Exclusive interview with Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, Meet the man behind the so-called Magnitsky Act, The law at the center of the meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russians
Fareed Zakaria GPS
CNN
4.2 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is GPS, the Global Public Square. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Farid Zakaria coming to you live from New York. |
| 0:12.0 | Today on the show, an exclusive interview with the foreign minister of Iran, Javed Zareef, |
| 0:17.3 | on the state of the nuclear deal, relations between his country and the United States, |
| 0:23.3 | and the re-election of Iran's President Rohanye. |
| 0:27.2 | Will the country's hardline soften further? |
| 0:32.2 | Also, the man behind the Russia story that is rocking the news. |
| 0:38.6 | What Russia wanted from Donald Trump Jr. was to end the so-called Magnitsky sanctions. |
| 0:46.1 | What are those and why does Putin care about them? |
| 0:49.7 | Bill Browder launched a worldwide campaign to slap those sanctions on Russians. |
| 0:55.9 | He will make sense of it all. |
| 0:58.8 | Finally, from President Trump to President Washington, our two nations are forever joined together |
| 1:04.4 | by the spirit of revolution America's special connection to Bastille Bay. |
| 1:13.6 | But first, here's my take. |
| 1:15.5 | The latest revelations about Russia and Donald Trump's campaign are useful because they |
| 1:19.8 | might help unravel the puzzle that has always been at the center of the story, which is |
| 1:25.7 | why has Donald Trump had such a benign and favorable attitude towards Russia and Vladimir |
| 1:31.7 | Putin? |
| 1:32.9 | It is such an unusual position for Trump that it begs for some kind of explanation. |
| 1:38.8 | Unlike on domestic policy, where Trump has wandered all over the political map, on foreign |
| 1:43.5 | policy, he has had clear and consistent views for three decades. |
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