ns of the fortune cookie. saying before he would associate himself with justice kennedy's prose i would hide my head in a bag. in the end scalia was not happy with the outcomes of the cases but we suspect he was quite pleased with his dissents. thanks for spending your sunday with us. "fareed zakaria gps" starts right now. this is "gps," the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i am fareed zakaria. we'll start today's show with the latest global terror attacks and what to make of them. we will focus on the kuwait attack and why it was a game-changer. also the iran talks. the clock is ticking, and now some obama faithful have turned their backs on the president.

i will talk to one of those people. obama's former arms control and weapons of mass destruction czar. and, the troubled u.s.-israeli relationship. who is to blame? former israeli ambassador michael oren points the finger squarely at president obama. the administration's former middle east envoy, martinendig responds. then double agents secret codes, russian intelligence the fbi. and a critical meeting at a hooters. the real life story of how do catch a russian spy from a man who helped to do just that. but first, here is my take. in thinking about america's

enduring racial divide i find myself intrigued by some lessons from an unlikely source. singapore. to help prepare myself for a trip there next week as a guest of the national university of singapore i asked the country's deputy prime minister what he regarded as the country's biggest success. i imagined he would talk about economics since the city state's per capita gdp now outstrips of that america, japan or hong kong. he spoke with harmony. the island expelled from malaysia had a population of my grants with myriad religions, cultures and belief systems. what's unique about singapore are our social strategies. we respected people's differences yet melded a nation and made advantage out of diversity. he explained innen a interview

echoing remarks he made the a a symposium last month in switzerland. how did singapore do it? by mandating ethnic diversity in its neighborhoods. 80% of them live in public housing. every block, precinct and enclave has ethnic quotas. this is what people mean when they talk about singapore's nanny state. they readily admit it. the most intrusive social policy in singapore has turned out to be the most important, he says. when you ensure every neighborhood is mixed, people do everyday things together become comfortable with each other and most importantly the kids go to the same schools. when the kids grow up together they begin to share a future together he said. this belief was at the heart of many of the efforts of the united states federal government in the 1950s and '60s.

to desegregate schools and integrate neighborhoods through executive actions. those efforts were largely abandoned by the 1980s and since then the data shows an america that remains strikingly segregated. this has translated into unequal access to security basic health care and crucially, education. despite the fact that the supreme court ordered school desegregation 61 years ago, schools have actually become less diverse in the last two decades. a ucla study last year pointed out that many black and latino students quote, face almost total isolation, not only from white and asian students but also from middle class peers as well. these findings would not surprise the singaporeans. the natural workings of society rarely lead to diverse and integrated communities, not in singapore, not anywhere else

the prime minister said to me. they more likely lead to mistrust self-segregation and even bigotry which we see in abundance in so many countries today. he pointed out that in britain half the muslim population lives in the bottom 10% of its neighborhoods by income. did that happen by chance he asks. singapore is an unusual case. it's a small city-state. it has its critics who point to a quasi authoritarian system that impedes free expression and makes opposition parties face severe handicaps. singapore can do things western democraticcys cannot. i believe it is an example of a diverse society that has been able to live together and that we could learn something from it. to be sure singapore could learn some lessons from western democracies as well. you cannot simply assume that the natural workings of the market or of society will produce social harmony or equal

opportunity. government an elected government has a role to play. it's not about speeches and symbols. it's about specific mechanisms and programs to achieve the outcomes we all seek. that's something to consider as america in the wake of the tragedy in south carolina debates flags and symbols. for more go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. let's get started. let's dig into what the secretary of homeland security on friday called the evolving global terrorist threats. joining me is phil mudd the former deputy director of the cia counter terrorist center and a counter terrorism analyst. phil what did you make of the

biggest one, the tunisian one? does it strike you as is inspired or directed? >> inspired. we're seeing it africa and libya. egyptian groups tried to do it in the 1990s. i think there is a risk in these attacks, fareed. obviously they're going to galvanize is supporters but they're also going to leave people in tunisia to say, why do we want these guys here if they're destroying the tourism industry. >> the kuwait one struck me as significant because unlike al qaeda, this seems to be the is methodology, which is they were directed against the shia. this has become the standard operating procedure for isis. >> i think this is going to be the least visible in the united states and elsewhere around the world. people will focus on the tragedy in tunisia. i agree with you.

i think it's the most significant. the al qaeda problem, they were trying to attack u.s. mercedesembassies and cultural places. this is isis trying to strive a stake in middle eastern society as they've done in iraq. this is trying to draw a sharp line between sunni and shia. it's not just trerer orism. >> the stable part of the middle east has been the gulf. the gulf state. saudi arab. the big problem is they're going to kuwait. bahrain is majority shia. in saudi arabia you have 15% shia and they sit on top of the oil. could this sunni-shia thing start to destabilize the gulf? >> more likely in yemen. the possibility in other places, i suppose it could happen. my experience in working with security services is the hand of security in shia neighborhoods will be tough. all those countries have a lot

of money to spend on security. they've been surveilling, for example, the population of shia in the eastern province of saudi arabia for a long time. they've had problems in the past in bahrain with shia including right after the iranian revolution in 1979. i think before you see -- you'll see security forces come in with an iron fist in these places. >> it does exacerbate the sunni-shia divide everywhere and in places like syria and iraq where there are mixed populations this will make it much harder for iraq to stay together the iraqi army to stay together. >> i think iraq is finished as a state. i think you'll see -- you have kurdistan up north. you have a divide between sunnis and shias in iraq. you will never further absorb in the future the sunni population into iraq. i think the fight in yemen, far as it is off the map, is

significant because people in the gulf will believe iran is behind it. not only will you get an exacerbation of the sunni-shia divide the suspicions about iran in the midst of america negotiating a nuclear deal are going to rise. >> the middle east richard haass said will get worse before it gets worse. >> i think it will on two fronts. first the divide between moderate sunnis and extremist sunnis will last for decades. a lot of the countries, iraq and syria, are going to become more conservative over time. the divide that goes back centuries is rising up everywhere. we saw it in iraq syria, yemen. saudi arabia. we've seen it in bahrain. now we see it in kuwait. it's a remarkable swath of territory. >> would it be overly optimistic to say this has turned in a

middle eastern warfare in the middle east. they're killing each other. they're going to have less focus on spectacular terrorist attacks against western targets in the west et cetera. >> it sounds like fareed you live my live at the cia for 25 years. when terror leaders of organizations like al qaeda or isis in yemen or al qaeda in iraq are either focused on fighteding the government for example, al assad or each other. the likelihood that they spend energy on washington or new york or paris declines. the problem with the argument is that the world is changing. the number of foreign fighters in places like syria and iraq is so substantial that to believe none will bleed out back to western europe or north america is short-sighted. i think we'll see implications in north america but i think most of the energy of the groups will be against each other. >> we're so lucky to have you, phil. >> thank you.

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time after two years of western powers patiently trying to negotiate a deal on iran's nuclear program. so many were surprised this week when five former obama administration officials came out strongly against what they think would be in such a deal. those five were former cai director saved petraeus former face chairman of the joint

chief. former middle east negotiator and former non-proliferation officer robert einhorn and my next guest gary sama. welcome, gary. >> welcome, fareed, hi. >> what prompted you to put your same to this letter? you're limiting the ability of the administration to negotiate and to make deals. if you were on the other side of the table right now, gary if you were in -- negotiating with the iranians i cannot imagine that you would appreciate having a public what appears to be a public warning from your former colleagues telling you what you should and what you can and cannot make concessions on. >> we were very aware of the importance of not asking for things that are unachievable or unrealistic. and i think, if you look through the substance of the letter you'll see that the positions we take on the key unresolved

issues are very much in line with current u.s. policy. >> but then i don't understand the point of the letter. the point of the letter is to say the united states negotiating position should be what the united states negotiating position is? >> and we should insist on it. i think we've seen the iranians making an effort to walk back some of the positions that they tentatively agreed to in april. and in particular as i am sure you know the supreme leader gave a speech this week and issued a fact sheet which clearly contradicts positions that the iranians have taken earlier. this may very well be a negotiating ploy. it may not be serious, but it's important for the u.s. to stick to our position and in particular we shouldn't be driven to seek an agreement by the deadline of late june or early july. i think the status quo is quite comfortable for us and if we need to negotiate through the summer. that's something the administration should feel it

has the luxury of taking that extra time. >> let's talk about that for a moment. it has long struck me that the status quo, the current situation, is actually much better for the united states than for the iranians. their nuclear activities are largely suspended, you know so the clock has stopped in a sense. and we could negotiate for another year another year and a half. will they put up with that in your view? >> i completely agree with you. there is a myth in wash that somehow the iranians benefit more than we do from the status quo. that's completely wrong. the status quo is very much in our favor. and, as the letter says recognizing that the pressure is really on iran to come to an agreement. if they want sanctions relief. therefore, we should take our time and make sure that the final critical details in this negotiation are resolved to our

satisfaction. >> so what did you make of that speech by the supreme leader? do you think it's -- you have been watching this for years now. do you think it was a negotiating strategy? what struck me about it was it was very specific and, as you say, totally contradicts what the iranians appear to have already agreed on. >> so we've seen this before. last july as we were approaching the deadline of the negotiations at that time, the supreme leader gave a speech laying out nreasonable red lines which threw a monkey wrench into the negotiations at the time and delayed an agreement. eventually the iranians conceded. i think this is probably the same thing. this was probably a negotiating ploy intended to strengthen their bargaining position. it may mean as consequence that we don't meet the deadline of early july. i think it will be difficult for the iranian negotiators to agree to something that directly

contradicts these recently-announced red lines from the supreme leader. so my best guess, unless the iranians cave in in the next two weeks, my best guess is that we're probably looking at several more months of negotiations. >> gary samore pleasure to have you on. next the u.s.-israeli relationship is on the rocks and fingers are being pointed. i'll talk to former diplomats from both sides in what is sometimes an undiplomatic debate as you can see. coming up.

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in the last few years the u.s.-israeli relationship has been brought to the lowest point that many observers can remember. there are deep disagreements between president obama and prime minister netanyahu on everything from a two-say the solution to the nuclear talks with iran. by most accounts the two men just don't like each other. my next guest, michael orrin was israel's absmbassador to the u.s.

under net under netten yeah huhanyahu. in his book and in subsequent articles he explains the ways he thinks the obama administration lost the trust of israel from relying public day light to the president making speeches about the middle east that the president didn't clear with the prime minister first. and much more. i asked martin indig to join me as well. he was president obama's special envoy for israeli-palestinian negotiations. he was on the other side of many of the issues orrin brings up. he was ambassador to israel under bill clinton. we talk about the day light and the speeches but i want to pick up the conversation where i asked about one other criticism that orrin made of the obama administration. listen in. >> let me ask you, michael, about another decision that you seem -- you seem to have some problems with which was the decision to appoint martin indig special envoy. you say in the book you thought

it was counter-productive because beebnetanyahu didn't like him. it was counter-productive and made me think, if kerry was serious about the peace process. do you think the united states government when appointing special envoys should worry about the sensibilities of israeli? >> martin i have known for many years and appreciate his knowledge and experience in diplomacy. i think martin would not disagree with me. he had a famously strange relationship with netanyahu. i thought his appointment was unusual if you're trying to establish trust. my mantra to the administration from day one is that israelis respond to feeling secure. they do not respond to threats or pressure. i would always say, try love.

if you embrace us make us feel secure we will go the extra mile. it seemed to me from pretty much early on in 2009 that message was not being internalized. not by everybody. with martin's appointment we discussed ways that he could build that trust. in the end i don't think that martin would disagree that that trust was not established and that the relations ended up being famously strained. >> martin? >> well famously strained is michael's characterization. i don't agree with that at all. my relationship with netten yeahanyahu had its ups and down. something he doesn't know. this goes to a lot of things in his book. he relates things he has partial knowledge. in this case he clearly did not know that my appointment as

special envoy was cleared by secretary of state kerry with prime minister netanyahu. he assented to my appointment. as for building trust, michael doesn't know that the extent to which i went to build that trust with the prime minister indeed following michael's advice on this. and we did work closely together during those negotiations and i followed certain understandings that the prime minister and i reached about what i would and wouldn't do. and during those negotiations i think we had a relationship of trust. when those relations broke down, i criticized both sides for the failure of those negotiations. so i just think that this is another case in which michael, in the -- in the process of trying to build a case against president obama, has misconstrued what actually

happened. >> i think it's an odd response for ambassadors, whether shapiro or indic to say another ambassador doesn't have a full picture but they do. of course ambassadors don't have the full picture. we have our insights our perceptions. and that's what this book is about. the book does not claim to know the entire picture. the book is about what the -- the situation looked the unfolding events how they seem from the perspective of the israeli embassy in washington d.c. there is no claim to omnipotence here. none whatsoever. but the end of this process, we're a talking about a process that at the end took place for the most part after my term in washington. in israel the only blame that is really heard was the blame that both martin and secretary of state kerry put on israel for settlement building in areas which are not considered

settlements by the people of israel. they're considered the jewish neighborhoods of jerusalem that no israelis think of as settlement. it was chosen to release prisoners that killed hundreds of israelis to keep the settlement issue off the table. to condemn israel for building in neighborhoods which nobody considers settlements was unfair and just -- from my mind that is another example of undermining of under the trust -- >> that's not true. as a historian you are not giving an accurate account of what happened. >> as an -- >> wait a minute. let's give martin a chance michael. >> when both of us care deeply about the u.s.-israel relationship and both of us can at least agree that the relationship is in crisis. why you would want to come out and pour flames on the fire in this way, in this incendiary

way, is really something that i find quite incomprehensible. >> it's interesting. one of the points i make in the book is that the administration was very very disciplined. i said this with respect. in israel we have a rather rambunctious democracy where every member of the cabinet is a pro protension prime minister and everybody has its own messaging. the line you just heard, fareed why would you want to pour a buckle of fuel on a fire i have now heard from four different people who have been briefed by the administration. i'm glad your guest has been appropriately briefed by the administration. >> the point is, first of all, that is simply not true. have spoken to nobody in the administration. >> you chose those words randomly. >> i spoke to nobody in the administration. >> but of course you have. you couldn't have chosen those words randomly. they actually appear in paper -- >> that's what you're doing. it doesn't require anybody to be told what to say to know that

that's what you're doing. >> i think you're well briefed. let's get to the heart of this. why now. you raised -- you raised a question. >> let's get to the heart of the issue. we are missing the huge forest for the trees right now. this book was scheduled to come out in october, and it would have been much easier for me. i pressured my publisher random house to bring it out now before the fateful vote on iran. this is not about books. it's not about fires or about pouring -- it's not about pouring fuel on fires. it's about the security and the future survival of the jewish state. it's not about legacy. it's not about diplomacy. it's about my children's lives. my grandchildren's lives and i am not speaking as anybody's spokesman here except for myself. i am telling you this is a very bad deal that endangers our future security of survival. >> i'll give martin the last word. >> look i think that the issue

of the iran deal is being exaggerated in a way that distorts what is happening here. the purpose of the deal is to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons, to put meaningful curbs on its nuclear program and should be assessed in that way. instead, the way michael portrays it is that it's going to produce an iranian weapon that will be used to destroy israel. i think that's an emotional and unhistorical approach to focus on what's happening here. if that's the case it behooves israel's leadership and it behooves michael to find a way to work with the administration which the president is willing to do. i think that the critical issue here is that the united states is israel's second line of defense, its most important strategic ally and the

relationship needs to be repaired not further damaged. what michael is doing is causing it further damage for no good purpose. >> gentlemen, a spirited conversation. i thank you both for being frank and honest. >> good day. that was michael oren and michael indyk. to see more go to my column at cnn.com/fareed. reports have suggested isis is searching for the materials to make a dirty bomb. we will dig into the problem of loose nukes next. if you're an adult with type 2 diabetes and your a1c is not at goal with certain diabetes pills or daily insulin your doctor may be talking about adding medication to help lower your a1c. ask your doctor if adding once-a-week tanzeum is right for you. once-a-week tanzeum is an injectable prescription medicine that may improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes along with diet and exercise.

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world segment. the tense negotiations over iran's nuclear program have grabbed the world's attention. but if you're concerned about nuclear threats from abroad that country may only be part of the problem. over two dozen nations, many of

them u.s. allies have weapons usable nuclear material some of which is not secure. >> we are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe. >> that's according to a watch dog group that keeps a meticulous record of these materials around the world. 25 countries have them the group says and there is nearly 2,000 metric tons of it. enough to make tens of thousands of nuclear bombs as powerful as the one used on nagasaki. the dangerous materials are stored in hundreds of different sites both military and civilian locations and shockingly there are no strict international rules for keeping the materials secure nti says. for instance some sites have their own security forces to ward off possible attacks, but other sites simply rely on local police for protection or must call in military units.

make no mistake, the threat of nuclear theft and terrorism is real. the international atomic energy agency has said that more than 100 incidents of unauthorized activity including thefts are reported every year involving nuclear and radioactive materials. in 2007 gunmen broke into a research center that had enough weapons grade uranium to build several bombs. they were thwarted. in maldova six people arrested in 2011 with bomb-grade uranium in a sting operation and said they had enough to supply one-third of the amount needed for a nuclear bomb. >> isis has already procured radioactive material from research facilities and hospitals in iraq hoping to make a dirty bomb according to one report. a terrorist only needs enough

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my next guest wouldn't strike you as a spy, but he was one. a spy for the russians in fact. so why isn't he in jail? why is he sitting across from me? it is a fascinating tale. he is a first generation american who, when he took over the business his immigrant parents owned, got a whole lot more than he bargained for. i'll let him explain. so your parents owned a research business for decades. and in the pre-google era they bought books and papers for people. and one of their recurring customers as the russian

consulate. >> that's right. >> so talk about that. >> so it all started one day in the late '80s. my parents had an office and a man walked in and said i'd like to buy books. he showed a card that said soviet something along the mines of admission to the united nations. my father thought, great, we have an account with the united nations now. the books were these academic types. my father said i'll ship them to you. he said i'll come back and pick them up. he left. my father went back to work. 15 minutes later there was a knock at the door and it was two men from the fbi saying the man was soviet intelligence and we'd like to know what he wanted to do. there started an almost 25-year relationship between my parents, the soviets and the fbi. my parents took the approach of status quo. they got the books for the russians and shared the list with the fbi and really had no interest in sort of moving the needle in either direction.

i approached the fbi with the simple request of asking for a letter of recommendation to apply for the navy. that was my goal. i wanted a star on my resumé. that was it. >> what exactly were you doing for the russians? the russians would ask you for designs, technology -- >> yes. >> -- about various military products. even sometimes open-source. >> yes. they wanted to get whatever i could give them. so part of what they had to figure out was first what i actually had access to. what was my value to them. part of it was, as you said, they'd give me lists of titles of military equipment they wanted me to collect documents on. secondly they also wanted to check that i was able to do this. as i progressed and had access to larger systems i would be able to retrieve higher and more sensitive information. >> who was the russian oleg? >> he was a diplomat at the

russian mission to the united nations in new york. he was part of the military staff committee. his job, as far as i can surmise, was to be a spy handler. he was my spy handler. he was set to recruit, task and run me as a spy. >> you were at hooters one day. explain why hooters and then explain what happened. >> yes. hooters. i guess you can't say you have lived unless you've gone to hooters with a russian spy. that was definitely a bucket list experience. the russians -- there is a comedy that went with this whole offings but it was very serious. the russians were under surveillance. they would execute counter surveillance and choose locations to meet. there was no email or cell phone conversations. it was all done in person. the russians would choose locations that were i guess, good for a security standpoint and for some reason they chose hooters. in an odd twist, i had

clandestine meetings at hooters over chicken wings. truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. >> what would happen at these? they would ask you for documents like drawings of f-22s, cruise missiles? >> the russians -- i think the goal of any intelligence service is not just information, it's in fact human beings assets. the russians were looking at me as a long-term source. part of it was to gauge whether i was willing and able to get them information. so yes. i was passing them documents, controlled by the fbi. clearly the russians knew i was applying to join the military and saw me as someone who could deliver recurring information over 5, 20 years. >> how does it end? >> if you are the bad guy, you hope at some point you get caught. for me it ended, oddly enough back in hooters. i guess i can say i'm here and oleg isn't. i don't want to rouxen theuin the

book. it was an adventure. >> do you worry now that the whole thing is exposed and you wrote the book the russians will come after you? >> it's an interesting thing, fareed. the russians are a professional military intelligence service. it is almost a gentleman's game. it's like chess perhaps on steroids. there is an unwritten rule. i have a lot of respect for oleg. he day he got off the flight in jfk he considered himself in enemy territory. he wasn't wrong. he was shadowed. i am not worried about my safety. i don't think it would benefit them to do anything to me. >> pleasure to have you on. next on "gps" the debate over the confederate flag has been heard beyond south carolina's borders. i'll explain when we come back. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets.

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governor nikki haley called for the removal of the confederate flag from the state house grounds in columbia. the state's official flag does not contain confederate imagery but several other southern states' flags do have such symbolism and calls to take down such flags have started to come in. the american flag has changed many times over the years too. which brings me to my question of the week. when was the last time the american flag was altered? 1958? '59? '60? or '61. stay tuned. and we'll tell you the correct answer. this week's book of the week is jonathan tropper's "everything changes." tropper is a clever funny

novelist who writes about modern life love sex and lost. he can also get surprisingly deep. all his books are worth reading but this is the one i would start with this summer. now for the last look. the debate over the confederate flag was heard beyond the borders of south carolina this week. farther than you might think. it has been 150 years since the end of the civil war, but take a look at these pictures of a celebration earlier this year. men, women and children wearing 19th century style clothes are partying like it's 1869. confederate flags abound in the air, on people's clothes, even decorating the dance floor. this happens every year deep in the heart of brazil. let me explain. after the civil war several thousand southerners flocked toward the promise of a fresh start in a place that offered economic opportunities and still

practiced slavery. they found that in brazill which promised american southerners cheap land. one colony's descendants throwen a annual confederate party and serve traditional food like fried chicken and biscuits and play country music and enjoy southern style dancing in cowboy hats. when asked about the current controversy the organizer told us they do not accept discrimination of any kind. he said quote, for us the flag represents fraternity and family and teaches us about the history of our ancestors. hmm. the correct answer to the gps challenge question is c, hawaii and alaska were admitted to the union in 1959 but it wasn't until 1960 that the flag added its last star. happy almost 55th birthday to the latest incarnation of old

glory and happy almost july 4th to all the americans watching. tune in next week when we'll air my latest special "blindsided, how isis shook the world." thanks for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. good morning. i am brian stelter in new york. there is breaking news from florida. minutes ago an unmanned spacex rocket launching on a resupply mission exploded upon liftoff. here is the video. >> on course. on track. >> on the nasa tv broadcast and on this web stream there is no speaking as the announcer and