and read my washington post column this week. let s get started. with nine days to go in 2013, i thought it was the perfect time to give the year a good old gps assessment. how did we do? how did the world s leaders behave themselves and are we finally seeing some real improvement in the economy? i have a true all-star gps panel to discuss it all. i have anne marie slaughter. bret stephens is columnist for the wall street journal, and the economics editor of the economist and ian bremmer looks at political risk around the world. so brett, how do you think
cnn will follow this story. as developments warrant, we ll bring them to you as we have them. stay with us throughout the day for continuing coverage of edward snowden s whereabouts. thanks so much for watching state of the union. i m candy crowley. fareed zakaria gps is next. this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. it s been a busy week on the world stage from the iranian elections to the g-8 meeting, talking with the taliban, president obama s call for nuclear reductions and russia s rejection of the idea and much more. we have an all-star gps panel, anne-marie slaughter, richard haass and bret stephens. also a pivotal week in the economy. we will look at ben bernanke s announcement and the market reaction with harvard historian
counterterrorism teams outside of the federal government, and we will get his key insight. then, soft targets, ieds, high-value interrogation, chechnya and more. we will dig deep in to some crucial aspects of the case with a true all-star gps panel. also on the show we will take a few breaks from terror to look at gold, which isn t as glittery as it used to be and what lessons the u.s. congress could learn from these wilting legislators. but first here s my take. we re learning a great deal about the two men who police say planted bombs at the boston marathon. the brother dzhokhar tsarnaev and we will learn more and in the weeks ahead and learn the story of alienation, and brutal murder. were these men an unusual case, loners, or are they part of something larger? how and when did they turn? and in one important sense,
moammar gadhafi and even more with his son saif gadhafi. phd from the london school of economics who went on tv warning of rivers of flood. what are they thinking. first an all-star gps panel to talk about revolutions abroad and in america over budgets and politics. nick kristof back from the middle east. eliot spitzer familiar with the problems of balancing budgets. david frum. chrystia freeland. what in the world. we found a nation even more divided than our own. finally we ll take a last look at the ultimate mubarak bling. i ll explain. now, there s an interesting debate about whether the events in the middle east are good for the united states, the west, good for peace and stability, but i think there can be little dispute about whom they are bad for. al qaeda. in fact the arab revolts of 2011 represent a total repudiation of
with his son saif gadhafi. what are they thinking. first an all-star gps panel to talk about revolutions abroad and in america over budgets and politics. nick kristof back from the middle east. eliot spitzer familiar with the problems of balancing budgets. david frum. chrystia freeland. what in the world. we found a nation even more divided than our own. finally we ll take a last look at the ultimate mubarak bling. i ll explain. now, there s an interesting debate about whether the events in the middle east are good for the united states, the west, good for peace and stability, but i think there can be little dispute about whom they are bad for. al qaeda. in fact the arab revolts of 2011 represent a total repudiation of al qaeda s founding ideology. think about it. for 20 years al qaeda has said that the regimes of the arab