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This is gps the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from aspen, colorado. Today, an extra special program with three, yes, three former secretaries of the treasury. First, ill talk to Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner about the state of American Politics and the downgrade of the uss Credit Ratings and the struggles of the chinese economy and then robert ruben talks to me about how to make hard decisions and what ...

World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from aspen, colorado. Today, an extra special program with three, yes, three former secretaries of the treasury. First ill auck to Henne Paulson and Timothy Geithner about the downgradingst u. S. Credit ratings and the struggles the chinese economy. And then robert rubin talks about how to make hard decisions. And what a yellow legal pad has to do with that skill. Finally, david byrne came to fame with his new wave band Talking Heads. Some 40 years ago. I t...

Right. you didnt see the housing crisis, you didnt see the global financial crisis. you were at citigroup then. what lesson did you learn from that? when you look back on that, what do you think you got wrong and how do you apply the lessons going forward? >> i certainly did not see that as a crisis. i was thinking about a lot of different things and i think there were a lot of excesses and i used to give speeches about it, actually and obviously, i should have. i dont think it would have made a...

What lesson did you learn from that? when you look back, how do you apply the lessons going forward. >> well i certainly did not see that housing crisis. i was thinking about a lot of different things and i thought there were a lot of excesses and i didnt think of housing as one them. i should have. i dont think it would have made in the difference at citi because i was a senior counselor but not in a decision-making position. look under the hood and have a question mindset and almost nobody inc...

Then that pushes us up close to the line. neither russia nor the u.s. wants this war. every step we take, every step he takes push eds us closer to it. which brings me to the big point. what can we do to make this stop. the basic thing to make this stop, the russian leaders, the oligarchs pressure putin to stop. when i talk to alexander, its a tough point to make. i understand where ukraine is at. its about more than just ukraine. we have to figure out how to stop putin from going further no mat...

Point the justice department in a decision-making position, and a lot of unanswered questions about just how far they want to go. but as a reporter, i would just step back and say, i spent nine or ten months with woodward looking into this, this was an insurrection that was across so many different fronts. president pressuring the vice president, the doj state officials, the courts, the congress. im not here to define it as a conspiracy but i will tell you it was a coordinated pressure campaign....

Mccaffrey, who was retired at that point and went and did an assessment, and he said it was all a sham in terms of the support that the afghan government had because of corruption and other activities. and there was no real military fighting force on the part of the afghan army and police. and he said that back in 2006. and presciently, he said if theres any hope of ever training this country to be able to sustain itself it will take at least until 2020. and that was said in 2006. so i think con...

Information from roger stone and the people that he was dealing with about when and how to drop damaging information in the thick of the campaign back in 2016. so now we are not talking about the intern, we are not talking about the office, you know, the coffee boy. we are talking about people who are at the top of the campaign. and it was a very small handful of people who were running that campaign. we have got several books that are out on how few people were really running it. you could draw...

Sort of dual hatted role who is really in a decision making position was former deputy director andrew mccabe and now both of these individuals have been fired for cause by the f.b.i. just as a footnote, strzoks attorney says this has never been any evidence that his political feelings directly impacted the decision making in the russia collusion case, but you know from that very public testimony there were many republicans on the oversight and the judiciary committee just felt that was a bridge...

Was kind of unfortunate to hear. >> if you were a lawmaker, an adult in a decision-making position, how would you stop, do you think, the kind of thing that happened today? a kid who had been thrown out, comes back with a weapon, and takes out whatever grievance hes been walking around with in his head? >> gun-wise, i dont think theres any way to prevent it. you outlaw guns, just creates higher demand for it. i think it has to do with mental health, though. if hes been expelled three different t...