that drove Brexit's success in 2016, and shares his views on Trump's appeal.
After that, Fareed discusses the UK's Dec. 12 election with Economist Editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes and Alastair Campbell, former director of communications and strategy for Prime Minister Tony Blair. The Economist's most recent cover story calls the looming vote a "nightmare before Christmas," and the two discuss how Britain's parties have grown more extreme, the questionable promises being made on both sides, the unlikelihood of a swift post-election Brexit, and the UK's broad political mess.
Finally, with Iran facing what observers have called its most significant protests since 1979, Fareed interviews IranWire Editor Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian journalist and a former colleague of Fareed's at Newsweek, who was imprisoned for 118 days for his coverage of Iran's "Green Revolution" protests in 2009. Bahari discusses Iran's violent response to today's unrest, where the protests are headed, the impact of US sanctions, and the prospect of a US-Iran confrontation. | | | | | | |
