Amanpour: Bob Menendez, Susan Glasser, Ed Luce, Jonathan Nez and Satya Nadella

Amanpour

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🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Democratic Senator from New Jersey Bob Menendez joins Christiane Amanpour to unpack President Trump's decision to fire State Department Inspector General Steve Linick. He reflects on this decision and current administration's general behaviour. Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Ed Luce, the U.S. national editor of the Financial Times, draw parallels between Washington under Trump and Moscow under Putin. Then the Navajo Nation president discusses the high number of coronavirus cases in his community and the challenges the Navajos are facing. He argues they are being pushed aside. Satya Nadella is the third ever Microsoft CEO and he is known for transforming the company using his unique style of leadership rooted in empathy. He talks to our Walter Isaacson about how the tech world are innovating and creating whilst in lockdown. 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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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amunfor. Here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	President Trump dismisses yet another Inspector General,
0:13.2	I.R. Senator Bob Menendez, why it matters,
0:16.2	and what's Congress going to do about it.
0:18.6	And America First, by the grim numbers,
0:22.2	the world's highest coronavirus infections and deaths.
0:26.0	I ask the New Yorker Susan Glasser and Ed Luce of the Financial Times how a superpower
0:31.8	has been humbled at home and abroad. Then the Navajo Nation
0:36.5	has the highest rate of infection per capita in the United States. I speak to the
0:41.1	president and what the world needs is more flexibility.
0:45.0	It's not about one dogma going to another dogma, but resilience is fundamentally built on flexibility.
0:51.0	Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella-emagining the workplace in the coronavirus era. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpore working from home in London.
1:17.5	Americans are paying the heaviest price in the coronavirus pandemic with With over 1.5 million confirmed cases
1:25.0	and over 90,000 deaths,
1:27.0	the country has the largest outbreak in the world.
1:30.0	But amid the health and economic devastation, a troubling pattern of
1:35.1	dismissals by the White House is raising questions about abuse of power and the rule of
1:40.9	law. On Friday, State Department Inspector General Steve
1:45.0	Linick was fired. He's the fourth government watchdog to be dismissed in just a few
1:50.3	weeks. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Linick of quote undermining the State
1:56.1	Department.
1:57.1	It soon emerged that Pompeo had been under investigation by Linick's office over his use of government personnel for private matters and to fast-track
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