On GPS, at 10am & 1pm ET Sunday on @CNN … • The week began with Pres. Trump telling reporters: “Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine.” As Trump takes a friendlier tone toward Russia & appears increasingly willing to abandon Ukraine, I’ll get a European perspective on all this from Polish Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister @sikorskiradek • As the Nov. 3 US midterm elections approach, Democratic optimism is surging. Is it backed by reliable polling? I’ll ask the statistician & election forecaster @NateSilver538 • Israel will vote Tuesday in its first election since the Oct. 7 attacks. I’ll talk with @RAND Distinguished Chair for Israel Policy @ShiraEfron about Prime Minister Netanyahu’s competition & whether the vote could change Israel’s policy toward Palestinians in Gaza & the West Bank • Finally: I’ll talk with @Gladwell about his new book on gun violence, “The American Way of Killing,” why he believes under-policing is a major problem & why he thinks assault-weapons bans don’t work

From India to Canada to the Middle East to Europe, countries no longer know whether they can trust America. The consequences could be disastrous. My take:

It seems that President Trump is striking a friendlier tone toward Vladimir Putin’s Russia and is increasingly willing to abandon Ukraine. To get a European view on this, I spoke with Polish Deputy Prime Minister @radeksikorski: