July 4, 2021 |On GPS: A Fourth of July Special; Fareed looks at the state of America on its 245th birthday, from politics, democracy, and economics, to race relations and culture.
Fareed Zakaria GPS
CNN
4.2 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Farid Zakaria and this is a special edition. |
| 0:10.0 | State of America. |
| 0:12.0 | Today on the show, a report card on America. |
| 0:17.0 | As the country celebrates its 245th birthday, |
| 0:21.0 | we take stock of how the nation is fearing. |
| 0:24.0 | We'll start with the state of democracy. |
| 0:27.0 | President Biden pledges to do big things. |
| 0:30.0 | This is a generational investment. |
| 0:32.0 | The modern eyes are infrastructure. |
| 0:35.0 | Congress remains deeply divided and states pass laws to restrict voting. |
| 0:42.0 | What does it all add up to? |
| 0:44.0 | The leader comes in and can mobilize the sentiment of the people, then change happens. |
| 0:48.0 | And I still believe that we're at that moment now. |
| 0:50.0 | It's up to us to write the end of the story. |
| 0:53.0 | Then... |
| 0:54.0 | Go what we made! |
| 0:55.0 | Race relations. |
| 0:57.0 | I can't be! |
| 0:58.0 | Just 13 months after the killing of George Floyd. |
| 1:01.0 | Hey, there! |
| 1:02.0 | No shit! |
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