In advance of President Obama’s second inauguration, CNN’s and TIME’s Fareed Zakaria will host a primetime special with advice for Mr. Obama on the foreign and domestic challenges that yet await him, from top statesmen and women of our time who have served this president and others.
Memo to the President: The GPS Road Map for a 2nd Term – A Fareed Zakaria GPS Special debuts Sunday, Jan. 13 at 8:00pm and 11:00pm ET & PT on CNN/U.S.
Offering counsel to President Obama for a successful legacy in the areas of fiscal management, immigration, foreign policy, trade, investments and more, from their own experience advising the most elite office of power in the world, are:
Rubin, who served during an earlier hyper-partisan era, feels this one is worse. “In a democracy, you can only move forward if both sides, albeit having very different philosophical views, are willing to come together to govern…And without it, I think we’re going to be in terrible trouble,” Rubin says.
For his own counsel, Zakaria cautions that though Mr. Obama has secured a legacy with historic healthcare reform, he must now ensure its funding mechanisms are sustainable. “Getting healthcare reform right may be more important to our fiscal future, than any other set of policies,” Zakaria says in the special. And of exceptional importance, Zakaria advises, is managing the economy for the next generation, specifically, improving the nation’s aging infrastructure, fixing education, and reforming entitlement programs to secure them.
Baker agrees that managing the economy and bipartisan compromise are the priorities for second term success. “President Obama …wants a legacy. He deserves one. He’s not going to have a legacy if he can’t fix our economy,” Baker says to Zakaria.
Memo to the President: The GPS Road Map for a 2nd Term will replay on CNN/U.S. on Saturday, Jan. 19 at 8:00pm and 11:00pm ET and PT. The special will debut on CNN International on Saturday, Jan. 19 at 9:00pm, with replays on Sunday, Jan. 20 at 7:00am, 3:00pm, and 9:00pm. All international broadcast times are Eastern Time in North America.
Closer to the premiere, commentary related to foreign policy and domestic opportunities for President Obama’s second term, written by Fareed Zakaria, may be found at www.cnn.com/gps. During the special broadcast, producers of the special will engage viewers with their policy advice for the president via Twitter, using the hashtag “#ObamaMemo.”
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CNN’s Fareed Zakaria speaks to four leaders about how they’ve made important, tough choices – ranging from the personal to those that have impacted the world. Obama Administration National Security Advisor Tom Donilon talks candidly about the decision to capture or kill al-Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden, former U.S. Secretary of State (Richard M. Nixon Administration) Dr. Henry Kissinger discusses the complex negotiations to open trade between the U.S. and China, former U.S. Treasury Secretary (George W. Bush Administration) Paul O’Neill discusses his decision as the CEO of Alcoa to pursue worker safety before profits, and the former director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department (Barack Obama Administration) Anne-Marie Slaughter talks about prioritizing family over career.
Tough Decisions: A Fareed Zakaria GPS Special debuts Saturday, Dec. 22 at 8:00pm & 11:00pm Eastern and Pacific. It replays on Sunday, Dec. 23 at the same airtimes.
CNN will air the final debate between President Obama and Gov. Romney tonight with special coverage beginning at 7 p.m. Leading the network’s coverage of the foreign policy-focused debate will be: Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, John King and Fareed Zakaria in Washington; Candy Crowley inside the debate hall in Boca Raton, Florida; and Soledad O’Brien from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, where she will host a group of undecided voters. On hand throughout the evening’s coverage to provide expert analysis will be: Gloria Borger, David Gergen, Alex Castellanos and Van Jones in Washington; and James Carville and Ari Fleisher inside the debate hall with Crowley.
Prior to the start of the debate, the network will unveil:
Coverage during the presidential debate will include:
Post-debate coverage will feature:
Where to watch:
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Former Secretary-General of the United Nations and former United Nations-Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria, Kofi Annan, spoke with CNN's Fareed Zakaria about the civil war inside Syria.
Annan states the reasons why he feels that military intervention will not work in Syria, and he comments on why he feels Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the GOP nominee for vice president of the United States, is "dead wrong" for urging military intervention in Syria. The transcript of these remarks is below: FULL POST
In advance of the last presidential debate on Monday, Oct. 22, CNN's Fareed Zakaria looks at the contrasts of ambitions laid out by the two candidates during the last debate.
CNN's special live coverage of the last presidential debate, which will focus primarily on foreign policy issues, begins with America's Choice 2012: Debate Night in America and starts at 7:00pm ET&PT.
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Energy – and its impact on U.S. jobs and the economy are the focus of the fourth and final Fareed Zakaria GPS special on the most pressing issues facing the American electorate in 2012. CNN’s and TIME’s Fareed Zakaria hosts Global Lessons: The GPS Road Map for Powering America at 8:00pm and 11:00pm ET & PT on CNN/U.S. and at 9:00pmET on CNN International on Saturday, Oct. 27 and at 6:00amET and 10:00pmET on Sunday, Oct. 28. A companion article, The New Oil and Gas Boom, will appear in the next edition of TIME, on newsstands on Friday, Oct. 19.
Zakaria takes viewers on a virtual tour of Germany, France, Denmark for potential solutions for America’s energy challenges and then brings viewers back to America – to Houston, TX, and Aspen, CO – to show what’s already being done here in America. FULL POST
CNN's Fareed Zakaria debriefed President Obama's and Governor Romney's debate performances last week on the Sunday, Oct. 07th edition of Fareed Zakaria GPS.
The full interview transcript, and that of the full program, may be found here.
FAREED ZAKARIA GPS airs Sundays on CNN/U.S. at 10:00am and 1:00pm and on CNN International at 8:00am and 3:00pm. All times Eastern.
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The 2012 American presidential election will pivot on the health of the economic recovery, which most people view in terms of improved jobs numbers. Economic experts now predict it may take as long as 60 months for America to return to pre-2008 employment levels. CNN’s and TIME’s Fareed Zakaria describes this lengthy “jobless recovery” as part of a trend for the U.S. economy since the 1990s – as globalization and advancements in technology make it easier to do work by machines, and less expensive to produce goods overseas.
Zakaria takes viewers on a virtual tour of Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Dubai for solutions to what may solve the American jobs crisis. And, in the U.S., he shows people leveraging creative ideas to grow jobs in the construction, nanotech, and manufacturing sectors in Charlotte, NC, Chicago, IL, and Albany, NY.
Global Lessons: Putting America to Work debuts Sunday, September 23 at 8:00pm and 11:00pm ET & PT on CNN/U.S. and on CNN International on Sunday, October 06 at 9:00pmET.
In Charlotte, NC, Zakaria examines a pilot program by the German company Siemens for apprenticeships at a U.S. plant. Apprentices are not only paid factory workers – they also enjoy free college tuition.
“Here in the U.S., our patchwork system of job training programs is why we have 3.5 million job openings left unfilled,” Zakaria says in the documentary. And cultural perceptions of success may also inhibit wide scale applications of apprenticeships.
Nearly two-thirds of young Germans participate in the nation’s centuries-old apprentice program: companies, trade unions, vocational schools, and the government collaborate to pair new workers with job training at businesses that may eventually hire them. Paid apprenticeships combine classroom instruction with professional internships – and apprentices are matched to jobs in fields as diverse as baking to nuclear technology, and the skills are transferrable. The result is a more resilient German workforce than its industrialized peers: the youth unemployment rate in Germany is less than half that in America, and German unemployment rates decreased, and its economy grew, even during the height of the global economic downturn.
On the Sunday, September 09th edition of Fareed Zakaria GPS, political statistician Nate Silver of The New York Times spoke to Fareed Zakaria, about why he feels that the conventional political wisdom that "Obama is doomed because of the economy is not really reflected in the consensus of models..."
The full interview transcript, and that of the full program, may be found here.
FAREED ZAKARIA GPS airs Sundays on CNN/U.S. at 10:00am and 1:00pm and on CNN International at 8:00am and 3:00pm. All times Eastern.
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