Hello from Washington. I'm Chuck Todd, and this is the Chuck Toddcast.

So, President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House, opens up a ton of questions about the role the U.S. will play on the world stage?

Will Trump finally make good on his threat to leave NATO? Unlikely.

What happens, though, in a renamed Middle East?

And probably the biggest question of all, what happens with the next global rivalry

between China and the United States?

My guest today is Ian Bremmer.

He's president and founder of Eurasia Group.

And he's been one of my favorite voices out there to help us take stock of the world, particularly

sort of of the Western world,

the Democratic world.

And Ian has his finger on this pulse here and of sort of the concern and sort of realpolitik

that everybody is sort of addressing America this time around.

But before we get started, remember to stick around for an audience

question and send us your suggestions for any other topics you'd like to see me tackle over

the next few months. We want to get in, we want to stay in this reform-minded mindset that we have

been in on that front. So do send those ideas as well as your generic

questions as well. Submit them to the Chuck Toddcast at the Gmail.com. So with that, Ian Brammer,

welcome back to the Toddcast. Love the Toddcast. Happy to be on the Toddcast. I appreciate it,

brother.

So, you know, it's weird to just dive right into this and not acknowledge what's happening in Southern California.

And the reason I say that, Ian, is because I just want to get your sort of global take on this.

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