And were not stopping. Many say its his own party. Many political analyst say perhaps we should look across the aisle at the democrats. Hell explain. Then its a 4 400 billion a yea business, drugs. Its risky. It runs like a big business. Economist tom wanewright tells us about it. And astronaut sellers has lived an amazing life. More than 30 days in space, three missions, six space walks, hes gazed down at the earth from 220 miles up in space. Now he doesnt know how much more time he has on this planet and what he has decided to do with his last days with inspire you. Ive got 500 days. Im going to use them. First, heres my take. The republican surrender has begun. Having described donald trump as an unacceptable, unconservative dangerous demagogue, the Party Establishment seems to be making its peace with the land who keeps winning primaries. The wall street journal editorial page argued against trump for months pointing out that he is a catastrophe warning in donald trump becomes the voice of conservatives, conservatism implodes with him. Yet this week it had a lead editorial urging republicans to continue to see if mr. Trump can begin to act like a president and above all to decide who can prevent another Progressive Left presidency. Marco rubio has called trump a con artist and compared him to third world strong men. He says trump has no ideas of substance and spent a career sticking it to working people and trying to pray on peoples fears and encourages violence at his rallies. He says he intends to support whoever emerges as nominee. So do john mccain and House Speaker paul ryan. They intervene three times to reprimand trump for his red rick. Lindsey graham has called trump the most unfit person to become commander and chief will not say he will not vote for him. Indeed, theres one republican senator has committed to not voting for donald trump. Ironically, conservatives today are in somewhat the same position republican moderates were in 1964 as barry e streamed towards the republican nomination. Its difficult to understand today how dramatic a break that was for the republicans. As jeffrey documents in his illuminating book rule and ruin, the party had prided itself on the progressive stand on race from Abraham Lincoln onward. He had opposed to the Supreme Courts decision to integrate schools in brown verses board of education and the 1964 civil rights act. A hundred years of work would be thrown away. Trump marks in many ways a larger break from the bass kin gold water. The modern Republican Party has been devoted to free markets, free trade, social conservatism and fiscal discipline on entitlements. Remember, each launched Ronald Reagans political career was an attack on medicare. To disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. On every one of these issues donald trump openly disagrees or has a fast track record of disagreement with conservatives. Over the last decades support has already been collapsing. Trumps nomination would transit form the party into a blue collar national movement. Much like others in the western world. This would be a very Different Party from Ronald Reagans or paul ryans. 2016 might well go down as a critical election. One that scrambles the old order and setting up a new one. In this respect, it looks like 1964. Also, an election that realigned politics shifting southern whites to the Republican Party ever since. Then too there was enormous energy, new voters and a candidate that thrilled his suppo supporters and then the establishment couldnt mustard the commune to push gold water. So instead the Republican Party went to the polls in november divided and lost 44 states. For more, go to cnn. Com fareed and read my Washington Post column this week. Lets get started. After 9,000 authorities by russian jets, putin suddenly announced he was pulling his forces out. Did he succeed . Did he fail . What explains the decision and what does it mean for the battered country and region . To discuss this, richard haas is the founder of relations. Just back from a daring reported trip into syria. First i have to ask richard about something that made the news two weeks ago that concerns him personally. When asked who his Foreign Policy advisers are. Richard, you know donald trump has been cage ji and said he consoles himself. One name he mentioned was ewe. It has everyone wondering what the nature of it was. You told npr you offer all the candidates briefings as part of the counsel on Foreign Relations commission and he took you up on it. As you said, we offered briefings to all candidates. Quiet a few took us up on it and quiet a few come to speak at the counsel. I dont go into details but as you would expect lots of questions are asked. I tried to explain what you see as the fundamental currents of the world. There was the back and forth and donald trump we spent about an hour together and it was the end of august. You know there is a petition that has been signed by a whole bunch of very senior republican Foreign Policy officials including, for example, robert, the secretary of state denouncing trump and committing not to serve in a trump administration. If donald trump ask you to be secretary of state would you . What you saw in that letter was in some ways a reflection of the tensions within the Republican Party on Foreign Policy. You had realist and i suppose im one of those who tend to be multilateral. You had people more knee owe conservative who see the purpose of american Foreign Policy. More to transit form others done yuan latterly and two groups of people reflecting those schools are quiet political as mr. Trump. It tends to be more nationalist and suspicious of americas role in the world. More critical of allies who are seen as not doing their fair share. I thought that letter simply reflected again the debate within the party. Weve got a long ways to go. Were seven or eight months away from the election. Lets see how things play out. That was a thoughtful answer, richard. It didnt answer my question. Would you serve as a secretary of state. Fareed, its so premature. Im not even considering that sort of thing yet. I have a great job, full time job. Its just speculation on steroids to start imagining whose going to be the nominee and the president and whose going to serve. I think questions like that are simply way ahead of where we are. One thing we should have learned from this cycle is nobody has any idea how things are going to play out. All right. Lets get to substance then. Clarissa, give us a sense of the fundamental facts on the ground first. Has the Russian Mission succeeded in what its effort was which was to secure the regime and his grip on power in syria . As you said, it was quiet clear spending time on ground. The real purpose of the Russian Military was to prop up the regime and certainly in the providence there were significant gains made by the regime on the back of that russian air cover. At the same time i think a lot of people were surprised by the announcement it was mission accomplished. There are tons of work to be done. A lot of people are trying to speculate the real reason behind russias decision. Are they worried theres Mission Creep or theyre hemorrhaging funds and their economy is hurting with the sanctions . Richard, what do you think . Is this a success for putin . Well, absolutely. I dont know if you want to call it the powell but this was an attempt to use overwhelming military force for narrow limited political objectives succeeded. Whats interesting is the russians were not trying to transit form syrians and they werent trying to expand the rid of the government over the entire country. It wasnt an attempt to try to pacify all. It was limited and they propped up the government and now things can play out and i think it was good for russia image in the region and on the world stage as a country thats willing and able to do something on behalf of an allie or proxy. Clarissa, there were reports isis lost an additional 20 of its territory and running out of cash. Did you get the feel those reports are accurate . Well, we had just been in a part of the country where isis had a strong presence just months ago. It was clear to see the main thing hurting isis is this real focus on taking out the oil infrastructure. We visited several Oil Installations that back in the day would have been making isis a pretty penny. They had been taken out by Coalition Air strikes and definitely, that lack of revenue hurt isis. We know they lost amounts of territory particularly to the socalled forces sponsored by the u. S. Theyre being created and looking for ways to expand elsewhere. Weve seen a huge uptake in their activity. Its fair to say theyre trying to think on their feet tra teej rancicly and work out other low cost high profile opportunities adds well in the world. Richard, this week secretary kerry said there was genocide taking place in syria. Labeled it as such. Does that help in the political resolution in syria . What are the consequences of labels it in that way . Its not clear to me it helps unless youre prepared to act on it. I think what were heading toward is an add version of syria weve seen now. Youve got to government controlling parts of country and the kurds the jews, groups like isis. I would expect this is for the time being for the foreseeable future, this is the new syria. In some ways like libya and iraq, the era of consolidated states. Governments hold sway over the entire territory coming to an end and as an increasing disconnect between what the maps look like and the realities are on the ground. Fascinating conversation. Thank you both very much. Next on gps, the rise and rise and rise of donald trump. Where does it come from . Whats behind it . My next guest says he can trace it to clinton, bill clinton that is. It was always just a hobby. Something you did for fun. Until the day it became something much more. And that is why you invest. The best returns arent just measured in dollars. Td ameritrade. For a limited time, great deal on this passat. Wow, it looks really good. Volkswagen believes safety is very important. So all eleven models come standard with an intelligent crash response system. Hmm. Seven stabilityenhancing systems. Hmmm. And equipment for two child seats. Hmmm. For those who take safety seriously. Like we do. The Volkswagen Safety in numbers event. Is happening now get a 1,250 volkswagen reward card and 0 apr on new 2016 passat models. Ive heard it all. Eat more fiber. Flax seeds. Yogurt. Get moving. Keep moving. I know try laxatives. Been there, done that. 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Com two weeks ago i offered my take on how the responsibility for the rise of donald trump fell flatly at the feet of republicans. I said the partys moderates had failed to confront and condemn the ugliness in their party for decades. My next guest puts the blame or responsibility in a very different corner, on the democrats. Thomas frank is a Political Panel cyst and the author of a brand new book listen liberal or whatever happened to the party of the people. Welcome to the show. It is great to be here. So your argument is that both parties really have abandoned the sort of classic blue collar working class man or woman and have become the party of elites and you particularly talk about what happened to the democrats under clinton. Explain what you mean. Yeah, it goes back further than clinton. Basically, my idea is we think of republicans as a party that represents business and money. The democrats went from being a party that talked about the middle class and working people and labor to being a party very concerned with the upper reaches of professional class. This is who they care about now. The problem with this, the people with advanced degrees, you and me, you know, the problem with this the, whats the big deal, whats the ramifications is that at some point they stopped caring about inequality issues. Were just coming off, coming to the end of the barack obama presidency. A man we thought was a great liberal in 2008 and a man who we thought was going to take on the challenges, at least i thought this. Now we look at his legacy seven years later and inequality has worsened under his presidency. Its a horrifying and amazing thing. To skip to trump, if i can, i think that working class voters or at least White Working Class voters have flocked to the republicans to the exact same degree as theyve been abandoned by the democratic party. Youve listened to trumps speeches and you say theres one thing striking about it. He does in the midst of the carnival atmosphere, he takes repeatedly, consistently about one subject, what is it . Its trade. Trade. He seems to be obsessed with it. He spends the most of his time at the podium talking about trade and Companies Moving jobs overseas and American Workers losing their jobs and what hell do as president to stop this from happening. Whats funny is this is not an outrageous or illegitimate issue. This is a main stream issue. We should be talking about this subject. None of this is to excuse what i think the intolerant things he says which are absolutely beyond the pail. A legitimate subject. He talks about it in a powerful way. You want to understand why working class voters are flocking to donald trump. This is it. Isnt it a false hoax hes giving them. Your life is bad. He also goes on about our own leaders who made bad deals. And also the ceos. This is the part that surprised me. Theres a video on youtube you can watch of a room full of workers at a carrier air conditioning plant in indiana. He comes on stage and tells them youre moving the factory to mexico. This is people, actual humans losing their jobs, finding out their world is collapsing and trump talked about in his rallies talked about how he would phone the ceo of that accompany and how he would threaten the guy with tariffs and single him out with steep tariffs on his air conditioning units when he tries to bring them back in america and sell them. My point is you cant do that. Its totally illegal and thats not. Yeah. Thats right. But it was barack obama who said in 2008 when he was running for president he would reme negotiate. It would be tough. It would be hard. Singling out the ceo. Of course. Youre right. Its emotional. Hes emotionally powerful. It looks like the parties are sorting along class lines where the republican parties are likely to become more of a blue collar populist nationalist Blue Collar Party and the democrats are becoming the urban professionals and such. Does that strike you as right . Its a little more complicated than that but yes, its a broad peck chur of the last 40 years. Pleasure to have you on. Thank you so much. Next on gps, are you worried about north korea with its hand full of Nuclear War Heads . What about a country with a hundred of them and juhadis to boot. Ill tell you when we come back. Imodium multi symptom relief is the only product that combines two powerful ingredients to relieve diarrhea faster than any other otc medicine. It also eases gas, cramps, and bloating. Imodium multi symptom relief. Restore rhythm to your digestive system. Imodium multi symptom relief. Twell what if i told you that peanuts can work for you . Thats right. 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