Amanpour: Ash Carter, Mavis Staples, Frank Rich

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Ash Carter, former U.S. Defense Secretary and author of "Inside the Five-Sided Box", joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss working under President Obama, his opinions on President Trump and rising tensions in Iran. Mavis Staples, the seventy-nine year-old gospel and R&B singer who has been performing since she was eight years old explains why she's not stopping anytime soon. Our Walter Isaacson sits down with Frank Rich, New York Magazine writer and executive producer of HBO's "Veep" & "Succession", to discuss weaving fact and fiction into his award-winning shows.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.0	I'm not sure the current president listens to the Secretary of Defense.
0:44.0	Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter tells me what it takes to run the Pentagon
0:49.0	and why he believes China and Russia
0:52.0	are this administration's biggest foreign policy challenges.
0:55.8	Then, oh what a world we're living in.
0:59.6	Celebrating 80 years of gospel and soul, music legend Mavis Staples on why she is still trying
1:06.2	to sing America together.
1:08.8	And later...
1:09.8	There's certain eternal truths about power, Washington, about the cynicism of politicians and the people around them as they grasp for power that just hold up and
1:18.7	producer Frank Rich tells us all about the smash hit comedy, which sheds a brutal light on political game
1:26.0	playing in Washington. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Pristiana Montpur in London.
1:47.0	The horizon is crammed with security challenges, not least the escalating tensions with Iran.
1:53.6	And the United States is sending ever more military forces
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