October 11, 2020 | On GPS: Al Gore on the 2020 race & whether the world can escape climate change catastrophe; the global rise of far-right extremism

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 11 October 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Airdate October 11, 2020: Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore tells Fareed what he worries about regarding the November election and whether we can escape climate change catastrophe. Then, much of the U.S. and Europe have seen spikes in Covid-19 cases. What can the West learn from the East about managing the pandemic? Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm tells Fareed. And what does the plot to kidnap Michigan's governor tell us about the rise of the far-right in the U.S. and around the world? Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Fareed discuss. GUESTS: Al Gore, Michael Osterholm, Cynthia Miller-Idriss 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
0:05.7	and around the world. I'm Farid Zakaria coming to you live from New York.
0:13.0	Today on the show, the former Vice President of the United States, Al Gore.
0:19.0	I'll talk to him about many things but among them, the lessons from his own
0:23.0	presidential contest in 2000.
0:27.0	That election, of course, went all the way to the Supreme Court where he lost.
0:33.0	While I strongly disagree with the court's decision, I accept it.
0:38.0	Making George W. Bush the nation's 43rd President.
0:43.0	20 years later, could this election be decided the same way?
0:49.0	Also, as the nation's attention has been focused on COVID-19 in the White House,
0:56.0	the pandemic has been getting more problematic in many other parts of America and Europe.
1:04.0	Just how bad will it get this fall and winter?
1:09.0	And a preview of my latest special about the US's role in the world
1:16.0	after four years of Donald Trump?
1:19.0	What does the rest of the globe make of America?
1:22.0	And most important, can it come back?
1:26.0	Don't miss the premiere of How the World sees America, tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern.
1:34.0	But first, here's my take.
1:36.0	At this point, with over 1 million COVID-19 deaths worldwide, spikes in various places
1:42.0	from America to Argentina, most of us have recognized that this pandemic is not going away tomorrow,
1:48.0	that will be living with it and its after effects for quite a while.
1:52.0	But that realization can make us very gloomy and for understandable reasons.
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