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Fareed Zakaria GPS

November 15, 2020 | On GPS: As Trump delegitimizes the U.S. election, how do former key players in Republican administrations react?

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 15 November 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Airdate November 15, 2020: This week, H.R. McMaster, John Bolton, Michael Chertoff and Peggy Noonan. All held important roles in Republican administrations - under Reagan, Bush, and Trump. What do they make of Trump’s unwillingness to concede? How are America’s friends and foes viewing it? Does Trump have a worthy case in any court? And what will this do to an America that is already deeply divided? GUESTS: H.R. McMaster, John Bolton, Michael Chertoff, Peggy Noonan 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.

0:03.0

Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

0:06.0

I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live.

0:13.0

Today, a special show.

0:15.0

All the guests have held high positions in Republican administrations

0:20.0

from Reagan to Bush to Trump.

0:23.0

They're trying to steal an election. They're trying to rig an election.

0:28.0

We will spend the entire hour with them examining this unprecedented moment in America,

0:33.0

as Donald Trump continues to delegitimize the American election.

0:38.0

There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.

0:43.0

First, what are America's friends and foes around the globe supposed to think?

0:52.0

And just why won't Trump admit he lost?

0:56.0

I'll talk to two men who served as Trump's national security adviser.

1:00.0

John Bolton and H. Armit Mastor.

1:05.0

Also, before Michael Kschertoff with the Secretary of Homeland Security,

1:10.0

he was a U.S. attorney and a federal judge.

1:14.0

I'll get his take on Trump's legal challenges to the election.

1:18.0

Finally, what has Trump's obfuscation of the truth down to an already deeply divided country?

1:25.0

The American public.

1:28.0

The Wall Street Journal opinion writer and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Nune gives me purpose.

1:38.0

But first, here's my take.

1:40.0

The predictions most people make about the outcome of this election are probably right.

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