Fareed Zakaria GPS

This week, Fareed talks with CNN correspondent Ivan Watson from south-eastern Lebanon on recents exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israel … and whether the tensions could escalate. Next, Fareed speaks with retired Israeli Defense Forces Col. Miri Eisin about IDF's ground strategy in Gaza following the collapse of the 7-day ceasefire. Will Israel seek to reduce civilian casualties, as the US...

This week, Fareed talks with CNN correspondent Oren Liebermann live from Tel Aviv about the latest on Israel-Hamas hostage-prisoner exchanges. Then Fareed speaks to Haaretz diplomatic correspondent Amir Tibon about whether the Israel-Hamas cease fire will be extended. CNN correspondent Nada Bashir talks with Fareed about the state of Palestinian prisoners and detainees and their return home. Brook...

This week, Fareed talks with CNN correspondent Jeremy Diamond live from Tel Aviv about recent Israeli strikes, as well as an update on the ongoing hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas. Then, Fareed talks to New York Times opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof about parsing out fact and fiction in the Israel-Hamas war and how dynamics between the two sides perpetuate violence. Next, Harvard U...

This week Fareed talks to CNN reporter Nada Bashir live from Jerusalem for an update on the crisis in the health system in Gaza. Then, he sits down for an interview with UN Secretary General António Guterres to discuss the human toll of the Israel-Hamas war as the Palestinian death toll continues to rise. They also talk about what this conflict could mean for the broader Middle East region, and th...

This week, Fareed talks with CNN correspondent Jeremy Diamond who embedded with the IDF to report in Gaza and gives an update on Israel's fight against Hamas. Next, Fareed speaks with the former Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Nasser al-Kidwa, who tells Fareed there is a need for a new Palestinian Authority that can integrate Hamas into its government. Then, Kim Ghattas, journalist and auth...

This week guest anchor Bianna Golodryga sits down for an interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. Bianna presses him on his government's praise for the recent Hamas attack and asks him about his apparent threats to the U.S.   Then, Bianna speaks with Israeli news anchor Yonit Levi to understand Israeli public opinion about the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Later, Fareed interv...

This week Fareed speaks with CNN reporter Nada Bashir, who provides an update on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza. Next, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak joins Fareed. They discuss the anticipated Israeli ground invasion and the failure of Israeli leadership to avoid this conflict. Fareed also asks Barak whether the proposed Israeli-Palestinian peace deal from the 2000 Camp David...

This week's show focuses on the escalating violence following the Hamas attack on Israel. Fareed speaks with CNN Senior International Correspondent Sara Sidner, who joins the show live from Tel Aviv to discuss the complications of an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza and the implications of removing Hamas. Then, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Richard Haass joins the show to discuss...

Today's show covers the unprecedented attack on Israel by Hamas and Israel's subsequent retaliation on Gaza. First, Fareed talks with CNN reporter Nic Robertson, who gives a live update of the situation on the ground from Sderot, Israel. Next, he speaks to former Israeli Justice Minister and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, then former Palestinian Minister of Information Mustafa Barghouti. Fareed als...

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 suppo...

This week Fareed sat down for an exclusive interview with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York City. Fareed presses President Raisi on Iran’s strict dress code for women. They also discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions and shifting politics in the Middle East. Then, Fareed talks with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the director of the WTO, about free trade and op...

This week Fareed sits down with America's most senior military officer, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley who retires at the end of the month. They discuss the latest on Ukraine's counteroffensive, avoiding a great power war with China, and the importance of an apolitical American military. Fareed also speaks with the great biographer Walter Isaacson on his latest book, "Elon Musk." Isaacson...

This week Fareed sat down for an exclusive interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at his presidential offices in Kyiv. They talk about the state of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Western support in the fight against Russia, and how Zelensky is fighting corruption in his country. Zelensky also tells Fareed why he believes compromise with Putin is not possible. Then, Fareed speaks wi...

This week on the program, a GPS special: "Artificial Intelligence: Its Promise... And Peril." Fareed explores the exciting but frightening new world of artificial intelligence in technology, science, art and more. First, he speaks with Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, about the extreme power of AI and how this technology could rapidly advance in the coming years. Then, he sits down with the...

This week Bianna Golodryga hosts the top of the show while Fareed is on assignment. Bianna begins with President Biden's historic summit at Camp David with the leaders of Japan and South Korean. She speaks with Danny Russel, former top State Department official on East Asia, about what this summit means for relations between those two nations with deep historical animosities. Next, Bianna talks to...

President Zelensky admitted this week that Ukraine’s counteroffensive has been “difficult” and Fareed talks with Alina Polyakova, the President and CEO of the Center for European Policy Analysis, about why it hasn't yielded the results many expected. Then, the recent coup in Niger: Fareed speaks with the senior director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center, Rama Yade, about what this will mean...

This week on the show, Fareed sits down with three former Treasury Secretaries to discuss the state of the world economy.  First, he hosts Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner to talk about the US debt downgrade and the chances of a recession in the near future. They also discuss the Biden administration's China policy and whether there's a path to a stable relationship with Beijing.  Then, Presiden...

This week Fareed speaks with The New York Times columnist Tom Friedman about Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu government’s judicial reforms and the politics at play. Then, New York Times Magazine writer Emily Bazelon talks with Fareed about the power of high courts globally and what role they should serve as a check on government action. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas joins...

This week on the show Fareed shares two important conversations he had while attending the Aspen Security Forum. First, he speaks with Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the America’s role in supporting Ukraine and getting Kyiv the equipment it needs to push back Russian troops. They also talk about how to ensure that competition with China does not lead to conflict, as well as what steps are...

This week Fareed talks with Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, about the technology that is shaping the war in Ukraine: drones. Then, chief China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal Lingling Wei joins the show to discuss China's looming economic troubles and what they mean for the rest of the world. Fareed also talks with longtime immigration journalist Christopher Caldwell about Europe...

This week Fareed sits down for an exclusive interview with President Joe Biden in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. They speak about the questions of NATO accession for Ukraine and Sweden ahead of the president's trip to Vilnius, Lithuania for the coming week's NATO summit. They also discuss US–China tensions, and President Biden tells Fareed that although China has big ambitions, he believes...

This week Fareed hosts an all-star panel with David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, and Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of International Affairs at The New School. They discuss how the recent insurrection may jeopardize Putin's grip on power, examining the fall of the USSR to understand the present moment in Russian domestic politics. Then, Fareed sits down with Prime Minister of Barbados Mia...

CNN correspondent Matthew Chance joins the show live from Moscow this week to share an update from Russia in the wake of the armed insurrection. Then, Fareed hosts an all-star panel with The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum and Masha Gessen of the New Yorker for analysis of the situation unfolding in Russia. They talk about what led to the fracture between Putin and Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, as wel...

This week Fareed hosts an all-star panel with Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic and Orysia Lutsevych of Chatham House to discuss the Ukrainian counteroffensive. They talk about what a Ukrainian victory might look like and how it can be achieved, as well as the current state of Ukrainian leadership. Bill Ford, Executive Chair of Ford Motor Company joins the show to discuss the electric vehicle revolut...

Fareed discusses the political and national security implications of former President Trump's mishandling of classified documents with CNN presidential historian Tim Naftali. Then, Geoffrey Hinton, known as the 'Godfather of A.I.,' speaks with Fareed about the existential threat that artificial intelligence may pose to humanity: what happens when A.I. becomes smarter than us? Plus, Ajay Banga join...