on today's show we'll tackle the two major issues that dominated the nato summit. russia and ukraine. and isis in iraq and syria. then to get another crisis brewing. in pakistan. another civilian government is teetering on the brink. will this former cricket star

and his throngs of supporters topple the government and send the nuclear armed nation into turmoil again? i will ask two great experts. and the number one killer in the world is not isis or the taliban or al qaeda of course. it is heart disease. i will talk to cnn's sanjay gupta about why eating more of this and less of this might help you live longer. but first here's my take. watching the gruesome isis execution videos i felt some of the same emotions i did after 9/11. it's designed to provoke anger and it's succeeded, but in september of 2001 it also made me ask a question, why do they hate us? i tried to answer it in an almost 7,000 essay for "newsweek" that struck accord with the readers. i reread it this week to see how it might need updating in the 13

years since i wrote it. i began the piece by noting that islamic terror is not the isolated behavior of a handful of nilists. there is a broader culture that has been come police sit or at least unwilling to combat it. things have changed on this front but not nearly enough. i point out that we face not an islam problem but an arab problem. for example, in 2001 and 2002 indonesia was on the top of people's worries because of a series of attacks there soon after 9/11, but over the last decade jihad and even islamic fundamentalism has not done well in indonesia, which is the largest muslim country in the world, larger than iraq, syria, egypt, and libya and all the gulf states put together. look at india which is right next door to zawari's headquarters and yet very few of the 150 million muslims are

known members of al qaeda. he's announced a bold effort to recruit muslims, but i suspect it will not do well. the central point of the essay was that the reason the arab world produces fanaticism and jihad is that it is a place of complete political stagnation. by 2001 when i was writing almost every part. world had seen significant political progress. eastern europe, asia, latin america and even africa had held many free and fair elections but the arab world remained a desert. in 2001 most arabs had fewer freedoms, political, economic, social than they did in 1951. the one aspect of life that arab dictators could not ban, however, was religion. so islam had become the language of political opposition to the secular regimes.

the arab world was left with secular dictator ships on the one hand and deeply i willibera groups. hosni mubarak. this was deeper and more destructive than i realized. despite the removal of saddam hussein and the arab spring, the dictators and jihad dishas not broken. look at sir yeah until recently bashar al assad was actually helping isis. how? by buying oil and gas from it and by shelling its opponents. the free syrian army when the two were in battle against each other. you see, assad was playing the old arab dictator's game, giving his people a stark choice. it's either me or isis, he was saying, and many syrians, the christian minority, for example, have chosen him. the greatest setback has been in

egypt where nonviolent islamist movement took power and squandered its chance by overreaching but not content to let the muslim brotherhood fail at the polls, the military then displaced it by force, has moved back into power and egypt is now a more brutal police state than it was under hosni mubarak. the muslim brotherhood has been banned, killed and jailed and the rest driven underground. let's just hope that ten years from now we do not find ourselves discussing the causes of the rise of an isis in ee giptd. for more go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. and let's get started. we will go right to a great

panel today in london, ann applebaum is a column nist. and here richard haas and peter barnard and brett stevens is the foreign affairs columnist for the wall street journal. brett, let me start with you. one of the fundamental questions with obama's strategy with isis has been the question of whether he should be pressing the iraqi government for political concessions that is creating more inclusive iraqi government or just jumping in there. you've been critical. you've said stop trying to get these political concessions. just go in and start fighting. >> these would be great to make. there's no question that malaki did a great deal to alienate the sunni minority in iraq, but stopping isis is a vital american interest so we might be able to imagine a constellation of good things that could come out of iraq, reconstituted much

more effective government that can hold its ground for the longer term, but i think this president wasted two or three critical months between the taking of mosul in june and then the beginning of airstrikes last month waiting for a new iraqi government. that was time ill spent. we have to recognize that isis is a direct threat to the west, it's a direct threat to the united states and we can't hope for -- we can't make the best of the enemy of the good in dealing with this crisis. >> peter, is isis a direct threat to the united states? >> i don't think it's a direct threat right now. it could become one. al qaeda developed a particular strategy for going after the west as a way, a back door to trying to overthrow the regimes like mubaraks and the saddam regimes. isis has not been their strategy. it's entirely possible that isis could move in that direction. in fact, if you look at the foreign jihadi so far who have been most implicated coming out

of syria, they have been more connected to el nusra. in fact, because al qaeda has more of an international agenda than isis does so far. >> ann in london, what is your sense of what came out of the nato summit with regard to a kind of common western strategy? >> most people who have been watching it were either disappointed or somewhat bemused by what nato did. yes, there has been a creation of the coalition of the willing, but it's not clear yet that there are european states that are willing to join it. perhaps brittain, perhaps france. you mentioned those images that have come out of the middle east and how terrifying people find them and how much it reminds you of 9/11. the interesting thing in london is that, you know, i don't ever remember seeing so much focus on dangerous images and the terrible videos and yet the kind of reaction we had in 9/11, which is that we must all stand

together, we must support the united states, we must think what we must do as a group i don't feel that at all this time. there's very much a sense about terrorism, domestic terrorism. a lot of it is about immigration and a lot of it is about the british muslim problem. i don't feel a sense of common purpose. >> why do you think that is, ann? what is the purpose? >> i don't feel that people think the united states has a strategy. they don't see what it is. they don't see where it's going. there's nothing clear that they can yoin that has a chance of being successful. partly that's a critique of the united states and partly it's a sense of our own failures over the past few years. we were unable to make a change in iraq. we were unable to do anything for libya. why do we think we can do anything for syria either. there's a lack of confidence. it's partly to do with american leadership and partly european as well. >> richard, 60 seconds to handle

this. how to solve the syria piece. what do we do about isis in syria? >> that's the exact place to begin. this border's irrelevant and our policy has to reflect that. the united states and the world has to go after isis in syria, not just from the air. we need a ground partner. we need a ground partner. we have to create a force with military capability led by jordan or we have to accelerate the building up of a syrian opposition or we need an accommodation. those are our options since we've ruled out getting involved militarily. we have to get regional. this is not just regional, it's a global threat to the united states. we have to take the policy to them. the president will speak to this. i hope he articulates a policy which will put the united states on the offense against isis. >> in 15 seconds, what one thing do you want to see in the president's spooech on wednesday? >> what i want to see is a

serious effort probably with the jordanians to put a real arab force on the ground and not just to remove isis. we then need to think about what comes after. in the funny sort of way, we're talking about an odd regime change. we have to get rid of isis and think of nature building, future syria. what is the role of the assad government? this is a big, big, big enterprise the united states is embarking on. >> we will come back and we will talk about ukraine, the supposed cease-fire and what is really going on. stay with us. >> announcer: fareed's take brought to you by century link. da tarks voice, cloud. managed services. sundays are the warrior's day to unplug and recharge. what if this feeling could last all week? with centurylink as your trusted partner, it can. our visionary cloud infrastructure and global broadband network free you to focus on what matters. with custom communications solutions and dedicated support,

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we are back with ann applebalm in london and guests here in new york. let me go to you on ukraine. you say russia is winning and that in the next few weeks ukraine is likely to be dismembered. explain what you mean. >> russia is winning in that as we saw in ukraine's last decision to try and organize a cease-fire, russia is winning in that ukraine has had to agree to the presence of russian armed separatists inside its country. ukrainians were trying to win the war. they were trying to push them out of the country and re-establish the sovereignty of ukraine. it's become clear that that will not be possible because they were willing to support the separatists with real troops and willing to take real casualties. that means the ukranians are faced with a new situation which is what will the borders of their country be. and will there be russians

simply in those two provinces, into south of the country, how far will it go? in that sense russia has won the conflict so far. >> richard, a lot of -- some people, probably a minority, but people like henry kissinger has argued. russia cares a lot more about ukraine than the united states or frankly even western europe and as a result this was inevitab inevitable, that we shall recognize that. we miscalculated the degree to which putin cared about this and we have to have some kind of negotiated solution with him. >> we do have to have some negotiated solution. the question is the details. it's the question of what is ukraine's foreign policy orientation. what, if any, limits does it accept on it self vis-a-vis nato and the european union and secondly what sort of arrangements is ukraine willing to stomach, no better word for it, internally about the dilution of its sovereignty in the east. there's already a de facto acceptance in crimea.

the question is in the eastern reaches what else will the ukrainian government be willing to live with and whether you can come up with an approach. look, is this ideal? ? no. in real estate we salo case, location, location. the russians have the advantage of location and they have a greater force than nato. nato is a rhetorical organization. it doesn't have the organization nor the will and it needs a policy to reflect that. >> brett, do you think the west has to accept the situation as it is? >> no. in fact, i think it's dangerous for the west to accept the situation as it is. i don't think putin will stop here in ukraine where we are at this very moment. i think he wants to create a land bridge to crimea. i think we should take seriously his talk about taking kiev in the next two weeks. if we accept this we are

whetting his appetite and parts of a former soviet union. america has a vital stake in the credibility of the deeds we sign. 20 years ago we signed something called the budapest memorandum in which we said -- we arranged for ukraine to return 2,000 nuclear weapons to russia, the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world in exchange for guaranteeing the borders. what's sad here is we have walked away from that. what we have shown is that those promises are paper deeds and other countries should not allow america to handle their foreign policies. >> brett? >> the problem is consistently there's a gap between what we want and what we're willing to do. nobody's talking about putting u.s. troops on the ground in ukraine. the best -- the most aggressive thing to do would be to flood it with lots of weapons but i don't know that if we sent the ukrainians lots and lots of weapons they could still defeat the russians in eastern ukraine

now that they're all in. i regret that we should do everything we can from getting putin to create a land bridge. if putin went to take kiev, that would be russia's afghanistan. that would be incredibly stupid. but i think given that the united states is not willing to send american troops, nobody wants to do that, given that even if we were to send more weapons, which is debatable proposition, the ukrainian military would be too weak. we don't have the capacity to make a ukraine that is not going to have to come to some accommodation to russia, tragic as that is. >> ann, what would you like to see the united states do? what did you think of what obama said at the nato summit? >> what i would first of all like to see the united states do is really and truly reinforce nato as it currently exists. right now people in the balance particular states, poland, romania, other parts of eastern europe are beginning to feel

doubt about whether the nato guarantee will be real. as brett mentioned, the bought a pest alliance is broken. will we fight for latvia, lithuania? that's the most immediate question, can that be done and how quickly. nato made some moves in that direction but i don't have a sense either from the rhetoric i heard or from anything that anybody who has been there has told me that there's been a transformative moment. people feel this is real and there's a real challenge. one of the things that russia is doing is subtly and less subtly trying to undermine our sense of security, our sense that nato is real, that its guarantees are real. unless we show -- unless we show that immediately, then, yes, i think we're inviting further incursions not only to kiev but beyond. >> very quickly, richard. your last book was "foreign

policy begins at home." are we now in a situation where the foreign challenges have become much more important and overwhelming? >> foreign policy may begin at home. it doesn't end at home. what the president needs to do is recognize that the world is getting messier. i think the time has come to increase u.s. defense spending and how we use our energy abundance into a tool to strategically take on russia. >> we have to leave it at that. when we come back, some potentially good news coming out of washington. believe it or not, it's true. i will fill you in when we get back. >> announcer: fareed za kara gps brought to you by citi. za kara gps brought to you by citi. aza gps brought to you by citi. kazaa gps brought to you by citi. rza kara gps brought to you by citi. kara gps brought to you by citi. kara gps brought to you by citi. kara gps brought to you by citi. a gps brought to you by citi. ara gps brought to you by citi. ra gps brought to you by citi. a

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now for our what in the world segment. i'm always on the lookout for good news, and we have some important good news this week and it's actually coming out of washington, d.c., despite all the polarization. of course, true to form, they

disagree about this news. what is it? the nonpartisan congressional budget office recently released its semi-annual outlook over the next decade. the cbo's headline is that things are going better than expected. we are firmly in an economic recovery with substantially lower federal deficits, lower interest rates and i would add little danger of inflation. the cbo says that the federal deficit, the gap between revenues and spending is projected to be $506 billion in 2014. that's just 2.9% of gdp, slightly lower than the average short fall. keep in mind in 2009 the federal deficit was 9.8% of gdp. the current number is much better than most believed was possible just a few years ago. nobel prize winning economist argues that the debt and budget crisis were imaginary and have fizzled.

he says the cbo projections show that the debt apocalypse has been called off. the newest debt to gdp ratio will increase but he notes that health care costs, which play by far the largest role in doomsday budgets in areas, have slowed dramatically. in 2019 the cbo projects that the federal government will spend $95 billion less on medicare than it had anticipated spending four years ago. they've pointed out that 95 billion is more than the government will spend that year on welfare, unemployment insurance, and amtrak combined. sounds great, right? okay. let's check out the view from the worry warts. the long view they say is not so promising. federal spending on entitlement programs they argue are unsustainable. the federal debt, the debt held by the public as a percentage of

gdp will reach 74% by the end of the fiscal year. that's about twice what it was at the end of 2007 when the federal debt was just 35% of gdp and that number is projected to be more than 100% of gdp in 25 years. according to the cbo, that is a level seen only once before in u.s. history just after world war ii. rob portman, a republican senator from ohio, warns that the retirement of 77 million baby boomers will create an entitlement meltdown. by 2030 he says there will be only two worksers to support each retirees, whereas, there were five workers to support each retiree in 1960. what's more, 85% of future deficit increases between now and 2024 will be driven by three things, interest payments on federal debt, social security, and spending on health care programs like medicare and medicaid. given that projection,

discretionary spending, which includes defense, housing assistance, infrastructure, education would be whittled down to 5.2% of gdp by 2024. that would mean massive cuts in all of these programs. keep in mind that such spending accounted for 6.8% of gdp in 2014 and has averaged about 8.3% over the last 40 years according to the cbo. we're already way down. we can't keep cutting the programs that will ensure our future prosperity. now my final piece of good news. it wouldn't take all that much to fix the situation. the cbo estimates that the u.s. could stabilize the debt to gdp ratio by finding tax increases or spending cuts equivalent to just 1.2% of gdp. so how about a compromise that does both at 0.6% of gdp each. the bad news, of course, is that even this modest common sense

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for help lowering your blood sugar talk to your doctor about januvia today. protests like these have rocked pakistan over the last three weeks. a rallying cause for this angry mob is opposition to the prime minister. the protesters have been camping outside the nation's parliament want sharrif to go. he says he's not going anywhere. the key player to keep an eye on is the all powerful military that wields the real power. whom do they support? how unstable will things get in the nuclear nation? let's see if we can get some answers. we have terrific guests. we have the former ambassador to the united states and peter

berggren is at the new american foundation. peter, let me start with you. paint the scene for us. what exactly is going on in pakistan? >> well, i mean, we've seen this movie before sometimes, fareed, where we've seen massive street protests and the most recent big example of that was in 2007 when essentially a movement allied with the support and eventually unseated general musharif. it's indicative of how weakened the democratic people have become. >> take us behind the scenes. what is going on here? what kind of power play are we watching? >> fareed, we must understand that these protests and the turmoil they have generated is just the symptom of a deeper, deeper disease. the disease is that pakistan's military has ruled pakistan for

more than half its life as an independent country. on the other half the military wants control of foreign policy and security policy. right now they're upset with prime minister sharrif because he's trying to put on a coup maker. the opposition of the military orchestrating this cannot be ruled out. >> what seems to be happening, peter, is that the pakistani military following hussein's line of argument, they're upset with sharrif because he wants to put musharif on trial. he's training to make peace with india or at least improve relations with india. this is what he was trying to do the last time he was prime minister which is when he was ousted in a military coup by none other than musharif. this is a strange story of what goes around comes around. >> yes. i think the pakistani army has

changed. i believe with everything the ambassador has said. i think the appetite for a coup in the army is very low. there's one other issue, fareed, in the laundry list of disputes between the military and government which i think is important, is the fact that the military for the first time in its history has taken a much more enthusiastic role in fighting the taliban in the tribal areas of pakistan, something the u.s. has been demanding for a long time. ironically, the sharrif government has been a bit on the fence on this issue. so there are multiple points where the military and the civilian government are in conflict but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are about to launch a coup. >> peter, into this mix has entered zawari, the head of al qaeda, who says he is going to try to open a chapter, franchise, however one puts it on the indian subcontinent.

what does all of this mean? why is zawari doing this? >> fareed, i think it's hyperventilation. the idea that he's going to open a branch of al qaeda is just crazy. yes, there are some jihadi elements in india but there's no evidence that they have a presence. it's an attempt to have people like us discuss him because he's been out of the limelight for so long. it's all been about isis in syria. al qaeda is very conscious that they're yesterday's story. the tape of him is so boring. he's talking on a monolog for a half an hour. you look at what isis is doing is very exciting, well-edited with music. you can see why isis is a much more appealing media strategy apart from they're being much more successful in terms of getting territory, money, fighters, establishing a large foothold in the middle east. >> hussein, what about the issue

of what happens once american troops draw down? because as that happens, the taliban is clearly going to make some kind of play for power in afghanistan, the afghan taliban, and historically they have been supported by the pakistani military. do you believe that will happen again? >> whether the pakistani military supports them or not, the fact remains that they have not done anything so far to stop the taliban, afghan taliban, from remaining a significant factor in afghanistan so when the taliban do make a play, pakistan will definitely be drawn in. it's unlikely that pakistan will clamp down on the afghan taliban. in fact, i think that zawahari's attempt to talk about india is to try to get the hard line elements among pakistani jihadis to think about them as a potential ally. that's his play. i don't think he will get much

traction, but basically what he's trying to do is appeal to the entire indian sentiment that is there every day and hoping to get recruits for his cause. i think we will see problems in afghanistan and we will continue to see problems in pakistan. i just wish that the sharrif government would have been able to reach out to india, make peace with it, and at the same time get pakistan out of afghanistan. the best future would be one that the afghans determine without the medal ing of pakistn and without al qaeda. i think we are not looking to a very positive future. >> fascinating insights. very complicated subject. thank you, gentlemen, both. up next, how to keep yourself alive. is bread the staph of live and should you put butter on it. the new low down on what you should be eating with sanjay

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"time magazine" told us to eat butter, lots of it. "the new york times" magazine asked if sugar was toxic, and this week a new study sponsored by the national institutes of health came out that reinforces other studies. it suggests that eating a low carb diet is more effective, not just for weight loss, but also for reducing your risk of heart disease. i decided i needed someone to help me and you by proxy sort through all these claims and counterclaims, somebody who's a real expert. luckily cnn's sanjay gupta is the very best. >> thank you very much. quite a compliment. thank you. >> so, tell me, how to think about it. for 20 years people have been thinking that fat was the enemy because it produced cholesterol

because it was blocking arteries. that's not quite right. >> i could talk about this all day long because i think it highlights very important things in terms of how we sometimes misinterpret science or at least over exaggerate it. in the late '70s there was a senate commission, senator mcgovern looked at this and found that people who had high levels of cholesterol tended to die early of heart disease. if you ate a diet of fat it raised your cholesterol. those were two different studies. they got linked not only by the senate but in the scientific community and by everybody else. what happened over the last 30 years, it got codified. it became the way that we eat low fat in this country and nothing changed. in fact, things got worse. cardiovascular disease remains the biggest killer of men and women. diabetes rates are higher than ever before. childhood obesity. it didn't work. that's what prompted all of this analysis. i think there's two issues here, fareed. fat doesn't get a free pass

here. >> right. >> there are still some problems. it raises cholesterol levels. the problem is that what we replaced fat with was sugar and sugar may be more problematic in some ways for someone who's worried about heart disease than fat. if i put a double cheese burger here and a big, sugar ri drink, and i asked which is worse for your heart, a child would see cheeseburg cheeseburger. they would be wrong. it's the sugar ri drink that gets converted into the bad cholesterol. >> it's not that fat is good for you, it's that if you replace fat with sugar, it's worse for you, right? >> that's right. >> why is sugar so bad? is there a simple way to explain it? >> here's the simple way. humans weren't designed to eat it. fruit fell from the trees. honey was protected by the bees. how much fruit? ten orange. that's enough. now we eat 140 pounds roughly a year on average.

our bodies simply did not evolve to be able to handle that so it hits the liver, liver says, i don't know what to do with all of this sugar so it starts to metabolize it in unusual ways and it gets turned into what are known as low density lipo protein particles. that's the worst kind of cholesterol. >> for the body, a slice of white bread and a packet of sugar are essentially indistinguishable. white bread, those carbohydrates for the body are sugar. >> maybe a little bit of a time delay so to speak. you can trace the sugar, whether it be in the bread or packet of sugar, and you can find the same particles in those cholesterol particles later on. >> i read you right about how you're actually experimenting with a vegan diet. >> yes. >> now explain c ywhy you think what are the benefits? what is it about dairy and things that worry you? >> i have a history of heart disease in my family.

a lot of people do. this is sort of this quest tim . south asians in particular, they're more at risk of developing these particularly bad cholesterol particles in their body and causing heart disease. causing damage to the blood vessels in the heart. fat, dairy, meat, they lead to that problem. i keep a simple policy in our house. i still need to eat some meat. i grew up on it. we just don't keep it in the house anymore. if i go out to eat, for example, i may order it off the menu. but i've greatly curtailed it. >> house is essentially vegetarian? >> house is essentially vegetarian? my wife, my kids. we don't miss it. >> if you look at health magazin magazines, men's magazines, women's magazines, they're all

about power foods. they're gimmicky. is it true if you had blueberries all the time you'd be better off than strawberries? >> there are some foods that belong in the super foods category. those that diminish what you've done and those that help you optimize a healthy body. blueberries is one of my favorites. in addition to having the antioxidants, it can reduce your risk of cancer, colon cancer, vascular disease and it tastes good. it's an easy thing to eat. that has to be part of the equation as well. there are certain foods like that. what i will say is that this whole notion, fareed, of trying to take the good stuff, if you will, about food and put it in a pill form i believe was very be novemb -- benevolent? >> you have to eat the food? >> you have to eat it. there's all the micro nutrients. we don't know what they do. they may help transport the good things, open up receptors in your body that allow the good

stuff to get in. we don't know. we know it's not nearly as effective. minuscule compared to the food itself. >> a lot of the other -- the things you write about seem like very good, common sense. there's one that struck me that i wouldn't have guessed. the minute you get up you drink a glass of water. >> yes. i'll tell you what. this is something i adopted recently and it makes a difference. common sense tells you that you've been sleeping for six, seven, hopefully eight hours and you haven't had anything to drink. your brain is 75% water so you really need to sort of replenish your hydration supply and you need to do it first thing in the morning because it's very difficult to catch up if you haven't started to hydrate first thing. it starts, fareed, a few minutes after i wake up by drinking 16 ounces of water. i keep a jug in the bathroom and i drink it as a get ready. i have a lot of energy as i get

out. >> not an apple a day, but water. >> an apple addai. i'm still here, fareed. >> sanjay gupta. thank you. >> honor to be here. up next, diplomats hashing out their disagreements with hashtags. a look at diplomacy that used to take place behind closed doors. >> announcer: fareed za kara gps brought to you by human na. let's close the gap between people and care. lieve the gap will close when healthcare gets simpler. when frustration and paperwork decrease. when grandparents get to live at home instead of in a home. so let's do it. let's simplify healthcare. let's close the gap between people and care.

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the world economic forum's latest global competitiveness report was published this week. it brings me to my question, what country or economy ranked number one in overall global competitiveness? is it singapore? switzerland? the united states? or china? stay tuned and we'll tell you the correct answer. this week's book of the week is "the intel trinity" by michael malone. in the beginning there was one tech company, fairchild

semiconductor. they spawned intel and almost 50 other companies. this is a fascinating look of the three people who are the god fathers of the original tech industry. and now for the last look. the nato summit has just ended, but the next big meeting is around the corner. in november the g-20 will meet in brings bin -- brysbin. they hope to block vladimir putin. in response the russian ministry of foreign affairs tweeted the australian foreign minister's idea is not surprising but he should not lose sight of its principles. there was just one problem with this tweet, that he the russians were referring to is actually a she, julie bishop is the aussie foreign minister. tweeting in response to russia sweden's foreign minister carl bent was quick to point out a

fairly basic mistake, that australia's ambassador child in, borders, genders, all a bit confusing right now. the russians replied they meant it but not he but added another zinger. some foreign ministers are famous for constant misleading. wonder who they were fingering? this wasn't the only recent twitter spat for the russians. last week canada's mission to nato tweeted this helpful map which went viral. russia's mission responded with a geography lesson of its own for the canadians. diplomacy used to be conducted behind closed doors and much of it is, but now in addition to good negotiating skills, diplomats need to be able to send messages to the world in 140 characters or less. the correct answer to our gps challenge question was, b. switzerland is the world economic forum's most competitive nation for the sixth year in a row. over the last year the united

states has made progress moving from fifth place to third place. last place goes to the african nation of guinea. overall the study warned about the uneven face of change around the world. thank you for being part of my program this week. program this week. i will see you next week. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. i'm brian salt ter. it's time for "reliable sources." i'll tackle isis and see if fear is getting in the way of the facts. and chuck todd, i'll show you my interview with him in a few minutes. we are going to start son a somber note. the funeral of joan rivers is getting started at the temple emanu-el. who have you cena rife so far? >> reporter: brian, this is exactly what we all expected and what joan rivers would have