Regular editions of Fareed's Global Briefing will return Tuesday.
On GPS at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN:
First, Fareed gives his Take on the rift between President Trump and Steve Bannon, and how Trump "seems to have abandoned populism."
"I don't agree with many of Steve Bannon's proposals, but he's surely right in recognizing the populist fury that runs through a large swath of the country. One wonders what will happen to it as time passes and Trump's voters notice that they have ended up with something quite different than they had imagined. During the presidential transition, Bannon told Michael Wolff that the Trump era would be like America in the 1930s, with a massive public works program that would get blue-collar workers back into shipyards, mills and mines. Instead we appear to have a return to the 1920s, an era of unrestrained capitalism, giddy market exuberance, a shrunken state and dramatically rising inequality. Is this what the laid-off steelworker in Ohio voted for?"
Next, Fareed is joined by David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, and Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, to discuss the controversy over President Trump's alleged reference to "shithole countries" during a meeting Thursday.
Watch Miliband and Krikorian debate the economics of accepting refugees
Also on the show: Fareed is joined by The New Yorker's Robin Wright to discuss North Korea's decision to hold talks with South Korea, the recent protests in Iran and Iranian views of the United States.
Watch Wright discuss North Korea's decision to take part in next month's Winter Olympics
Plus: 2017 was by some measures the best year in human history, according to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. He joins Fareed to explain why.
"Every day last year, for example, another 217,000 people emerged from extreme poverty. Every day, another 300,000 people got clean water for the first time. Another 325,000 got electricity for the first time. And so, my argument is that the most important thing happening right now is not a Trump tweet, but it is this larger tapestry of progress that is transforming the world," Kristof says.
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