GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

The night before this episode posted, The New York Times' star White House reporter Maggie Haberman published a bombshell scoop that President Trump wanted to fire Mueller as early as June of last year. On our show today, Haberman talks about Trump's obsession with the Russia probe, the challenges of covering the most unusual White House in modern US history, and recalls another time when the pres...

"Every decision is made not based on principle or truth, but rather whether or not it is good or bad for Donald Trump." Sometimes getting fired can be a badge of honor. Especially if the Trump Administration is doing the firing. Former US Prosecutor Preet Bharara comes on the show to talk about President Donald J. Trump's combative relationship with the Justice Department and how the Mueller inves...

Look, 2018 is not going to be pretty, no matter what sh 😱thole you find yourself in. For our first episode of the year, former UK chancellor George Osborne lays out his less-than-jolly prediction for Brexit negotiations in 2018 and reflects on what more he could have done while in office to prevent the whole mess.  Subscribe to the GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast on Apple Podcasts , Spotify...

Across Alabama, across the United States, and across the world many people breathed a sigh of relief that Roy Moore fell short winning a Senate seat. But not all people. This week Ian Bremmer talks with Breitbart News White House Correspondent Charlie Spiering about the roughly one third of Americans who remain fervently behind the likes of Roy Moore, Steve Bannon and, of course, President Trump h...

The lines have been drawn and the geopolitical scramble to harness the power of artificial intelligence - this generation's Space Race - is well under way. It's the United States vs China and, at least for the moment, it's anyone's bet. Few people are more closely involved in AI development than Fei-Fei Li, Chief Scientist of AI and Machine Learning at Google Cloud and Director of Stanford's AI la...

"Yes, you have to read President Trump's tweets, but you can't just get riveted on those. You need to follow the troops, follow the money, and follow the substance of policies." Retired U.S. General David Petraeus has led troops into battle but he's as much an academic as he is an officer. This week he talks to Ian Bremmer about the the threats facing the United States today, both from without and...

Global economist and author Dambisa Moyo studies the intersection of geopolitics, business, and economics in an increasingly unstable world. Moyo serves on the board of Barclays Bank, she has advised more than a few fortune 500 companies, and was named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In her free time, she likes to relax by running marathons. I’ll ask her ab...

"My natural inclination, from the start, was to be really, really supportive of Donald Trump's message." A little over a year since a wave of populist support in "flyover country" helped elect President Donald J. Trump, Ian Bremmer descends from the snowflaked perches of his globalist headquarters in New York to discuss the state of Trump's base with Hillbilly Elegy author JD Vance. Subscribe to t...

"I believe that when history is written on the Crimean conflict, it will be seen as a defeat for Russia." Carl Bildt, former Swedish Prime Minister and champion of a united Europe, does not mince words about Vladimir Putin. But when it comes to the state of the European Union today, he is as upbeat as a Swede can be. Subscribe to the GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast on Apple Podcasts , Spotify...

K-Pop, fancy pianos, and plenty of soju. Despite increased Western sanctions, quality of life for much of North Korea's elite is improving. But during one particularly boozy dinner in Pyongyang last month,  New Yorker writer Evan Osnos heard something particularly chilling from one of his handful of minders: Nuclear war with the U.S. would be survivable. It might, the 35 year-old father of two see...

The Travel Ban. Charlottesville. The NFL. President Trump's handling of race in America has been divisive and unrestrained. The reason, says New Yorker Staff Writer Jelani Cobb, can be traced back to one place: Queens, New York. Subscribe to the GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or your preferred podcast platform, to receive new episodes as soon as they're publishe...

After the horrific shooting in Las Vegas, ISIS scrambled to claim responsibility. They did so despite any real evidence. Then they doubled down. This week Ian sits down with ISIS expert and New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi, who may know the group better than any other journalist. Be sure to subscribe to the show and leave us a review on iTunes (it really does help). Watch th...