Are the spiraling investigations around Trump and Russia “a conspiracy trap”? How much is Trump like President Putin after all? Russia-born author and journalist Masha Gessen joins The Global POLITICO this week to talk about the strange confluence of these two leaders — and what we should really be afraid of when it comes to these two nuclear-armed tough guys. 

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The Global POLITICO hits the road this week, traveling to Kurdistan to talk to Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani about the the raging battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State, the “failure of Iraqi politics” — and what America First means to the Middle East. “We are fighting a war of survival,” he says, and the outcome isn’t at all clear. 

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America’s most senior diplomat just hit the exits from Trump’s melting down State Department after 40 years of being the man in the room when Russia was involved. Daniel Fried reveals what he would have told Trump about Putin — if he’d asked — plus what he saw up close as Clinton, Bush and Obama struggled with the KGB man in the Kremlin. 

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The foreign policy powerhouses respond to President Trump's macho national security policy; the ladies delve into the world's view of the United States, the consequences of not having women negiotating at the table and why millennials give them hope for the future. 

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Rep. Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, says President Trump has a “pathological unwillingness to criticize anything the Kremlin does.” Schiff is one of the leading Democrats calling for a more serious investigation of Trump’s mysterious ties to Russia. He opens up about his security concerns, the importance of intelligence and using dark humor on Twitter to connect. 

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to DC to kick off a new better era after his rocky dealings with President Obama. Then Trump’s White House melted down. Longtime US ambassador Dan Shapiro, who served as Obama’s top Israel adviser throughout his presidency and sat in on all of his meetings with Bibi, takes us inside the mess. 

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The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sits down with Susan Glasser for an exclusive interview on his disagreements with Trump-and how he views a White House torn between deals and disruption The Global Politico takes listeners backstage in a disrupted world, interviewing leaders around the globe who can help make sense of an international environment that can seem out of control. New episodes every Monday. 

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POLITICO's Susan Glasser sits down with former Secretary of State Jim Baker to discuss his take on President Donald Trump's immigration policies, what he learned from the Reagan White House and more. The Global Politico will take listeners backstage in a disrupted world, interviewing leaders around the globe who can help make sense of an international environment that can seem out of control. The podcast skips the punditry in favor of candid conversations about global politics with those who are helping shape it 

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Each week, POLITICO’s Susan Glasser will go backstage in a world disrupted, interviewing leaders in Washington — and around the globe — who can help us understand an international scene that can seem like it’s spinning out of control. The podcast will skip the punditry to feature candid, revealing, news-making conversations about global politics with those who are helping shape it; you can subscribe to it on iTunes or find it on www.politico.com. 

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