December 6, 2020 | On GPS: Behind the assassination of a top nuclear scientist in Iran; stopping the spread of Covid-19 by Christmas; the corrosive power of political lies & conspiracy theories

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 6 December 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Airdate December 6, 2020: Iran’s Supreme Leader, its President and other senior officials have vowed to avenge the assassination of the country’s chief nuclear scientist. A top U.S. official says Israel is behind it. Fareed, Dina Esfandiary, Ronen Bergman and Martin Indyk talk about vast implications of the killing. Then, the U.S. is seeing a sharp rise in deaths and hospitalizations from Covid. Michael Mina tells Fareed his plan for how America can reverse course. And, the destructive power of political lies. As President Trump and his allies keep offering untruths in claiming the election was stolen, a look a political lie from last century that helped propel Hitler into power. What can we learn from history? Margaret MacMillan and Fareed discuss. GUESTS: Dina Esfandiary, Ronen Bergman, Martin Indyk, Michael Mina, Margaret MacMillan To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is GPS, the Global Public Square.
0:04.3	Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.
0:07.5	I'm Farid Zikaria, coming to you live from New York.
0:13.4	Today on the show.
0:16.5	The assassination of a top nuclear scientist in Iran.
0:19.8	A foreign.
0:21.3	A senior US official says Israel was behind him.
0:26.7	What really happened on that roadside near Tehran?
0:29.8	What's the test, Naile?
0:31.8	And why did it happen now in the waning, lame duck days of the Trump administration?
0:40.1	Also, 2,977.
0:44.2	That is how many people were killed in the 911 terror attacks.
0:49.2	This week, the daily reported death toll from COVID in America was almost as high on multiple days.
0:56.5	Vaccines are coming soon, but so is the dark and tragic winter.
1:02.9	How can we reverse the terrible trends the US is seeing and can we do it before Christmas?
1:09.6	Harvard's Michael Meena has a plan.
1:13.3	Finally, the president and his allies continue to spread lies about widespread election fraud.
1:22.6	At the highest level, it was a ring election.
1:24.7	I think it's all innocuous.
1:27.5	Think again.
1:29.8	One great political lie helped bring about the downfall of German democracy in the 1930s.
1:37.6	The great historian Margaret McMillan will explain.
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