May 17, 2020 | On GPS: Rahm Emanuel on how to turn the Covid crisis into opportunity

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Airdate May 17 2020: To reopen or not to reopen, that has been the question. But how do we reopen safely? How do we reopen and reform our economy? First up, former White House Chief of Staff and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on the policies and the politics. Then, doctor and author Atul Gawande on what we can learn from hospitals about lifting lockdowns. And, Beijing's battle with Washington - are China and the U.S. headed for a Cold War? Richard Haass tells Fareed what the Covid crisis has revealed about the new geopolitical order and our capacity to solve global problems with global solutions. Finally, the world's pandemic problem. Scientific journalist Sonia Shah tells Fareed why the world is seeing more outbreaks of disease.

GUESTS: Rahm Emanuel, Atul Gawande, Richard Haass, Sonia Shah

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0:00.0	This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States
0:05.4	and around the world. I'm Farid Zakaria coming to you live from New York.
0:10.9	Today on the show, you never want a serious crisis to go to waste. That is what
0:18.5	Rahm Emanuel famously said. I will ask the former White House Chief of Staff
0:23.1	and former Chicago Mayor his thoughts on how we should use this crisis.
0:30.1	Also, China has been taking advantage of the United States for many many years.
0:35.6	The Trump administration seems headed toward a cold war with China. Richard
0:42.3	House of Republican and advisor to three presidents explains why this is a
0:46.9	dangerous strategy. And how to live life after the lockdown. Dr.
0:55.9	author and New Yorker staff writer Atul Gawande gives us his
0:59.9	prescriptions, ones that have been tested and worked. Finally, the French have
1:06.7	come a long way from the long-favorite lion, let them eat cake. So what are
1:12.0	they being encouraged to eat now? Stay tuned and find out.
1:19.0	But first, here's my take. If anyone thought a global pandemic that has so far
1:24.3	killed more than 85,000 Americans would override the country's partisan divide,
1:28.9	think again. It turns out that Democrats are significantly more likely than
1:34.0	Republicans to believe that the pandemic is serious and to follow CDC guidelines.
1:38.6	Preliminary studies using cell phone data show that people in more Republican
1:43.7	areas of the country have been moving around more than in democratic areas.
1:47.8	This has led many to wonder why partisanship has become so strong in the US
1:52.9	that people will not listen to experts even at the risk of their own health.
1:57.2	But there's a broader distrust that we need to understand. I recognized it
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