>> would you like fries with that? >> reporter: but when it's just him, the billionaire's tastes are different. >> the big macs are great. the quarter pounder with chiez. it's great stuff. thank you for spending your sunday morning with us, i'm dana bash in washington. fareed zakaria "gps" starts right now. this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and arnold around the world, i'm fareed zakaria. today on the show, i've interviewed my fair share of world leaders but the one whose brain i would most like to pick right now is kim jong-un. since i probably will never have a chance, i will tell you how i think he would answer all the questions swirling about about his true intentions. also russian war games, german elections, the fate of the iran nuclear deal and the fate of the

upcoming general assembly. we have a great current events panel. then, the aftermath of hurricanes irma and harvey. the destruction was widespread, the power and flood levels almost unprecedented. but the white house doesn't want to talk about the role of climate change. is that a mistake? i will talk to two brilliant scientists, climate expert cathl catherine hayhoe and neil degrasse tyson. >> i worry we might not be able to recover. finally, a happy story about a refugee. really. aya, whose story was featured on humans of new york and "gps" has found a new home and i will tell you about it i'm sometimes asked what world figure i would most want to interview. for me, the answer is obvious --

kim jong-un. the general impression around the world continues to be that the north korean leader is crazy, provocative, and unpredictable. but i wonder, he might well be strategic, smart, and utterly rational. since i'm unlikely to get that interview, i've decided to imagine it instead. i would first ask, mr. kim, why do you built weapons even when they result in massive crippling economic sanctions for your country. i imagine he might answer like this "my nation faces a fundamental challenge, survival. the regime and i personally are more threatened than i and ever before. my fore fathers had it easy. my great grandfather ruled with the world's other superpower, the is. as well as china. my father, dear leader, as we called him, still had beijing's help for the most part. but today the sole superpower,

the united states, made it clear they seek regime change. yet we have survived with our ideology and system intact. how? because we have built a protection for ourselves in the form of nuclear weapons. so i might follow up with kim, but china still provides you what crucial supplies of food and fuel. don't you see them as an ally? what would he say? well, maybe he would say "china is ruthlessly pragmatic. it sports us for its own selfish interest. it doesn't want millions of refugees or a unified korea on its border one that would be a larger version of what south korea is now with american troops and a treaty alliance with washington. but i believe china no longer considers us an ally. after all, it voted to sanction us in the united nations security council time and again. xi jinping cultivates close relations with south korea. at the grand celebrations in beijing two years ago commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of world

war ii he placed the president of russia and the president of south korea at his side. in north korea, as you know, we pay a lot of attention to ceremonies and what they signal." and then i would wonder, so will you come to the negotiating table? will you agree to denuclearization in return for the lifting of sanctions? kim's answer in my imagination, would go like this. "yes and no. yes, we will come to the table but we will never give up our arsenal. we're not stupid. it's all that's keeping us alive. look at saddam hussein. we never forget north korea was named as part of the axis of evil one year before the united states invaded iraq. look what happened to qaddafi in libya after he agreed to give up his nuclear weapons program. look what's happening to iran right now after washington signed a deal and the iranians have been certified to be adhering to it president trump now says, well, he might tear it up anyway. do you think we would be stupid enough to believe american

promises after all this? we are now a nuclear power, that is non-negotiable. but we're willing to talk about limits, test bans, freezes. we would need to be given something in return, not just money, we need security in the form of diplomatic recognition by washington and guarantees of non-aggression from china, japan and the u.s. "finally i would say to kim, many americans worry you will soon have the capacity and intention to launch missiles at the u.s. his response might well be, "we will have the capacity and it serves my purposes to keep you off guard. but why would i strike america and invite a retaliatory counterstrike that would put an end to my regime? keep in mind, the whole point of this, my entire strategy, all our efforts and the hardships we have borne are to ensure that my regime and i personally survive. why would i risk that? if you look at how i have stayed

in power, you know i believe in assassinations, not suicide." for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. let's get started. it has been a busy couple of weeks from north orea, yanmar, russia, iran and more and it's sure to be a busy next couple of weeks especially with the u.n. general assembly debates starting next week in new york. let us get to it with a great panel. frazier nelson is editor of t spectator, the venerable weekly conservative paper in britain. ann appelbaum has a new book requested red famine, starlin's war on ukraine" will be published soon. martin wolf is the chief economics commentator of t

financial times. let me start with you. with brexit in britain, martins still seem remarkably stable and, in fact, booming. are the markets right that we should simply -- the slogan is don't worry, be happy? >> i think the markets are probably right which doesn't mean they're certainly right. if you look at the history, we always have an enormous amount of political noise and most haas any committed or economic effect. but there is always the possibility that something will happen which is of immense important politically. i'll leave aside financial or economic crises. bilge big wars, that would certainly change things. if the north korean event lead the a war, then it would change things. but as we look back on history, it turns out to be economically insignificant. one of the best examples is 9/11 which we had a big debate at the

time, would this be a big economic event. as it turned out economically it was insignificant. geopolitically it changed the world so the markets are probably right. >> so when you look at, anne, from europe the way in which the trump administration seems to be trying to maybe provoke north korea or in some way be more aggressive. are people worried or is there a sense that this is all kind of negotiating posture? >> i think people are worried and there is a sense of helplessness. this is a major crisis that europe has no role in. europe has a whole has not managed to forge a foreign policy. it doesn't speak with one voice so isn't able to influence the korean peninsula we're watching

the major actors without being able to contribute much and i think it tells you something about the state of european foreign policy that it's -- we're wordless right now. >> what happens in europe with brexit? it seems the longest nights ever? >> it will get longer. there's no question of it reversing, public opinion in britain is as supportive of brexit now as it was during the referend referendum. we had jean claude juncker laying out a federalist vision of the united states and dwlurp britain was never going to sign up to so if anything the decision of brx looks more secure even though the economic arguments about trade regulation relations are going to help with the eu afterwards. >> but it seems like there's some waning of the populist fire

in europe. merkel seems to be handily ready to get reelected. macron is doing reasonably well in france. >> one of the effects of brexit as well as the election of trump is that it served as a counterexample. i agree with frazer that many people who supported brexit still support it but it's not an attractive picture. britain's trading relationships are unclear. quite a lot of what will happen when britons leave the e soviet union that there's going to be more bureaucracy not less. they have to recreate inconstitutions and regulatory tasks that europe does on the behalf of britain and other people see that around nobody wants a part of it. the same is true of trump. we see chaos, incompetence, promises that were made and aren't being fulfilled and political discomfort and the attraction of merkel is really just that she's more of the

same. i would -- i'm a little more worried about the german election than you are. i think because of these small parties there could be an unstable coalition after she wins and there's probably more support from the far right than we can see from the outside but nevertheless the fact that there was a swing to her, and you saw the swing to macron, is a reaction against the perceived anglo-saxon mess. >> you think brexit is going to be a disaster? >> financially for britain, economically? >> disaster a big word which i try to avoid using. it are di pends epends on the n the negotiators, i agree with frazier that it will happen. it will happen. but the sort of agreement we will have in the process will affect enormously what happens. will there be actually a deal? will we reach a deal? if we do reach a deal, what will that look like? all these are highly uncertain.

my own view is that it could be anywhere between a very large mess in the short run which will over time obviously attenuate and relatively mild event and it does depend on things we don't know yet. the only final thing i would say and i think we do disagree on this, the negotiations are getting absolutely nowhere at the moment. >> on that note, we'll take a break. when we come back, what to do about what the united nations now calls ethnic cleansing in myanmar. a question with no easy answers. what powers the digital world. communication. that's why a cutting edge university counts on centurylink to keep their global campus connected. and why a pro football team chose us to deliver fiber-enabled broadband to more than 65,000 fans. and why a leading car brand counts on us to keep their dealer network streamlined and nimble. businesses count on communication, and communication counts on centurylink.

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nelson, anne appelbaum and martin wolf. frazier, myanmar. what do we make of what's going on there. hundreds of thousands of rohing rohingyas, muslim minorities being ethnically cleansed in various ways. we thought aung san suu kyi was the good guy or the good gal in this story. what does it tell us? >> here we have a nobel laureate presiding over a government which is denying anything isn't happening, which isn't letting the u.n. have a look at what's happening. >> -- it seems like an angel turned into a devil, how could bit she is being so blind and refusing to do what the other nobel laureates are begging her to do. i think the answer is that she doesn't have proper control over the government. sure nominally she's head of state but does she really control the army or the border regions? this conflict has been going on since the 1980s and a long track record of persecuting the muslim

minority and i don't think it's within her power so we're seeing a classic kpal nepexample of so who is technically the head of state but doesn't have the authority and is in a bind. her office personally she has said yes, sure, she'll welcome suggestions to help them out but when it comes to what she can do politically, that's a whole different matter. >> fraser had a phrase which i think is telling -- buddhist mobs. when you think of buddhism you think of it as a religion of peace. even buddhism when you get into these power relationships is as prone to violence as any other religion. >> my understanding -- and i have no expertise of this -- is that the relidge i don't know of the japanese samurai as zen buddhism and you can't describe the samurai of peaceful people. my view and the history of civilization tells us strongly that religion is something that can be used and is used and

belief can be exploited in many different ways, all of them human and some being human are very unpleasant. >> as you said, christianity was founded by the prince of peace and yet has a checkered track record. >> inquisition and a few other -- the crusades and a few other things which people haven't forgotten, including the middle east. >> do you think -- there are people who say aung san suu kyi's nobel prize should be withdrawn. this is the kind of rhetorical point but how you think about somebody like her? >> i think that would be a pointless gesture, if we started going back through everybody who won a nobel prize and looked at what their qualifications were we might have a lot of questions. i think it makes for an interesting different point, though, which is how will the trump administration deal with this? in the previous administration and, indeed, going back some way, there is an american tradition of being against genocide, of wanting to stop these kinds of disasters.

there was a great feeling of guilt, for example, after the failure to stop the rwandan genocide during the clinton administration and the u.s. involvement in libya was partly justified on those grounds. we are americans, we want to stop what seemed like about to be a genocide at that time in bosn benghazi. is ethnic cleansing something they care about? there's been no indication of what -- where they see their role, america's role, as a moral power in this crisis. >> fraser, how is trump playing these days? you're attune to conservative party politics. theresa may made a bet that seeming to be donald trump's closest european friend would help her. for other leaders it's been the opposite. the fact that angela merkel and trump don't get on benefitted merkel and germany.

the fact that macron is seen as different from trump has helped him. has it helped or hurt me that she's seen as trump's best friend. >> domestically it's hurt her, of course. anybody in europe can win points by being rude to the american president but theresa may took a different view, that britain's interest lies in close to being close to the united states of america. and that she's going to turn a blind eye to the coarser aspects of a trump administration and remember the brexit context is crucial. here she has in donald trump somebody who says he's eager to do a free trade deal with britain when we leave the eu. this is what britain needs more than anything else. i spoke to a cabinet member who said it's like you're on a life raft and this big shift comes by the welcome you. whether it's a free trade deal with america or not remains to be seen but the fact that we've got one willing to offer britain exactly what it needs at exactly this time, that is enough to overlook the various coarse aspect of trump which is appalls so many voters. >> on trade, martin, do you

think the trump administration is likely to go through with the kind of tough trade talk that it has had? are you -- does that worry you? would that worry markets? >> globally that is really one of the most interesting -- the dog that hasn't barked yet. what does trump's global trade, globalization rhetoric mean? the one big thing he did he did on the first day, he pulled out of tpp which i think was -- the transpacific partnership, extraordinary mistake, just a freebie for china. but the -- we don't know what he'll do with nafta, he's still talking about something they're going to do with china but the moment i would have to say, one that i follow more closely, that his bark is much worse than his bite. he hasn't done much. he tweeted out during the north korea thing that we're going to shut down all trade with any country that does dealings with north korea which, of course, is

china, which is 5% of america's gdp being shut down to zero. i was struck by how the chinese government didn't even bother to respond. the feeling was it's trump. it probably means nothing. >> we have to end it on that. martin wolf, fraser nelson, anne appelbaum. pleasure. you know who likes to be

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reagan famously quipped -- >> the nine most terrifying words are "i'm here from the government, i'm here to help." >> reagan's world view grew out of the 1970s, a period marked by government overreach and slow growth. it might have been the right attitude for its time but it stayed in place for decades as a rigid ideology even though we've entered a new age in which americans face a very different set of challenges, desperately requiring an activist government. for decades now we've watched a stagnant wage growth for 90% of americans has been coupled with supercharge growth for the richest few leading to widening inequality on a scale not seen since the gilded age. it's been assumed the federal government could do nothing about this despite much evidence to the contrary. we watched china enter the global trade system and take advantage of access to western markets and capital while still maintaining a massively controlled internal economy and pursuing predatory trade practices. and we felt the american

government can do anything about it because that would be protectionist. we've watched as financial institutions took on more and more risk with other people's money, effectively gambling in a heads i win tails you lose system even after the system brew up causing the worst economic crisis since the great depression, the call came to deregulate the financial sector once again because all government regulation is socialist. in the same period, technology companies have grown in size and scale, often using first mover advantages to squash competition and reassume the federal government should have no role in shaping this vast new economy. better for washington to similar simply observe the process like a spectator watching a netflix drama. and then there is climate. these hurricanes are not caused by global warming but their frequency and zbensty a intensi likely magnified by climate

change but we're worried about too much government activism. houston chose to have almost no zoning of any kind that limited development, even in flood prone areas paving over thousands of acres of wetland that used to absorb rain water and curb flooding. the chemical industry has been able to convince washington to exercise a light regulatory touch so there's limited protection against fires and contamination. and now low tax and low regulation taxes in florida have come to the federal government hats in hands, we're living in an age of revolutions natural and human buffeting individuals and communities. we need government to be more than a passive observer of these trends. it needs to actively shape and manage them. otherwise, the ordinary individual will be powerless. i imagine that this week most people in texas, florida, and the caribbean would have delighted to hear the words "i'm from the government and i'm here

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so what role did climate change play in the ferocious strength of hurricane irma and the intense flooding caused by irma and harvey? well, on monday, u.s. homeland security adviser refused to say whether climate change had been a factor or irma's strength at all. the head of the epa, scott pruitt, has told cnn in advance of irma's landfall that it was insensitive to talk about climate change right now. how should we think about an event like this and the broader issue of science and public policy. to help me understand the impact of all of this, neil degrasse tyson joins me. he is, of course, the author of the best-seller "astrophysics for people in a hurry" and much, much more. neil, you're not a climate scientist but you're a very distinguished scientist and astrophysicist. what do you think about when people say, look, this is not

settled science, there are still questions. i sometimes think to myself, look, there are a lot of questions about einstein's theories that led to nuclear fission but we do know that there are power plants. >> there are people who have cultural, political, religious economic philosophies that they then invoke when they want to cherry pick one scientific result or another. you can find a scientific paper that says practically anything and the press, which i count you as part of, will sometimes find a single paper and say "here's a new truth." but an emergent scientific truth, for it to become an objective truth, a truth that is true whether or not you believe in it, it requires more than one scientific paper. it requires a whole system of people's research all leaning in

the same direction, all pointing to the same consequences. that's what we have with climate change as induced by human conduct. this is a known correspondence. if you want to find the 3% of the papers or the 1% of the papers that conflicted with this and build policy on that, that is simply irresponsible. how else do you establish a scientific truth if not by looking at the consensus of scientific experiments and scientific observations. abraham lincoln, the first republican president, signed into law in 1963 -- a year when he had important things to be thinking about -- he signed into law the national academy of sciences. because he knew that science mattered and should matter in governance. >> and you know we build our cities on the basis of science. when we fall ill, we don't go to the local witch doctor, we go to

a doctor even though all of that science is still -- there are advances going to be made, none of it is settled in the sents that -- >> well, you know what is settled? settled science is the science that has come out of large bodies of research that all agree. when you see scientists arguing -- and i said if you think scientists want to always agree with one another, you've never been to a scientific conference because people are duking it out. but what are they fighting over? not the settled science that's been in the books. we're fighting over the bleeding edge of what is not yet known and that is the natural course of science. if you as a journalist want to eavesdrop, you'll think scientists don't know anything about anything but it's the body of knowledge that accumulated over the decades that precedes this that becomes the canon that if you're going to base policy and legislation on, that's what you should be thinking about. >> so you would say this is a moment to listen to climate scientist?

>> i can't even picture -- how many rain drops was that? are inches of rain in houston. this is a shot across our bowe. a hurricane the width of florida going up the center of florida. these are shots across our bow. what will it take for people to recognize that a community of scientists are learning objective truths about the natural world and that you can benefit from knowing about it? even news reports on this channel talked about the fact that we have fewer deaths per hurricane. why? because you now know weeks in advance. we have models that have draw trajectories of hurricanes. in decades gone by it was like there's hurricane there is, i don't know, should i stay? should i go? you stay and you die. so to cherry-pick science is an odd thing for a scientist to observe and i didn't grow up in a count ray where that was a

common phenomenon. we went to the moon and people knew science and technology fed those discoveries. and the day two politicians are arguing about whether science is true, it means nothing gets done nothing. it's the beginning of the end of an informed democracy, as i've said many times. what i'd rather happen is you recognize what is scientifically truth then you have your political debate. is so in the case of energy policy, whatever, you don't ask is the science right, you ask should we have carbon credits s tariffs. >> right. the longer we delay, the more -- i worry we might not be able to recover from this because our greatest cities are on the oceans and water's edges historically for commerce and transportation and as storms kick in, as water levels rise they are the first to go and we

don't have a system, we don't have a civilization with the capacity to pick up a city and move it inland 20 miles. this is happening faster than our ability to respond. that could have huge economic consequences. >> on that sobering note, neil degrasse tyson, always a pleasure. we are in a hurry to read the book. thanks next on "gps," neil degrasse tyson told me this is the moment to listen to climate scientists. well, we have one of america's best to tell us what we need to know about this pivotal moment. ! sweet. if you compare last quarter to this quarter... various: mmm. it's no wonder everything seems a little better with the creamy taste of philly, made with fresh milk and real cream. with the creamy taste of philly, i'm val. the orange money retirement squirrel from voya. i represent the money you save for the future. who's he? he's the green money you can spend now. what's up? gonna pay some bills, maybe buy a new tennis racket. he's got a killer backhand. when it's time to get organized for retirement, it's time to get voya. ♪ "zorba the greek" by mikis theodorakis ♪

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we're going to go deeper into our examination of whether or not climate changed aed to the ferocity of the hurricanes irma and harvey. we thought long and hard about which climate scientist to invite to talk about it. we zeroed in on catherine hay40. the headline of a "new york times" profile of her was

"catherine hayho, a climate explainer who stays above the storm." welcome, ms. hayhoe. >> that you can for having me. >> as a layperson who wonders, i look that the stuff, particularly the hurricanes, and i wonder, does climate change have anything to do with it? what's your answer? >> yes. we care about climate change because it exacerbates the climate risks we already see in the places where we live. it's amping up our heat waves, our wildwildfires, our drout s droughts and even hurricanes. >> when we look at these hurricanes, correct me if i'm wrong but what i understand is the oceans are warming, warmer water gets into the air, the warmer the air, the more moisture it can hold and that's what produce this is more

intense hurricane, is that right or correct me? >> in a warmer world we see more rain on average associated with hurricanes because warmer air holds more water vapor so as the hurricane comes along there's more water vapor for it to sweep up and dump on us, but the risk associated with hurricanes is also being exacerbated by sea level rise because as the oceans rise, there's more force behind our storm surges and greater coastal areas are flooded on average than would have been 50 or 100 years ago. lastly, hurricanes get their energy from warm ocean water and over 890% of t90% of the extra trapped into the system by the carbon dioxide, that's going into the ocean where it can fuel stronger storms. so on average in the future we don't expect to see any more frequent hurricanes, the number of hurricanes we've seen so far at the same time has been mostly

bad luck but we do expect to see more rainfall on average associated with hurricanes, stronger storm surges and also more intense hurricanes on average. >> so when you look at the situation you're describing, there's a bunch of carbon already up there baked into the system as it were. do we need to start -- i understand it's important to do something to mitigate, to affect the trajectory of a warming earth but is it worth also getting serious about adapting to the reality of climate change? if everything you're describing is true, do we need to start thinking about dams and dikes and fortifications and rotating agricultural crops so we use different ones and i don't know what one does about wildfires. do we need a kind of program of adaptation? >> absolutely. the time when we had the luxury to choose between preparing for a different future or reducing our carbon emissions, that time

has passed long ago. some amount of change is inevitable but we can avoid the worse impacts if we can transition in a sensible but a fast way off of carbon-based fuels like coal and gas and oil, to clean energy and that's a lot of the work that i do is working with cities and regions figuring out how we can build resilience to the risk wes face today as well as those being amplified in the future. smart urban design, even switching to clean energy that isn't at risk during droughts when we often don't have enough cooling water for traditional sources of electricity generation. making sure when waterfalls in our urban areas it goes where we want it to rather than don't. and looking at how we manage our forests because forest management plays a big role in looking at wildfire severity. >> so i'm struck by is the number of the things you talk about as being smart ways to

deal with the problem would be good for the united states anyway. it would reduce pollution, build in resiliency from all kinds of other problems. it seems there are added benefits almost even if wasn't climate change. >> i completely agree. there should be added benefits. there's nothing wrong with added benefits. it's great if we can agree to do something even if we might not be coming from the same page as to why we want to do it. so, for example, burning fossil fuels, people don't realize that burning fossil fuels -- coal, gas, and oil in our cars and factories and power plants -- is responsible for over 200,000 death tos in the united states alone every year. so the economic benefits and the health benefits of cutting fossil fuels are staggering. people also don't realize clean energy is a tremendous local investment in the economy. here in texas, we have over 25,000 jobs in the wind energy industry and people who are

losing their positions in the oil and the gas industry as the prices go up and down, they're being taken in and retrained to do solar panel installations in san antonio or a chinese wind company is taking in out-of-work coal miners in wyoming and retraining them to do wind energy installations. there are many reasons to look to clean energy and resilience and climate is only one of them. >> catherine hayhoe, pleasure to have you on. >> like wise, thank you. next on "gps," two years ago we introduced you to aya, a refugee who first fled the iraq war, then the syrian civil war. she dreamed of coming to america. and finally she found a country to take her in -- it wasn't america. we'll tell you which one it was when we come back. ♪ then we are told it's braver to go it alone. ♪ but there is another way to live. ♪

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the united nations general assembly kicked off this week and human rights abuses around the world are sure to be at the heart of many discussions. it brings me to my question -- where did lawmakers vote to effectively eliminate the budget of the nation's human rights commission this week? was it the philippines, uganda, russia or saudi arabia. stay tuned and i'll tell you the correct answer. this week's book of the week is "unaccustomed earth." every summer try to make a point to read some fiction and this collection of short stories was the best of the bunch. intelligent, quietly moving and beautifully written, you must buy this book. flow for the last look. from syrians escaping a country ravaged by civil war to rohingya muslims fleeing violence and persecution, refugee-related news is rarely good news but i

actually have some. loyal viewers may remember my 2015 interview with a woman named aya who was featured on "humans of new york" she joined me on the show. she first fled iraq as a child during the iraq war after witnessing unimaginable violence, including a car bombing. >> we were just like saying that is there anyone alive and everyone was just like, there's no sound and i said there's no one alive now but we just find some people who are alive and we took them to the hospital. >> aya and her family resettled in syria but when the civil war broke out in that country, they had to pack up and leave yet another nation, this time they found temporary placement in turkey but she told her her greatest wish was to come to america. >> it's my dream because my mom

was talking a lot about the united states and it's a good country, the country of dreams and if you work hard you are going to have everything so i just thought that this is the life that i want. >> well, the united states government rejected her family's application for refugee status on account of "security-related reasons" but they appealed. what will happen if you don't manage to get to america? >> i will be lost like now. i will be a human being witho without -- without a dream. i will stay like this, i will be lost all the time. >> her appeal, too, was denied and this story, is, of course, not unique to aya. in fact, according to the "new york times," the trump administration is considering reducing the number of refugees

accepted over the next year to under 50,000, less than half the number president obama said should be admitted in the 2017 fiscal year. but here's the good news. i'm pleased to tell you aya has found a home. she and her family have settled in switzerland. we're told aya and her family are looking forward to studying in, working in, and contributing to their new country. the next step, her lawyers say, will be to help aya's dog george join the family. the cute pooch travelled with aya from iraq to syria to turkey but has not yet been cleared for travel to switzerland. aya, we wish you the very best in your new home. switzerland is lucky to have you. the answer to the gps challenge question is "a" the filipino parliament is dominated by allies of president rodrigo duterte, a crime fighting hard liner who stoked a wave of extrajudicial killings in his country by condoning the actions

of anti-drug vigilantes. on tuesday, the lower house of congress voted to cut the budget for the commission on human rights which has been investigating the killings to 1,000 pesos, or just $20. cnn philippines reports the budget still needs to pass the senate. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. i'm brian stelter. welcome to viewers in our united states and around the world. this is "reliable sources" our weekly look at the story behind the story, how the media really works and how the news gets made. ahead this hour, robert mueller's russia probe raising tough questions for facebook. we have brand new information from the company about those russian-linked ads that tried to sway the election speaking of last year's campaign, hillary clinton's book has some harsh words about media bias. is she right? and later, making time for president trump's errors and exaggerations, that's the