Ezra Klein on how Trump has "Overwhelmed Himself”; US-Led Peace Talks on Ukraine; How Much Do We Understand AI?
Fareed Zakaria GPS
CNN
4.2 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 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. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Farid Zakaria. Today on the program, capturing a world leader in the middle of the night, |
| 0:15.0 | threatening to invade Greenland, sending federal agents by the hundreds into democratic cities. |
| 0:23.6 | These are all recent actions by the Trump administration that push the limits of executive power and seem aimed at overwhelming the opposition. |
| 0:29.6 | But is the Trump administration also overwhelming itself? |
| 0:34.6 | That is what Ezra Klein of the New York Times says. We will discuss where |
| 0:39.7 | this might lead. Then President Zelensky says Russia and the Trump administration |
| 0:46.7 | are discussing deals worth 12 trillion dollars. Yes, that's trillion with a T, a staggering |
| 0:53.7 | sum. It's apparently part of the effort to end the war. |
| 0:58.0 | I'll ask the Pulitzer Prize winning historian Anne Alperbaum, what is going on? |
| 1:03.0 | And in a Super Bowl ad, Chad TPT seemed to be the butt of a joke made by its lesser known competitor Claude. |
| 1:13.6 | So just what is Claude? |
| 1:17.6 | I'll talk to a New Yorker writer who spent months embedded with the team that made it. |
| 1:23.6 | He says even they aren't sure how to answer that question. |
| 1:32.3 | But first, here's my take. |
| 1:37.3 | What do two striking political facts tell us about the mood of the world today? |
| 1:46.5 | In Japan, Prime Minister Sana'i Takahichi has just won the largest parliamentary majority in the history of the long dominant Liberal Democratic Party. In Britain, Kier Stama, who swept into office a year and a half ago, |
| 1:53.5 | has sunk to the lowest popularity ratings ever recorded for a British Prime Minister. |
| 1:59.1 | On the surface, the stories seem unrelated. One leader |
| 2:02.3 | rides a landslide, another struggles to stay afloat. But taken together, they reveal something |
| 2:07.7 | deeper about the current political moment. Voters prefer rebellion to restoration. Consider Britain |
| 2:15.0 | first. After the tumultuous premierships of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi |
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