May 30, 2021 | On GPS: Is the Benjamin Netanyahu era in Israel coming to a close? Fareed talks to Tom Friedman; then a panel discussion on Belarus's "state sponsored hijacking" and Michael Lewis on the U.S.’s COVID-19 stumbles.

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 30 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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As Israeli politicians are in tasks to form a coalition that may oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Fareed talk to the New York Times’ Tom Friedman about what that would mean – for Israel, for Palestinians, and for the 2-state solution. Then he speaks to The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum and Belarusian reporter Hanna Liubakova about Belarus's "state sponsored hijacking" & subsequent arrest of dissident journalist Roman Protasevich. Then Michael Lewis dives into his new book "The Premonition," where he investigates why the world's wealthiest nation – the U.S. – bumbled its initial COVID-19 response so badly. And, lastly, Fareed looks at why the worldwide decline in birth rates could have potentially devastating consequences for rapidly aging populations. GUESTS: Thomas Friedman, Anne Applebaum, Hanna Liubakova, Michael Lewis 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 the world.
0:08.0	I'm Farid Zakaria coming to you live.
0:11.0	We'll begin today's show with a stunning announcement out of Israel.
0:16.0	Is the BB Netanyahu era of Israeli politics over?
0:21.0	I'll talk to Tom Friedman of the New York Times.
0:25.0	Then the strong man leader of a former Soviet republic scrambled a fighter jet.
0:35.0	The foe was not a hostile neighboring nation, but rather a 26-year-old opposition journalist.
0:44.0	Will state-sponsored hijacking, as some have called it, become a new tactic for desports around the world?
0:51.0	I'll talk to the historian Ann Applebaum and the Belarusian journalist Hannah Lubakova.
0:59.0	Then how did America, the world's wealthiest country, so badly bungled its initial COVID response?
1:08.0	China virus.
1:09.0	Was it Donald Trump?
1:11.0	People think that goes away in April with the heat.
1:14.0	Or was it something much bigger?
1:17.0	Michael Lewis is here to tell us what he found.
1:21.0	We didn't have a really respected and brave entity at the federal level to lead the response.
1:29.0	But first, here's my take.
1:31.0	In a country that's divided on almost everything, one area of bipartisanship in the United States is alive and growing.
1:39.0	Fear of China.
1:41.0	President Biden says...
1:43.0	The Chinese are eating our lunch.
1:45.0	The Republican Senator Josh Hawley says they are well on their way to achieving their goal of world domination.
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