Janet Yellen on inflation and a possible "soft landing;" the Pentagon document leak; crossing the Darién Gap

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 16 April 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sits down with Fareed for an exclusive interview this week to talk about inflation, sanctions on Russia, and whether the dollar will continue to be the dominant world currency. Then Fareed hosts a panel with New York Times correspondent David Sanger and retired US Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling to talk about the Pentagon document leak: how it will effect relations with allies and what it may reveal about the war in Ukraine. And Nick Paton Walsh, CNN's Chief International Security Correspondent, tells Fareed about his work documenting the treacherous migrant route along the Darién Gap. 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. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around
0:07.3	the world. I'm Farid Zakaria coming to you from New York.
0:12.8	Today on the program, an exclusive interview with the Secretary of Treasury, Janet Yellen,
0:21.0	is inflation defeated. How likely is a recession? Will America's small bank survive? Are
0:29.7	the sanctions against Russia really biting? I'll ask for all that and more. Also, highly
0:37.8	classified documents from the Pentagon leaked on the internet. Military plans in the
0:46.6	Ukraine war have been revealed. Allies like South Korea and Israel are dismayed. We will
0:54.6	tell you what you need to know about this burgeoning scandal, the David Sanger and Mark
0:59.0	Kurtley. Finally, America's immigration crisis from an angle rarely ever seen. CNN got
1:10.0	exclusive access inside a harrowing trip from South America toward the United States on foot.
1:16.5	What's happening is the sheer number of children. But first, here's my take. Last
1:28.9	week, I argued against banning TikTok. And I told the people about the platform, I came
1:33.8	to see that the real concern most had was not about TikTok's Chinese ownership. But rather
1:40.6	just how scarily addictive it and much of social media is. That is true and deeply worrying.
1:49.4	And we should do something about it and soon. TikTok is the dominant app in the US today.
1:55.8	It has about 150 million users here. The Washington Post drew Harwell nicely summarizes the data.
2:03.5	In 2021, its website was visited more frequently than Google. Two-thirds of American teens use
2:10.6	it with one in six saying they use it almost constantly. It is also wiping the floor with
2:17.6	the competition. Harwell quotes a Bernstein research report that found that between 2018
2:23.4	and 2021, the time Americans spent on the app surged by 67 percent, while ours on Facebook
2:31.0	and YouTube grew by less than 10 percent. What is it that TikTok does that is so distinctive?
2:39.9	No one quite knows. Philip Lawrence-Spring, a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute
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