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Amanpour is CNN International's flagship global affairs interview program hosted by Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour.
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Jan 24, 2020 • 57min
Amanpour: Anne Milgram, Tom Steyer and David Strathairn
Anne Milgram, former New Jersey Attorney General, joins Christiane Amanpour to break down the legal arguments so far to come out of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Our Michel Martin sits down with Tom Steyer, the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate long-shot, to talk about his bid to be the next commander-in-chief. As world leaders mark the 7th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Actor David Strathairn discusses his new role in play "Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski," that explores not only the depravity of the Holocaust but the bravery of those who resisted.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 23, 2020 • 57min
Amanpour: Danny Weiss, Jonathan Burks, João Doria and Reginald Dwayne Betts
Danny Weiss, former chief of staff to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Jonathan Burks, former chief of staff to House Speaker Paul Ryan, join Christiane Amanpour to give their impeachment analysis from both sides of the aisle. As Democrats and Republicans are lay out their opening arguments for and against the impeachment of President Trump they unpack why communication is not working between the two parties. João Doria, the Governor of São Paulo, speaks from the World Economic Forum in Davos where climate is the key theme. He discusses the climate crisis as well as President Bolsonaro's leadership in Brazil. Our Michel Martin sits down with poet Reginald Dwayne Betts to talk about his new book "Felon" which highlights the power of words when behind bars.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 21, 2020 • 58min
Amanpour: Joseph Stiglitz, Noah Feldman, John P. Carlin
Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, joins Christiane Amanpour from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to explain why President Trump is misleading the public with the metrics he is using to measure the growth of the U.S. economy. He also lays out the case for listening to climate change scientists and creating a green economy that will lead way to the boom it is yet to see. Noah Feldman, constitutional scholar, unpacks the case for impeachment against Trump and how the Senate, led by majority leader Mitch McConnell, are likely going to conduct their partisan trial. Our Hari Sreenivasen sat down with John P. Carlin, former U.S. Assistant Attorney General for National Security, to discuss the ever-rising threat cybercrime poses to democracies around the world.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 21, 2020 • 58min
Amanpour: Evelyn Farkas, Dimitri Simes, Steve Inskeep and Sarah Hurwitz
Evelyn Farkas, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, and Dimitri Simes, CEO and President of The Center for the National Interest, join Christiane Amanpour to discuss the start of Trump's impeachment trial in the senate as the President readies himself for the World Economic Forum in Davos. Simes and Farkas dig down into U.S. relations with Russia and the rest of the world. Steve Inskeep, NPR host, discusses his new book "Imperfect Union," that tells the story of America's first political power couple, John and Jessie Fremont. In 1856 John was the first ever Republican nominee for president and the campaign was dominated by immigration, race, and political demagoguery. Inskeep reflects on the parallels with today's politics. Sarah Hurwitz, White House speechwriter for President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, has turned her focus from politics to Judaism in her book "Here All Along." She sits down with Our Michel Martin to explain why she thinks the Jewish faith, that she was born into, can help us in these divisive times.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 18, 2020 • 58min
Amanpour: Peggy Orenstein, Father Greg Boyle and Dan Buettner
Peggy Orenstein, author of "Boys & Sex", joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss why she's turning her attention from the sexual experiences and education of young girls to boys. She explains why we need to give boys the opportunity to express their vulnerability and stamp out the toxic locker room banter that is so pervasive amongst them. Father Greg Boyle reflects on starting up Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles; the largest rehabilitation program in the world for active gang members. He speaks passionately about breaking the cycles of abuse and violence that grips these gang members, through a process of tenderness, learning and spirituality. Then - our Hari Sreenivasan sat down with Dan Buettner, founder of the Blue Zones Project and National Geographic fellow to talk about his well-being improvement initiative launched in over 40 cities across the United States. As part of the initiative he was inspired to create a cookbook, "The Blue Zones Kitchen," drawing on all those cities had to offer.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 17, 2020 • 58min
Amanpour: Vadym Prystaiko, Andrew Forrest and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Vadym Prystaiko, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, joins Christiane Amanpour to talk about the explosive interview from Lev Parnas, an associate of Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Parnas seemed to confirm the White House's effort to intimidate the President of Ukraine into providing dirt on Democratic candidate Joe Biden. Prystaiko discusses the international crises that Ukraine has been inadvertently dragged into; from the impeachment of Donald Trump to the Ukrainian airliner shot down in Iran. Andrew Forrest, founder and chairman of Fortescue Metals, talks about the devastating wildfires in his home Australia. Forrest donated $48 million in aid - but as a mining magnate he has a complicated history with the contributing factors to climate change and by extension these very fires he is helping to put out. Our Walter Isaacson sits down with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the host of "Finding Your Roots," to discuss his Emmy award-winning show and the array of celebrities he has helped piece together their ancestry.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 16, 2020 • 58min
Amanpour: Jennifer Granholm, Andrew Gillum, Afua Hirsch, Robert Lacey and Bernard-Henri Levy
Jennifer Granholm, former Michigan Governor, and Andrew Gillum, former Tallahassee Mayor, join Christiane Amanpour to unpackthe latest Democratic debate where key candidates Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren faced off on issues of impeachment, trade and foreign policy. Afua Hirsch, journalist and author of "Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging," and Robert Lacey, royal historian and the Queen's biographer, dig down into the latest royal scandal. They asses what has prompted Prince Harry and Duchess of Sussex to step back as senior royals: the media circus, allegations of racism and misogyny. Our Hari Sreenivasan sits down with celebrity intellectual and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy to discuss his return to his roots as a war correspondent. He sat down to talk about two of his gritty new war documentaries - "Peshmerga" and "The Battle of Mosul" in which he's embedded with Kurdish forces battling Islamic State.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 14, 2020 • 58min
Amanpour: Jodi Kantor, Gretchen Carlson, Oren Falkowitz and Lee McIntyre
Jodi Kantor, the investigative reporter from New York Times who broke the story on Harvey Weinstein, joins Christiane Amanpour to explain the ins-and-outs of the upcoming trial of the disgraced media mogul. As jury selection begins, Kantor reveals why only 2 women out of 80+ who accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct are going to trial. Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News anchor, talks about what it feels like to be constrained by an NDA. In 2016 she filed a lawsuit against then Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment; a case that was settled for $20 million, but with the agreement of her silence. Now in the light of the #MeToo era she says she wishes she had fought harder. Oren Falkowitz, CEO & co-founder of "Area 1 Security," lays out the latest cybersecurity threat; a hack on gas company Burisma. The company, where Presidential candidate Joe Biden's son previously worked, is now somewhat of a house-hold name after it was catapulted into the limelight by President Trump's accusations of corruption. Falkowitz unravels this threat which lies at the center of the impeachment process. Then our Michel Martin sits down with Lee McIntyre, author of "Post-Truth," to reflect on how to live and navigate in this world of lies and misinformation.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 13, 2020 • 58min
Amanpour: Ali Shabani, Danylo Lubkivsky, Evan Osnos and Chris Hughes
After Iran admitted accidentally shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane, the regime finds itself under pressure from its own people and over the weekend, President Trump tweeted his support for the growing protests. To break this all down, Mohammad Ali Shabani, an Iran research at SOAS University of London, joins Christiane Amanpour in London. The doomed Flight 752 outbound from Iran was heading towards Kiev and eleven Ukrainian nationals lost their lives on board after it was shot down. Danylo Lubvisky was the Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister at the time of the MH17 disaster and he speaks from his experience of the fallout this will cause. This week, Beijing's top trade negotiator has touched down in DC with one aim; to bring an end to a bitter economic war between the two superpowers. Evan Osnos has written extensively on this subject for The New Yorker and he gives his analysis of the relations between the U.S. and China. Our Hari Sreenivasan sits down with Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, to talk about his concerns that the tech giant is too powerful and may be a potential risk to liberal democracy. He is now leading the battle against corporate monopolies, a fight that could bring to face-to-face with the company he helped build.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 10, 2020 • 58min
Amanpour: Michael Kergin, Richard Dalton, Barbara Slavin, Ervand Abrahamian and Daniel Fessler
Speaking at a candlelit vigil in Toronto to mourn the victims of the Ukrainian plane crash which killed all 176 on board, including many Canadian and Iranian nationals, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canadians "deserve answers." To discuss this tragic human cost of this diplomatic drama, Christiane Amanpour speaks with Canada's former Ambassador to the U.S Michael Kergin. Richard Dalton, former British Ambassador to Iran, and Barbara Slavin, the Atlantic Council's top Iran expert, talk about the urgent need for diplomacy to ease tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Ervand Abrahamian, historian and Iranian-American author of "The Coup", digs down into the turbulent and complex relationship between the two nations that goes back decades. He sits down with our Walter Isaacson and looks back at the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis of 1979. In a world filled with violence and polarization, Daniel Fessler, anthropologist and director of the UCLA Kindness Institute, explains the need for more kindness in the world.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices


