On Fareed Zakaria GPS Today

View this email in your browser Insights, analysis and must reads from CNN's Fareed Zakaria and the Global Public Square team, compiled by Global Briefing editor Jason Miks. March 18, 2018 Global Briefing will be on hiatus this coming week. We'll be returning on March 26. On Today's Show First, Fareed gives his Take on one of the biggest issues confronting President Trump's nominee to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, Mike Pompeo.    Next, Fareed hosts a live panel to discuss some of the big foreign policy developments this week. Joining Fareed to talk about Tillerson's firing, North Korea, and UK-Russia tensions will be David Miliband, former British foreign secretary and now president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The Economist.   Also on the show: Britain has accused Russia of poisoning a former Russian double agent on British soil. What's next for relations between Russia and the Western powers? Joining Fareed for a live panel to discuss this and more will be Luke Harding, author of "A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West" and a foreign correspondent for The Guardian, Anne Applebaum, a columnist for the Washington Post, and Bill Browder, who was once the largest foreign investor in Russia.   Plus, Russians have been voting in their presidential election. Joining Fareed will be presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak.   Fareed: Pompeo has a crisis to handle -- even before North Korea The potential meeting between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un has grabbed the headlines, but there's another, more immediate, concern for Mike Pompeo as he prepares to succeed Rex Tillerson, Fareed writes in his latest Washington Post column.   "If confirmed as secretary of state, Mike Pompeo will arrive at a State Department that has been battered by proposed budget cuts, hollowed out by resignations and vacancies, and neutered by President Trump's impulsive and personal decision-making style. But Pompeo's most immediate challenge will not be rebuilding the department and restoring morale; it will be dealing with an acute foreign policy crisis that is largely of the president's own making — the Iran nuclear deal," Fareed says.   "Pompeo will have to tackle a genuine foreign policy challenge soon. Trump has agreed to meet with Kim Jong Un before the end of May. This could be a promising development, defusing the rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and across Asia. Yet before Trump even sits down with Kim at the negotiating table to discuss a nuclear deal, the administration will have to decide how to handle the preexisting deal with Tehran." Take This Week's GPS Challenge Which country is the happiest in the world? Which country is the biggest arms importer? Who was the longest serving US secretary of state? Which European country did North Korea's foreign minister visit this week? Find out the answers to these questions and more – and see how other GPS viewers did – by taking this week's quiz here: cnn.com/fareedquiz   Share Share Tweet Forward Copyright © 2017 CNN What did you like about today's Global Briefing? What did we miss? Let us know what you think: GlobalBriefing@cnn.com unsubscribe from this list      update subscription preferences    Sign Up for Fareed's Global Briefing