On Fareed Zakaria GPS Today

View this email in your browser Insights, analysis and must reads from CNN's Fareed Zakaria and the Global Public Square team, compiled by Global Briefing editor Jason Miks. April 22, 2018 On Today's Show On GPS at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN: First, Fareed gives his Take on former FBI Director James Comey's memoir – and why he thinks the most remarkable parts aren't actually about President Trump.   "One of the oft-repeated criticisms of America is that it has too many lawyers. Maybe, but one of the country's great strengths is its legal culture. As I've written before, Alexis de Tocqueville worried that without a class of patriotic and selfless aristocrats, America could fall prey to demagogues and populists. But he took great comfort in the fact that, as he put it, American aristocracy can be found 'at the bar or on the bench.' Tocqueville saw that lawyers, with their sense of civic duty, created a 'form of public accountability that would help preserve the blessings of democracy without allowing its untrammeled vices,'" Fareed says. "Comey's memoir reveals that America does indeed have a deep state. It is one of law and lawyers. And we should be deeply grateful for it." Next, Ronan Farrow was awarded a Pulitzer Prize this week for his reporting on Harvey Weinstein in The New Yorker. Farrow is also the author of the new book "War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence." He joins Fareed to discuss US diplomacy and the State Department in the Trump administration, negotiations with North Korea, the #MeToo movement and his reporting on Weinstein.   Also: House Speaker Paul Ryan announced this month that he won't be seeking re-election in November. What is the significance of the announcement? Does it say anything about the Republican Party? And what is the future of the party under President Trump? Fareed discusses this and more with Dan Senor, a former adviser to both Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney, and Mona Charen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Watch Senor discuss Ryan's resignation Plus: A new era dawned in Cuba on Thursday when Miguel Diaz-Canel was sworn in as the country's new president. Will the change in name at the top bring significant to the nation? Joining Fareed to discuss what it might means are Julia Sweig, author of "Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know" and a research fellow at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and John Paul Rathbone, the Financial Times' Latin America editor and the author of "The Sugar King of Havana." Watch Sweig discuss the prospects for reform in Cuba   Take This Week's GPS Challenge How much debt is the world carrying? What share of the world's population breathes unhealthy air? Who will be the first leader to get a state visit to the White House in the Trump administration? Find out the answers to these questions and more – and see how other GPS viewers did – by taking this week's quiz here: cnn.com/fareedquiz   Share Share Tweet Forward Copyright © 2017 CNN What did you like about today's Global Briefing? What did we miss? Let us know what you think: GlobalBriefing@cnn.com unsubscribe from this list      update subscription preferences    Sign Up for Fareed's Global Briefing