On GPS at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN:
First, Fareed offers his best understanding of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's reported plans to announce—on GPS—the investigations that President Trump allegedly sought.
"Ever since Zelensky was elected president in April, my team and I have been interested in having him appear on the show," Fareed says. But behind the scenes, the Trump administration was allegedly applying pressure, and military aid had been withheld. When Fareed met with Zelensky in Kiev to discuss the interview, Zelensky "did not let on in any way the immense pressure he was under."
At that time, the aid had been released, but the full story hadn't yet broken. "Zelensky and his team were probably still trying to figure out whether they should still do the interview," Fareed says—and when the story broke, the interview was called off. "We are, of course, still trying to get it."
Next, Fareed interviews former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Phil Gordon, who handled Ukraine policy under President Obama. Gordon discusses US policy toward Ukraine under Obama and Trump, what to make of Trump's allegations about former Vice President Joe Biden, and how Foreign Service morale is faring.
While Ukraine has dominated the news, Americans haven't heard many Ukrainian voices on the scandal. So Fareed hears from two Ukrainian political observers—Svitlana Zalishchuk, a former member of Parliament who serves as foreign policy adviser to Ukraine's prime minister, and Mustafa Nayyem, a journalist who was also a member of Parliament—about what the scandal means for their country.
After that, Nina Jankowicz, a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, explains the conspiracy theory that seems to have motivated some of Trump's interest in Ukraine. (It centers on a server, the DNC, and the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.)
Fareed then interviews Nathan Law, a longtime Hong Kong protest leader (and current Yale student) about Hong Kong's endgame and whether citizens want the protests to continue. Finally, Andrew McAfee, author of the book More from Less, argues economic growth is being sustained as fewer and fewer resources are pulled out of the ground—a trend he thinks will continue. | |
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