fareed zakaria, thanks for joining us. let's talk about the trans pacific partnership and trade agreement. he promised to get us out of it, today he with drew. it's a great thing for the american worker, and i have to tell both bernie sanders and hillary clinton opposed tpp. i remember being in a debate, discussing it in flynn the. what is the bottom line, what does this mean for the american people and the american worker?

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i want to discuss this with fareed zakaria, host of "fareed zakaria gps."hat do you think. >> as jim sciutto and jim acosta said, what clapper is saying that this was briefed to trump. we now have a lead story in the "washington post" by greg miller in which they spoke to several u.s. officials and i'm quoting the u.s. official who like others spoke on the condition of noms flomsity said the nature of the summary was fully explained to trump and put into context. he again affirms that in fact trump was briefed on this document. it was explained to him it was essentially what clapper said, this is not a u.s. intelligence product but we want you to know this thing is out there. you might need to know about it. >> this report essentially confirming cnn's reporting. you're saying he was briefed on. >> "the washington post" report which talks to multiple u.s. officials. >> why the denial? >> look, i think if you look at the press conference, it really was, it was almost not a press conference. it was a campaign event. it began with sean spicer, it then went to m

we'll discuss all that, but i want to get to fareed zakaria and jim shciuttsciutto. tonight cnn has learned that donald trump is working on ways to limit the power of the direct of national intelligence. >> this is not new. a recommendation was started from the post 9/11 panel to get better communication with all the agencies which was issued pre-9/ pre-9/11. since then, a lot of the agency heads have been concerned about bureaucracy. you have this overarching authority in the dni, does it actually shore with the interest of the intelligence community. there are lots of talk about how to change this. now here is donald trump saying does this work well. now to be clear, our reporting is that michael flynn, who so donald trump's national security adviser is one of the drivers of this, and just so we know the history of this, he was pushed out as head of the defense intelligence agency in part by the director of national tleps. so there's some background there. i will say on the other side, i've spoken to heads at the other intelligence agencies through the last couple

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i'm fareed zakaria. we have a big show for you today.th james baker, the great elder statesman of the grand old party. i will ask the former secretary of state, former chief of staff what he makes of president-elect trump and his foreign policy. >>> then some startling, depressing new facts and figures from the arab world. there is some hope. >>> also, welcome to 2017. what will the new year bring? predictions, trends, new topics, with a terrific panel.

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i'm fareed zakaria. thanks for joining us. >> good evening, thanks for joining us. we begin the program and the year with breaking news, on n evidence linking russia to the president-elect donald trump know its downplaying the notion. >>> and on the search for a gunman who took 39 lives at a turkish nightclub on new year's eve. authorities today releasing photos of the suspect, one of them taken from this video which began making the rounds late today on social media. isis said he's one of their followers, calling him a soldier of the caliphate. right now, the search is on for this terrorist. sarah is there. are authorities any further long? >> they certainly have more clues. there's that image put out in turkey of the suspected gunman. what they don't have is a name and where he might be. so a manhunt is definitely under way. the entire country is on one hand absolutely furious over this and on the other hand so many people are living in sorrow right now because 39 families are having to bury their loved ones. >> we will have more from you later on this hour. we wa

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i'm fareed zakaria. questions swirl around relations with china, nato. how does the world view the next president? i have a great global foonl discuss it all. >> just how should america react to this? is he mad or dangerous or both? and donald trump has threatened to kill tpp to build a wall. >> you will pay a very large border tax. >> can he do it all? what will be the consequences? i will ask president obama's trade representative. but first here is my take. donald trump has attacked no country as consistently as he has china. during his campaign he to make chinese goods cheap. since being elected he has spoken to the leader of taiwan. it was a surprise to me on a recent trip to find chinese elites relatively about trump. it says something about their view of trump but more about how they see their own country. trump is a negotiator and the rhetoric is all part of his opening bid said a chinese scholar. he likes to make deals and we are good deal makers as well. there are several agreements we could make on trade. chinese officials point out they have

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discuss with fareed zakaria. >> i think it seems to -- what clapper is saying implies that this was briefed to trump. we now have a lead story in "the washington post" by greg miller in which they spoke to several u.s. officials. spoke on the condition of anonymity said the nature of the summary fully explained to trump and put into context. he again affirms that trump was briefed on this document. explained to them, essentially what clapper said, not u.s. intelligence product but want you to know this is out there and you might need to know about it. >> this report essentially confirming cnn's reporting and saying he was briefed. >> "washington post" report talks to multiple officials. >> why the denial? >> if you look at press conference it was almost not a press conference but campaign event. began with sean spicer, then mike pence, a series of choreographed attacks on the media. then trump. if you think about it in terms of the campaign, what they've been running even after trump was elected president, campaign strategy, attack, attack, tack, puts everybody else on the offense and by th

i'm fareed zakaria. we have a big show for you today starting with james baker. the great elder statesman of the grand old party. i will ask what he makes of president-elect trump and his foreign policy. >>> then some startling, depressing new facts and figures from the arab world. there is some hope. >>> also, welcome to 2017. what will the new year bring? predictions, trends, new topics with a terrific panel. >>> first, here's my take. i'm glad that donald trump has finally gotten a briefing on the unanimous conclusion of america's intelligence agencies that the russian government was behind the hacking of the democratic national committee and hillary clinton's campaign, but he should also request and receive a political briefing on russia that can shed light on the backdrop to that country's actions. we need to understand why russia might behave the way it has. it all started with the arab spring. the sudden mass demonstrations and demands for democracy took most of the world by surprise. in particular they rattled moscow at a precarious moment. the kremlin wa

i'm fareed zakaria. thanks for joining us. >> good evening, thanks for joining us.m and the year with breaking news, on new evidence linking russia to the computer hacking, even as president-elect donald trump know its downplaying the notion. >>> and on the search for a gunman who took 39 lives at a turkish nightclub on new year's eve. authorities today releasing photos of the suspect, one of them taken from this video which began making the rounds late

. >>> we do want to remind you to tune in tonight, fareed zakaria is talking about president obama, they of barack obama. tonight at 8:00 p.m. on cnn. >>> still to come on your "new day," after a 13-month investigation into the chicago police department, the u.s. justice department finds a pattern, they say, of exceptionive force. so what happens now? >>> plus, l.l. bean, in politics. caught up in cross hairs after donald trump publicly thanked the board member for her support. there's also an ongoing boycott. we'll have details of this -- next. taking a holiday in britain, are ya doll? well, the only place you need go... london's got the best of everything. cornwall's got the best of everything. sport sport nightlife nightlife (both) fashion adventure i'm tellin' ya, britain is the only place you really need go. expedia. everything you need to travel britain better. >>> well, poland is welcoming nearly 4,000 american troops today. this is the largest american military reinforcement in europe in decades. they've been arriving in the country in the past few days. and the kremlin calls th

i'm fareed zakaria and happy new year to you. over the last few months, we have had extraordinary access to the white house, to officials current and former, all for a documentary about president obama's legacy. you might have seen it last week in this slot or previously on cnn. today we wanted to bring you more of these amazing interviews and we wanted to let them breathe. so, without further ado, we will start with the president himself. on himself. his habits and his race. you know, the first line of your biography will almost certainly be not something you did but who you are. >> right. >> the first african-american president. and yet, you are half white. you were raised by three white people, your mother and your two grandparents. >> and an indonesian. >> and an indonesian. are you comfortable with this characterization? >> i am, actually. i write about this in my first book. fairly early on i came to the realization, maybe as a young adult, that the essence of the african-american experience is we're a hybrid people. and be

i'm fareed zakaria coming to you live in new york. >> i donald john trump. >> today on the show the trump inauguration and four years to come. what the new president said on friday about how he sees the world. >> it's going to be only america first. >> what his cabinet nominees tell us about how he will deal with that world. we have a great panel to tackle it all. >>> how can we understand the ideology of donald trump? a new journal has been launched to understand that. does trumpism have a philosophy and what is it? i'll talk to the magazine's editor. >>> china, washington's new foe and russia, america's closest buddy. how will president trump order decades of precedent in these two critical relationships? we'll discuss it all. first here's my take. on friday we heard something unusual, even unprecedented in american history. we heard the newly sworn in president of the united states deliver an inaugural address that was an exercise in undiluted pessimism. his description of the country he now lead s vivid. american carnage. it could be the title of a gangster movie. jackson's first inau

fareed zakaria, thanks for joining us. let's talk about the trans pacific partnership and trade agreement. he promised to get us out of it, today he with drew. it's a great thing for the american worker, and i have to tell both bernie sanders and hillary clinton opposed tpp. i remember being in a debate, discussing it in flynn the. what is the bottom line, what does this mean for the american people and the american worker? >> it's a very good zedeal and it's a very bad and sad day. 95% of the world's consumers live outside of america. about half the world economy at this point. 40% of the world economy was part of tpp. we already have a pretty open economy. the trans pacific partnership did, it opened up the other economies that were signatories, japan, vietnam, you know, countries like that, and huge reductions. american companies, american workers would have sold more into those countries. we're already open, so the concessions were mostly made by countries like vietnam, japan, for a country that -- donald trump has bee

tonight fareed zakaria talking with president obama about triumphs and struggles. legacy of barack obama tonight at 10:00. and next donald trump calling out the mayor of chicago over chicago's epidemic of gun murders. will trump send in the feds? >>> and trump caught on tape at his new year's party. we got that tape tonight. >> i want to thank my members. i don't care about their guests. the ones i care about are the members. ♪ (laughs) here it is. ♪ hey dad! wishes do come true. the lincoln wish list sales event is on. get exceptional offers on the lincoln family of luxury vehicles. the final days of the lincoln wish list sales event are here. get a new 2017 lincoln mkc with zero down and a complementary first month's payment. why pause a spontaneous moment? cialis for daily use treats ed and the urinary symptoms of bph. tell your doctor about your medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drin

i'm fareed zakaria. thanks for joining us. >>> the following is a cnn special report. >> there was nothing in my life that said i should be sanding here. >> her journey is nothing less than remarkable. first lady michelle obama, once a reluctant campaigner. >> truth is most americans don't opt into this. >> target onto campaign trail. >> it made me wonder just how are people seeing me? >> now a voice for the generations. >> measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls. >> mom and chief turned political dynamo. >> our motto is when they go low, we go high. >> tonight a revealing look at first lady michelle obama, she's more than the first african-american first lady, today she's a global icon and a political powerhouse. i'm randi kaye and this is a cnn special report. "history made: the legacy of michelle obama." ♪ january 17, 1964, on the south side of chicago, a future first lady is born. michelle, lavonne, robinson grew up in the south shore. a working class neighborhood. her older broth

i'm fareed zakaria. on today's show, president-elect drum donald trump and the new world order. questions swirl around russia, china, nato. how does the new american administration see the world and how does the world view the next president? i have a great panel. >>> kim jong-un has threatened to test launch a missile that's able to deliver a nuclear warhead all the way to the united states. just how should america react to this? is he mad or dangerous or both? >>> and drumpb has threatened to kill tpp, and build a wall. >> you will pay a large tax. >> can he do it all? what will be the consequences? i'll ask president obama's trade representative. >>> first, here's my take. donald trump has attacked no country as consistently as he has china. during his campaign he said china was raping the united states, killing it on trade and artificially depressing its currency to make chinese goods cheap. since being elected he's spoken to the leader of taiwan. it was a surprise to me on a recent trip to beijing to find chinese elites sanguine about trump. it says more about how they see

. >>> fareed zakaria joins me from new york.t are the implications here ten days into the administration? the acting attorney general has been fired for defying the executive order on the travel ban. >> look, the whole thing seems extremely chaotic. whatever interpretation about that event and some of the others, when the orders are lawful, unlawful, wise, unwise, it certainly feels incompetent. i think that is a serious problem for an administration that sold itself on its competence. donald trump's principal point about why he should be president is i'm a competent businessman, i'm a multibillion declare, i've run real businesses, i know how to do stuff. trust me, no one else in washington can run these complicated issues. i will make it work. part of making it work is understanding how to get things done, how to get it through legally and politically. if the whole thing feels sufficiently chaotic, unplanned, and amateur, i wonders when it is making some people recognize in my view that government is actually more complicated

. >>> i want to bring in alan dershowitz, fareed zakaria, carl bernstein joins us by phone. i'm so glad to have you all here, alan, i'm going to start with you. did sally yates need to go? >> well, sally yates made a very serious mistake. instead of limiting herself to saying that she thought it was unconstitutional or illegal, she used the following words, that she had the right to decide whether the policy choice is wise or just, and what is right. that's not her job. her job as attorney general is to determine whether the law is lawful, it's the job of the elected president to determine whether the policy choice is wise or just, now, this is a terrible policy, i'm completely opposed to it, but as attorney general, if she disagreed with the policy, her option was to resign. she would say, i'm not going to enforce this policy. but to disallow the entire justice department from defending a policy, at least parts of which are probably constitutional, parts of which are probably lawful, instead of giving a new answered analysis to forbid the justice department from defending i

fareed zakaria talking with president obama about the triumphs and struggles during his time in the whitehe legacy of barack obama at 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight on cnn. victor? >>> revenge rematches. andy scholes is looking ahead to this weekend's nfl playoffs. >> victor, we have the texans and patriots and seahawks at the falcons. home fafrvorite to win. >>> all right. nfl playoffs continue today. tom brady, patriots, hitting the field in what most think should be pretty easy for the patriots over the texans, at least. >> andy scholes has more on this morning's bleacher report. the texans -- >> i am a texan fan. the outlook isn't great. maybe we will shock the world tonight. two touchdown underdogs against the patriots. texans play well against the patriots on prime time television. this is a rematch we saw third week of regular season. in that game the patriots won. 27-0. tom didn't even play, he was still on deflategate suspension. you have the texans head coach worked for bill belichick on patriots staff. hopefully the texans can make it a game. playoff matchup from earlier season, fal

i'm fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. we'll start by tackling all aspects of president trump's immigration ban, barring citizens from seven majority muslim nations from coming into the ruunited states. is it legal, is it moral, is it american, and will it work? i will talk to the head of the aclu, then a great panel, and then we will broaden out to examine donald trump's radical shift in american foreign policy. what does it mean when america walks away from the world? first, here's my take. donald trump's executive order suspending the entry of syrian refugees and anyone from seven muslim countries is filled with requests for reports and information. the department of homeland security, the state department, are asked to provide information on the numbers of foreign terrorists, and then to issue progress reports on the policy with more data within one and three months. so let me save the government some money and offer the data right now. alex of the cato institute, a conservative think tank, has tallied the number of am

. >> tonight fareed zakaria talks about president obama about his triumphs and struggles while in thete house. don't miss the cnn special the legacy of barack obama. it's on cnn at 10:00 p.m. >>> still ahead, north korea's leader takes his threats up a notch claiming he is close to testing an enter continent a.m. ballistic missile. we are live with how the u.s. is responding. >>> north korea's kim jong-un sending a chilling new year's message saying a long range missile test is imminent. that's raising spheres the country has strengthened its nuclear capabilities. timing also interesting as it comes right before donald trump's inauguration. cnn's pentagon correspondent barbara starr joins us now. north korea has launched several successful nuclear tests. how seriously should we take this threat? >> as you just said they have been working on -- they conducted several underground nuclear tests. two in 2016. they have conducted a number of missile launches. some successful, some not. but the u.s. assessment is the north koreans are yes moving forward on all fronts. kim jong-un saying wha

this is from my colleague, fareed zakaria. this is from a conservative think tank group.ant to study it. they tallied the number of americans killed on u.s. soil from 1975 to 2015 by citizens of these seven countries. again, 19 75 to 2015, seven countries that are on this list. here's the deal. iraq, zero. iran, zero. syria, zero. yemen, zero. libya, zero. somalia, zero. sudan, zero. so the question is, why are we banning people, america, from those countries when there's been zero attacks for u.s. citizens since 1975? >> i've heard a rebuttal which is to say 15 out of the 19 hi jackers of 9/11 came from saudi arabia and the gulf states. we should ban those countries. no, you don't combat bigotry by saying let's focus on the really bad muslims. there are good people who come from that country as well. the idea of a blanket prescription of people with a nation state. it's distinct from the extremist groups within and distinct from the government which give rise to the extremist groups. i've talked about what the iraqi government has done to facility the rise of isis in the

i listen to fareed zakaria, 11,000 people die from homicides from 9/11 to now. 45 people -- 45 people committed some sort of act of terrorism associated with a muslim. there's 1.6 billion plus muslims in the world. i happen to be a united states marine. when you say these kind of things -- what you're saying right now is false and untrue and you're scaring the heck out of people. it's completely wrong. don't do that to the people. if you divide us -- >> loud is not consensus. >> most americans support what the president is doing. loud is not a consensus. most people who are quiet in this country basically agree with what the president is doing. i have to leave it there. thanks for being on with us this morning. we have to check in with christina alesci who is keeping an eye on wall street. >> wall street doesn't like to see a lot of confusion over these executive orders that really some critics would say plays to trump's base. he's delivering on the promises he had on the campaign trail. what wall street wants to see is trump focus on the important things that are going to drive growt

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coming up on cnn after this, cnn special reports, fareed zakaria speaks with president obama about hisis right now on cnn. have a great night. have a great night. i'll see you back here tomorrow. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. >>> barack obama's america was born with hope. people were crying in the streets. >> and with crisis. >> fragile financial system. >> likely to get worse before it gets better. >> financial panic. >> we were hanging on the edge of a cliff. >> health care hysteria. >> kill the bill! >> why don't they take the health care being forced down our throats? >> two wars. mass shootings. >> a gunman opens fire.

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we're going to talk about that tonight with fareed zakaria. >> this embrace by trump of putin and putin of trump, do you think this is a short-lived bromance? >> theis is a third attempt to o a reset. the reason resets have failed and why this one will have some trouble is russia is in a very different place than many people realize. russia is playing the role of a kind of spoiler in the international system. it's been doing it in europe, interferes in elections, trying to weaken the liberal didn't dec order itself. and it's a difficult position to see how america find the common interest with a country that is systematically trying to undermine america's greatest achievements in the last 70 years. >> under the sanctions, russia has decided not to retaliate for the sanctions that the obama administration hit them with. is that solely about wanting to wait out the end of the obama term and just start with a fresh slate with trump? >> i think it's in a sense a kind of preemptive concession to trump or a gesture of goodwill. putin also likes to surprise, and he does this quite well. he's v