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presidency. and donald trump seems hell bent on shaking up american foreign policy. the national security establishment and the world. he wants america to take over gaza. >> who want to be a wise guy. but the riviera of the middle east. >> he's offered buyouts to everybody in the cia. he's dismantling the u.s. agency for international development. and he's brandished tariffs against friends and foes. we'll tackle it all with a great series of guests. richard haass, president emeritus of the council on foreign relations. david miliband, the head of the international rescue committee and one of europe's most important ceos, mathias döpfner. also, it's been two months since the assad regime fell to islamic militants. is this the new taliban or something else? but

first, here's my take. it's been a head spinning week for american foreign policy, with tariffs against canada and mexico dramatically announced. and then suddenly postponed. usaid was gutted and president trump said he wants the u.s. to take over gaza. the most revealing lens through which to look at all this might not be donald trump's pronouncements, but rather those of his aides and supporters. the tariff tantrum suggested that foreign leaders are becoming skilled at handling trump. they mollify him with token concessions, allow him to declare victory, and then return to business as usual. the concessions that mexico and canada made were either small bore or policies that they were already pursuing. mexico agreed to send thousands of troops to the border at the biden administration's request, and are now doing the same for

trump. in the case of canada. trump's own statement notes that canada was agreeing to implement its border plan, much of which had been announced over a month ago. some conservative commentators pointed out the obvious, in the words of a wall street journal editorial, trump blinks. the fox anchor laura ingraham implied that the president caved to huge negative reaction from markets, saying, i'm not too impressed about the concessions from canada. canadian media reactions were similar. canada's ctv news published an article with the headline canada takes a stand, and donald trump blinks. the country's satirical show, 22 minutes has a donald trump look alike, declaring victory. >> i did the impossible. i made peace with canada and ended the unjust trade war that i started. i'm signing this this executive order. the i did not lose, but i

totally won the trade war. order! >> of course, from jd vance to mike johnson, republicans fell over themselves to praise the stunning negotiating powers of president trump. the trump effect is in full force. johnson posted, at this rate of achievement, wrote, elon musk. not only should president donald trump be on mount rushmore, i want to personally work the chisel with the abrupt dismantling of usaid. trump supporters scrambled to adjust. secretary of state marco rubio quickly blasted the agency, saying it was out of control and unresponsive. this was the same agency that he had repeatedly posted in favor of over the years, written about in his book with pride and admiration, and recently recommended funding increases to president biden. the pattern is now familiar, and was followed after trump's gaza announcement. those who had long supported trump's determination

to end america's military interventions cheered when he announced he would take over gaza send in troops if necessary. displaced 2 million palestinians to neighboring countries and stay in gaza for long term ownership. kayleigh mcenany responded with this on fox news. >> president trump is playing four dimensional chess. >> you all. >> are playing checkers. >> later that day, trump officials began walking back key aspects of the president's plan, as did trump himself. if you don't understand all this, you haven't played four dimensional chess. donald trump's white house is now a court, and his courtiers scurry around, aware that the mercurial monarch might change his mind at any time. tiktok is terrible, can suddenly become tiktok is great, and they need to pivot quickly. it reminds one of the court of henry the eighth, the monarch who went from being the greatest defender of the catholic church

to a vicious opponent because he wanted a divorce, that the pope would not sanction. one man who refused to play the game, sir thomas more, had his head chopped off. the reason trump forces aides and supporters to say things that they know are false is to enforce a regime in which loyalty is paramount, overriding facts, overriding your long held convictions. now, this might seem like an amusing spectacle, but there is a real cost. in the case of usaid, it will translate into death and despair for millions of the poorest people on the planet. on trade, it remains a mystery as to why trump singled out canada in the 2024 fiscal year. less than 10% of migrant encounters happened at the canadian border, and just 0.2% of fentanyl seizures occurred there. america runs a smaller trade deficit with canada than with china or

vietnam. in fact, if you put aside canadian crude oil, the u.s. sells more to canada than it buys from it. but the effect is clear for canada. the u.s. is turning into an undependable ally, and it will try to lessen its reliance on america and search for new markets and friends. from britain to china. the largest effect, though, is on american democracy. the scholar francis fukuyama has noted that the history of modern government has been a steady movement away from patrimonial rule. the rule of a single strongman to benefit his family and friends towards rule by institutions and rules and norms. he notes that in the united states now we are seeing the return to patrimonial rule as citizens freely debating laws are replaced by supplicants begging the king to favor their interests. go to cnn.com,

fareed, for a link to my washington post column this week. and let's get started. joining me now to talk about trump, america and the world is richard haass. he is the president emeritus of the council on foreign relations and a senior counselor at centerview partners. so, richard, let's start with gaza. you know that region very well. what do you think? you know, there are a lot of people who say, well, this this is out of the box thinking. maybe it stirs things up. what do you think trump's proposal on gaza has done on the ground? >> it's out of the box, but doesn't mean it's better just because the box isn't working. there's policy failures over the years, i think, on the ground, fareed. it probably plays into hamas's hands. they can say, look, there's no chance of any compromise working. we were right all along to be maximalist for the israeli right. this is what a gift from heaven. this is manna from

heaven. their whole policy is to deny palestinian nationalism, transfer of people out of gaza is, for them, the perfect precedent, because what they really want is transfer of 3 million more palestinians out of out of the west bank, or what they call judea and samaria. plus, it shows, fareed, even more worrisome, if things get violent enough, it creates conditions which some will then point to and say, we therefore need to transfer. what does that do? it incentivizes the dynamic on the west bank to become more and more violent. so palestinians will get more radical israeli settlers and defense forces will get more combative. this is not a good dynamic. >> so it encourages the radicals on both sides. >> absolutely, absolutely. >> and and what do you think trump was thinking when i mean, you've talked to him. what's going on? >> my own sense is he comes from a world of deals. and you can always sprinkle in new incentives. or if this doesn't work, what about this? what about that? what? i think he's missing from the world of real estate is this is not something that can be easily bought off. what are the two most powerful

things? you and i have spent a lot of time talking about? the middle east. one is nationalism. virtually everyone in the middle east coming out of world war two wanted a state of their own. zionism was getting a state of their own. for the jews, palestinians and the kurds have been denied it. this this denies it and kills off the chance. second of all, it reinforces humiliation. and what did we learn around nine over 11? and other times, humiliation is a dangerously powerful human motivator. so i think this is actually not only going to buy things off, but rather it's going to inflame the situation. >> you can't tell a palestinian family, you know, i'll build you a nicer house in egypt. what they want is their own country. >> 100% man cannot live by bread alone. the idea that there's going to be a financial sop put forward that's going to assuage the desire for a country of their own, is simply is simply preposterous. >> what else do you, you know? are you are you noticing in this? you know, it's been three weeks. the fight with canada, the the fight with mexico is

there is there a you know, what's the broader implication? >> one is being a friend buys you nothing. it's almost like everyone's equal. in some ways, it's worse to be a friend because you have more connections that can then be leveraged. you can threaten your security dependance. we can threaten our trade or investment. the other thing that i noticed is someone who has worked for multiple presidents is the lack of anything resembling a serious policy making process. there ought not to be surprises. you never want to send a president out there to propose something, and someone says, well, hold it. did you think about this and say, take the gaza thing again? what about the cost? what about troops? what about palestinian reactions? >> and you can see it wasn't thought through because he himself walked back half of that. >> within 24 hours. that's what a policy process is meant to do, to anticipate. how is everyone going to react? what's the context? what are the implementation concerns? it may be what seems to be a good idea, but then when you really put it under a microscope, not so good. and that's what we're seeing is does not exist in the trump administration. on tariffs we

saw it. you put them on. you take them off. we see it now with gaza. there's a haphazard quality to this. and it's a shifting number of players, special envoys here and there. this is not a process that is sustainable. >> now you talked about the allies feeling there's no point. there's no there's no advantage to being an ally, maybe even a cost. what can they do. is there a realistic i mean, what's going to happen? >> well, i think allies are going to start doing. it'll be gradual is diversify their portfolios. a country like south korea is going to have a much more serious debate about nuclear weapons of their own. other countries are going to say, like colombia, we don't really want to have 4/5 of our economy dependent on access to the united states. maybe we dial it down. maybe, by the way, we bring in china. >> the one unpredictable thing trump has said, and he mentioned it once during the campaign, which might be a kind of good out of the box thinking is on iran. he seems there's something going on there where he keeps saying, i wonder if there's a deal to be had. i wonder, which

is ironic, because he pulled out of the iran nuclear deal. what do you think is possible? >> that's one of the two areas, the other being ukraine. surprisingly tough attitudes towards russia. i think he was surprised and disappointed that it's putin and not zelenskyy, who's the obstacle to a ceasefire on ukraine. iran he doesn't want to use force. i think he almost like remember he went from nafta to the usmca, a better deal with canada and mexico on trade, even though he pulled out of the 2015 deal. i think he wants now a better deal with iran, what he calls a verifiable, peaceful nuclear agreement. and i actually think there's a possibility for it. the ayatollah is saying no, but i actually think this administration would be wise to press her on and essentially set up a deal on the nuclear. you reduce, you put a ceiling, you make it verifiable. we could ease some sanctions. you won't get attacked. i actually think that's worthy. that's worthy of exploration. >> all right. on that optimistic note, we're going to end. richard haass, always a pleasure. next on gps, president trump's dramatic attack on usaid is not only shocking, it is life threatening for some of

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dismantle the u.s. agency for international development, or u.s. aid. what will be the effect on the most vulnerable people in the world? joining me now to discuss is david miliband. he is the president of the international rescue committee and the former british foreign secretary. you guys spent an enormous amount of time on the ground with these vulnerable populations, people who are often near near death, near starvation. is there any way for other funds to come to them? what's going to happen to these people? >> well, america has an incredibly proud and effective record of being a leader in global foreign aid. about 4 in 10 dollars globally that are spent on foreign aid come from the united states. it's also been a very effective, high value for money, spender with real rigor against diversion of aid. health is probably the best example. global health half you mentioned u.s. aid. half of u.s. aid spending is on health. and that's partly on lifesaving

health care, which secretary rubio has said he wants to keep. but it's also mapping trends in ebola and fighting ebola. it's clinical trials of new drugs. it's basic health centers that provide primary care. it's non-communicable diseases that are such a major issue across the developing world. so there is a moral question at issue here, but there's also a strategic question, which is that these investments in a connected world are part of america's strategic interest. and i think the critical point, you alluded to it in your introduction. every administration will do a review that makes sense. it wants to align things behind its priorities. organizations like mine want to contribute to the review and partner in a thoughtful process. the danger now is the suspension, the freezing of all aid. apart from a small number of life saving waivers. that's what creates jeopardy. and it also creates cost. because when you tear down systems, when you sack people, when you close down offices and health centers, as everyone is

now doing, it takes money as well as time to put them back together. >> the international rescue committee works on, you know, helping people, the most vulnerable people in the world. what has this done to you, to your organization's ability to to work in those places? >> well, we're obviously absolutely committed to keeping our mission going, and we're waiting for the results of the review. what we know is that certain programs, for example, around climate resilience, some programs around sexual and reproductive health, they're going to be canned in the new administration. they're not going to be supported. we are working very, very hard to raise funds to find donors who could gap fill for that. that's a tough process because it's just been going this week. what we know is that those programs offer enormous value for money. just listen to this. $80 to help an out of school kid in northern nigeria. i mean, that's the kind of value for dollars to deliver a shot of vaccine in east africa. these are the figures of a highly efficient, highly

effective good investment. and that's the rallying call we're making to the u.s. government. let's reform together. let's deliver more value for money together. but we're also saying to those outside the u.s. government, come and support these vital programs. >> when i've seen the examples, you know, there are all these examples being published on on x on twitter. um, nothing. i haven't come across a single case that seemed like it was fraud or corruption. there are a lot of them which are, you know, ones that clearly the people tweeting them out disagree with. but have you seen any of anything here? you know, that's publicly been released that suggests, you know, fraud or corruption or anything like that? >> i think the first thing to say, it's important to be very rigorous and very zealous about the way in which aid money is delivered and to make sure it reaches the right people. second point, all of the international evidence shows that it's the big prestige projects. there was a lot of work done in afghanistan on this. it's the

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book called dealings with dictators a ceo's guide to defending democracy. matthias, welcome. let me ask you about the situation for europe now. i mean, as you know, a lot of people feel like europe is in trouble economically. the eu needs to get its act together. there have been reports like the draghi report by mario draghi saying, you know, the eu is lagging behind. and now enter donald trump who has talked often about how he wants to put tariffs on the european union. how do you react to that. >> well fareed let me give for a second a bigger context. and then i very precisely will answer your question. so i think democracy, the open society model, is threatened by rising autocrats and dictatorships, mainly russia, iran and islamists, and most importantly, china. the conflicts, the major geopolitical challenges that we

face, the russian war on ukraine, the hamas war on israel and the potential takeover of taiwan have one thing in common. that's the goal to weaken democracies and concretely to weaken the biggest democracy in the world, the united states, and more concretely, to split the united states and europe. that is the most efficient way to weaken democracy. and i think in that context, it is important that we are not taking the wrong exit here. if the u.s. and europe would start a trade war, that would just strengthen china. if europe and the united states could get together, have some negotiation. and trump is a very transactional president, and i think he has a point. the eu is imposing tariffs on average of 5.5% on u.s. goods. the u.s. are on average only

3.3%. so there is a point to renegotiate. but it should not increase tariffs. it should lower tariffs or ideally no tariffs in order to stimulate transatlantic trade. and then we have a common case to negotiate with china. if america does it alone, because there is a misunderstanding that america first means america alone. then i think china will benefit. if america and europe would represent not 300 million citizens, but 800 million citizens. we have a real leverage at the negotiation table in order to negotiate with china. symmetrical trade relationships, which would be beneficial for the u.s. and for europe. that's i think, the goal and not not a split between america and europe. that's what these autocrats want. >> is it possible that trump's kind of threat of abandonment forces the european union to get its act together on things like structural reform, on opening up

and creating a single market, for example, for technology or banking? you know, is it possible that it has the because the europeans feel we're on our own. we have to, you know. >> absolutely. and i think it is desperately needed. and whether it's because of trump's policies or whether it's because we understand ourselves that we have to change. ronald reagan once said famously, the european definition of a successful economy is if a business moves, tax it. if it still moves, regulate it. if it's dead, subsidize it. and that cannot be the future of europe. europe is totally overregulated. america has less regulation and is deregulating. the whole world is deregulating, and europe regulates more and more. no innovation, no real growth. it's a sad case. i mean, europe is like a sleeping beauty and it needs to wake up and hopefully these developments, even if they are a bit more tensions, help that we will have a healthier and more successful outcome.

>> what do you think of elon musk's support for what is often called germany's far right party? the afd? >> also here, i mean, i don't know. i mean, i know elon musk for ten years and we have a friendship relationship almost, and we have a lot of discussions. but here i think he he gets it. he gets it wrong, i have to say, because what he loves is disruption. and he sees that disruption is necessary. and that's why he likes me. that's why he likes me. that's why he likes trump. but the afd in germany is a different kind. it's a at least partly. non-democratic organization that is very pro-russia, pro-putin, very pro-china, very anti-american, very anti-capitalist, anti-business, and of course, parts of the of the party have a decent anti-semitic. tone from a far

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and in positive ways. it's the end of something which implies several dynamics and accounting that needs to happen. and it's also the start of something. and it's a it's like a twilight moment. and it was fascinating time to be there. it was overwhelming. there was a solid 24 hours where i really didn't know what to say or how to feel. you know, i hadn't been back since 2013. that's not long enough for things to be drastically different. and yet everything had changed. >> well, what most people are saying are they are they mostly hopeful? are they mostly worried about the onset of another civil war? >> both of those things, i think, exist at the same time. i think they're also very much in a roll up their sleeves sort of mentality, because they realize there's a lot to be done and that the window to work with the new government, their willingness to also work with people will close at some point. i think it's clear and everyone on the ground says that the new rulers were not really expecting

to make it all the way to damascus, and all of a sudden they found themselves in charge of much more territory and carrying the hopes of many more people, i think, than they had they had previously imagined. and so there is this window in which they are talking to people and civil society, and normal syrians are quite aware that that window will close, and they are not going to be let out of or kept out of, you know, self-determination. >> so people talking about democracy and elections. >> you know, these these are the metrics that we think about. i don't think that's exactly what people are talking about. they are talking about stability. they are talking about electricity. they are talking about infrastructure. they are talking about the sanctions being being removed, and they are talking about being included in their own governance. >> and when we talk about this new leader, the president, he's changed his name. has he changed his ideology? first of all, explain the name change. he had a kind of nom de guerre. he had a nom de guerre. >> al-jolani. yeah, from from the golan heights, which are which is where he is. he is

originally his family is originally from, and he's now using his real name, ahmed al-sharaa. and yes, there's definitely been a sartorial change. you know, everyone keeps asking me, is it sincere? and i just think, you know, you don't go to politicians for sincerity. he was a rebel leader and now he is a politician. and these are often awkward transitions. we've seen, you know, movements as they try to transition to to governance falter. >> so what gives you hope that syria will not descend into a kind of sectarian slash islamist versus the others civil war? the way, you know, it happened in in iraq, the way it happened in libya, the way it almost happened in egypt. and then, you know, the army intervenes. >> what gives me hope is syrians themselves. i have been talking to and reporting on syrians since 2011, and i think the same way we are conscious of what has happened in the region and has happened in syria. so are they. it's not that they are ignorant

as to what happened on their borders in iraq. they know what happened in lebanon when the idea that the civil war is over. now everybody goes back to life as normal. they know that that failed. they know what happened in libya. and we sort of have experienced our own version of libya and to some extent, in many ways, they are greeting 2011 in the same spirit that they're greeting 2024, that the future has arrived and they have a role to play in that future. but in those 14 years, they have become infinitely less naive. >> so the mood is hopeful, and people are, at least in the cities, hoping to build a new country. >> hopeful and vigilant. we know exactly what the fault lines could be, or the fault lines that are there that both internally and externally have been played upon by malignant actors. i think syrians are tired of that. they want a state. they want to live. they want electricity. they want to harness the talents that other countries have taken advantage of when they've had syrian populations in their midst. >> so be fair to say, your advice to the west would be drop the sanctions, engage with

syria, try to make this work. >> and listen to syrians. the syrians haven't been silent in the last 14 years, even in exile, they have even as refugees. for example, they've held using universal jurisdiction in european courts. they've held members of the regime and of i.s.i.s. accountable for their crimes. they've been speaking to each other. i think, you know, government is is is, of course, you know, the immediate interlocutors. but the syrian people have not been silent. and it's just really a matter of are we willing to listen? >> al-sharaa a pleasure to have you on. >> thank you. >> next on gps, el salvador's president made headlines this week by offering to jail american criminals in his country's notorious prisons. what is going on? i will ask an expert. >> lockerbie premieres next sunday at 9:00 on cnn.

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america, a region many believe the u.s. has long neglected. so what to make of all this? brian winter is the editor in chief of americas quarterly, which covers latin american politics, business and culture. so before we get to bucareli and the prison offer, why is marco rubio choosing latin america as the first visit? that's always symbolically important, and he has clearly decided that he wants to send a signal. >> i think this administration, fareed, is more focused on latin america than maybe any u.s. government for the last 30 years. the reason why is they know that their big domestic policies of reducing irregular immigration, as well as cutting back on drug flows into the states, and some work on china as well, depend on latin america. and i think secretary rubio's choice of latin america is unusual. we haven't seen anything like this in years for a secretary of state to go there first, i think reflects those priorities.

>> and latin america and central america is very divided between some new rulers, malay and argentina, bukele in el salvador, who seem very populist and in some ways kind of on the right side of the, you know, the populist divide, even in the united states. and then there are others, like the colombian president, who is a kind of, you know, radical left winger. i think many people would say is the administration favoring one group over the other. >> well, there's no doubt that several governments around latin america are happy with this increased attention from the united states. but it's also true that being an ally of the u.s. does not necessarily protect you in this current environment. the panamanians found that out. i mean, you have a president in panama who's also a right of center mulino very allied with the united states. and yet they were on the receiving end of these threats

that president trump made in his inaugural address about wanting to take back the panama canal. so it's not just about left, right? it's governments all over the region are asking themselves whether being an ally of washington, like what that really means. >> and this offer to to take american prisoners. the backdrop, i think it's important to remember is trump during the campaign was said some very nasty things about bukele. right. >> i think that this offer of prisons is at least partly a peace offering from president to president trump. recognizing that trump accused him during the campaign last year of sending his criminals to the united states. and that's why crime was down in el salvador. of course, the story is more complicated than that. >> i mean, as far as i can tell, the real story is he didn't send the criminals to the united states. he locked up, you know, vast numbers of people, including suspected criminals, criminals, you know, people who were innocent. but crime has gone down like 80% or something like that. how are things going

in el salvador? is he a success story? >> look, there is frustration all over latin america with organized crime, which is not a new issue in the region. but we've seen, according to the un, a doubling in the amount of cocaine that is being produced in the world over the last decade that has given cartels, organized crime groups, all kinds of resources. and they're creating havoc in countries that they never really had much of a presence before, including places like ecuador, peru and others. and so what we see, not just in el salvador but across the region, is an eagerness to try those kinds of tactics. the downside is that it results in due process and other things being suspended, and you end up with innocent people being put in jail. according to organizations like the organization of american states. but that is a sacrifice that salvadorans seem willingness to make. and perhaps people in other countries as well, because, as you noted, fareed, the results are clear. homicides are way down. >> fair to say that you're, you

know, looking at this landscape and this region. so far, while trump has used some some, um, strong arm tactics, and the u.s. is so much more powerful, it is always going to, you know, win in one of those contests. um, the u.s. is focusing more on the region. it is trying to get results that are important. um, this this doesn't seem as as much of a kind of, uh, you know, a strange mess that some of the other parts of the world. the trump people seem to be focused on this for good reasons. >> well, they they see again, these u.s. domestic objectives of reducing immigration, of reducing drug flows. they believe that latin america is key to that. it's also true that we have governments all over the region who are trying to, in some cases, imitate the deregulation, the cutting of government, the generally pro-business policies that they see in the trump administration. and with these elections that we see over the next year, year and a half, there may even be more governments in the region that

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