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>> we meet with the eyes of america upon us. >> is he back on stop of the world stage or or we in a post-american world? i will talk to the president's national security adviser jake sullivan. >> american leadership has to have a different character. >> about that place progress on climate change, concerns over china's military buildup, and much more. and a tv personality whose views veer to the far right, and eyeing running for president. i'm not talking about donald trump, rather francis eric zemmour. he will tell us how this french funded op-ed will help us transform politics. but first "my take." believe it or not there's real good news on the climate front this week. approximately 100 countries announced an agreement to cut

methane emissions 20% by 2030, closing the glaring gap in climate policy. they also pledge to end deforestation in that time frame, with funds to back it up. defooration produces about 10% of the world's carbon emissions. the private secretary continued to line of $130 trillion with the goal of net zero emissions in their investments by 2050 towards limiting global warning to 1.5 degrees celsius. positive technology trends are also accelerating. in the past ten years the coast of solar and wind power declined by 89 and 70% respectively. and over the past three decades, lithium ion battery prices have gone down about 97%, thanks to clean energy and efficiency, it is now possible for countries to grow their economies without increasing carbon emissions.

alas, it's not enough. we need emissions to actually fall and by a lot, not simply stay constant, and we are not on track for that to happen. even if all countries follow through on the commitments in the paris accords, and most have not, that will reduce carbon emissions by just 7.5% by 2030. experts agree what we need to cut these emissions by is about 55% by that date just to keep temperature rises under 1.5 degree celsius. reducing carbon emissions is so hard because it involves the total transformation of almost every aspect of human economic activity, from the cars we drive to the cement we use to build things to the heat we use in our homes to the food we put in our mouths. let me give you an example, it takes one dairy cow's daily milk

output to make mozzarella for two pizzas. that cow and its 250 pounds of methane every year. cow, if they were a country, would be the world's third largest producer of greenhouse gases after china and the united states. but too often the grim statistics and depressing forecasts lead us to despair. we need a rational way to think about climate policy, one that leads us neither too scared to act nor too complacent to stand still. i found the single best guide in an excellent new book, "speed and scale: an action plan for solving our climate crisis now." the author, john doerr, is a legendary venture capitalist who devoted years to climate act vich. the book outlines a clear, accessible and clear-action plan by reaching net zero emissions by 2050.

drawing on his business background, he establishes cutting emissions such as decarbonizing our electricity grid and protecting nature, and estimates the expected payoff of each goal. the countdown to net zero approach leaves you 2350e8ing not only more knowledgeable of the climate emergency but more empowered to do something about it. you end up thinking of climate as a problem that is mass inch but manageable, just barely. doerr goes beyond to find the specific policies needed in each area and power of movements to get those policies adopted. he reminds us how policy, ingenuity and economics all came together to create the solar panel industry that is now sweeping the world. a german politician, herman scherrer, managed to pass a feed in tariff that entered in force in 2000 pa pads subsidies for solar panel installations in

homes. private sector entrepreneurs began to innovate and came up with better and cheaper panels. then the chinese government decided to fund this mason industry massively. the result is that between 2010 and 2020, the world has gone from 40 gigawatts of installed solar capacity to 700, an increase of almost 1,700%. now we need to embrace hundreds of such efforts of all kind as long as they cut emissions. climate policy is too important for ideological purity. we would need gas to replace coal in developing countries. we will need some nuclear energy because it is an always-on zero emission source. we will need much greater energy efficiency everywhere. doerr points out that if all other states had tried to match california in energy efficiency, the united states would have cut

its carbon emissions by almost a quarter. i'll end with one final story drawn from doerr's book about hawaii. in 2008, hawaii was america's most fossil fuel-dependent state, with oil accounting for 90% of hawaii's energy. then the state embraced the hawaii clean energy initiative, a set of laws and rules designed to get the state to use clean, renewable energy sources instead. it set a goal of reaching 30% renewables by 3020, 70% by 2040 and 100% by 2045. so far it has exceeded its 2020 goals, generating 34.5% of its electricity from a combination of solar, wind and other clean sources. in just a few short years, it's become a leading example of a clean energy transformation. now, we need to scale the hawaii example for the entire world,

and fast. it's a daunting task but surely if hawaii can do it, others can do it as well. go to cnn.com/fareed for a link to my "washington post" column this week. and let's get started. i want to get straight to my interview with jake sullivan, national security adviser to president biden. we have lots of important topics to cover. jake sullivan, thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> on the show last week, gordon brown, the former prime minister of britain, said america knew how to lead in the unipolar world but it's learning to lead in a multipolar world. do you think that's an accurate characterization, and are you learning to lead? >> i definitely think american leadership has to have a

different character in the world we operate in today. and it has to be more collaborative. it has to listen more. it has to consult more. ultimately it has to pull together collisions and countries to solve big problems. we did that with the european union standing side by side to put forward a global methane pledge that 100 countries have signed on to. we've done that in the quad countries in the independent owep pacific on everything from vaccine employment to technology. so i do believe the style of american leadership in today's global landscape has to ship. we are showing in concrete ways how that will improve the lives of people in the united states and around the world and it's a method we will keep at. i think joe biden is uniquely suited to exercise this form of leadership because there's a personal dimension to it, there's a relationship dimension to it, and there's an element to it that is very much about allies and partners and president biden feels all of

that in his bones. >> so why not take on something as ambitious as vaccinating the world and really make it happen? we are not so far being ambitious in our goals and timetable, people like larry summers calculate the cost of really taking this on would be trivial in comparison to the amounts of money that are being talked about in washington these days, $1.5 trillion, $1.75 trillion. why not really make that the centerpiece of a goal for america for the next year? >> actually president biden asked us this same question as we headed through the summer and we saw the gap between what's required to vaccine the world and what had been put into it by countries around the globe. so he called together the world in a summit in september and set out an ambitious goal of vaccinating 70% of the world in a year, basically by next

september. and that's the world health organization and epidemiologists say is necessary to openly beat this pandemic. the united states has stepped up by offering more than a billion vaccines and we already put more than 225 million out into the world, donating more of the rest of the world combined. so president biden has, in fact, convened the world to set a plan and now to create account abltd for executing that plan, secretary blinken will be holding a follow-on meeting in november and then the president will pull the world together again at the beginning of next year to make sure we get on track. this is an area where actually the united states has stepped up in the face of a once-in-a-century pandemic and we intend to deliver. >> when i talk to people in europe and asia, american allies, the one thing they say that bothers them a great deal with the biden foreign policy is

that it still maintains a lot of the protectionism of the trump foreign policy. tariffs, quotas, the use of national security as a, frankly, boeing use excuse to put tariffs on, to buy america provisions. to them they seem like a confession to the trump -- or was meant to be a kind of sharp break with american policy with trump and america first. and they see biden as simply continuing that core element of america first. >> president biden has departed in profound ways from president trump's policies and overtly rejected the idea of america first. in fact he said america first makes america last. he has taken two trips to europe so far. on the first trip he resolved a 17-year long dispute between boeing and airbus and set a

blueprint for how the united states and europe should work together 20 take on china's noneconomic market practices. on the second trip, he resolved president trump's steel tariff dispute to europe, not only creating a circumstance in which those tariffs get relaxed but also having the united states and europe propose the first-ever carbon base sec torial agreement for steel and aluminum that itself will serve as a blueprint for protecting workers both in europe and the united states against china's over-taft and achieve overall emissions in a sector that counts for 10% of global emissions. i actually think if you look at the president's trade and economic policy particularly as it relates to europe, you see a study of contrast with president trump. >> and the asians would say what about the trans-pacific partnership or some way for the united states to ally with them economically to counter the weight of china? >> while president biden was in europe, he had the opportunity

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back with more of my interview with national security adviser, jake sullivan. the most important relationship to the united states it will have for decades is the one with china. the administration has issued a lot of fairly strong rhetoric, dustoff, but it feels like so far it is more a posture than a policy. by which i mean what has been

achieved by the talk? what trade detail have you got? what concessions has china made? what climate agreement has been reached? what has been the net effect of all of that? >> i think the wrong metric for u.s./china policy is the metric in bilateral relations what agreements have we secured with china. i think that's the wrong way to think about it. the right way to think about it is have we set the terms to an effective competition where the united states is in a position to defend its values and advance its interests not just in the indo-pacific but around the world? there i think the record of the last ten months has been very strong. first in terms of the president advancing an agenda at home to replenish the reservoirs of america's strength, in technology, in beating covid-19, in the work we're doing to bring the infrastructure bill and build back better framework across the finish line. so the united states domestically is in a position to compete and win. and then in terms of allies and

partners around the world, we'll put ourselves in a position with europe, where whether it's on civil aircraft or steel and aluminum for investment screening, the united states and europe are aligned around trade and technology issues to assure china cannot abuse either of our markets. and then with our indo-pacific partners we've advanced on the security front, technology front, economic front in a way that's meant the united states can hold china accountable and can show china's efforts at pushing other partners around will not ultimately be successful. that is a better metric in my view for whether or not our policy is succeeding than if china signs a piece of paper with the united states on something involves the climate or what have you. now, we expect china to take responsibility on climate. not as a favor to the united states, not in a give in the

bilateral relationship, but the responsibility it has as the largest emitter in the world. the united states has stepped up and taken responsibility for reducing our emissions. it's beijing's turn to do so as well. >> during the cold war, the goal of american policy towards the soviet union was to in a sense contain, maybe squeeze the soviet union to force change. what is the goal of america's china's policy? >> the goal of america's china's policy is create a circumstance in which two major powers are going to have to operate in an international system for the foreseeable future and we want the terms of that kind of coexistence in the international system to be favorable to american interest and values, to be set up so the rules of the road reflect an open, fair, free, indo-pacific region, an open, fair, free international economic estimate, and where

basic values and norms that are enshrined in the universal declaration of unanimousen rights are respected in international units. this will be compensation as we go forward. the chinese government does have a universal approach to many of these issues. the goal here is not containment, it's not a cold war, it is rather a favorable disposition of how the united states and its allies and partners can shape the international rules of the road on the sorts of issues that are fundamentally going to matter for the people in our country and the people everywhere. >> but you're not trying to change china? >> i think one of the errors of previous approaches to policy towards china has been a view that through u.s. policy, we would bring about a fundamental transformation of the chinese system. that is not the object of the biden administration. the object of the biden administration is to shape the

international environment so that it is more favorable to the interest and values of the united states and its allies and partners to like-minded democracies. it is not to bring about some fundamental transformation of china itself. >> on taiwan, do you want a continuation of the status quo in taiwan, or do you want some kind of change to the current status quo? >> the united states believes that the status quo in taiwan has served the interest of china, taiwan and the united states as well as regional interest of stability. we continue to adhere to the one china policy, taiwan relations act and oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo. and we have been concerned about chinese activities that have shaken to a certain extent the security and stability across state relations but fundamentally what we're looking

for is the maintenance of peace and stability, and, therefore, maintenance of the status quo. >> if china were to do something short of military aggression, massive cyberattack, would that in your view trigger the taiwan's relation act and would the united states come to taiwan's assistance? >> fareed, i learned long enough not to accept hypothetical questions when it comes to taiwan. i think the important thing here is under the taiwan's relation act we have a responsibility to provide defense articles to taiwan for their defense. we have a responsibility to help them protect and defend their own security, and we have done so over the course of many years and we continue to do so in the biden administration. our fundamental objective is to avoid a circumstance in which there is a unilateral change to the status quo, whether it's an outright invasion or something short of that. we intend through a combination

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security adviser jake sullivan. if you look at president biden's poll numbers, they drop sharply around the time of the fall of kabul. so the public perception is that was badly handled. when you look at it in retrospect, do you think there was a key error of judgment or error of execution? >> what i think is when you end a 20-year war where the united states has been engaged in combat than a longer time period than at any point in american history, the possibility of there being substantial difficulties associated with that is -- was very high and we knew that going in. we had to be clear-eyed about that going in. now, the intelligence community and the entire national security apparatus of the administration did not anticipate kabul would fall before august 3 1st.

but we had contingencies in place to deal with that. we flew six forces into kabul and evacuated 124,000 e of course, when you look in hindsight, there's many things you wish you could have done better. but the fundamental reasons, the decision to leave, the decision to continue to draw down over the course of the summer and the decision to ultimately execute on this contingency plan and run this evacuation up through august 31, the president has stood by those decisions. we stand behind those decisions, and we believe the united states' national interests are better secured by being out of afghanistan today than if we were still in afghanistan today. >> afghanistan is in free fall, and it could become a failed state. many, many believe if it does not get some kind of assistance. the question is, would the united states be willing to freeze some of the assets it's

frozen, about $9 or $10 trillion? the man who negotiated with the taliban believes there could be a step by step conditions-based release of funds to try to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. do you agree? >> today the united states is the largest humanitarian donor to afghanistan. we provided nearly half a billion dollars in funding just this year through international organizations and nongovernmental organizations. we are not yet in a position to be able to provide money directly through the current leadership in afghanistan, taliban leadership. >> what does that mean, not in a position? you don't want to? >> until we see a substantially improved approach to everything from inclusive government to other elements that we are discussing with them regularly, our focus, our emphasis is going to continue to be on providing funding in the hundreds of millions of dollars just this year alone and to mobilize the rest of the international community through international

organizations and nongovernmental organizations. the world food program and others. we think that is the best way to actually help the people of afghanistan without creating a circumstance in which some of those funds could be used for purposes that are problematic to the national security interest to the united states. >> there are some areas where president biden campaigned and promised certain changes in policy again, reversing trump-era policies. he said he would reverse the iran deal. he said he would get back to essentially the relations with cuba as they were under president obama, and he said he would get rid of the tariffs on china, he criticized them all. i'm sure there are individual explanations for each one but one common theme they all have is they would draw a lot of republican opposition. is the administration hamstrung by its fears about domestic

opposition, political opposition, and are you as a result playing defense on issues where the president made campaign promises? >> so, first, the president has over the last ten months followed through on an unbelievable number of the things he said he was going to do. on the three you just mentioned, he is making progress. make the iran nuclear deal as an example. we have said we will return to the jcpoa if iran is prepared to come back into compliance with it. the fact is iran has not yet shown a willingness to come back into compliance with the jcpoa, despite us working closely with our allies and partners to create the negotiating circumstances for that happening. we're prepared to go back to the table and continue to work at it. that has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with the reality iran has certain obligations it needs to live up to even as the united states is prepared to live up to its obligations under the deal.

on cuba, things have changed quite a bit this year. we saw just in july substantial street protests, some of the most significant protests in a very long time and brutal crack down by the government that continues to this day as they hand down sentences to some of those protesters. so circumstances have changed, and that requires the president to consider what the best way forward to support the cuban people is as we move. then finally, our trade ambassador, our trade representative katherine thai is currently negotiating with president biden to figure out the best way forward not just on tariffs but overall approach with our trade relationships with china. that's not an easy negotiation. it doesn't happen in a month or six months. it is something that plays out and will continue to play out as we go forward and we'll see where we end up at the end of the day. but in none of those circumstances is politics the driver. the driver is the american

national interest and then the challenge, complexity and intensity of diplomacy, which requires real shoe leather and we're putting shoe leather into these of knows negotiations you just delved into. >> jake sullivan, thank you for coming on. we hope we can continue these conversation. >> thanks for having me. next on "gps," the great bernard-henri levy on the rise of eric zemmour, who is being called the donald trump of france. what you need to know when we come back.

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levy. his book is "the will to see." this is a fascinating mix of reporting in which you started going in and helping kind of humanitarian interventions when you were in your 20s, you went to help liberate bangladesh and goes up to libya and afghanistan, of course. first, you have to tell us about eric zemmour. who is this man and how and why has he become so popular? >> this man is a strange combination of a jew and a fascist. saturd fareed, maybe he's french, i don't know. but he's a very real jew and very real fascist. and it gives us in france a case of vertigo. what i will say is you compare him to trump, for sure he will

be a rebel, a rebel that will pop rather quickly. i don't believe he will stay in the time. >> you attacked him in an article which he then took on and attacked you. what's striking to me, you were one of the very few french intellectuals who took him on head on. why, are people scared of him? >> people are mesmerized by him as they were in america by trump in the very beginning. people didn't know how to take the temperament on, handle it and so on. so i feel very strongly about zemmour as in america, i say precisely the fact he's a bought on and it's a shame that a jew, french jew, takes such position. the regime doubts on the

innocence of conditions at the end of the 19th century. he says very bad things about the jewish victims of the islamist terrorists. for me this type of jew is really a shame for him and it is a shame under a jewish name, france jews. and there are few jews who are tempted to follow him because probably they feel he will help them get rid of the radical islam east and things like that. so it interests me a lot. that's why i very quickly wrote this strong attack because it seemed really interested in his run. >> in this book you talked about

all of the interventions you tried to help, in many every okay have the west help democrats, people who seem liberal-minded. when you look at the collapse of afghanistan, what is the lesson? and we don't have a lot of time, but is there a brief lesson? >> i did look and i read, it was not an endless war, it was deployment, which is there in the file. you had the deployed in manhattan much less troops than everywhere else, in germany, south korea and so on, and more important, you americans did not fail in afghanistan, you succeeded. why? because a free press was born. because behind the shield of the mere presence of american troops, the men liberated themselves. because you have under the

umbrella a vibrant, true civil society blooming. so i'm surprised to hear everywhere that it was a failure. it was a success. america in afghanistan in the last 20 years succeeded. >> one final question, the aukus deal, americans excluding france, you have long remoted u.s./french relations. how did you feel when you heard about that? >> i felt sad because for me the bond between america and france is a gold an bond, a golden link and a bond of spirit, soul. so everything is the bond for me is bad for france and bad for america.

remember, america has been invented two centuries ago in order to be another europe, better. a better europe. this was the original program of america. and each time that america turns its back to this program, it's not good. to america, to biden, going through donald trump. >> eric zemmour, always a pleasure. everybody should get this book "the will to see: dispatchers from a world of misery and hope." and we will be back. our forward-looking views of the market. (other money manager) but you still sell investments that generate high commissions, right? (judith) no, we don't sell commission products. we're a fiduciary, obligated to act in our client's best interest. (other money manager) so when do you make more money? only when your clients make more money? (judith) yep, we do better when our clients do better. at fisher investments we're clearly different.

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the earth on a large scale to mitigate the climate crisis. many proposals are out there but they all go back to basic climate science, darker surfaces on earth absorb the sun's rays and release the energy back as infrared radiation. greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, like carbon dioxide, trap that heat and warm the planet. brighter surfaces, on the other hand, reflect the sun's rays, which pass through the atmosphere into space. so fundamentally to counter global warming, you either have to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or make the earth more reflective. the most basic way to soak up co2 is with trees. but trees die. they burn up in fires and they can be chopped down. also, there's only so much available land, so we need additional solutions. one idea is to turn the oceans

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deebee niechb. we blanketed the planet in dark streets and roofs that absorb the sun's rays. lighter colors could reflect the sunshine to offset as much as 4 1/2 years of global energy ee migsz. some schemes are more extreme, volcanos have been known to spew particles into the atmosphere that reflect sunlight and lower global temperatures. that's what happened in 1816, the year without a summer. the idea would be to replicate this effect by spraying spart c particles into the atmosphere. a lot of these ideas are outlandish and could create problems of their own but without doubt the priority is cut emissions so we don't have to resort to drastic measures. but many scientists don't want to study these ideas. they worry the risk is too great and the world will become too

complacent about reducing emissions. but sttake a step back, you wil see humidity has already engaged in geo engineering for hundreds of years. we released some tons of co2 in the process. in other words, we embarked on a massive science experiment on our planet and the results don't look good. a little more experimenting, this time in the right direction with a thoughtful and intentful approach can do a long way to underdoing some of the very damage we have done. thanks to all of you for being a part of my program this week and i will see you next week.

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