America as the nation prepares to celebrate Martin Luther king, jr. s birthday. Aaron sorkin has turned the last three years changing to kill a mockingbird into a broadway sensation. What that can teach us about race intolerance. But first heres my take. As we watch britain go through brexit, its easy to view the decision to depart the European Union as an act of foolishness, a selfinflicted wound that will impoverish britons for years to come. Europe is after all britains largest market, taking in half of the countrys exports. Losing special access to it is a high price to pay for some symbolic gains in sovereignty. The brexit debacle sheds a light on europe itself and one that sees it as stop working, for many of the people at its western european core. I say this as an Ardent Supporter of the European Union, the u. S. And the eu have been the two main . Gens behind a world based on open markets, liberty and law, human rights and global warfare. These values will likely be eroded if the strength and purpose of either of these centers wanes. For the last three decades the european project has wandered off course. What began as a community of nations cooperating to create larger markets, greater efficiency, more political stability became obsessed with two massive issues that have undermined its central achievements. The first was, perhaps, inevitable in the wake of the soviet union as collapse. The rapid integration of a vast number of new countries that were at a very different stage of economic and social development as the eus core countries. Since 1993 the European Union has expanded from 12 countries to 28. While prior to this period, europe was mostly concerned with opening up markets, streamlining regulations, creating new growth opportunities. It now became a transfer union, a vast scheme to redistribute funds from prosperous countries to emerging markets. Even in todays strong economy, eu funds account for more than 3 of hungarys economy and almost 4 of lithuanians. This gap between a rich and poor europe with open borders inevitably produced a migration crisis. For example, as in foreign affair from 2004 to 2014 about 2 million poles migrated to the u. K. And germany. And about 2 million romanians moved to italy and spain. These movements put massive strains on the safety nets of destination countries and provoked rising nationalism and nativism. The influx to europe in 2015 mostly from the middle east must be placed in the context of these already sky high migrant numbers. And as can be seen almost everywhere from the u. S. To austria, fears of immigration are the rocket fuel for rightwing nationalists who then discredit the political establishment that they deem responsible for these unchecked flows. The second challenge consuming the eu has been its currency, the euro. Launched more with politics in body, it has endured a deep structural flaw. It forces a unified Monetary System on 19 countries that continue to have vastly different fiscal systems. That means when a recession hits, countries have few tools at their disposal. Brexit should force britains to think hard about their place in the world and make the adjustments that will allow them to prosper. But it should also cause all europeans to take stock of their project, a great idea that has gone awry. The European Union needs more than tinkering. It needs to return to first principles, find its central purpose and question what aspects of its Current System are not working, not affordable or not manageable. While some americans seem to delight in this prospect, it is in fact bad for america, bad for its interests, bad for its values. For more go to cnn. Com fareed and read my the Washington Post column this week. Lets get started. Lets now focus in on brexit and its implications. We have a special guest, tony blair. Mr. Blair served for more than years as Prime Minister of the united kingdom. He has been an outspoken critic of the idea of a british exit. He joins me from london. Tony, pleasure to have you on. Thanks, fareed. From the start youve been opposed to brexit. Let am ask you just at the fundamental level, your case for it because it does seem to subvert the democratic process, doesnt it . The electorate had a chance to vote on brexit and there wasnt meant to be a doover. No, thats absolutely correct. But i think whats happened is weve had 30 months of negotiation. The deal the governments presented has been voted down heavily, parliament is gridlocked. Its not clear theres any version of brexit thats going to command a majority. Theres many different of brexit, and frankly our knowledge of what brexit really means has been vastly at large in the last 30 months. I dont think theres an unreasonable circumstance to take this back for final resolution to the british people. I peen, were not asking anyone else what their view is. Were asking the british people. And i think given everything thats happened, given the circumstances were in, that is not unreasonable. So thats the case if you like for a second referendum. And right now probably there isnt the support there in parliament for that either. On the other hand, theres no support for a proper brexit proposition, and theres no support for exiting without a deal. So i think as this goes on, its more likely finally that people come around to the fact that in the end of this gridlock in parliament youve got to put it back to the people. And youve argued that there really isnt a kind of a soft brexit, or you cant fudge the issue. That either you are in europe or you are out. Yeah, so heres the essential problem. In one sense this negotiation has never been a negotiation of the conventional sense. Its really a choice. And the choice is between a brexit that keeps you tied to europes trading system because weve spent 4 1 2 decades in europe. Weve been part of the single market, trading relationships have grown up on the basis of were part of that unique european system. You either stay close to that in which case youre going to keep to europes rules, in which case people are going to say why are you doing this brexit . Or you say were going to make our own rules, were going to break free from europe altogether but in which case its going to costuts shortterm and economically longterm painful damage. So thats the problem with brexit. And the negotiation by the way over these last 30 months has been an attempt by the Prime Minister and the government of finding a way of having our cake and eating it, of being part of the european trading system without keeping to its rules. That was never going to become possible. Thats finally become apparent. And so you either choose a brexit thats partial or painless. What do you say to these people that feel theyre emmeshed in a system of which they dont have much control in the European Union and particularly involving migration, which it seems to me has been the core issue for the populism fusing brexit and the western world in general. You know the numbers. 2, 3 Million People from poorer countries in europe moved into places like britain and germany. This was before 2015 when you then had a million middle eastern refugees coming. And they say its too much, too much control, and if thats what it means to be part of this European Union, we need to assert sovereignty. The thing thats driving brexit all over europe is this issue to deal with migration, identity. These are big issues everywhere in the world today. So my ideal situation is a situation where britain thinks again but europe also thinks again. Over these last 30 months we in britain have seen what the difficulties and complexities of brexit are. But frankly the rest of europe has seen its own politics turned upside down. The italrennian election, whats happened in hungary, france, germany, all over europe the same issue. So the sensible thing is for europe to take the strong measures necessary to control the migration properly wreincluding within europe. We have a freedom of movement principle, which is a very essential principle and most people welcome because you can move around europe easily, you can go work in different countries. People get that. The problem is when you get large flows of migration or you get the undercutting of wages. But these are problems you can deal with within the freedom of movement principle. So my ideal situation is where britain remains in europe but europe also reforms. I dont know whether thats possible, but i certainly think it should be one of the options on the table. And, you know, in the end there are problems, of course, with europe. I will say to people there are going to be enormous problems whenever you try to get a whole group of independent nations working together in a formal political structure. But none of these problems are reasons for breaking up europe. What influences me when i look at the world today is i see every month further evidence that power can shift east. Youve got the rise of china. Chinas going to become an even more powerful country in time to come. Its population is double the size of the entire European Union put together. When you look at it actually, three times the size. When you look at it, in the world thats developing, you know, medium sized nations like britain, like germany, like france are going to have to band together in order to keep their interests and influence alive in the world and their values. So there are big geopolitical reasons, not just economic reasons for keeping europe together. But europe will be sensible if it also takes measures of reform. So this is where i think the politics can go. I hope we can go in that direction. Dont go away. More with tony blare when we come back. Well also ask him to look across the channel at what is going on in europe. Do the protests in france and the weakness of Angela Merkel signal change there as well . Well come back in a moment. To , use every possible resource, to fight cancer. And never lose sight of the patients were fighting for. Our Cancer Treatment specialists share the same vision. Experts from all over the world, working closely together to deliver truly personalized cancer care. And these are the specialists were proud to call our own. Expert medicine works here. Learn more at cancercenter. Com. Appointments available now. Learn more at cancercenter. Com. If these packs have the same number of bladder leak pads, i bet you think bigger is better. Actually, its bulkier. 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The debate i often have with people in the United States, if you think the big challenges were going to face are how we deal with the fact that by the middle of the century youre going to live in a multi polar world for the power of china is very significant and large alongside the power of america and india as well, youve got three super powers by the middle of this century. In those circumstances the west should remain united and europe should stand alongside america because in the end, whatever our differences, there are interests we have in common. Most important, there are values we have in common. Were countries that believe in democracy and freedom and the rule of law. These are important values in a world with one or the other centers of power, china is going to be challenging not just for power but also offering a different system of government. In those circumstances, britain, thats traditionally been the country that if you like, bridges atlantic most easily, its damaging for america and not just for europe but i would say damaging for britain, too. All of these issues to do with independent nations wanting to assert their identity. Weve got to resolve those without breaking up that essential structure of the European Union that allows europe to be united and to be a key ally of the United States of america. This is my way of looking at the world because otherwise were going to find as this century progresses and my children and grandchildren work out where they stand in the world, the west is going to be weaker. And thats bad for them and bads f for all of us. When you look at whats going on in france, how much does it dishearten you . Here was macron who was seen as the one centrist reformist figure who was able to in this age of populism get elected, thrive, institute reforms passi passionately proeurope and now it seems his presidency is crippled. Hes making reforms that are difficult, and anyones whos ever been in office and tried to make reform knows its the hardest thing to do because what you find is everyones in favor of reform in general but when it comes to particular reforms you get a lot of opposition. So hes got opposition now, but i personally think what hes trying to do for france is right. And, you know, all over the western world today people are struggling with the fact the worlds changing fast. Were going to have a digital and Technology Revolution in my view that is the single biggest challenge policy makers are going to face over the next 10, 15 years and, you know, were going to struggle with this and political leaders are going to struggle. But the art of Political Leadership is come out the other side with your reform intact and i hope he does that. But wherever you look in the western world today you see tension and difficulty. And what about Angela Merkel . Do you think in retrospect her biggest mistake was to let in those large number of refugees in 2015, that without that she would still be secure, stable, popular . Look, i think, you know, shes been chancellor for a long period of time. I think the refugee issue was a real problem and probably impacted her politics and indeed our politics, but she did it for extremely good motive and for good intensions. You know, weve got to weve got a deeper problem, which is that as the world changes and as you get these big migratory flows some people worry about their communities changing, whether they can retain their own traditional sense of identity, and youve got to be sensitive to those questions and youve got to manage that. And the thing about immigration that i learned in office is that immigration produces energy, vitality, its actually a good thing for a country like britain. But people need to know there are rules around it, there are controls. And if you dont have rules you end up with prejudices. So this is why its important when youre fashioning your immigration policy, people have got to know that at the same time youre accessing the benefits of immigration, youre also putting some structure around it that means they can keep control of it. And particularly, frankly, when youre getting larger numbers of refugees or migrants from majority muslim countries people then worry do people come in and share our values, youve got to be sensitive to it. Now, thats not the say youve become antiimmigrant, but if you dont deal with these pressures, thats what then fuels the sentiment on the far right. Always a pleasure to have you on, tony blaire. Thank you so much for joining us on this important occasion. 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China has sense detained several canadians on socalled National Security offenses, accused canada of White Supremacy and sentenced a canadian prisoner in china to death. What in the world is going on . Behind the headlines, this is a battle over who controls 5g, the next leap in mobile technology. Its difficult to overstate 5gs transformative potential. Its networks will be up to 100 times faster than todays. That means well use our phones as the primary platforms to do everything, including watch video. But the real transformation could come from industry. 5g will transfer so much data so fast, machines will be able to talk to each other on a grand scale. This could spur the growth of automated factories, smart cities, driverless cars. 5g will make Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence a daily reality for everyone. The u. S. Government is well aware of this. According to axios a National Security council official compared 5g to the invention of the gutenberg press. You can understand why the two largest economies in the world want to dominate this field. The wall street journal reports the u. S. Is trying to convince its allies, including canada and poland, to block huawei for providing the tools that will power 5g. If the Worlds LargestTelecom Equipment supplier provides the components of this new architecture to america and its other allies, the American Government worries the company would build a socalled back door inside its gear. Lowing huawei to send it back to beijing. Think of the New York Times reporting on the breach to name a recent example. Now, imagine that with far more data at play and with the Chinese Company actually providing the gear. Huawei, which is headed by the former Peoples LiberationArmy Engineer is accused of using bribery and Technology Theft in its assent. U. S. 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Always discreet. On february 1, 1960, four College Students made history. The young men, all africanamericans sat down at a whites only lunch counter and refused when they were asked to leave. That was the beginning of the sitin movement. That same summer a few states away in monroeville, alabama, a thenunknown writer named harper lee was getting ready for the publication of her debut novel. A book that delved deeply into the american south, race and justice. On july 11, 1960, to kill a mockingbird was released to the public. The following year lee won the Pulitzer Prize for the book and according to her publisher the book has now been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. In 1962 the book was turned into a major Motion Picture starring gregory peck who won an oscar. Is this the man who raped you . Well certainly is. So, after all that acclaim, how do you write a new version of the story for the broadway stage . Well, that was the tough assignment that fell in the lap of the highly acclaimed writer aaron sorkin. His threeyear labor of love is open now on broadway. The play is a huge success, playing nightly to sold out crowds and standing ovations. I asked sorkin to join me to talk about the play and what it says about race in america today, as the nation prepares to celebrate Martin Luther king jr. s birthday. Aaron sorkin, pleasure to have you on. Great to be here. So why do you think to kill a mockingbird has become this sort of totammic book that every American High School reads . Is there something about the quality of the prose, the subject matter . For most American High Schoolers we read it in seventh, eighth, ninth. I should say for first for most white americans. Its our first time the hero wears glasses. Its the its the first time that things dont work out the way theyre supposed to. The way harper lee wrote the novel through the eyes of a child, its a nice way in for us. And we all read it together. Let me ask you about the challenge of taking this cherished, iconic novel, turning it into a play. There are two parts. First of all, at the skill of a writer what you did in terms of moving the trial to the start of the play is really extraordinary because the trial the first hurdle of the book is life in the south. And you cut to the chase right away. Yeah. My first draft of the play wasnt very good. My first draft of the play was kind of an attempt to swaddle the book in bubble wrap and gently transfer it to the stage. It was a greatest hits album done by a cover band. After getting a few very smart notes from our producer, scott rudin, i threw that draft out and threw the attitude out as well that this should be an exercise in nostalgia or a museum piece or an homage to a book we all loved. I was going to write a new play. You did need to get to the trial faster. So i thread the trial throughout the story. In doing all this you ran afoul of the literary estate of harper lee. Theres now a court case going on. Which hinges on whether youve been true to the spirit of the book. In fact, harper lee approved of you, personally, as the author of the play. The issue is, you had to stay true to the spirit of the book. So is the idea that a judge is going to watch the play and determine whether or not this is true . Well, first of all, fortunately, thats all been settled. Theres no court case anymore. Youre right, not harper lee but the harper lee estate. Harper lee passed away about three years ago. The harper lee estate got ahold of an early draft of the play. They were not theres no they. A woman who runs the harper lee estate was not a fan of what i had done and sued claiming, as you said, that i had departed from the spirit of to kill a mockingbird. The curious part of me wanted to see the case go to court so that a federal judge could define what the spirit of to kill a mockingbird is. I dont think theres a Legal Definition and no literary definition of that either and you remember the famous line about pornography. I cant define it but i know it when i see it. Perhaps this judge would have resorted to that. But i think what audiences are finding now, and weve had a month and a half of previews and weve been running for about a month. While it is something new, while this play is new, it very much embodies the spirit of to kill a mockingbird. What the federal judge was going to need to do in the Southern District was you know, there was a complaint letter with, i think, about 80 examples of moments from the play where the estate was saying, atticus would never say this, atticus would never do this. So the judge was going to have to decide what a fictional character would and wouldnt do. We had offered to perform the play for the judge in his courtroom. And we had it there was an opportunity to get into the record books as the first play to close on Opening Night in the new york Southern District. Talk about the issues of race. Youre dealing with a situation in which i talked about the play to my son, whos in college. I was saying how i thought it was terrific and my guess is this will be performed all over the country now. He said, well, colleges will find it difficult because using the n word in college is so taboo that even in the Historical Context it will be impossible. Theres liberal use of the word in the play the way that it is in tom sawyer and in harper lees book. So i would just say to these College Students what i say to my own kid is there are words that are okay on a movie screen or on a stage that absolutely arent okay in life. And its historically accurate because that is how people spoke at that time. Yes, its historically accurate, but more important its crucial that we see the casual cruelty that was going on. That people are using the word. Theyre using the word in front of africanamericans and using it very and using it very casually. And its important that they see that. I hope those College Students youre describing do the play and discuss what were discussing. Up next, for seven years, president bartlett sat in the oval office presiding over america. The fictional commander in chief was much loved mostly because aaron sorkin wrote him that way. Isis a time for american heroes and we reach for the stars. So what is sorkins state on our nonfictional president and the words that come out of his mouth . Oh, dont worry. Voya helps them to and through retirement. Dealing with todays expenses. Like college. While helping plan, invest and protect for the future. So theyll be okay. Without me . Um. And when we knock out this wall. Imagine the closet space. Yes oh hey, son. Yeah, i think theyll be fine. Voya. Helping you to and through retirement. And i dont add trup the years. S. 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You are famously known from the west wing, a few good men, you have this dramatic, eloquent style of writing you impute to political characters a certain kind of elegance. What do you make of the rettic of donald trump and what does it say about where we are today . You know, im not sure i can add anything to the conversation that hasnt already been said about the rhetoric of donald trump. It kaegs without question it doesnt come close to rising to the level of what someone in the oval office should be saying and how they should be saying it. The president also we dont have a monarch. The president is as close as we get. They are the voice and face of this country and its what has so many of us depressed that that is the voice of this country. How do you respond to people, to him who he says, im the modern president. Im speaking in this colloquial way because thats how people out there speak. He seems to have gotten through because of a certain amount of that. Im not going to have a facade, im going to speak like a normal person. First of all, thats not how people out there speak. There are cruddy people out there and i guess thats how they speak. But thats a real putdown of the people he claims to represent, that they speak at and think that way. Second, it is not the role of the president to stoop to the lowest common denominator and try to represent that. Its the role of the president to try to elevate us all. We have had president s, both republican and democrat, who have been fantastic at doing that. Who can put a lump in our throat, who can give us goose bumps and appeal to the better angels in our nature. Donald trump appeals to the very worst in the worst of us. And its not a strategy, and its not a philosophy, its just the best he can do. That is who he is. Z but let me ask you what he does do. The way i think about it is he points to the worlds cultural varieties and talks about them how they think about it. Emotional rhetoric works a lot better than analytical rhetoric. People vote from their gut rather than from their brain. How should democrats, what is the emotional what is the way democrats do it . I think democrats answer often by having a 20point program that was approved by the brookings institute, which is very sensible, but its not going to move people. No, its not. But barack obama was able to move people, and john f. Kennedy was, and bill clinton was. You can do it. You can make people understand that theres more that unites us than divides us. You can swat away some of the differences were told to be scared of and paint a picture of a tomorrow thats better than yesterday. Honestly, its good speechwriters is what you need. When you listen to democrats, do you feel like theyre speaking the way that they should . Do you want to go in and write speeches for some of them . Theyre better speechwriters than me when i hear democrats. It depends which democrat. Tell us, who do you like . Im not sure i want to do that. I like Kamala Harris a lot, i like joe biden a lot. I really like the new crop of young people who were just elected to congress. They now need to stop acting like young people. Okay. Its time to do that. There is a i think if theres a great opportunity here, now more than ever, for democrats to be the nonstupid party, to point out the difference. That its not just about transgender bathrooms. Thats a republican talking point theyre trying to distract you with. That we are that we havent forgotten the economic anxiety of the middle class, but were going to be smart about this, were not going to be mean about it, and that we can go back to being the america my father who passed away a few years ago fought in world war ii. And he, like most people from his generation, from the greatest generation, he doesnt tell a lot of war stories. You kind of have to pull it out of him. But he would talk about his unit going into a village in europe, and you could hear villagers say, thank god the americans are here. People dont say that right now, and its because of donald trump. We can go back to being the thank god the americans are here people. We can go back to being the people who, when exhausted, impoverished and terrified refugees with just the shirt on their back have made it to our border, we can go back to being the people who reach across and give them a hand and a hot meal and say, welcome to the new world. Thats who we are, thats who we should be. Aaron sorkin, a pleasure to have you on. Thank you so much, fareed. We will be right back. Ers o. Dr. Fernandez was wonderful. He said it was up to me to do whats best. Its about giving her options, where amy has all the information to make a decision thats best for her. We left on day one feeling like were gonna beat this and this is the place thats gonna help us do it. That feeling is priceless. 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Was it cambodia, the ivory coast, bosnia and her skblrks egovina and serbia. You can sign up for a free trial and watch gps anywhere that you can watch youtube. And dont forget we are always on cnn go. The answer to the gps challenge question is b. On tuesday lauren bagbo was cleared of all federal charges by the court. The charges stemmed from his alleged role in postproduction violence which began when bagbo was defeated at the polls in 2010. He conceded to his election rival and 3,000 people were killed in the violence that ensued. In spite of 300 court days dedicated to the prosecution and the filing of thousands of documents, the courts said the prosecutor failed to submit sufficient evidence to demonstrate the responsibility of mr. Bagbo. With the acquittal, there are hopes that bagbo will make a political comeback ahead of the 2020 elections. But for now, he is still locked up in the hague pending appeal. Thank you for being part of my program this week and i will see you next week. \s. Hello, everyone. Thanks so much for joining me this sunday. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin with the president s legal attorney. Rudy giuliani with feuding reports that mr. Cohen was instructed to lie to congress, but also saying in detail what he was planning to say in that testimony. Giuliani spoke at length with our jake tapper on state of the union. Did anyone on the trump team talk to Michael Cohen about