US narrowly avoids a government shutdown; Panel on Ukraine, China and more

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 1 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week on the show, Fareed speaks with Catherine Rampell, opinion columnist for The Washington Post, about the US government's narrowly averted shutdown and the consequences of America's addiction to government spending. Then, an all-star foreign policy panel with The Economist's Zanny Minton Beddoes and Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations. They speak about the West's waning support for the war in Ukraine, America's gerontocracy, and what the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh says about Russia's geopolitical influence. Plus, Fareed talks to Fatih Birol, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, about whether it's the beginning of the end for fossil fuels. 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.
0:05.6	Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.
0:09.0	I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you from New York City.
0:12.8	Here's my take.
0:14.8	The word that probably best describes the Biden administration's efforts in public policy
0:19.8	is ambitious.
0:22.2	Most of its initiatives from infrastructure funding to support for green transformation
0:26.7	to aiding Ukraine a big and bold.
0:30.6	Now the White House is trying to put together another major effort that, if successful,
0:35.5	will be a game changer.
0:37.2	The Saudi-Israeli normalization.
0:40.3	There are many complications that could derail the negotiations, but if a deal comes together,
0:45.8	the Middle East strongest military and most technically advanced power Israel will be
0:51.8	allied to the region's strongest economic power, Saudi Arabia, which is still the swing
0:57.9	supplier of the world's oil, all under an American security architecture.
1:04.5	That would be a major win for Washington.
1:07.7	For over a decade now, the U.S. has been searching for a role in the Middle East that is not
1:12.4	the old quasi-imperial one, and yet secures American interests in this crucial region, allowing
1:19.5	Washington to focus on the larger challenges posed by Russia and China.
1:25.0	By organizing a softer alliance between Israel and Saudi Arabia, Biden can rely on these
1:30.8	two countries to anchor the region economically and militarily.
1:36.6	There is a price, of course, and it's substantial.
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