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Fareed Zakaria GPS

October 18, 2020 | On GPS: What would foreign policy look like under another term of Trump vs. under a President Biden?

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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4.23.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Airdate October 18, 2020: 16 days to the election. Trump and Biden are worlds apart when it comes to foreign policy. Fareed digs into the differences with Biden foreign policy adviser, Tony Blinken, and former Trump Deputy National Security Adviser, KT McFarland. Then, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers tells Fareed that the true cost of the pandemic for America may be as high as $16 TRILLION. And, after 30 hours of hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, what did we learn? Emily Bazelon and Noah Feldman are back with Fareed to discuss.  GUESTS: Tony Blinken, KT McFarland, Larry Summers, Emily Bazelon, Noah Feldman 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.

0:07.0

I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York.

0:11.0

On today's show, the American election is just 16 days away.

0:17.0

And one of the biggest divides between Biden and Trump is on foreign policy.

0:23.0

And yet it has hardly been mentioned on the campaign trail.

0:29.0

I last Tony Blinken, longtime advisor to Vice President Biden,

0:33.0

and former Trump official Katie McFarlane,

0:36.0

what their respective candidates would do in the next four years.

0:41.0

If Biden wins, China wins, all these other countries win, we get ripped off by everybody.

0:48.0

Also, millions of Americans have fallen below the poverty line in a matter of months.

0:55.0

And there is no new stimulus in sight.

1:00.0

Meanwhile, many big companies are booming.

1:04.0

If you thought American inequality was bad before, you ain't seen nothing yet.

1:11.0

I'll talk to the former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers about the problem and the solution.

1:18.0

Finally, what if anything did we really learn from the Amy Coney Barrett hearings?

1:27.0

Noah Feldman and Emily Baselon are back with me to share their views.

1:35.0

But first, here's my take.

1:38.0

Pandemics should be the great equalizer.

1:41.0

They affect everyone, rich in poor, black and white, urban and rural.

1:45.0

And also, even the president of the United States contracted the virus.

1:49.0

But COVID-19 has actually had the opposite effect.

1:53.0

Early indications suggest the virus is ushering in the greatest rise in economic inequality in decades,

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