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i'm ian bremmer, filling in for charlie rose who's on assignment. we begin this evening with an analysis of president obama's historic trip to hiroshima. al is on scene. >> it is no secret the japanese army was responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and it's a big reason why there is a lot of tension between zeke and japan. president obama tried to ease the tension, at the same time encouraging the japanese self-defense force to take a more active role in the region due to heightened threat from korea among other places. japan's neighbors are leery of the country remilitarizing after 70 years of pacifism. >> i am joined by jennifer harris and patrick cronin. >> if selling arms to vietnam is the arranges what is the question? it's not as if it comes to a real military conflict, these arms salesserly going to be doing the work in any of that conflict just as we see with our continued military sales to taiwan. you know, the u.s. will have to stand behind the security guarantees in order to be seen as credible. >> also this evening a conversati

the threat with ian bremmer is that you will have a dollar policy. who makes that happen?e first administration. people focus on ruben and forget what happened before that and forget why he changed u.s. foreign exchange policy. initially there was a weak dollar policy. you have a situation where a significant part of the s&p has been hurt by a strong dollar and you have u.s. exports hurting. our view is there is at least a risk that whoever wins in november will implicitly go for a weak dollar. tom: what does a weak dollar policy mean for multinationals? when we look at those stocks, we believe the majority of clients around the world are in the position of an industrial recession since 2014. you look at the railroad stocks -- tom: is there an opportunity? brian: you talked earlier about evaluation. we think earnings are bottoming out, especially in the railroads. volume inn pleasant some of the bigger machinery stocks focused in asia still have issues, but they are focused on domestic or north american growth are very well positioned. henderson and brian belsky. we will g

i'm ian bremmer, filling in for charlie rose who's on assignment.n this evening with an analysis of president obama's historic trip to hiroshima. al is on scene. >> it is no secret the japanese army was responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and it's a big reason why there is a lot of tension between zeke and japan. president obama tried to ease the tension, at the same time encouraging the japanese self-defense force to take a more active role in the region due to heig

ian bremmer tweeting on a photo. there it is. very nice. you have the leaders lined up.in paris is everybody is being chummy, the chancellor, trudeau, the president. is allng -- hollande alone. this goes back to the labor unrest and the new populism in france. leaders dealing worldwide with populist streaks. that is exactly it. we were thinking about captions for that picture. one could be, can anyone find any growth? we do have rising populism in the united states with donald trump, here with jerry corban, and in france, where we have a backdrop which is declining u.s. leadership, rising spheres of influence, and on a market perspective, rising structural volatility -- all of this is .eeding into popular anger what we have seen in france is a manifestation of it. , i believe as part of the british establishment, you have a passing knowledge of the view outside london. what is your sense of the view of the united kingdom with brexit and the debate on austerity and budgets -- what is your view on the debate outside the elites on london? john: i like this series of small i

we talked to ian bremmer and about this. these are two thoughts.ssful fascism was not about policies but about the strong man, the leader in whom could be entrusted the fate of a nation. whatever the problem, that leader could fix it. dr. kagan moves on to what these people will not see is being republican supporters of mr. trump, is that once in power, mr. trump will old them and their party nothing. this is your first read into the weekend. you may agree or disagree but there is a hilarity as we go into our political summer. iaian shepherdson with us. this is anckdrop for economy. it is the economy election. it's not, is it? tan: it is and it isn' because it is the economy that has driven the rise of trump. tom: and sanders. issues that the mainstream have not addressed -- which is the hollowing out of mostly blue-collar jobs over the last 20 or 30 years. a flattening of living standards. which the traditional parties have had very little to say about. and sanders have trumped -- and trump have picked up on this and have pushed it in. tom: going