>> he's sitting there eating, piling pancakes into his mouth. i never saw anything like that. i have never seen a human being eat in such a disgusting fashion. >> if the food is not up to par, the president can always send his staff out for something more american. >> the big macs are great, the quarter pounder with cheese. >> after all, america first. >> please pull up to the second window. >> thanks for spending your sunday morning with us. "fareed zakaria gps" starts right now. this is gps, the global. square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria, coming to you live from new york. oh, my god! >> we'll start today's show with terror in downtown manhattan aga again. what does this attack tell us

about terrorists' abilities today and should the subject be shipped off to gitmo. also robert mueller catches former trump team members in his net. manafort, gates, papadopoulos. what does this week's big news mean for the larger case? michael hayden and preet bharara will join us to talk about both terror and the russia investigation. also, mr. trump goes to asia. how does the president see this crucial continent? will the north korean problem get solved? i have a terrific panel to discuss. first, here's my take. this week's tragic terror attack in new york was the kind of isolated incident by one troubled man that shouldn't lead to grand generalizations. in the 16 years since 9/11, the city has proved astonishingly

safe from jihadists, and yet speaking about it to officials 10,000 miles away when i was in singapore this week, the conclusions they reach are worrying. the home minister said to me, the new york attack might be a way to remind us all that while isis is being defeated militarily, the idealogical threat from radical islam is spreading. the military battle against jihadi groups is a tough struggle but it has always favored the mighty united states and its allies. on the other hand, the idealogical challenge from isis has proved to be far more intractable. western countries remain susceptible to the occasional lone wolf, but the new breeding grounds of radicalism are once moderate muslim societies in central south and southeast asia. consider indonesia, the world's most populous muslim country which used to be seen as a modern bull wart. this year the governor lost his bid for re-election after he was

painted by muslim hard liners as unfit for office simply because he's christian. worse, he was then jailed after being contributed on a dubious and unfair blass familiary charge. look at bangladesh, founded as a breakaway from pakistan on explicitly nonreligion grounds, they're increasing becoming extreme in recent years. in this nation of almost 150 million muslims, atheists, seculars and intellectuals have been targeted and killed, blasphemy laws enforced and a spate of attacks have left dozens dead. why is this happening? there are many explanations, poverty, economic hardship produce zeianxieties. people are disgusted by politicians and easily sa dued by the idea that islam is the answer.

then, local leaders make alliances with clerics and give platforms to extremists, all in the search for easy votes. in southeast asia, almost all observers that i have spoken with believe there is another crucial course. exported money and ideology from the middle east, chiefly saudi arabia. a singaporean official told me, travel around asia and you'll see so many new mosques built in the last 30 years that have been funded from the gulf. they are modern, clean, air conditioned, well equipped and wahhabi. how to turn this trend around. singapore's home minister said that the city state's population has stayed relatively moderate because state and society work very hard at integration. he said, we have zero tolerance for any kind of militantsy, but we also try to make sure muslims don't feel marginalized.

asia continues to rise, but so does islamic radicalism there. this worrying trend can only be reversed by leaders who are less corrupt, more competent, and crucially more willing to stand up to the clerics and the extremists. saudi arabia's new crown prince spoke last week of turning his kingdom to moderate islam. many have mocked this as a public relations strategy, pointing to the continued dominance of the kingdom's ultra orthodox religious establishment. a better approach would be to encourage the crown prince, hold him to his words, and urge him to follow up with concrete actions. this, after all, is the prize. were saudi arabia to begin religious reform at home, it would be a far larger victory against radical islam than all the advances on the battlefield so far. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. and let's get started.

♪ on tuesday, new york city experienced its worst terror attack since 9/11 just blocks away from where the twin towers once stood. the suspect is in custody and on thursday isis claimed him as a soldier of the caliphate. today just five days later the city is holding one of its biggest annual events, the new york marathon. over the course of the day some 50,000 runners hope to finish right there in central park. joining me to discuss it all in washington d.c., we have michael hayden, the former director of both the tscia and nsa. and here in new york, preet bhara bharara, was the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york until donald trump fired him. he is also a cnn analyst, a

senior legal analyst. mike, let me start with you. this terror attack does feel like a classic lone wolf attack because the uzbeks are not particularly known for this. uzbekistan is a country that's very hard lined on terrorists so i'm wondering, did you draw any conclusion from this lone wolf? >> a couple of things almost immediately came to mind, fareed. first of all, there are islamic extremists from uzbekistan. we find the imu, the islamic movement of uzbekistan prominent in the travel regions of pakistan. but you're right, they don't have a free hand at home. with regard to this particular tact, the word that comes to mind for me, fareed, is limits. it shows the limits of what a battered -- physically battered islamic state might be able to do here in the united states. as bad as this was, it wasn't paris and it wasn't brussels,

but it also shows the limits of how much we can do to prevent these kinds of attacks. i just don't think there are an awful lot more tools available to american security that would significantly increase our ability to detect and prevent this kind of assault. >> the one thing one could talk about, mike, would be something like looking at what radicalized him, but then you bump up very hard against issues of freedom of speech, don't you? >> you really do. when i said not many more things we could do, the parentheses is, and remain the kind of people we want to be. but fareed, you suggest something really important here. we have him alive. we can talk to him in great depth. john miller who does this analytic work for the nypd is a really smart man on these subjects. and i expect john will delve

into this process of radicalization. we'll learn more. but what i can read from the press now, fareed, is this young man got unhappy well before he got radicalized. in other words, the recruiting process was someone unhappy with his personal existence and trying to reach for something beyond himself with which he could identify and unfortunately in this case, it wasn't the boy's club of america or even the crips and the bloods or some other gang. it was isis. so it does matter what gang you join, but it's important to find that basil motivation. >> preet, when donald trump was on the campaign trail, one of the things he hammered home and it's sort of a republican article of faith that the obama administration has been soft, wimpy, by wanting to try these terrorists through the civilian court procedure.

instead, these guys should be thrown into the military court system, sent to guantanamo, and yet, this time around donald trump has exceeded in the decision that he go through the civilian court system. why? >> history has shown and the track record has shown it's the best way to go about bringing these people to justice and getting closure for the victims and getting the public to understand the process. this person who engaged in that horrible deadly attack from last week was charged within a day by my old office. my successor, june kim, filed charges against him in federal court. there have been some musings by the president of the united states on twitter that he should go to guantanamo bay, saying something about how you can be tried quickly there. the next morning he recanted that because i guess someone told him the facts. over the last ten years we have brought to justice terrorist after terrorist after terrorist,

most of whom are serving life prison sentences and did it in a way that's true to what our system is supposed to be. meanwhile, in guantanamo bay, not one person has gone to trial. some years ago when i first became the u.s. attorney, we were supposed to try ka leak sheikh mohammed here and that got derailed by people above my pay grade for political reasons and those people still have not been brought to justice. i don't think that's good for the rule of law ultimately. >> it's important to underscore what you're saying. we have taken this enormous public relations beating all over the world for guantanamo and what you're pointing out is nobody ever gets convicted in guantanamo. so it seems like a terrible tradeoff where we have this huge public relations disaster and yet there's no benefit. >> there's no benefit in terms of getting justice done and getting closure on a case. the last person who was tried in guantanamo bay was a guy who was

responsible for the terrorist bombings in kenya and tanzania. he was brought from guantanamo bay to the courthouse in my old district and tried and convicted there. >> do you think that with the president constantly making these comments he's undermining the judicial process itself? >> it's not good for the judicial process or the department of justice when he calls it a laughing stock. it's not a laughing stock. it's the pride of the american government, the way we handle cases, terrorist cases, corruption cases, you name it, i think we have the best system in the world. the good news is it seems that some of what donald trump does is to engage in a lot of rhetoric to please some people on twitter and when he does these quick interviews on television. but the career professionals like the folks in my old office and the national security division at the department don't seem to be paying him much mind. even though there was this immediate sort of quick talk about sending him to guantanamo

bay and he should get the death penalty, the sober-minded professional career experienced people in the justice department do that which they're supposed to do which is do it the proper way. >> to be fair to him, he didn't contradict or overrule them in some way. so at least the right decision ended up being made. next on gps, the other big news of the week, monday's mueller announcements, two indictments and a plea deal. where does the investigation go from here? michael hayden and preet bharara will be back with me in a moment. and this guy is just trying to get through the day. this guy feels like he can take on anything. this guy isn't sure he can take it anymore. unwavering self-confidence. stuck in a 4-door sedan of sadness. upgrade your commute. ride with audible. dial star star audible on your smartphone to start listening today.

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robert mueller's investigation into the trump campaign's dealings with russia made some big moves this week. on monday it was announced that former campaign chairman paul manafort and his protege, rick

gates, had been indicted and that foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos had pled guilty to lying to the fbi. where will this lead? joining me again is preet bharara, the former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, and michael hayden, the former director of both the cia and nsa. preet, let me start with you. for the viewers, you're getting the correct pronounceation here, bharara, aspirated h. >> it's a pleasure to have my name pronounced correctly. >> tell me about manafort. because a lot of people including the president of the united states say this has nothing to do with collusion. this is money laundering. it was a while ago. is robert mueller doing this as a way to squeeze manafort to get him to be more cooperative on issues of collusion? >> the first thing to remember is that robert mueller is a prosecutor's prosecutor. he's a professional, he's been doing this for a long time. in the same way that we used to do it in our office, the first

thing you do is hold people accountable for crimes that they commit. if there's evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that you can prove to a jury like they believe they can here, they bring it. a consequence of that can be if there are other charges they want to bring against someone else, maybe paul manafort will, in the parlance we use in law enforcement, flip. sometimes that happens before a charge is brought like what looks like happened last week with george papadopoulos. investigators will make an approach, say we have good evidence against you. they probably did that with paul manafort and george papadopoulos. in the case of george papadopoulos he said okay and cooperated. with paul manafort, he did not. sometimes though after people's minds get focused because a criminal charge is brought to bear on them, they have to retain counsel, they go to court. they're confronted with the enormity of what is facing them, meaning the loss of their liberty. they sometimes flip then. >> do you think there's a good chance manafort will go to jail? >> look, i don't know all the

evidence that the special counsel's office has, but they're pretty straight forward charges that you can prove without many witnesses. you can do it through the documents and the financial records, and some of the charges i think are very clear. it's not a lifetime in prison but it's a substantial prison sentence and i expect that paul manafort and his lawyers are talking about the idea of cooperating. they may never do it. some people do it, some don't. it may be the case that he doesn't have significant things to say that are worth the time on the part of the special counsel's office but i think all of those things are in play and we haven't heard the end of it. >> if the president pardons papadopoulos or manafort, is that obstruction of justice. >> i think that's an open question. it's certainly a terrible thing for what law and order are supposed to be about and sends a terrible message to every prosecutor in the country who's trying to do their job in a neutral way. i think regardless of whether or not it's provable obstruction,

that that then becomes something that congress can think about with respect to impeachment. i'm not saying it's impeachable but for congress and the how representatives to take action, they don't have to show that every element of a particular statute was met in order to vote for articles of impeachment. >> mike hayden, you say that the tragedy here is that whether or not there's collusion, there's been kind of a lot of stupidity in the way in which the president has handled this, welcoming the wikileaks stuff and things like that. >> exactly. perhaps all the russians needed was to do what he did during the campaign with regard to highlighting wikileaks, i love wikileaks, and using wikileaks as a campaign tool. to come back to what happened this past weekend with regard to mr. papadopoulos, you know, obviously the legal case here is

very important. my personal background looks at what the foreign services are trying to do to the united states. fareed, we teach our case officers a step by step process to recruit someone. spot, assess, develop, recruit. now we've got two instances, one with papadopoulos, the other one during the summer at trump tower where it appears as if agents of the russian services already got through steps one and two. they were spotting and assessing key people in the trump campaign. that should make every american nervous and should make us demand, whatever the legal issue is over here, that at the political level, the level of defending ourselves, that we learn an awful lot about this and make sure this can never happen again. >> let me just make sure i understand what you're saying. you're saying that it now

appears clear with two separate examples that the russian government through its intelligence services approach the trump campaign to collude, to offer some kind of support. we know from in the case of donald trump's e-mail and we know from papadopoulos there was initial ascent on the part of the trump campaign. we then don't know what happened. >> that's exactly right. that's why i stopped at spot and assess. we may or may not find evidence that other things happened after that. but this is absolutely classic, fareed, in terms of a soft, indirect approach by a foreign service, always maintaining the possibility of plausible deniability, but to find out whether or not the individual they were approaching is someone worth their time. >> do you think that the reports we have that papadopoulos briefed trump on this are

significant? >> i think they're significant, at least at one level and perhaps not at the criminal level but the political level and ethical level. what were people thinking? how much indifference, how much stupidity, how much arrogance is required not to recognize what's going on here and to take steps to prevent it. it may have just have been massive naivete, fareed, but that has implications too. >> 30 seconds, collusion is not quite a legal term. this is partly political. but is there a deeper legal more as? >> any time you have charges, that's a legal problem for the president, not just a political problem. all these people who thought bob mueller was on a fishing expedition and nothing would potentially come of it, he has shown in the short space of five months in bringing three charges

against folks that he is aggressive, thorough, quick and he's far from finished. >> preet bharara, michael hayden, pleasure to have you both on. >> thank you. next on gps, what kills three times more people every year than aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined? find out when we come back. ch a. [cars honking] [car accelerating] you can switch and save worry. ♪ you can switch and save hassle. [vacuuming sound] and when you switch to esurance, you can save time, worry, hassle and yup, money. in fact, drivers who switched from geico to esurance saved hundreds. so you might want to think about pulling the ol' switcheroo. that's auto and home insurance for the modern world. esurance. an allstate company. click or call.

now for our what in the world segment. you often hear about the people killed by terrorism, civil conflicts and wars across the world, but let me tell you about a scourge that kills 15 times more people every year than all of the world's violence. it's a problem that donald trump will likely encounter this week in asia. the killer is responsible for three times more deaths globally than aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined. i'm talking about something that is responsible for the deaths of 9 million people every year. it ends up costing $4.6 trillion a year, so what is this mass killer? pollution. president trump will travel to beijing this week where

pollution is so bad that the u.s. embassy monitors air quality levels and publishes them on a website. china has the second most pollution-related deaths in the world and now a new report released shows just how deadly and costly the world's dirty skies, water and soil are. it hits the poorest hardest. low and middle income countries account for almost 92% of the deaths. india tops the list with over 2.5 million dead in 2015 from pollution-linked diseases. that's nearly a quarter of all deaths in the country that year. but pollution emanating from india and china doesn't stay in india and china. it affects the whole region, even the world. airborne pollutants from china factories have been detected in los angeles and vaporized mining from africa can be found in tuna fish from africa. pollution mostly doesn't kill you, it makes you sick.

diseases like diabetes and dementia in adults are associated with pollution. the good news is much of pollution can be prevented and solved at little cost. the study found that because pollution is such a drain on the economy, every dollar spent on curbing air pollution since the clean air act of 1970 has returned to the u.s. economy around $30. with a $65 billion investment in pollution control, the u.s. has accumulated well over a trillion dollars in benefits. there's also evidence that encouraging the public to become ecofriendly improves people's health. an upgrade to rule stoves in china for example showed a reduction in lung cancer by more than 30%. even if you don't accept the facts about global warming,

moving to clean energy and ecofriendly policies is a simple, powerful way to save lives and improve the health of human beings and the planet which we inhabit. next on gps, president trump is in japan right now, the first stop of many on his first trip to asia in office. how does trump feel about the other side of the world? and how do they feel about him? i have a great panel to discuss when we come back. one laugh, and hello sensitive bladder. so i tried always discreet.

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donald and shinzo make alliance even greater. those were the words 'em blazed that president shinzo presented to president trump today who landed there earlier to start the longest trip of his presidency so far, an almost two week long, five nation trip through asia. his other stops are south korea, china, the philippines and vietnam. he plans to meet with vladimir

putin during the trip and north korea will be a top topic of conversation with the russian leader, as with all leaders. joining me now to talk about the trip are kurt campbell who was an architect of president obama's pivot to asia when he served as assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs and is the ceo and chair of the group. dean of the school of public policy, previously secretary of that country's foreign ministry. elise, let me start with you. you tweeted and reminded us that president trump is arriving in japan and then south korea against a backdrop of a really staggering loss in confidence in the u.s. president. remind us what those numbers are and why is that drop so precipitous, do you think? >> that's right, the pew

research center takes the temperature of citizens in various countries around the world and did so with u.s. alliance partners south korea and japan. in south korea when polled in the spring of 2015, south koreans express 88% confidence in the american president in terms of making a good decision or good decisions on world affairs. that was 88% in 2015. when polled again in 2017 that number dropped down to 17% confidence. it was very much the same picture in japan where the japanese registered numbers up in the -- up for 70% range in terms of confidence in the u.s. president. that has dropped now down to 24%. and it reflects a wariness among the south koreans and the japanese in the u.s. president now and the direction of asia policy in general following the pullout of the transpacific

partner agreement and some of the rhetoric we've seen on north korea throughout the year. >> kurt, the president with this backdrop is going to try to solve one of the thorniest problems ever. i think you coined the phrase that north korea is the land of lousy options. what is he possibly going to be able to do? >> well look, i think there are two things that the president is going to try to do on this trip. one is to really ratchet up pressure on north korea. he's going to do that in particularly in japan and in china. what he really wants are new measures that will cut off energy supplies to north korea and also make it more difficult for their diplomats and other international businessmen to operate. but at the same time, he's also going to try to address the thorny problem of bilateral trade imbalances. so these are two of the most

difficult, challenging issues. so despite the fact that he's going to be extremely warmly welcomed in all these capitals, you can be certain that his interlocketters and each of them are anxious about what he's going to demand. >> kurt, in south korea in particular, you have a south korean government that came in first of all wanting a less confrontational policy toward north korea, and trump says i want you to take a more hard line view, and by the way, i want to tear up the free trade agreement that we had between the united states and south korea. behind the scenes that's got to be a fairly difficult negotiation. >> i think it's very clear that relations between seoul and washington are trending very badly. it's made worse by the fact that there are no senior officials really in the u.s. government that are responsible for reassuring or engaging south korea, and at the same time as

you suggest, on almost every issue the two governments are really taking very different views. i think you could argue that the really reason that the trump administration is trying to dial up pressure is to convince china that we are prepared to take draconian steps, even premeditated military steps to get china to try to reign in north korea more. >> you follow china very carefully. at the end of the day it is the only country with real influence in north korea. do you think that the trump administration strategy of ratcheting up this pressure of almost putting china in a box will force it to act and turn off the switch or turn off the energy supplies to its ally? >> i think it's important to emphasize that china actually is as frustrated with north korea as the united states is, and

frankly, if china could find an effective way of invading north korea, they would do so. they've been trying to do so and they haven't succeeded. but they cannot go for what is called the nuclear option of cutting off north korea completely because the collapse of north korea will mean very painful consequences for china also. so i agree with kurt that north korea is a land of lousy options. but military option is off the cards because the price that the south koreans will pay will be enormous. so in the land of lousy options, possibly the least lousy option is actually more talking involving the united states, china and north korea and the rest to see whether you can find a way of at least containing the problem because north korea cannot be solved but it can be contained. >> stay there all of you, we'll get right back to you. while americans withdrawn from

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so, why? >> i think first let me mention something important. it's actually very good that donald trump is coming to the region and spending two weeks because it's very important for the united states to register that he's still interested in this region. by the same time, this is clearly the game between the united states and china. it's a long game, and the difference between the united states and china is that china is playing a long game and the united states is playing a short game. and the chinese clearly have a very clearly, long-term vision of where they want to be 10 years, 20 years from now. they have a vision where they want to go domestically and they have a vision for the region. that's why the belt and road initiative is brilliant to tie china's economy in a win-win fashion where everyone wants new highways, new bridges and so on

and so forth. so it's important to try and understand the long game of the chinese if the united states wants to try and match it in the long run. >> kirk campbell, can the united states match it? >> look, i agree with much of what he suggests but i think the united states has had more success historically in asia than many give us credit for. we have sponsored and supported an operating system of sorts that have built strong trade links, defense partnerships, allowing for problems to be settled peacefully. that's our biggest contribution and it's been supported by a bipartisan manner in the united states for decades. i think the question is from here, is president trump and his team supported to playing an enduring role in the asia-pacific region much in the way that we've done in the past. i think there are a lot of questions about that. i will say, however, for the

last 30 years every several years after vietnam, after the cold war, there are lots of questions about americans' staying power, lots of belief in american decline, and each time we've come roaring back. so i'm not terribly pessimistic. i think we can suffer a little bit over the next course of the -- next couple of years, but we're going to have to understand that the challenge that china presents is much greater and we have to step up our game very substantially. >> elise, one of the places that the president is going to go to is the philippines where he confronts somebody -- the president who's accused of massive violations of human rights, in many ways destroying or eroding philippine democracy. historically this has come up when the president of the united states goes to countries like that, he meets with human rights

activists. he reads the riot act to the president or the regime, at least privately. do you think any of that is going to happen? >> i think that's an open question because president trump has actually praised president detour tay in the past which are his drug war which has been against due process and the rule of law. but that's an interesting contrast to what president trump is doing tomorrow in japan which is meeting with families of abductees by north korea from japan precisely to highlight north korea's human rights abuses. so it's interesting that he's going to be highlighting human rights abuses by north korea and may not highlight human rights abuses of a different kind in the philippines. so that remains to be seen what happens there. >> and in vietnam, what kind of a reception do you expect he'll get, elise, because again there, a controlled regime but one that has over the last few years been mending ties with the united states at a rather dramatic pace.

>> well, they just added a state dinner in hanoi that was tacked on in the last couple of days so that was unexpected, which will be kind of pomp and circumstance. but again signaling of mending of ties between the united states and vietnam. and also this back end of the trip in the philippines and vietnam are for these multi-lateral conferences, apeck and asean, which is important for the u.s. president to be at for signaling purposes to say we haven't abandoned our multi-lateral commitment. >> one of the places the president is not going to be is the -- >> can i just say -- >> sorry, kurt, go ahead. >> it's interesting as you travel around the region, the one thing you hear coming up a lot is the idea of the saudi, the saudi model. lots of pomp and circumstance, big purchase of american equipment and defense sales. that is what we will see in each of these stops as a way to try

to make pleasant with president trump. >> but that is of course easier to do in some ways in the more controlled societies, right, than in the more open democracies. >> very much. the only place he's going to meet with real demonstrations is going to be in south korea. >> let me finally ask you, the thing he's not going to go to is the east asian summit -- i'm sorry, i didn't realize he is going to go and that's where he's going to see putin. is that a place where the united states can make its mark? it is a chinese-sponsored -- or chinese kind of forum? >> i've got good news for you, fareed. the east asian summit is an asean initiative. one word that has not been mentioned in the entire program so far, asean. i wrote a book called the asean

miracle. to point out that asean has played a very valuable geopolitical role by providing the only platform in the region where the great powers can talk to each other when they have difficulties with each other, when china and japan have difficulties they come to an asean forum. i'm actually very happy that president trump has extended his stay by one day to attend the east asian summit. it's not just about putin. it's about a region of southeast asia of 650 million people who have huge good will towards america in this region. kurt is rest, america has been investing in this region for a long time, doing the right thing in this region for a long time. there is goodwill here. the fact that president trump has extended his stay one day to carry on with the asean summit is actually a big deal and i'm delighted that he's doing it because that will make a difference too.

>> kurt, you've got the last word. do you think that at the end of the day this counters some of the chinese initiatives, or do we need to see something more -- does trump need to announce something on this trip, something to combat the belt and road initiative or something like that? >> the truth is, fareed, as a person who has planned many of these trips in the past, this is a planner's dream. the president has given everything you could want in terms of times with leaders, time on the ground. this is the longest trip i think we've ever seen, also starting in hawaii, getting briefed by our commanders. so the question is now how will he perform, will he be able to build some personal rapport. will he get the chinese to acknowledge that they need to work with the united states, not just compete with them. will we be able to underscore that our commitment to the

region is enduring, that we want to trade with the region, that we're not seeking simply to cut off trade agreements with asian nations. really all of this hangs in the balance. i will say that there is a real prospect of securing our position, at least in the short term, and it all rides on one person, president trump. and just as the same thing in the united states i see here in japan. he's not terribly popular but people are obsessed with every step he's making here in country. >> as all over the world. thank you all very much. we will be back. heart transplan. that's a whole different ballgame. i was in shock. i am very proud of the development of drugs that can prevent the rejection and prevent the recurrence of the original disease. i never felt i was going to die. we know so much about transplantation. and we're living longer. you cannot help but be inspired by the opportunities that a transplant would offer. my donor's mom says "you were meant to carry his story".

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