And then the trumpkim summit, russias Nuclear Arsenal and Donald Trumps border wall. Well talk about all that and more with an allstar Foreign Policy panel. And what do the extension of a wreck, a mashive hole and americas recent polar vortex have in common, theyre all believed to be related to Climate Change. My guest says it really is time to panic. But first heres my take. Its refreshing to see the Democratic Party bubbling with now ideas. But its new thinking seems starkly different from the partys reform effort of it past three decades. The wonky proposals of the Clinton Obama era were pragmatic and today we have big dramatic stirring ideas, and that could be the problem. Democrats are spinning out dramatic proposals indeed but in which facts are sometimes misrepresented, the numbers sometimes dont add up and emotional appeal seems to trump actual analysis. When cortez was confronted recently by anderson about a egregious mistake about Pentagon Spending she responded. I think theres a lot more people concerned about precisely factually correct than about being morally right. Perhaps this casual attitude towards facts explains the wii she and many others on the left have misrepresented the deal new york offered amazon to bring new headquarters there. If were billing to give away 3 billion in this deal, we could invest this ourselves if we want to. Hire out more teachers. But as mayor bill de blasio explained. This was a deal going to bring 27 billion in revenue to the state and city. And that 3 billion going back in tax incentives was only after we were getting the jobs. Or consider the race by prominent democrats to embrace medicare for all. A variety of studies have estimated the total increase in Government Spending between 2. 5 and 3 trillion a year. Few of the proposals being floated would likely raise close to that in revenue. And if an effort were made there would be few avenues left to fund any of the other ambitious proposals on the new democratic wish list. Let me be clear, universityal health care is an important moral goal. But getting from here to Single Player would probably be so disruptive and expensive that its not just going to happen. Now, there is a path to universal coverage that is simpler. Switzerland has one of the best Health Care Systems in the world, and it is essentially obamacare with a real mandate. But that probably feels too much like those incremental policies of the past. Or consider the tax proposals being tossed around on the left where including a wealth tax championed by lith beth warren. I understand the appeal of tapping into those vast accumulations of billionaire loot. But there is a reason 9 of the 12 countries that instituted similar taxes have repealed them in the last 25 years. They massive lay distort economic activity. Raise the capital gain state tax, and get rid of the loopholes that make the american tax code one of the most complex and corrupt in the world. But again this is less stirring stuff than burning the billionaires. The comments on 60 minutes reminded me of the july 2016 exchange between Newt Gingrich and cnn. Theyre not a liberal organization. People feel more threatened. They feel it, but the facts dont support it. As a political candidate ill go with how people feel. We already have one Major Political party that now routinely twists facts, disregards evidence, and makes stuff up to appeal to peoples emotions and prejudices. If the democrats start moving along this path as well, american politics will truly descend into a new dark age. For more go to cnn. Com fareed and read my the Washington Post article this week. Lets get started. The weeks long standoff over the presidency of venezuela has become a physical stand off and a deadly one at that. Yesterday played out at the columbian border asthma dureos troops prevented aid from coming in. At least five people were killed in the clashes that ensued between the two sides. 285 people were injured according to the Columbian Foreign Ministry when venezuela fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters. As for the u. S. Response secretary of state mike pompeo called maduro a sick tyrant for blocking the aid deliveries. Tomorrow Vice President pence will meet with guaido in columbia. Joining me now is guaidos envoy to the United States. Let me ask you, is the bulk of the aid getting through the columbian border, and why is it not getting through the brazilian border since both the columbian government and brazilian Government Back mr. Guaido and are harsh critics of the current president of Nicolas Maduro . Well, thank you fareed, for this opportunity. Let me tell you the following. I have seen human right abuses since this regime took power particularly since 2014. But yesterday was a tragedy, a crime against humanity. What we saw yesterday was a regime killing innocent people trying to bring food and medicine to our country. So therefore, maduro is not only creating the human crisis in venezuela but also blocking the susolution of the humanitarian crisis of venezuela, and that has to be rejected by the entire community. Again, why is it not getting through from brazil but from columbia . As you know yesterday three trucks reached our bridge in venezuela and all of them were burnt by the regime. So unfortunately, the food and medicine couldnt reach. The people that need that food and medicine. And thats why we decided to just stop the humanitarian aid. The humanitarian aid will remain in brazil and columbia, and we need to discuss with the columbian and brazilian authorities the path to come in the next day. So we will preserve that humanitarian aid, and then we will Work Together on when that humanitarian aid will enter our country. Your boss, juan guaido has called on the army to get on the right side of history. So far thehermy has not listened to him. It is still backing maduro. What would it take to get the army to flip . Well, fareed, we need to keep the pressure in different levels. On the streets, using our National Assembly as the only elected institution in venezuela and also put pressure on the international community. Six forces of the military institutions decided to support guaido. And many of them are saying inside the military theres a huge discontent. So we need to the crease the pressure and force the military to back what we are trying to achieve which is democracy. President maduro routinely in every rally he danced the salsa yesterday he says guaido is backed by trump, is trumps puppet. You guys, the venezuelan people should stay with me. He said that at that salsa dance. How much is that working . In other words, how effective is it for maduro to tell people its the americans who want guaido and we are improving venezuelan nationalism . Well, i mean, the only puppet is maduro. Hes a cuban puppet. Thats the reality. This is venezuelan movement led by the people of venezuela under the leadership of juan guaido as an interim president. They are putting their life at risk, as you saw yesterday in order to recover our democracy. And what we have seen is a fight between democracy and dictatorship, and the free world is supporting our movement, and we need to see it in that way. We are not a problem of nationality. This is again a fight between democracy and dictatorship, and this is clear Venezuela Movement led by venezuela with a clear agenda set by venezuelans. And i feel so proud to be a venezuelan and to be a latino because the cost of democracy in this hemisphere is taking place in venezuela due to the colonel of the venezuelans. Let me ask you finally and briefly, donald trump says all options are on the table, implying that there is a military option that the United States could use. Do you welcome that kind of rhetoric, or do you want to make it clear that the United States should not use any military force in this issue . Again, this is not a fight between the United States and the maduro regime. This is fight between the free world against the maduro regime. And keep in mind, we are dealing with a criminal state. They have been involved in drug trafficking, money laundering, human rights abuses do you think the United States should keep military options on the table . Under the principle of responsibility to protect, which was approved by the u. N. We cannot allow that a regime kills his own people. And we have under the principle of the u. N. The responsibility to protect a population thats under fire from his own regime. Thank you so much for joining us. 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If washington places intermediate ranged Nuclear Missiles in europe putin said his tit for tat response would be to deploy weapons against the countries that threaten russia. I have a great panel to talk about that threat and much more. Carl was the Prime Minister of sweden now the cochair on the European Council of foreign relations. Steven hadly was george w. Bushs National Security advisor. And susan glasser, a long time Foreign Correspondent and editor is now staff writer at the new yorker and a cnn Global Affairs analyst. Steven, let me start with you. That rhetoric struck me. It felt very much like the cold war. What did you make of it . Well, you know, this a combination of where russia has been in process of the violation of the inf treaty but has somehow skillfully put the United States in a dilemma. Do you go ahead and stay in a treaty where the other party is violating it consistently or do you accept in some sense the pulling out . I think the Trump Administration has basically bow today the i t inevitable and theyve decided to pull out. Does this worry you . Do you feel theres a lot of Nuclear Tension in the air . We all met at the security conference last weekend, and this was very much talked about. The european hope, of course, is that the next few months will be used to go back to the negotiating table one way or the other and try to see if theres some sort of solution that can be achieved. Putin is not talking developing very new weapons, and thats bad and strikes. At the same time he said if the u. S. Doesnt deploy anything in europe, hell not deploy anything new in europe. Perhaps one should take his word and see if one can negotiate something that avoids a new nuclear race over the continent of europe. Susan glasser, you have a Foreign Correspondent in moskow i think when george w. Bush, steve hadly really, withdrew from the abm treaty for similar kinds of reasons. Do you think that there is a plan here that the Trump Administration has . Because theres a plausible case to be made that, you know, these treaties need to cover the new Nuclear Powers like china. And maybe that this is a way to go forward. Or is this just an active peak . This is a legacy we have of a cold war that is three decades in our past, on the one hand. On the other habd im struck by the fact that right now carl talked about the possibility of negotiations but i didnt come out of munich feeling there were any imminent plans to do so, first of all. Essentially its easier to blow up agreements than it is to make agreements, especially with this particular american president. You know, it is an interesting fact of arms control that the russians and soviets before them have always been very invested in some ways, as seeing this first of all as confirmation of their power status. Vladimir putin is eager to appear on the world stage as someone the United States needs to sit down and negotiate with. Speaking with people who enjoy being on the world stage, steve hadly, we are in for a new tru trumpkim jongun summit. Do you worry that the president is so eager to get that Nobel Peace Prize that shinzo abe has already nominated him for that he might cut a deal that isnt in americas interest . No, im not worried about that. He has given the lead on this to secretary pompeo. Steve beingen, who is the special envoy for secretary pompeo is working this issue, a very seasoned person. And we know john bolton is very skeptical of the whole proposition of negotiating. So i think in some sense theres a healthy and dynamic tension within the president s National Security team. I think theyre going to try to make some progress. I think theyre probably going to try to work somewhat incrementally, a step for step. At this time, that may be the best approach. But i think this is different approach from the president. Its much more a top down meeting with the leaders. I think, though, since the bottom up approaches of two prior administrations have failed, we are going to give this one the benefit of the doubt and see what they can come up with. Susan glasser, trump does seem particularly fascinated by kim jongun. Indeed he does. One of the most extraordinary developments of the last couple of years is watching the president of the yoounsz, a great democracy, fall in love with the dictator of north korea. He calls him chairman kim. When visitors come to president Trumps Office he literally calls out as he did at that interview with the New York Times a couple of weeks ago, bring the letters, bring the letters, let me show you the letters from kim jongun, which are essentially a bunch of boilerpla boilerplate flowery generic phrases. But the deep unease the president s own advisers on Foreign Policy have about the president s approach to handling one of the most significant security challenges in the world today, its something that is a marker of this moment, right . Its both crazy and yet completely not surprising at this moment, that, you know, were going into a summit with north korea and the stories are about the president s own team not being happy with the strategy. Dont go away. Next on gps, the sentiment at last weeks munich conference was pretty tough on donald trump. Europe isnt united on much these days but it seems to have found common cause in concern over trump and his policies. At the same time a movement was revealed there in munich to reaffirm democracy around the world. What does it mean . Will it work . Well talk about that when we come back. Was ahead of its tim. Still, we never stopped making it stronger. Faster. Smarter. Because to be the best, is to never ever stop making it better. Introduc