this is "gps," the global public square. welcome you to the united states and all around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. today on the show, regime change. the trump administration has encouraged venezuelans to topple their leader. >> nicolas maduro must go. >> this week the opposition tried and failed. >> what's next for juan guaido? i'll talk to his u.s. representative. and the rumors of abu bakr al baghdadi's death was greatly overexaggerate. he seems to be very much alive and the terror group seems to be alive with the sri lanka attacks.

is isis new, improved and deadly? also, measles, mumps, rubella and polio were also supposed to have been effectively vanquished in the west. but now measles outbreak abounds right here in new york city. what explains this? i'll tell you. but first, here's my take. understanding donald trump's foreign policy is a bit of a challenge since the president has written and spoken little on the subject for most of his life. so, how do make sense of his world view? is there a trump doctrine? michael anton, a former trump national security official, believes there is, and he explains it in a new essay on foreign policy. let's all put our own country's first and be candid about it and recognize it's nothing to be

ashamed of. as daniel larison responds, this is not a doctrine. it's a banality. what country has not put it own interests first. global interest over american ones? anton does outline a certain conservatism that seems at the heart of donald trump's world view. more important since trump is inconsistent and could change his mind tomorrow, it reflects the views of the man who's gotten closest to him on foreign policy, national security adviser john bolton. bolton has been described as a neo-conservative, a paleo conservative, a conservative hawk. he's conservative in the classical sense, someone who has a dark view of human kind. as a former u.s. official told the new yorker, they believe thomas hobbes' famous description applies to international life, it's nasty, brutish and short. bolton believes to protect

itself and project its power, the u.s. must be aggressive, unilateral and militant. bolton seems to share the world view of dick cheney who after 9/11 spoke openly about the need to work the dark side and use any means at our disposable basically to achieve our objectives. there are some in the foreign policy establishment who believe that russia poses a grave threat to america. others worry about a rising china or an ideological iran. for bolton, it's all of the above and more. he has at various points warned darkly about the mortal threat to the united states by cuba, libya, syria and, of course, iraq. a long-time fan of regime change he named cuba, venezuela and nicaragua a corner of terror. it seems he wants them to fall, though, not to usher in an era of democracy but because they resist american power and

influence. the monroe doctrine is alive and well, bolton said to "the new yorker's" dexter filkins. it's our hemisphere. virtuous about can democracy and freedom, but because it is ours. this results in a cultural chauvinism that can morph into racism. the bolton world view is profoundly inaccurate. the world is not nasty, brutish and short. life has improved immeasurably over the last 100 years. political violence, deaths from war, civil wars and, yes, terrorism has plummeted and this has happened in large part because human beings also have the genes to cooperate. to compete peacefully and to

weigh the costs of war against their benefits. bolton says that he might well invoke the roosevelt corollary to the monroe doctrine, which asserts the united states can use force unilaterally anywhere in the western hemisphere. if he does, what is the argument against russia doing the same and ukraine? china in the south china seas? iran in yemen? without rules and norms, the u.s. would have to militarily thwart every such effort or else accept a world of war and anarchy. you see, nationalist assertiveness works as long as only you get to practice it. for more go to cnn.com/fareed and read my washington post column this week. and let's get started. "operation freedom" has begun, that was juan guaido's

message to his supporters earlier this week. he's the opposition leader and president of venezuela national assembly. maduro government on tuesday. today maduro still has the power despite the u.s.'s strong backing of guaido. trump and leaders of dozens of other countries recognize guaido as venezuela's interim leader. joining me now from miami is carlos vecchio, juan guaido's representative in the united states. mr. vecchio, explain to us what happened on tuesday. after i saw it, after much fanfare, this video comes out, nothing really happened that day. there were meant to be -- i presume there were meant to be defections of key military leaders. there was meant to be a crack in the regime by the end of the day. it seemed as though maduro was in power and leopoldo the opposition leader, had to run into spanish embassy to seek

asylum. >> hello, fareed. thank you very much for this opportunity. as you said, this week interim president juan guaido has activated the operation, to put an end to the power of nicolas maduro. this is not a single event. this is only the beginning of this phase. this is an ongoing process, so if you put it in that way, we have been taking, you know, important steps in order to put the end of maduro. the most important thing for me is the following, fareed. one, juan guaido is free, he's on the street leading this operation. the most prominent prisoner of the regime was released by the intelligent forces of maduro, that were supposedly supporting

maduro. and the people of venezuela had to remain on the street across the country. and the most important one, fareed, members of the inner circle of maduro, including civilian, military officers, were negotiating the exit of maduro. this is a process. this is an ongoing process. it's not a single event. we're moving forward in order to conquer freedom. >> secretary of state pompeo said in that negotiation maduro was about to get on the plane and leave but the russians told him not to and backed him to stay in power. is that accurate? >> i cannot comment on that, fareed. i don't have those details. what i can tell you is that the inner circle of maduro, this tells you this regime is collapsing. that maduro doesn't go anywhere, that maduro cannot trust anyone. this is a matter of time that it will -- >> but, it's important to understand, president trump says

that he accepts putin's claim that russia has no involvement in venezuela and no interest. mike pompeo says the russians have hundreds if not more people and that they are the outside power that is propping up the regime. who is right? >> the venezuela situation has become more complex, fareed, due to the presence of cubans and russians. we have sent clear messages to all of them, that this is a process led by venezuelans and we will conquer freedom and they should facilitate the transition in venezuela. the most important south american countries have passed some resolutions calling on the russians and cubans saying this is the position guaido has and you need to facilitate the transition because this is not impacting only venezuela but the entire region. i think we have that clear position. we'll continue, you know, on the streets, increasing the pressure -- >> but don't you need --

>> -- the national assembly -- >> don't you need some defections of key military leaders? i think that was the expectation on tuesday. surely you are disappointed that there were no defections. >> no, listen, the most important thing is the -- this is a process. it is not a single event. we were not expecting everything that specific day, but the other part is that important members of the army were supporting this operation. just to give you that example, leopoldo lopez. he was the intelligent forces of maduro and he was released. and he has spent more than eight hours just walking with the people of -- in venezuela. the only way to do that is because part of the military forces are supporting what we are doing in venezuela. so, this is a matter of time. this is collapsing. >> but then he had to run into the spanish embassy because he was worried he would get rearrested, i would assume. >> yes, but he will keep operating from that, you know, facility, from that place.

he has connections not only with military officers but also with inner circle of maduro and people from the opposition, mainly with interim president juan guaido. now he will be in a better position to continue doing what he was doing in his house arrest. so, i think we are just moving forward, fareed. this is like you climb like a mountain and we are just moving forward. we're pretty close to the peak. we need to keep our determination until we achieve what we want, which is the end of the occupation of power of maduro. >> carlos vecchio, always a pleasure to talk to you. thank you. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. next on "gps" -- is isis back? i will ask the experts. it transforms natural essential oils into mist; filling the room with fragrance, pausing when it's just right. experience air wick essential mist.

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lanka, which isis had taken credit for. all of this brings about the question, is isis back? did it ever go away? let's discuss this with farah pandith and jessica stern. jessica co-authored "isis: the state of terror" from byu's global department of studies. special representative to muslim communities. her recent book is "how we win." jessica, what was your reaction on seeing this video? >> well, it's clearly an attempt by baghdadi to show not only he's still alive. as you point out there were many rumors he was dead or severely wounded or in charge. i notice he's wearing this jihadi sheikh vest. he's not just posing as a scholar but actually looking like a warrior and looking like he's in charge. so, to me, that's a really big part of what this was about. it's marketing, to show that

isis is still strong, still the most significant terrorist group in the world right now and that he is still strong and in charge. >> but, what was striking is -- isis had developed a sophisticated media strategy. you think of the beheading videos. very slickly produced. this was almost a throwback to the al qaeda videos. guy, preacher, very straight to camera monologue. >> what's interesting about this is here's the guy, he's alive and he's kicking. he's poking trump in the eye, saying, you said that we're defeated. we're not defeated. jessica is correct when she says he's trying to be powerful, but he went old school. he went old school. he used a video. he's a roly-poly middle aged guy speaking in a very old school way. for two reasons, in my view. first to tell governments, you're wrong. i'm here. i'm powerful.

i'm the supreme extremist around the world. also to say to his adherence, look at me. i'm in charge of the gravitas here and to say to al qaeda and others, if you thought you were going to compete with us, you're wrong. >> jessica, what is the difference between al qaeda and isis? both were at various points considered kind of down. al qaeda had dwindled and withered. is isis in that same situation, whatever baghdadi may say? >> isis came out of a split in one of the branches of al qaeda. and what we see with jihadi organizations is that they're constantly splitting when there's competition between leaders or potential leaders who are fighting for control and merging. this is just the nature of these organizations. so, i don't really see isis as dramatically different from al qaeda. >> it does seem to have one thing, correct me if i'm wrong, it has many more people. >> yes. >> it had so many people on the ground in syria.

i keep wondering, where are all of them? >> you're absolutely right. one of the really -- i mean, now we realize, they're a clever move on the part of isis was to declare a caliphate and thousands, about 40,000 foreign fighters came. and according to my colleague bruce hoffman, up to 30,000 of them escaped. so, some of the foreign fighters are now in -- well, all over the world but also in the provinces that isis has declared. and also, according to the u.s. military, tens of thousands are still in iraq and syria hiding. >> farah, one of the things striking is the sri lanka attacks, regardless of how much isis had to do with it, and a lot of people think they did help them because they were very sophisticated attacks that the sri lankan group didn't seem able to do. but it does seem to come as part of a process that you have described earlier where if you

look at what happened to sri lanka over the last 10 or 15 years, a very moderate kind of islam, got radicalized because a lot of sri lankans went to the gulf, worked in saudi arabia, the emirates, heard the preachers, meanwhile gulf money was going in new center with saudi funded. the same process that has radicalized so many places seemed at work. >> you're absolutely right. it's a global ideology, isn't it? we saw that with the adherence that came from all over the world. they won over young millenials and generation z. not just from the middle east or south asia. you can look to south america, you can look to central asia and africa and you can see the bat signal has gone out to say, in this video, in fact, we're still here. the things we stood for are still alive. we can regroup and reform ourselves at any time. and we're ready to go. >> so, jessica, for most people, they are wondering, so should we keep worrying about islamic terrorism?

we saw yesterday's story, does the sri lankan bombing tell you, no, this is a threat that's very much alive? >> it is a threat that's very much alive. i don't think we're going to see a 9/11 type attack any time soon. and i -- general modif said to the united states, china and russia are the big threats now. terrorism is no longer the number one threat to u.s. national security. and i think that's true, but nonetheless, it does still -- it's still there. it's very much still there. and this group poses the threat more to countries that are where there's a sectarian conflict of some kind or a civil war or some kind of incomplete or illiberal democracy, to use your term. that's where we see terroristic organizations really making headway.

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measles in 25 years. more than 700 people have been infected this year alone. and a lot of these cases are coming from a surprising place, williamsburg, brooklyn. last month the city declared a state of emergency and ordered mandatory vaccinations in certain brooklyn zip codes. how can the biggest, most cosmopolitan city in the country have an outbreak of a disease that was supposed to be eliminated in the western hemisphere? immunization in the united states is high for measles. 92% of children between 12 and 23 months are vaccinated. but for the orthodox jewish community, many of whom who live in pockets of brooklyn, vaccinations rates are relatively low. this community is an epicenter of the recent measles outbreak. measles can still occur in the united states when unvaccinated people travel to other countries experiencing outbreaks. the problem compounds when those

infected then come back to insular communities sprinkled throughout the country with low vaccination rates. according to vox, in recent years measles have hit somali americans in minnesota, the amish in ohio and russian-speaking immigrants in washington state. in all these communities, vaccination rates are low, sometimes because of the difficulties of access, in other cases because of a wariness about vaccines. despite overwhelming scientific evidence proving their effectiveness, anti-vax sentiment still runs high in certain communities of america. it hinges on misinformation that's been almost impossible to completely dispel. a modern turning point was in 1998 when an erroneous study published in the lancet linked the measles vaccine to autism. the link was conclusively disproved years later, but the damage was done. in 2004, somali american children in minnesota where fears of the autism link ran

high had a 92% immunization rate for measles. by 2014 child immunization in the community had fallen to just 42%, according to the minnesota department of health. today anti-vaccine activists are targeting the hasidic community in brooklyn with literature saying it's non-kosher. this misinformation appears to be working even though many ean authorities have disclaimed this. those in williamsburg neighborhood of brooklyn are nine times more likely to be unvaccinated than their counterparts at public schools. what makes this all worse is america's vaccination policy. there is none nationally. vaccination in the u.s. is a state issue. according to vox, most states offer exemptions for school aged

children on religious grounds. more than a dozen offer philosophical or personal belief exemptions. one doctor quoted called these misinformed parent exemptions and there's long been a debate about whether or not to scrap them. donald trump himself has long parroted the false link between autism and vaccinations. though last month he changed his tune and urged parents to vaccinate their children. >> they have to get their shots. >> mandatory vaccination is a delicate issue in the u.s. where such issues provoke outcry about personal liberties. vaccination isn't just about individual liberty, it is about public safety. let's hope we don't need a pandemic affecting thousands, maybe more, before people start accepting the scientific evidence. next on "gps" -- donald trump demanded that the whole world stop buying oil from iran by thursday or face american sanctions. it's a powerful squeeze. will it work?

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...but not for long- so hurry in! thursday was deadline day. that's when the trump administration required all countries to stop importing oil from iran or else. those importers would face sanctions themselves. why? well, they haven't been shy about it. the white house has said it wants to deny the iranian regime its principle source of revenue. mike pompeo said that before

sanctions, iran's oil income was as much as $50 billion a year. countries like india, china, south korea, japan all had been importing large amounts of oil from iran. so, what happens to iran and what happens to those importers? meghan o'sullivan joins us from harvard's kennedy school where she's a professor of international affairs and director of geopolitic energy project. meghan, will this work? will countries stop importing oil from iran? >> hello, fareed. i would say those are two different questions. will countries stop on importing oil? we've already seen the first effort to get countries to stop importing iranian oil was very effective and actually cut iranian exports in about half. the question is, will this next go to zero round get things down even further? i don't think they'll go to zero, but they will come down significantly from where they are right now. 1.5 billion barrels of oil a

day. getting iran under greater economic pressure is not the end all of the policy. or at least not as articulated by the trump administration. the question is, will this pressure deliver political changes and real negotiations? >> and what is the effect you think it will have on iran? >> well, we've already seen -- i think there were big questions when the u.s. unilaterally pulled out of the agreement with iran. a lot of people speculated that on its own the united states would not be able to bring a lot of economic pressure on the iranian economy. we've seen that's just not the case. the iranian economy is under severe pressure. the american unilateral sanctions, because they are secondary sanctions, they're also threatening sanctions against iran's consumers or customers, rather. we've seen that the iranian economy is really, really suffering.

the imf says it's going to contract by 6% this year. meaning that iran's economy is going to be the worst performer in the world apart from venezuela and zimbabwe. then the question is, can the trump administration take that economic pressure and convince the iranian regime to come to the table and negotiate a deal? i would say that this -- the components of a strategy that would work are not in place because economic pressure is the only thing that we're really seeing. we're not seeing that coupled with a really credible argument for its sincere negotiations. i think the iranian regime, and, frankly, a lot of the world, questions whether the trump administration really wants a negotiation or more interested in creating an economic collapse and a regime change? as long as the iranians have that question, they're unlikely to come to the table and negotiate with the trump administration or anyone else. >> all this works, meghan, because of the central role of the dollar. in order to do international currency transactions today,

have you to price it in dollars, which means effectively you need the federal reserve's involvement. is it possible that this move will get the europeans, the iranians, the chinese, the russians to do what they kept saying they wanted to do, which is create some alternative to the dollar? >> well, this is a great question. it's really been a slow-moving effort. we've been hearing about people creating alternatives for many years. i would say we now see evidence of not just our adversaries looking for ways to circumvent sanctions by creating alternatives to the dollar, but also our allies. so, you've noted on your show before how the europeans have created a special purpose vehicle with the objective of trying to be able to have some trade with iran without bringing sanctions into effect. turkey's talking about creating a new mechanism. iran is interested in creating new mechanisms. china and india probably will look into this.

i think they will find limited success in these mechanisms, but i do think that we're seeing real movement in that direction. and that those of us who were worried about the overuse of sanctions have real cause for concern and tangible things to point at. it could be that this particular episode where the u.s. is so alone in creating this pressure on iran, that this is -- you know, this appears to maybe in retrospect to be the tipping point where the u.s. has really overplayed its hand on sanctions. >> meghan o'sullivan, pleasure to have you on. fascinating conversation. >> great. thanks very much. next on "gps," i have the great good fortune of talking to robert caro, the man who last week i called america's greatest biographer. his fascinating stories when we come back. get 2 medium, 1-topping pizzas for just $6.99 each. because it takes two... to make a great everyday value. every store. every day. the italian way. hello primo. ♪ living well

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the texas hill country where johnson grew up. caro and his wife ended up spending three years there. then there's the writing. he painstakingly writes all of his first drafts by hand on notepads. the ensuing graphs are typed not on a computer but smith corona electra 210. those machines are out of production but caro has ten spares he keeps just for the parts. he briefly paused work on his fifth volume of the johnson biography to write a mini of sort "working." it explains his glorious process. robert caro, welcome back to the show. >> thanks are to the glorious. >> for me the pleasure of this book has been for the first time i was able to hear it in your voice. it's the only book you've read. >> yes. because my new york accent, as you can hear, is so strong, that when i went to ask my agent if i

could read one of my other books, she said then the price will go down. >> when you were writing the first book you wrote, "the power broker," you talk about how you literally ran out of money. and because, as you say, you meant it to be nine months and it ended up being three years and four years. how did you get by? i mean, i guess what i mean by that is, what made you keep persisting? >> good question. you know, i was writing about political power. i got more and more interested in that and how it really works because political power can shape our lives. here was this guy, robert moses, that i had started out to write a book about. we live in a democracy. political power is supposed to come from being elected, from our votes at the ballot box. here is a guy who was never elected to anything. he had more power than any

mayor, more power than any governor. he held this power for 44 years, almost half a century and shaped the whole new york region. and neither i nor anyone else know where he got this power. i felt this book was important. as you say, we were broke most of the time, i kept going on it. >> tell me about the moving to the hill country of texas. why did you do it? some people might look at that and say, that's sort of a -- either an affectation or obsession? >> i didn't think i was going to do that. there had been previous books published on lyndon johnson. they always had a chapter or two on his youth. i said, all i need are a few more details. i did a few interviews with people with whom he grew up. he died so young, at the age of 64. when i came along, he would have only been 67, so all of his friends were still there. the hill country is a land -- i

grew up in new york. the hill country is so lonely, so isolated, so remote from the rest of the world. and these people weren't like the people of new york with whom i had spent my life. i said one day, you know, i'm just not understanding them and i'm not understanding this country and i'm not understanding lyndon johnson. we have to move there for a while. >> and one of the things you talk about is when you moved there, you realized how their lives -- these people's lives had been transformed by electricity, which of course lyndon johnson brought to the hill country. you talk specifically about the kind of work that the women used to do and how it took a long time before they would reveal that to you, to talk to you about that. >> yes. they were -- these were women who were not used to talking to strangers. and when they started trying to -- i heard all these stories about how ruthless lyndon johnson was as a young man, as a

young congressman, but at the same time i would hear the same phrase over and over again. no matter what lyndon was like, we loved him because he brought the lights. i knew brought the lights meant brought electricity to the hill country. it seemed miraculous. there was no dam. tens and thousands of miles of electric wire would have to be laid. but the women finally said, you don't know how hard life was before electricity. we had to bring up every bucket of water from these rather deep wells. in the hill country the water level was 75 feet. one of these women said to me, you're a city boy. you don't know how heavy a bucket of water is, do you? she said, here's my water bucket. still had a length of frayed rope. we went out to her well, she pushed the boards aside, i dropped it inside and i said, it is heavy. then they had to carry it to the house on yokes so they could

carry two buckets at a time. i learned that they -- before lyndon johnson came along, they were living like peasants out of the middle ages. when he ran for congress, he was only 28. no one knew who he was. the women of the hill country were bent and stooped from their labor. you know what his line was, lyndon johnson was a political genius. he said, if you elect me, i'll bring electricity and then you won't look like your mother looks. >> and do you -- did johnson, did that part of johnson seem the same lyndon johnson that then essentially stole his first important senate election? another very pivotal moment in your book. >> he's a very complex -- both those strands in johnson, a ruthlessness and a desperate ambition to get ahead, and the desire to help poor people, particularly as it happens poor people of color. both those things were equally strong inside him.

>> looking at all this, do you have a kind of philosophy of power? if someone were to say, robert caro, you've been studying power your whole life, what's the answer? >> we have been taught in school, lord acton, all power corrupts. if i've learned anything, it's that power doesn't always corrupt. power can cleanse as in lyndon johnson passing the voting rights and civil rights act. what power always does, if i'm come to believe anything, is that power always reveals. when you get power, people can see what you wanted to do all along because now you have the power to do it. >> robert caro, honored to have you on. >> thank you. >> we will be back. >> and we will be back. it transforms natural essential oils into mist; filling the room with fragrance, pausing when it's just right. experience air wick essential mist.

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