Allies React to Trump's Global Realignment & Trade War

Amanpour

CNN

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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As Trump’s global trade war rattles markets and allies prepare for a post-America world, and just after President Putin weighed in on the U.S. Ukrainian ceasefire proposal, Christiane spoke with Trump's former EU ambassador Gordon Sondland about his global realignment. Then, Christiane speaks with exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar who explains why the Kremlin is celebrating the chaos ushered in by Trump, seeing it as accelerating America's demise. Plus, the ACLU’s Cecillia Wang breaks down the case of Columbia graduate and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, explaininf its significance for first amendment rights. Also on the show, Nic Robertson reports from East Jerusalem on Israel’s crackdown on free speech. And from her archive, forty years since Mikhail Gorbachev became the last leader of the Soviet Union, Christiane revisits her 2012 interview with him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.5	Hello everyone.
1:08.8	Welcome to the Amunpur Hour and here's where we're headed this week.
1:12.6	America's allies are hitting back as Trump's trade war and pivot towards Putin fuel chaos,
1:19.6	while Ukraine's future hangs in the balance.
1:22.6	Trump's former ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, weighs in on this global realignment.
1:28.3	I'm not saying this is without risk, and I do think that we're going to endure some pain.
1:34.3	But I understand that he has a mandate and a tailwind currently that no president has ever had.
1:42.3	Then, is Putin getting the American collapse that he's always dreamed of? I think Vladimir Putin has ever had. Then, is Putin getting the American collapse
1:45.2	that he's always dreamed of?
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