GZero World with Ian Bremmer

This week Ian interviews Ehud Barak, the former Prime Minister of Israel and the most highly decorated soldier in the country’s history. Given the news out of that part of the Middle East this week, his timing could not be better.

National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg admits that he is not pure (a pure conservative, that is).

In this week's episode, Anthony Scaramucci opens up. Fair warning: he goes Full Mooch.

Trump and Macron. Moon and Kim. Love, it seems, is in the air. Sure is preferable to nuclear fallout. On the show this week we cover these budding romances and sit down with NPR's All Things Considered cohost, and veteran intelligence reporter, Mary Louise Kelly.

In Syria it’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ (For Assad)

Nine out of every ten Venezuelans live in poverty and the average Venezuelan has lost 24 pounds in the past year alone. This is not what democracy looks like.  In this week's show, Venezuela expert Moisés Naím explains how this oil-rich country fell so far and why, as a former government official himself, he takes that personally. 

President Donald J. Trump is on the cusp of waging three wars at once: political, economic, and boots-on-the-ground real. So says Council on Foreign Relations President Richard N. Haass in a remarkably chipper interview. 

Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee for the Red Cross personally visits many of the most desperate regions of the world on a regular basis. His job, over the past few years, has not gotten easier. 

"If you look at the eve of 9/11, the full membership of al-Qaeda was 400 people. But today there are thousands upon thousands. Some estimates put them at 40k to 50k." The New Yorker has described former FBI agent Ali H Soufan as the person who came closer than anyone else to preventing 9/11. Now his story is an original series on HULU.

Remember when President Trump allegedly referred to many African nations as "shhole countries"? Soon after in Davos, he met with a prominent leader of one of those countries: Rwandan president and head of the African Union, Paul Kagame. In a wide ranging and candid interview, President Kagame recounts that somewhat...sensitive...conversation and responds to his own critics who point to an increasingly authoritarian government in Kigali.

The Beach Boys aren't the only ones picking up good vibrations. According to former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, Russian surveillance of his Moscow residence was so intense that officials could eavesdrop on his private conversations by monitoring audio vibrations on windows.  And when it came to meddling in his home country's 2016 elections, McFaul makes it clear that the Russians were no less dedicated.

The worst time to have a global crisis of diplomacy is during a global crisis of refugees. In today's show, David Miliband, the president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, talks about humanitarian aid in an age of polarization and the countries who are getting it right. P.S. They're not the ones you'd expect.

What do Mike Pence and Kim Jong-un's sister have in common? They're both trying not to piss off their bosses at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics. On today's show, we get into the #sportsdiplomacy spirit with a podium-topping episode on all things Olympics, featuring Korea expert Sue Mi Terry. Throw in some Russian meddling (note: that's 'meddling,' not 'medaling') and you've got yourself gold-medal show. On your marks. Get set. 가기!

The night before this episode aired, she published a bombshell scoop on Trump's efforts to fire Mueller. On our show today, Maggie Haberman talks about Trump's obsession with the Russia probe, the challenges of covering the most unusual White House in modern US history, and recalls another time when the president's aides stopped him from firing a high-powered investigator...

"Every decision is made not based on principle or truth, but rather whether or not it is good or bad for Donald Trump." Sometimes getting fired can be a badge of honor. Especially if the Trump Administration is doing the firing. Former US Prosecutor Preet Bharara comes on the show to talk about President Donald J. Trump's combative relationship with the Justice Department and how the Mueller investigation could shake out.