election. >> i call it the russian hoax. one of the great hoaxes. >> thanks for spending your sunday morning with us. can you camp me here every sunday and weekdays on qult the lead" at 4:00 p.m. eastern. "fare "fareed zacharias gps" starts right now. >> this is "gps," welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. today, abe, xi, moon, president trump's big meetings on the world stage. has this big asia trip changed america's position in the world? >> we are not going to let the united states be taken advantage of anymore. >> and for the better or worse? richard haas, ian bremer will

join me. saudi arabia's crackdown on corruption. princes and top officials arrested and kept at the ritz carlton. saudi officials say this corruption has cost the country at least $100 billion. what is going on? we will explore. and a melee outside the turkish ambassador's residence last spring that resulted in u.s. indictments of 15 turkish security officials bringing relations between the two nations to a new low. ly talk to turkey's prime minister who met with vice president pence this week. but first here's my take. the news out of saudi arabia has been startling. a country famous for its stability to the point of stagnation is watching a 32-year-old crown prince arrest his relatives, freeze their bank accounts and dismiss them from

key posts. but on closer examination, it shouldn't be that surprising. mohammed bin salman is now applying to saudi arabia what has become the new standard operating procedure for strong men around the world. the formula was hone the by vladimir putin. first amplify on foreign threats as to rally the country around the regime and give it extraordinary powers. putin did this with the chechen war and the danger of terrorism. then move against rival centers of influence within the society, often using anti-corruption, which in russia meant the oligarchs who at the time were more powerful than the state itself. talk more about the need to end corruption, reform the economy and provide benefits for ordinary people. putin was able to succeed on that last front largely because of the quadrupling of oil prices over the next decade. finally, control the media through formal and informal means. russia has gone from having a thriving free media in 2000 to a

level of state control that is effectively similar to the soviet union. naturally, not every element of this formula applies elsewhere. perhaps prince mohammed will prove to be a genuine reformer but the basic approach for political success that he is following is similar to that applied in countries around the world. in his 2012 book "the dictator's learning curve," william explained that the new breed of strong men around the world have learned a set of tricks to maintain control that are far more clever and sophisticated than in the past. rather than forcibly arrest members of a human rights group, today's most effective despots deployed tax inspectors or health inspectors to shut down groups. rather than forcibly arrest members of a human rights group, today most effective.

what happened since writing the book, it's depressing. it's the democrats moving up the learning curve. consider turk y a country in the early 20 0s seemed on a firm path towards democracy and liberalism anchored in a desire to be a full-fledged member of the the european union erdogan has launched various tax and regulatory actions against opponents in the media and declared one option group to be terrorists. the rulers of malaysia and philippines appear to be copying from that same playbook. of course, this is not the picture of democracy everywhere, but these tendencies can be spotted in far-flung areas. in countries like india and japan, which remain vie brandt democracies in most respects, there are elements of this new system creeping in.

a nationalism, a populism, increasing measures to intimidate and neuter the free press. in america, donald trump for his part, has threatened nbc, cnn and other with government action. he's attacked judges and independent agencies. so, perhaps, even in america somebody seems to be moving up this learning curve. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my washington post column this week. let's get started. president trump is in manila right now, the last stop on his dozen day five-stop tour of asia. the most controversial aspect of his trip so far are his chats with president putin. afterward trump told reporters that he really believed putin when he told him he didn't

meddle in the u.s. elections. later trump said he believes the u.s. intelligence community, which of course says russia did interfere. so, lots to talk about with today's panel. elise who works for npr and covered many of the president's stops. ian bremer was in vietnam for the president's stop and president of the eurasia group and richard haass is the author of "the world in disarray." richard, how do you explain the putin thing? it feels as though donald trump just can't stop himself from saying that -- >> for several years now he has been sympathetic, supportive of russia and mr. putin. and even though he tried to correct it at his most recent stop by saying it's important to

work with russia on some of these issues, he's basically wrong. you cannot, should not give russia a path any time it violates the basic norms of international order, whether it's interfering in our elections, whether it's taking crimea, using force indiscriminately in syria. what he did is wrong in foreign policy and wrong just in terms of basic morality. >> elise, other than this, the president actually stayed pretty much on script. it was actually striking to listen to donald trump reading from teleprompters, doing the handshakes, you know, mostly no tweets, or certainly no controversial ones. is that how he was received in asia? >> right. at the top level, of course, there were concerns that there might be a trade war accidentally launched by tweets or going off scripts in china and that was avoided. also, there were no major breaches of protocol. trump did have some trouble reading off the promper in south korea, forming some sentences that weren't quite sentences and things like that but no breaches

of protocol either. until he careened off script on the putin question, the asia trip was largely a success. >> ian, the part that struck me is trump seemed quite determine shall to china and he was -- he was asserting a narrow american interest, xi was asserting these larger global interests and this comes at a time, as you pointed out, china is both more ambitious and appears quite successful. >> in my view in my entire lifetime there have been two speeches that have changed the global order. one is when gorbachev dissolved the soviet union and xi jinping when he said china is ready to be a superpower. that's not been played a lot in the united states but in apec and asia, that's what people are talking about, the importance of

xi jinping. the presence of the american president was interesting in terms of is he going to blow north korea up or is he going to make missteps but it didn't have much impact. he was signing some deals. he said nice things to the chinese. he appreciated the big party. but he wasn't doing anything. meanwhile, asians were signing trade deals without the united states. the chinese are writing big checks and developing architecture without the united states. if anything, that's kind of the story here. >> it seemed as though, you know, with china, trump has sort of reversed himself. he seemed like he was -- during the campaign he was tough on china. now much more sympathetic. >> again, giving china a pass. but what historians will write about this trip, it will be the united states unilaterally essentially is abdicated. we have taken ourselves out of the future of asia to a large degree in terms of geoeconomics by not being part of things economic and not being part of the trade agreement.

the idea you can be part of things strategically in the military sense but not the economic sense doesn't wash. alliances are full-fledged 360-degree relationships. i think when the history is written, it won't simply be about china stepping forward. this will be yet again the united states stepping back. the president continues to have, i think, a distorted view of the pluses and minuses of any trade agreement. we are going to pay an economic price for that, fareed, and we're also going to pay a real strategic price. >> xi the big winner, from what you could tell? >> if you spent any time in beijing and shanghai, which i'm sure both of you have, it's one belt, one road everywhere. there's a real sense of a clear vision coming out of china. where there isn't a counterweight coming in from america. so i think that is the big concern. of course, that gives xi the win. >> there's also another piece that struck me, very briefly, the duterte, you know, visit. trump is going to talk to the president of the philippines.

it shouldn't -- it shouldn't neuter the relationship between the united states and philippines, but the american president is standing up for human rights and criticizing human rights abuse has historically been a good thing. it's been a kind of marker. and trump clearly has no intention of doing that. >> keep in mind the u.s. relationship with the feel peenz was deteriorating significantly under president obama. we were losing influence in that part of the world. trump has made clear this is transactional to him. he's playing a status quo role in terms of the security side as opposed to the economic trade side, as richard said where the americans have abdicated. in southeast asia, that's still an important balancing role. we saw this in vietnam. we'll see this in philippines. >> don't go away, when we come back, another day, another controversial tweet. president trump called north korea's leader short and fat. will that help resolve the crisis in north korea? we will give you our expert opinion when we come back. hey, are you taking the tissue test?

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thin-skinned occupiant of the oval office had been nursing a grudge for several weeks now. this is not classic diplomacy. you asked a question, which i assume was rhetorical, about whether this will help us solve the north korean problem. it's not immediately apparent it will. >> elise, it's fair to say the big news policywise out of this trip that trump has taken is that he has actually softened his position on asia, which i must confess, i always predicted he would. by which i mean the threats, the fire and fury, the -- there was no military option, it was pretty clear. and he seemed to have dialed it back in various ways. >> he certainly dialed it back rhetorically when he was in japan and in seoul. and now there's more and more talk of a possible other way to get to the negotiating table, possibly by way of a 60-day freeze on any provocations. i don't know when that clock would actually start. i assume that clock hasn't started yet. but there hasn't been any sort of provocation from north korea

since september 15th. it sounds like secretary of state rex tillerson and his top north korean official are talking about -- or floating this notion of a freeze. >> ian, what do you think? >> two things, one, i'm glad he decided to wait on his tweet until after he left south korea and japan, so kim jong-un wouldn't be tempted to do a test in the region. i think trump did probably think about that. beyond that, there's another big thing that changed here which is he said that the russians could really be helpful, the chinese have been helpful, the russians could be helpful but haven't been. you know why? because fake news and the democrats and -- and mueller are working so hard to stop trump from being able to work with putin. this is a, you know, sort of behind -- a backhand way of trump qui oating down the nk income issue by plaguing other people. he's going to blame the dough

me domestics. >> do you think there's a solution here, kind of a freeze for freeze and does it have to be -- joshua at kissinger has been kind of proposing this idea of broadening the issue to make it more about nonproliferation, maybe in asia or wond. what is the way to make everybody be willing to kind of stand down from, you know, what -- everybody is in a box now. how do you get out of that box and start talking? >> i think denuclearization remains a long-term goal, just not the immediate goal. one could imagine interim arrangements, either a freeze on testing, maybe a freeze on production of nuclear warheads and missiles and what the united states has to decide is what we would be prepared to offer in exchange, say, as a first step for freeze on testing. if we're not going to cancel and we shouldn't, our military exercises. do we have a formal end to the korean war, which has never had just that? are we prepared to change the way of sanctions, maybe even

articulate certain incentives for north korea? so the united states has to flesh out a diplomatic position and be willing to take as a first step something less than the solution of the problem. >> elise, it's worth pointing out that in south korea the funny thing is, trump's provocations, kim jong-un's provocation, there is a tendency to believe that there isn't going to be a war and they very much do not want american military action. >> absolutely. i get the question a lot, what's it like in seoul, because especially when the rhetoric ramps up, people get was in here in the united states and other parts of the world. really in seoul life goes on as normal. i'm always saying, everything is fine, this is the k-pop hit of the summer -- >> because they've lived with the north koreans all their lives. >> decades. >> what will make the north korean crisis more manageable is diplomacy.

sitting president on u.s. and foreign council has -- in your capacity as an analyst, you called for rex tillerson to resign. why? >> i thought the president put the secretary of state in an intenable position when he was meeting with his chinese counterpart several weeks ago and he disparaged his diplomat efforts and he's undermined the secretary of state in the middle east. he's trying to work out a deal with the saudis and qatar, and i think the secretary of state has made a bad situation worse. the focus on reducing the size of the state department staff. this is a rounding area. look at the diplomatic challenges this administration faces, including in south korea. why don't we have an ambassador there? any savings we get are irrelevant. this secretary of state seems focused on reducing the diplomatic capacity of his own department. i don't think that's wise. >> back to the point you were

making, ian. when i was in singapore a week ago, what they were telling me is that every international and regional meeting we go to, the chinese now outnumber the americans. they are are there, better briefed and they come with specific ideas, policy proposals and money. the americans are absent. the state department is weak. >> they're getting better, no question. let's not forget about the fact there are lots of countries around the world about chinese being dominant. japan's relationship with the united states is better umpd trump than it was before and a lot of the europeans. but they're by themselves. the americans were leading, they were cohering. that's gone. you don't feel it in the united states because we have canada and mexico and two big bodies of water. but when you travel to asia, you really feel the absence of the united states. you feel the absence of the state department. look, this is the first time in history that a sitting head of the counsel of foreign relations called for the resignation of a sitting secretary of state.

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the events in saudi arabia over the last week have been truly astonishing. in a world without president trump, this story would have dominated the headlines. last saturday the h eir-apparent

crown prince mohammed bin salman ordered the arrest of princes and top officials. this is an odd charge since most would say the kingdom of saudi arabia runs on patronage kickbacks. among those arrested were prince al waleed, a billionaire businessman and past guest on this program. this week saudi arabia accused lebanon of declaring war on its kingdom and hezbollah has accused saudi arabia of declaring war on lebanon. what is going on? ali shihabi serves as executive director of the arabia foundation. it seems to me the first part, the anti-corruption stuff, is a consolidation of power for mohammed bin salman, the crown prince, and it appears like the one that xi jinping, the anti-corruption, like putin when he went after the oligarchs. this means saudi arabia now has one very powerful ruler,

correct? >> i think there's a misconception about that because the consolidation of power took place in june. when prince moment bin salman was appointed crown prince. once he was appointed crown prince, game over. no centers of power could dispute that. his succession would be automatic after the passing of the present king. its not so much a consolidation of power as two things, first, the issue of corruption, as you mentioned before, is something that has plagued the kingdom for many, many years. its not just corruption -- >> let me put it this way. he just bought a $500 billion yacht himself. i presume that didn't come out of his salary as crown prince. >> i will tell you -- >> that no distinction between the wealth of the country and the wealth of the royal family. ho can you talk about corruption? >> that came out of a "new york times" article a year ago which is factually incorrect. does he have a yacht? he has a yacht. >> maybe it's -- >> it's actually substantially

less but that's not the point. the point is not can there be one crown prince and one king and one yacht. the question is really the equivalent of ten kings, 50 deputy kings and 500 assistant kings. >> that's what i mean. it's a consolidation. >> it's a consolidation of entitlement. it has been estimated that if you want to call them elite entitlement and privileged has been costing the kingdom somewhere between 10% and 30% of its budget. it's not historical corruption it's corruption going forward. >> the end of the patronage system. >> correct. the circle of entitlement has to be smad smaller. the crown prince has been talking for two years this has to end, we can't accept it but elites give up privileges with a lot of difficulty. >> why al waleed, explain that one? >> we will have to see why. the rumor mill is it had something to do with the fact that his portfolio, he was highly leveraged, borrowed a lot

of money against his foreign holdings. in 2008, you know, some people say, and again this is a rumor, we'll have to see, that his firm was nearly bankrupt. >> i feel like it also adds to obnoxious value. >> it does, of course. the point is his firm was bankrupt and that he with the kroopgs of then-minister of finance got the government to bail him out in an unfair manner. of course it does. about 200 people have been arrested. the names that have been leaked are high-profile names. the point is to send that message if those high profile people are not immune, nobody can be immune. that has had the effect of changing behavior immediately. today if you are a government official looking to sign a contract, you're going to look over your shoulder. and it's that shock therapy that is so essential to changing the behavior. it's a revolution from above, you see, which will protec saudi elites in the future from a revolution below. >> the one place you haven't

seen the shock therapy is on the religious establishment. the crown prince talked about wanting a more moderate islam. in the past when i've been in saudi arabia and i said to people, why don't you get the religious establishment to be more moderate to end this extremism, they say we can't do that because they have their own power. it now is clear that the crown prince has total power and always seemed the religious establishment was, you know -- they were salaried employees of the state as it were. why doesn't he use shock therapy on the establishment and tell them to get -- you know, get with the program and -- >> exactly. he did exactly that over a month ago. >> one speech but he's not done anything. >> no, no, he arrested 40 to 70 clerics. about six weeks ago exactly this was done to the religious establishment. 40 to 60 clerics were arrested including one who had 14 million followers on twitter. one of the biggest names. exactly this policy. >> you expect to see a moderation of the -- >> absolutely. to moderate the culture, to

moderate your understanding of islam, this is a long-term process. it's much quicker to stop corruption and it's much quicker to stop elite entitlement. the shock therapy preed the shock therapy. the problem was that when he arrested the cleric six, seven weeks ago, this was about three weeks before he allowed women to drive, which clerics have used has a wedge issue, because they considered that the last bastion of conservativism and he crushed that. the things he's been doing have been taken by cynicism with talking heads in america. if you would allow me, i would like to commented on your introduction statement. >> you have 45 seconds. >> the book you talked about, you know, that talked about the playbook, putin's playbook, for example, as i said he consolidated his power already. he doesn't need to do this to consolidate power. he needs to do to to re-educate elites that their period of entitlement and privilege is over. >> well, now we have a little more time so i will ask you

about lebanon. very briefly, just explain what is going on. it seems as though this is a -- part of a saudi/iranian cold war playing out in lebanon. each side wants to influence lebanon. >> no. the question is lebanon has become a statement captured by hezbollah and hezbollah, frankly, has morphed into a pure terrorist organization. lebanon is controlled by a nonstate actor that has become iran's subcontractor, to use in the arab world so hezbollah has been working in syria kill huns of thousands and also operating in yemen as a subcontractor for iran. the point is to expose what lebanon has turned into, which is a hezbollah-controlled state with a veneer of respectability. >> i asked you tough questions. next on "gps," how republicans have betrayed the legacy of their secular saint, ronald reagan, when we come back

. for our "what in the world segment," republicans worship at the altar of ronald reagan and admire him more than anything else, perhaps because he presided over a massive tax reform in 1986. even donald trump who doesn't often praise his republican predecessors says he's a fan of reagan's and wants to follow his plan on taxes. >> we need a tax code that is simple, fair and easy to understand. >> trump is right. american taxpayers and businesses spent $8.9 billion a year, billion, doing taxes, costing the economy $409 billion, according to the fax foundation. but the current republican tax plan looks little like reagans. under reagan a bipartisan congress greatly simplified the tax code, cutting out scores of credits, deductions and loopholes. a sign of their success, special

interests were furious about losing tax breaks. take, for example, this brash new york real estate developer. >> this tax act was just an absolute catastrophe for the country, for the real estate industry and i really hope something can be done. >> the current republican plan is being pushed as a radical simplification of the tax code but it actually adds to its complexity. take one glaring example among many. it should have been easy to kill all together the interest provision that favors hedge funds and private equity companies but the house plan merely makes the loophole a little less gaping. a hedge fund manager said to me, my tax accountants and lawyers are going to be delighted. now there's even more work for them. noren substance, there's a whole new scheme that will affect 95% of america's businesses. wealthy americans who own such businesses like president trump will get a big tax break, except if you own the business and work for it, you get a smaller tax break.

except to further complicate things, can you make a case for a special treatment and get a more generous tax break. the lawyers and accountants must be salivating. the simple proof of the plan's complexity is this, the 1986 bill got rid of so many loopholes and deductions that despite a massive cut in rates, it was actually designed not to increase the deficit at all. the current plan will explode the deficit by at least $1.5 trillion, and probably more because of all the fuzzy math involved in predicting growth. republicans had been saying that after the reforms, most americans would be able to file their taxes on a postcard. they have backed away from that claim because now it would have to be a postcard with pages and pages of footnotes. the reagan plan also made tax rates for most kinds of income from earnings to capital gains to dividends roughly similar if not the same. in isn't keeping with basic free market philosophy that says that the government should not pick winners and losers. well, the current republican tax

plan is filled with choices for winners and losers. big businesses are best, small ones are also good, except if they're law firms and doctors' offices. most nonprofits are totally exempt. some nonprofits and colleges are not. republicans keep saying they have a once in a generation opportunity for tax reform. they are right and they are squandering it. next on "gps," tokyo's prime minister came to the u.s. this week to work on warming relations between the two nations. he met with vice president pence and then he talked to me exclusively. that interview when we come back. (beeping) we're on to you, diabetes. time's up, insufficient prenatal care. and administrative paperwork, your days of drowning people are numbered. same goes for you, budget overruns. and rising costs, wipe that smile off your face. we're coming for you too. at optum, we're partnering across the health system

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. july 15, 2016. the world watched that night an organized effort tried to take down the government of president erdogan and almost 200,000 people have faced some sort of judicial action, including almost 50,000 arrested, included are army generals, judges, prosecutors, journalists, police officers and more. 16 months after the attempt, turkey remains in a declared state of emergency. they base u.s. cleric fethullah gulen of masterminding the coup.

turkish security forces are accused of beating up protesters in the streets of washington, d.c. earlier this year as president erdogan looked on. last month turkey arrested a turkish employee of the u.s. consulate in istanbul. in an effort to improve relations, foreign minimum yildririm traveled to talk to vice president mike pence and talked to me afterwards. >> prime minister, nice to have you on the show. >> thank you. >> why have turkey/american relations, why is there so much tension between the two countries? we're meant to be allies, right? >> yes. turkey and united states are allies and partners, but nowadays, unfortunately, our relation is not at the level which should be desired. >> why is it? people look at turkey, in washington people look at turkey and they say, you are now buying weapons from the russians. you are a nato ally buying

weapons from the russians. you are, as i say, threatening to say to the united states, you cannot use the air base. euro posed to u.s. efforts to fight isis because they involve using some kurdish forces. there seems to be areas where turkey is turning away from the west on its foreign policy. >> well, we have a couple of reasons. as you mentioned, there is no single reason why this situation is like this. it comes through last 1 1/2 years. if you go after july 15, year 2016, we had that awful coup attempt in turkey. our parliament building bombed and our 250 were killed and more

than 2,000 injured. so, the man who is responsible on this coup attempt, fethullah gulen, is living in united states. so, we are very sure that he's behind this coup attempt. so, we required united states to hand over this terrorist to the turkish parliament and we provided enormous amount of document and proof. but after 1 1/2 years behind, we don't have any development, any signal that is going to be developed. >> did you -- did you hope that the trump administration would

extradite gulen because michael flynn was working with the turkish government, for the turkish government, to -- and argued publicly for asking for the extradition of him. >> we expected that this will happen. had michael flynn provided you with any assurance that it would happen? >> no, no. no one has. we are not dealing with michael flynn. we are dealing with the government of the united states. >> he was national security adviser. >> and after he left, we are main mainly left with the risk of justice. of turkey and the united states. they were in communication. they are still in communication.

to provide some progress on that matter? #. >> my sources said that the evidence provided is not particularly strong. not conclusive. if it was strong they would have made it public. the evidence is very sparse. >> we hear this argument, but what i can tell you, july 15th we had a coop attack. similar happened to 9/11 in the united states. when the president bush announced it, u.s. was under attack, turkey was the first country to offer to help and

sending army to afghanistan. we didn't ask who is behind all of this. the united states said this is al qaeda behind this attack and al qaeda is responsible. we said is there any evidence that al qaeda did so. >> let me ask you about what is happening inside turkey. when i would first visit turkey when prime minister erdogan was prime minister, he was doing impressive reforms, the european union would praise turkish government every few months for the amount of legal reforms, economic reforms. they talked about how turkey wanted to be a member of the european union and they were

strengthening democracy and liberalism. by every objective group that measures these things. freedom of the press has weakened and we have cases against independent media. what has happened. in your view, why did it turn to you? >> this is perception rather than reality. believe me. because of this organization. >> freedom houses an independent

nongovernment am agency and turkey's ranking on civil liberties and protection of press and opposition has been falling for the last few years. the prime minister erdogan has made himself a super president. even the little symbols. he built a presidential palace that is four times the size of versailles. it doesn't look like a deepening of democracy. >> i invite you to see with your own eyes that the presidential side when you see that, you will see the reality. >> but i have gone to turkey and seen the reality that there are fewer independent journalists and experts. many have fled to the united states or to the west. you know this is true. >> this is related with this organization. again.

and their aim to, you know, remo remove our government and the country. >> mr. prime minister, a pleasure to have you on.

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