Amanpour: David Shulkin, Mona Fawaz, Juan Manuel Santos and Lithgow

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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David Shulkin, former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs and author of "It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country," sits down with Christiane Amanpour to give insight into the ongoing impeachment inquiry. He weighs in as Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman testifies behind closed doors about Trump's Ukraine phone call. Mona Fawaz, professor at the American University of Beirut, talks about what sparked the ongoing mass protests in Lebanon that caused the Prime Minister to resign. Juan Manuel Santos, the former Colombian President, discusses the connections and motivations behind the protests in Lebanon, Hong Kong, Chile and Colombia. He explains how it is inequality and polarization that is forcing people out onto the streets around the world. Our Hari Sreenivasan sits down with John Lithgow, multi-award-winning actor, to reflect on playing Fox News chairman Roger Ailes in new film "Bombshell" and turning his hand to satirical poetry in his new book "Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse."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 Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:09.0	What happens when political appointees take over from the expert from Ukraine to the Veterans Administration.
0:16.0	I speak with President Trump's former VA Secretary David Shulkin.
0:20.0	Then, from the Far East to the Middle East to Latin America, citizens take to the streets
0:27.4	to voice discontent. Former Colombian President Santos joins us with solutions and
0:33.0	Trump-dumpty wanted a wall to stir up a rabid political brawl.
0:39.0	Actor John Lithko goes unapologetically and poetically political.
0:44.0	He speaks with our Harry Sri Wrasen about his book Dumpty, The Age of Trump in verse. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiana Wampur in London. What's it like
1:07.4	for a policy expert to serve in the current US administration? That question is front and center today as the National
1:14.6	Security Council's top Ukraine expert. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander
1:19.4	Vinman testifies behind closed doors to House investigators.
1:24.3	Vynman personally listened in on President Trump's July phone call
1:28.5	with Ukraine's leader and told investigators that he was immediately concerned,
1:33.2	quote, I did not think it was proper to demand
1:36.4	that a foreign government investigate a US citizen.
1:39.5	Following the call, I again reported my concerns
1:42.2	to NSC's lead counsel.
1:44.8	David Schulkin is intimately familiar with what happens when policy plays second fiddle to politics.
1:50.6	The former Secretary of Veterans Affairs is the first former Trump cabinet member to speak
1:56.1	completely openly about his experience.
1:58.8	His new book is called It Shouldn't be this hard to serve your country, our broken government and the
2:04.3	plight of veterans and he's joining me now from Boston.
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