This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and

around the world. I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live.

Today on the program, Joe Biden's first trip to the Middle East as President. What was

accomplished, what was left on the table, I'll ask an expert.

Then Mr. President, I sit down with one of the most respected leaders of the region,

Iraq's President, Baram Saleh, on America's new push into the Middle East.

And as Finland waits for its NATO application to be ratified, it is making preparations

to close its 800-mile long border with Russia. I will talk to the Finnish Foreign Minister

about what he thinks Putin's next move will be.

But first, here's my take. Ron DeSantis emailed me the other day. Me and hundreds of thousands

of others I imagine. Our country is currently facing a great threat he began. I assume

that with inflation soaring gas prices still sky high and the economy in danger of slowing

down, he would hit hard on those themes. But these bread and butter issues were not

mentioned anywhere in the email. A new enemy has emerged from the shadows he continued

that seeks to destroy and intimidate their way to a transformed state and country that

you and I would hardly recognize. As you might by now have guessed, this enemy is the radical

vigilante woke mob. Some of this is a clever effort by DeSantis to tap into the base of

the Republican Party and outflank Donald Trump on the kinds of issues that propelled Trump

into the Republican nomination in 2016. And the recent New Hampshire poll of likely Republican

primary voters that had DeSantis neck and neck with Trump should worry Donald. The Florida

governor has much less name recognition than Trump, and yet in a bell-weather state, the

Floridian has caught up. But it also reflects the looming electoral strategy among Republicans

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