Are Trump’s Policies Contributing to the World’s Disarray? | Conversations in the Digital Age

Even before the election, Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass, in a provocative new best-selling book, saw an unstable world in disarray. He tells Jim Zirin that since November 8, Trump’s unpredictable approach suggesting a trade war with China, a hard line on immigration, and tilting towards Putin in a dramatic revision of long standing U.S. foreign policies may have indeed made matters worse.
Taped: 03-02-17

Conversations in the Digital Age with Jim Zirin is a talk show designed to illuminate the news by taking the time required to understand and interpret national and world events. The series features high-profile guests from the worlds of politics, law, business, foreign relations, national security, counterterrorism, media, lifestyles, literature, the arts, and the military.

The series is helmed by Jim Zirin, a leading litigator with Sidley Austin LLP and a contributor to major publications including Forbes, the Daily Beast, the Nation, The Times of London and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of two books, The Mother Court -- Tales of Cases That Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court, and Supremely Partisan—How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court. Jim served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division under the legendary Robert M. Morgenthau.

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