An exclusive interview with the Turkish Prime Minister on former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen and Turkey's state of emergency Has Trump's first trip to Asia strengthened or weakened America's position abroad?
Fareed Zakaria GPS
CNN
4.2 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Farid Zikari, coming to you live from New York. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, Abe, Moon, She, and Putin. |
| 0:16.8 | President Trump's big meetings on the world stage. |
| 0:21.1 | Has this big A-Shiftrip changed America's position in the world? |
| 0:24.8 | We are not going to let the United States be taken advantage of anymore. |
| 0:31.4 | And for the better or worse, Richard Haas in Bremer and Elise Hu will join me to discuss. |
| 0:40.1 | Also, Saudi Arabia's crackdown on corruption. |
| 0:44.1 | Princes and top officials arrested and kept at the Ritzkarten. |
| 0:48.9 | Saudi officials say this corruption has cost the country at least $100 billion. |
| 0:55.7 | What is going on? We will explore. |
| 1:00.4 | And a melee outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington last spring. |
| 1:06.3 | It resulted in U.S. indictments of 15 Turkish security officials bringing relations between |
| 1:12.6 | the two nations to a new low. I will talk to Turkey's Prime Minister, who met with Vice President |
| 1:19.6 | Pence this week. But first, here's my take. |
| 1:25.5 | The news out of Saudi Arabia has been startling. A country famous for its stability to the point |
| 1:30.6 | of stagnation is watching a 32-year-old crown prince arrest his relatives, freeze their bank accounts, |
| 1:36.9 | and dismiss them from key posts. But on closer examination, it shouldn't be that surprising. |
| 1:43.3 | Muhammad bin Salman is now applying to Saudi Arabia, what has become the new standard operating |
| 1:49.0 | procedure for strong men around the world? The formula was honed by Vladimir Putin. |
| 1:55.9 | First, focus on and amplify foreign threats so as to rally the country around the regime and give |
| 2:01.6 | it extraordinary powers. Putin did this with the Chechen war and the danger of terrorism. |
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