Policy, from russia to health care to gender issues in the military . And what does the world make of this circus . I have a great panel to talk about it all. And americas new nationalism. Ronald reagans Republican Party wa all about free markets, free trade, and open arms to immigrants. No more. We have taken historic steps to secure our border, impose needed immigration control like youve never seen before. Journalist joshua green on steve bannon and the new american nationalism. Also, america closes itself and china is opening itself up. Forging alliances and rising. I will talk about the eastward shift of global power with the f. T. s Gideon Rachman. Finally, summer on the french riviera. Instead of hot parties this year unfortunately all the talk is of scorching fires. Ill explain. But first heres my take. In london last week i met a nigerian man who succinctly expressed the reaction of much of the world to america these days. Your country has gone crazy, he said, with a mixture of outrage and amusement. Im from africa. I know crazy. But i didnt ever think i would see this in america. The world had gone through bouts of antiamericanism before, but this one feels very different. First, there is the sheer shock at what is going on, the bizarre candidacy of donald trump, which has been followed by an utterly chaotic presidency. The chaos is at such a fever pitch that one stalwart republican karl rove described the president this week as vindictive, impulsive and shortsighted and his public shaming of the attorney general as unfair, unjustified, unseemly and stupid. Another republican, kenneth starr, the onetime grand inquiz tor of bill clinton, went further, calling trumps treatment of Jeff Sessions one of the most outrageous and profoundly misguided courses of president ial conduct i have witnessed in five decades in and around the nations capital. But there is a larger aspect to the fall in respect for america. According to a recent Pew Research Center study of 37 countries, people around the world increasingly believe that they can make do without america. Trumps presidency has made the u. S. Something worse than feared or derided. It is becoming irrelevant. The most fascinating finding of the pew survey was not that trump is deeply unpopular. 22 approval compared to obamas 64 at the end of his presidency. That was to be expected. But that there are now alternatives. On the questions of confidence in various leaders to do the right thing regarding world affairs, xi jinping and Vladimir Putin got slightly higher marks than trump. But Angela Merkel got almost twice as much support as trump. Even in the United States more respondents expressed confidence in the german chancellor than trump. This says a lot about trump, but it says as much about merkels reputation and how far germany has come since 1945. Trump has managed to do something that fear of putin could not. He has unified europe. Facing the challenges of trump, brexit and populism a funny thing has happened on the continent. Support for europe among its residents has rizzen and plans for deeper european integration are under way. If the Trump Administration proceeds as it has promised and initiates protectionist measures against europe, the continents resolve will only strengthen. Under the combined leadership of merkel and the new french president emmanuel macron, europe will adopt a more activist Foreign Policy. Its economy has rebounded and is now growing as fast as that of the United States. Countries from canada to china have in various ways announced that since washington cannot be relied on to shape the global agenda anymore, others will step in its place. The most dismaying aspect of pews findings is the drop in regard for america goes well beyond trump. 64 of the people surveyed expressed a favorable view of america at the end of the obama presidency. That has now fallen to 49 . Even when American Foreign policy was unpopular, people around the world still believed in america, the place, the idea. This is less true today. In 2008 i wrote a book about the emerging postamerican world which was, i noted at the start, not about the decline of america but rather about the rise of the rest. Amidst the parochialism, ineptitude, and sheer disarray of the Trump Presidency the postamerican world is coming to fruition much faster than i ever expected. For more go to cnn. Com fareed and read my Washington Post column this week. And lets get started. Okay. You heard my take. Lets bring in a great panel to discuss these issues and more. Joining me here in new york are tim naftali, a cnn president ial historian, and the former director of the Richard Nixon president ial library. Julian zelizer, political historian at princeton and a cnn political analyst. In d. C. Robin wright joins us. She writes for the new yorker and is a joint fellow at the u. S. Institute of peace and the wood rie wilson center. And david frum joins us from l. A. He is a Senior Editor at the atlantic and a former speechwriter for president george w. Bush. Julian, i want to start with you because it feels to me like we are at a very important moment in terms of congressional reaction to donald trump, republican reaction. When the sessions thing broke, you saw Senior Republicans like Mitch Mcconnell publicly disagreeing with trump in absolutely flat out terms. On the russia sanctions they are passing a bill that the white house did not want. On Health Care Three republican senators voted against. But i want to read you, Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post had this wonderful story where he tells that lisa murkowski, very conservative senator, is called by the secretary of interior threatening that they will no longer support, you know, projects of hers in alaska. She responds by essentially dissing the white house and the department of interior, voting against the health care bill, and then postponing all hearings on interior Department Jobs and on its 2018 budget. This feels like a republican revolt against donald trump. Its beginning. I think we often hear a lot about the importance of the base to President Trump and how he crafts most of his strategy around the base, but really its the Republican Party that protects him and its the Republican Party upon which he depends broadly defined. And this week all the events youve talked about i think are some cumulative evidence that the firewall of the Republican Congress is starting to weaken if not fall apart. And this is very significant. He cant afford this. And with the story of attorney general sessions, for example, weve seen ongoing pushback, which is making it difficult for him to do what seems to be the movies looking for so that he can go after the special prosecutor. David frum, let me read you from your old place of employment. You were a editorial writer at the wall street journal. The journal, part of Rupert Murdochs empire, has generally been very supportive of trump and very critical of his opponents. So let me read you what the journal has said this week. About trumps sessions abuse. He is harming himself, alienating allies and crossing dangerous legal and political lines. If trump wants to blame someone for the existence of special counsel mueller, he can pick up a mirror. On the health care bill, he never tried to sell the policy to the american public, in part because he knows nothing about health care and couldnt bother to learn. On priebus, the shuffling of the staff furniture wont matter unless mr. Trump accepts that the white house problem isnt mr. Priebus, its him. Now, in the past conservative intellectuals like yourself denouncing trump have not made much difference. Will this is this are we seeing something new . We are seeing something new because the wall street journal does speak with and for paul ryan. The challenge for the Republican Party as an institution is while President Trump is a severe problem so also is the editorial page of the wall street journal. With a republican president elected in 2016 needed to do was to lead the party out of the culdesac into which it had backed itself on health care. The Republican Party had taken an unsustainably radical position on total repeal of obamacare, return to a prior status quo, that would not make good on the guarantee of nearuniversal coverage thats been in place now for almost seven years. They needed and as we saw in the vote, republican senators and republican members of the house themselves did not believe in that commitment, but they backed into it. Where leadership serves is by taking a party that has put itself into someplace unsustainable and the president says im going to offer a vision, im going to offer something that is sustainable, tass relevant to the country that does suit a larger part of america than just my tiny little base, and i will give you all cover to do something responsible, to do something that will save you from yourself yourselves. Instead donald trump as the journal said, he knew so little about health care that he believed the wall street journal and thats a bad place to be. Tim naftali, is this all going to be solved by the appointment of a military man as chief of staff . I ask you, somehow the world keeps coming back to your area of specialty, Richard Nixon, because the last military man to be chief of staff was of course alexander hague, appointed in the turmoil of nixons second term. The modern chief of staff, the institution of the chief of staff is only a little over 40 years old. Many president s have always wanted to be at the center of the wheel and then all the spokes would lead to them. Thats disaster. Richard nixon allowed bob haldeman, his first chief of staff, to be the gatekeeper. The problem with haldeman and nixon is it didnt always work. Nixon would go around haldeman. And haldeman also had some ethical personal problems. But the strong chief of staff is the haldeman model. When president s leave that model, as weve seen with trump, they only encounter troubles. Trumps problem is he lets other people talk to him, besides his tweeting. His problem is bannon has direct access, kushner has direct access. Scaramucci. Scaramucci has direct access. In order for a chief of staff, whether hes a general or not, to be successful, he has to be the gatekeeper. He has to not only control the president s time. He has to be able to tell people no, you cant see the president. Will trump allow kelly to do that . Weve seen trump delegate to mattis. But trump is delegating things he doesnt really understand. Military operations. Will he delegate to kelly . Thats the key. And well see. The one thing i think we can say about kelly, military people generally have a code of honor. And the one thing i think you will see is if trump asks john kelly to do something he thinks is illegal or unconstitutional, he wont do it just as al haig the general destroyed the tapes. President nixon asked Alexander Haig to destroy the tapes and haig said oh, no, dont ask me, ask your valet manolo sanchez. He was thinking about it and he said no. 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And the president , rather than working this issue, as hes preoccupied with his war at home, is not taking the kind of steps that will get us closer to resolution, that will diminish the threat. He is treating the president of china the same way hes treating Jeff Sessions. Hes belittling president xi jinping in tweets. Hes saying that the chinese are doing nothing for us. This is not the way to deal with the most populous nation on earth, the only nation on earth that can really help us with whether its imposing sanctions on north korea or engaging in some kind of diplomatic resolution. The reality is that north korea is reaching the point that its going to be a Nuclear Power and theres very little the United States can do about it except try to diminish the dangers of north korea using it. And so President Trump has put us in a very vulnerable position by not dealing more thoughtfully and diplomatically with this fundamental challenge, the one that may well define his Foreign Policy legacy. Robin, let me ask you about another one because youre so knowledgeable about iran. There are reports that donald trump more than reports. Hes essentially publicly said he wants to find them in noncompliance with the iran deal even though the iea, the agency appointed to look at it, has several times certified that they are in compliance. What would happen if the United States in a sense unilaterally disagreeing with international with the inspectors on the ground would say we believe that iran is in noncompliance . Well, the Trump Administration clearly wants to force iran to walk away from the deal, to nudge them in or confront them in any number of ways, not just on the nuclear deal. Yes, through inspections, possibly demanding inspection of sites that are not on the list or not suspected of having been involved in a Nuclear Program, but also in ways, whether its imposing new sanctions, opening fire on iranian ships in the persian gulf, imposing sanctions because of the detention of americans that there are a lot of ways were moving toward i think a position that the United States looks like it is supporting regime change. And i saw, as you did too, the Iranian Foreign minister and i think the idea that the iranians are going to walk away from this is unlikely. And that puts us in the position of what is our policy . We are now split with the europeans. 40 years weve been together in trying to pressure iran on its Nuclear Program and other issues and now the europeans are going ahead and doing business with them. Putting their ambassadors back in tehran. And so you know, this is where the president lacks the kind of sophisticated knowledge of the world. It was reflected this week when he stood next to the lebanese Prime Minister and said that lebanon was on the front line of fighting isis, al qaeda and hezbollah. And hezbollah of course is a major part of the lebanese government, and its fighting alongside the Lebanese Army today against isis and al qaeda in eastern lebanon. Its really disheartening when you understand that President Trump knows so little about the world. Julian, you think these crises are an opportunity or a challenge . I think theyre a challenge. I think the same problems weve seen play out with domestic policy will recreate themselves on Foreign Policy. So all of the president ial behavior that weve seen, threatening allies and opponents, tweeting randomly and distracting not the public from what hes doing but his party from what they need to be doing and lacking some real sense of policy and a vision, as robins talking about in terms of where this all goes, all of those will be problematic as this turns to the international stage. David frum, another seeming distraction, or at least some people would regard as a distraction, was the transgender issue. What do you think trump was doing there . And im assuming its an attempt to play the sort of culture war card and force democrats to have to defend a very small minority that many people would regard as odd. I dont. But will it work . Its a culture war that actually turned into a culture skirmish because as you said there just isnt enough excitement about this issue, one side or the other. And it is a sign of how the president has a tendency to start his wars, without allies and without preparation. And that is a very ominous warning for the larger and nonmetaphorical wars that may lie ahead of him. It is really worrying, as julian was just saying now. The United States is stumbling without plans, often without friends, into confrontations it doesnt seriously intend to make good on but that may be real. One of the clever things that people say in washington is what happens if these guys ever encounter an international a crisis that is not of their own making . What happens when they face a true International Crisis . But the situation is much worse than that because this team is an International Crisis. This is itself, this government is the greatest threat to Americas National security weve seen maybe since the end of the cold war. We are careening we are going to end up in some kind of confrontation and were going to probably end up there alone. Tim naftali, when you look at the way this administration is handling itself, something that richard haas said to me, the president of the council on foreign relations. He said looking at scaramucci, looking at so much, he said nobody seems to care about the dignity of the office that they hold. And that starts with the president , but it goes down throughout the white house. There is no sense that these offices are kind of national treasures. No, theres no sense of that. And that has an effect. It has a corrosive effect. In three different ways. One, imagine the morale of the people in that building. Imagine them having watched priebus be publicly humiliated with apparently no consequence other than priebus loses his job. Two, how do you recruit new people . This is an understaffed administration. You need more people. And three, the effect on our international reputation. If were going to stare down foreign adversaries, they have to believe that we are not only unified but professional. The scaramucci show that we saw this week isnt amusing at all. It would be amusing if it were reality television. But know, what the u. S. Presidency is not reality television. No matter what the president thinks. Thats not the way we can run this country. Were a superpower. On that note we have to end. Next on gps a case of a missing 3. 4 trillion. The strange math in the president s budget and what it highlights. The gops abandonment of facts, science, and analysis, when we come back. Hi. And i know that we have phonaccident forgiveness. Gent, so the incredibly minor accident that i had tonight four weeks without the car. Okay, yup. Good night. With accident forgiveness your rates wont go up just because of an accident. Switching to allstate is worth it. When this bell rings. It starts a chain reaction. Thats heard throughout the connected business world. 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The cbo instead says the president s plan would increase gdp growth to 1. 9 , which most economists agree is the sensible assumption. Note that the American Economy has grown on average just 1. 8 over the last 15 years, no more. This method of fudging the numbers is called dynamic scoring. Common sense would tell you that if the government cuts taxes itll get less money in tax revenues. But sprinkle the magic pixie dust of dynamic scoring and you can project much higher growth rates and then the revenue numbers soar upwards in theory. The story of dynamic scoring is the story of the Republican Partys abandonment of facts, science, and analysis in favor of ideology. Decades ago republicans were advocates of fiscal restraint. They were the party of green eye shades, conservative assumptions and careful accounting. They did not believe in wideeyed assumptions and in counting chickens before they were hatched. In fact, when Ronald Reagan proposed tax cuts that he claimed would pay for themselves, his traditionalist republican rival george bush sr. Derided his approach as voodoo economics. But with the reagan revolution came a new mantra. Tax cuts were the answer to every problem and the economics could be bent to make it all work out in theory. In fact, the National Debt tripled under Ronald Reagan. And after george w. Bush cut taxes, the National Debt increased again. Bill clinton by contrast actually raised taxes and ushered in stronger growth and higher tax revenues. But the mountains of evidence have not stopped republicans from using dynamic scoring. In 2010 Kansas Governor Sam Brownback wrote a Tea Party Wave to power and he slashed taxes across the board predicting there would be a boost to the kansas economy and thousands of new jobs would be created. Except the promised growth never materialized. Instead between 2013 and 2014 the states budget of 6 billion was butchered as tax revenues fell by a massive 713 million. This year there was a 218 million budget shortfall, forcing state legislators to pass tax hikes despite brownbacks opposition. In 2015 the gdp of the state grew by an anemic 0. 2 while the rest of the nation grew at 1. 6 . Job growth since the cuts dropped to a dismal 3. 5 while the rest of the nation experienced a rate of 7. 6 . Sam brownback has been rewarded for his failure by being nominated this week to be the state departments ambassador at large for International Religious freedom by donald trump. Bruce bartlett, who was a Senior Policy Adviser to president s reagan and bush sr. , says that dynamic scoring is not about honest revenue estimating, its about using smoke and mirrors to institutionalize republican ideology into the budget process. Steve mnuchin, gary cohn, and others in the administration know better. Instead of smoke and mirrors they should use facts and figures, economics and analysis on a subject as serious as the nations economic outlook. Next on gps build the wall the proposed wall on the Mexican Border is just the start of the nationalism and isolationism that could be coming to this new america. The man behind it all, steve bannon. Well go inside his brain when we come back. Really. For me. Bye. Another referral. Our customers love us. nail gun firing glass egg shattering when the unexpected strikes. Dont worry weve got you covered. The hartford strikes back. On a hotel just go to priceline. They add thousands of new deals every day at up to 60 off. Thats how kaley and i got to share this trip together at this amazing hotel. Yeah ash and i share everything dresses, makeup, water bottles. We do . Mmhmm. We share secrets, shoes, toothbrushes. What . Yeah i forgot mine so ive been using yours. Seriously . Whats the big deal . I mean, we even dated the same guy. 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My next guest, joshua green, has written a book explaining the rise of bannon and how the president s chief strategist came to his worldview. Welcome, joshua. Its good to be with you. So the first question is bannons worldview as i see it seems to dominate even with the transgender ban. But bannon has disappeared. Is that part of a strategy . I assume he recognized that the one thing you cant do in this administration is be more prominent or even close to as prom nept as the president. Exactly. And i think he learned that the hard way because in the early days of the administration he was portrayed in Popular Culture and media as being this dark mastermind, this puppetmaster, president bannon as saturday night live called him, and as a white house adviser told me trump does not want to have a costar, especially not one whos believed to be pulling his puppet strings. So bannon lost a bit of his influence then and i think understands that you can exert more influence and survive longer in trumps circle if youre behind the scenes whispering in his ear instead of on tv at the white house podium trying to explain trumps everevolving policies. Theres so much in the book, but i want to focus on one piece, which is really this transformation ideologically. The Republican Party used to be the party of free markets, free trade, openness. That was reaganism. That was the kind of formula. And trump and bannon both in their various ways realized that the base of the Republican Party was in a very different place. Do you think that bannon came to his nationalist protectionist, populist views slowly, suddenly . What happened . This was a Goldman Sachs banker. I trace two strains in the book that i think led bannon to his worldview. The first is that he had a deeply traditional catholic upbringing. He went to a rightwing catholic military academy, became fascinated with traditionalist intellectuals including some of the nationalist thinkers of the 1930s and the 1940s who tended to believe that the world was in dpli decline, that the western world was under assault by the forces of islam, by the rise of secular modernity. I think the other thing is bannons own personal experience. He served in the navy in the persian gulf during the failed rescue mission to rescue the american hostages. And bannon this was under the carter presidency. This was under jimmy carters presidency. And bannon was raised in a workingclass irishcatholic democratic prokennedy family. So bannon at the time was ostensibly a democrat, but he described to me in interviews getting off the ship, taking shore leave in pakistan and being horrified and worried by what he described as these teeming masses of young antiamerican muslims. And then watching the hostage crisis, he described the middle east to me as being primeval. He said it was like stepping back into the 5th century. So i think that was the beginning, that the roots of the islamophobia that has characterized his politics and trumps. Trump seems to have understood like a good salesman during the campaign that what people wanted to hear out in the on the hustings, the republican base, they dont want to hear about Milton Friedman economics and free trade and entitlement reform, the kind of stuff paul ryan talks about. They wanted to hear about mexicans, muslims, chinese people. So does he buy into the bannon vision, or is this just a convenient kind of marriage of expediency . I think he does to an extent but i think what trump sees in the bannon vision is not a philosophy or an intellectual underpinning for trumps own ideas. I think what he sees is a powerful and Effective Campaign slogan. The idea of America First nationalism. Well, who could be against that . And trump, with his salesman skills, was able to distinguish himself from what bannon, what trump would consider the globalist pro free trade hawkish orthodox republicanism that characterized the views of the other 16 candidates more or less in the gop election. I think what trump did and bannon certainly helped this, was to practice a kind of political arbitrage. He understood that the policies being offered and pushed by the Republican Party leaders no longer met the needs of the partys white workingclass, increasingly rural and isolationist base and took advantage of that in a way that exposed just how vulnerable the Republican Party really was. Whats striking to me about it is theres a few slogans about american elections. People often say the taller candidate always wins, which apparently is mostly true. But the other one is that the more optimistic candidate always wins. And what bannons worldview, whatever you may think of it, its a very dark, pessimistic view of the world. A world in decline, a western decline, a kind of youre surrounded, youre fighting to preserve the soul of america. Is that where half the country now is . I think it is. And i credit bannon for being a shrewder analyst of both democratic and republican politics than anybody in washington, certainly anybody in either of the major parties. He understood this kind of roiling anxiety and dissatisfaction that i think was masked by the booming stock market, by the fact that urban areas are doing very well, by the fact that an entire political and media class, and i include myself in this indictment, did not believe that donald trump could actually within the presidency and therefore didnt take it seriously until election night. Josh green, pleasure to have you on. Thanks so much. Up next, from americas turn in to chinas turn out. 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The east was where the money and the military might was. Now after two centuries of western military, economic, and cultural domination, is the pendulum of global power swinging the other way . That is the question that Gideon Rachman set out to answer in his fascinating book easternization asias rise and americas decline from obama to trump and beyond. The author is the f. T. s chief Foreign Affairs columnist and he sat down with me recently to discuss china and an eastern renaissance. Gideon, welcome. Thanks. What you do in the book you describe already on the ground Foreign Policy changing, International Politics changing and in particular the rise of china has really transformed International Politics which used to be for the last 20, 30 years single poll, unit poll, United States running everything to china now increasingly its both a phenomena in europe and in asia itself particularly with the coming of she pi jinping in power, especially building islands in the South China Sea to reinforcing controversial claims there and the slightly confused reaction of the u. S. Of how much can they push back . Chinas got away with something and everyone kind of noted that. Ive found in my travels around the world, a globals politics job, that people are beginning to factor the rise of asia and china into their thinking. A couple examples, turkey, a country for 100 years seen its destiny as europe, essentially have begun to rethink the way they look at the world and said, well, maybe europe the not where its at. Maybe asias where its at and even russia, crimea to the west. Maybe a mistake to think we would converge with the west, were an asian nation as well and looking to build a relationship with china affecting its whole of global politics. Andy pound out even western countries of much more aware of their eastern destiny so that germany, the largest trading partner for germany now is not the United States but china. Absolutely. I think that, you know, merkel spends a lot of time going to china, cultivating that relationship and what happens in my own company, brexit, the decision to leave the eu in a way justified saying, look, the idea europes where its at is over now. If were making our destiny in the world we have to look to asia and build special relationships with india and china, these are the future. Its changing Foreign Policy. The british reluctant to offend the chinese, literally lay out the red carpet for jinping and china began in 1840, a british invasion and now the brits cultivating the chinese. When somebody hears this against the backdrop of the syrian strikes, the american strikes on syria, will people say, well, wait a minute. It certainly seems like the United States is still running the world. You point out that, you know, the United States can act in this completely unilateral fashion in the middle east, and i think by implication wondering, could they do the same in asia . I think we all wonder were there to be an issue like this in north korea, or could the United States really act the way it did in syria in north korea . I wonder. Technically, of course, they could. Politically, would there be i think politically not. We all say of course america cannot tolerate this, might have to take out the north korean Nuclear Program even if that technically possible, there would be a problem with south korea. One would think they want that but they dont. Theyre completely in the firing line. The north koreas to level the south Koreas Capital of seoul and could you say, 35,000 troops on their soil. Sorry. We decided to get you into a war with your northern neighbor. That would be difficult and im not sure the japanese would want it, because they, too, are within range of north koreas missile array. What does america look like in a world of easternization . Well, you know, its almost the single biggest question facing america strategically. Particularly china. 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