United states and around the world. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from new york. We start with two of the worlds critical hot spots. First ukraine. Where president zelenskyy admitted that the counteroffensive is difficult as wes western Officials Say that kyiv is highly unlikely so where does the war go from here . And then to niger, where a Military Coup was launched, that makes for a six county belt of cues spanning 3,500 miles across the african continent. Well tell you what you need to know about this startling trend. Also, are you amazed by the power of Artificial Intelligence . Well wait until you hear about Quantum Computing. It will make todays a. I. Look like childs play. I talked to mitchia kaku about what he sees as the real gamechanger. But first, here is my take. In early may, 2023, it seems obvious that the United States was going to face an unmanageable border crisis. In the Previous Fiscal Year there were about 2. 4 million of apprehensions trying to enter the u. S. A
in some way? yeah, look, i m worried about the deficit now. i was a less worried a few years ago. but a few things have changed. one is interest rates have risen a accdecent amount. that makes is harder to service your debt. and there is a old rule, when times are good, your deficit goes down and when times are bad your deficit goes up. and right now we re breaking that rule. we re seeing good times with a pretty large deficit. so i m not panicked. i don t think the sky is falling. but washington is going to at least in the next few years need to turn its attention to this question in a way that it hasn t for some time. jason furman of harvard university, thank you so much. next on gps, you may think the next breakthrough is in artificial intelligence but i want to tell you would be a bigger technological revolution,