December 8, 2019 | On GPS: NATO, Brexit, & the unrest in Iran

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 8 December 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Airdate December 8 2019: NATO leaders gather in London. Is the alliance suffering from "brain death" as French Pres. Macron said? Will it survive the Trump Era? Jens Stoltenberg, NATO's Secretary General, tells Fareed that even the alliance's most critical members will remain committed. Then, the U.K. is preparing for another election. Will Boris Johnson remain Prime Minister? Can he deliver on his Brexit promises? Nigel Farage, the father of Brexit, joins Fareed to answer these questions and more. Plus, the massive protests in Iran and the swift and violent regime crackdown. GUESTS: Jens Stoltenberg, Nigel Farage, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Alastair Campbell, Maziar Bahari

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0:00.0	This is GPS, the Global Public Square.
0:04.0	Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.
0:07.0	I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you today from London.
0:12.0	On the show today, NATO.
0:15.0	The Western Alliance celebrated 70 years at a summit this week.
0:19.0	But is the Subtagenarian organization suffering from rain death as President Pak Porclayn?
0:25.0	You just can't go around making statements like that about NATO.
0:28.0	Is it obsolete as President Trump said during the 2016 campaign?
0:32.0	NATO is obsolete!
0:34.0	I'll talk to NATO's Secretary General.
0:39.0	And as Britain heads to the polls, Brexit is now a real possibility.
0:43.0	We are now going to get Brexit.
0:46.0	I sat down with the man who started it all.
0:48.0	The head of the Brexit party, he always colorful Nigel Farad.
0:53.0	Arthur, complete, total rubbish.
0:59.0	Also unrest any wrong.
1:02.0	People are rising up again and the regime is reacting with deadly violence.
1:09.0	I'll talk to the Iranian journalist Masjir Bahari,
1:12.0	who was arrested in the uprising and crackdown during the 2009 Green Revolution.
1:17.0	But first, here's my take.
1:22.0	Republicans have rallied to Donald Trump's defense with a vigor and ferocity that might even have surprised the President.
1:28.0	It was only a few years ago that many of them suggested he was not really a Republican and certainly not a Conservative.
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