a saudi operative dressed in a beard and what appears to be the murdered journalists clothing, except for the shoes. joining me now is freed areed a zakaria. there have been shifting stories from the very beginning, as we know, but this video is really something. turkish officials say they believe this shows it was premeditation. how does this now figure into where we re at? i think the most important thing that s going to happen is going to happen tomorrow when the turkish president, erdogan, is going to make a speech in parliament. and he has promised he s going to lay out, in detail, exactly what happened. what s fascinating about this is that many people thought that the turks were just presenting enough evidence to embarrass saudi arabia, to then extract some kind of price in terms of loans, payments, and it s certainly that the turkish economy needs that. but erdogan has now gone far enough that i think it would be very difficult for him to back down. he is suggesting he s goi
selection process, ryan zinke s name was emerging as well as a congressman from idaho raul labrador and seemed to be between those two candidates. at the end they went with ryan zinke. they were pretty impressed with his interview. but one potential, you know, ramification from all of this, don, is that there was some talk back in montana that ryan zinke was going to challenge john tester coming up in a couple of years. that would potentially take that off of the table. there might be some montana republicans who aren t particularly happy about that. although they re pleased to see one of their own in the trump cabinet. given the assumption that everything should be just fine with ryan zinke being confirmed. jim, thank you for the news. i want to bring in new fareed a zakaria. spent his life working to advance big oil from exxon
democrats. so even with an improved economy, it will be tough. this time around you ll have president obama on the ticket and in some ways that s a huge help for democrats because he s a gifted campaigner. he ll spend a lot of money organizingment that also makes it trickier for some red state democrats to distance themselves from the president if they need it. again, as i say, it s a long time between now and then and it really does depend first and foremost on the economy. jessica yellin, we ll all be watching the economy together hoping it improves. jess, thank you. coming up next, this. this has now become a cliche, but china is the most important country in the world other than the united states. you know that man. we normally see him sundays, right? but fareed zakaria joining me live in the show in moments to tell me exactly why china is so important and how unusual it was to see president hu there he is going out shaking hands at the white house this morning. plus, c
precedent. think about this, this isn t a huge deal for our president, mr. obama. he s an american politician. this is what he does. but what about the chinese leader, president hu? he is the head of china s communist party so, no, he maybe not in his job description is kissing babies and shaking constituents hands. none of that. but here he is, watching him there alongside president obama, working the rope line at the white house. so, fareed zakaria joins me now live from new york. we know we normally see you on sundays, your show fareed zakaria gps. what a treat to get you through the week. let s talk about the pictures. it took us aback a little bit. would these pictures be shown in china? and how do you think they ll be received by the chinese? oh, they will absolutely be shown in china. the chinese places enormous importance on the state visit. every time a chinese president comes to america it is a huge deal. the incoming president, the guy who s going to succeed hu