January 20th, 2018: Tony Blair calls for a new Brexit referendum

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 20 January 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Airdate January 20, 2019: On GPS: Former UK PM Tony Blair calls for a new referendum on Brexit after the defeat of PM May's deal in Parliament. Then, Aaron Sorkin joins Fareed to talk about his new Broadway production of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and what it tells us about race in America - then and now. GUESTS: Tony Blair, Aaron Sorkin

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0:18.4	This is GPS, the Global Public Square.
0:21.0	Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.
0:24.0	I'm Farid Zakaria.
0:26.8	Today on the show, the Brexit hangover, two and a half years ago, the people of Britain
0:32.4	voted to leave the European Union.
0:36.2	This week, the House of Commons voted down Prime Minister May's plan to do just that.
0:42.8	So what happens now?
0:45.4	I have a very special guest to talk about it all.
0:48.2	Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
0:53.4	And a look at race in America as the nation prepares to celebrate Martin Luther King
0:58.5	Jr's birthday.
1:01.5	Aaron Sorkin has spent the last three years turning the beloved and racially charged novel
1:07.2	to kill a locking bird into a Broadway sensation.
1:11.8	I'll ask Sorkin what that great American novel can teach us about race and tolerance.
1:18.5	But first, here's my take.
1:21.5	As we watch Britain go through the paroxysms relating to Brexit, it's easy to view the
1:26.3	decision to depart the European Union as an act of foolishness, a self-inflicted wound
1:31.5	that will impoverish Britons for years to come.
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