Amanpour: Dimitri Simes, Michelle Lujan Grisham and Jamie Metzl

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dimitri Simes, the President and CEO of the Centre for National Interest, joins Christiane Amanpour from Washington D.C. to discuss his involvement with the Trump campaign and why he's mentioned in the Mueller report. Michelle Lujan Grisham, the Governor of New Mexico, talks about the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates and issues facing her border state. Our Hari Sreenivasan talks to author Jamie Metzl about his book "Hacking Darwin" and how DNA can be manipulated.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	Hi podcast listeners, it's been a week since the Mueller report was released but its impact is far from over.
0:05.6	I talk with Dimitri Symes, the Russian American CEO of a Washington think tank,
0:10.7	about what landed him in the 400 page report.
0:13.8	It's a really rare opportunity to talk to somebody
0:16.7	who's actually named in that report
0:19.6	with such knowledge of the Russia portfolio. Then the field of 2020 Democratic
0:25.7	presidential candidates is getting full and only expected to grow New Mexico's
0:30.5	governor, the Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham, joins me to break down the current
0:34.7	state of the party and the major issues facing her border state and perhaps people across
0:40.4	the country.
0:41.6	And Hari has a fascinating and chilling conversation with
0:44.0	Jamie Metzal about how DNA can be hacked for designer babies.
0:48.8	Enjoy the show.
0:53.0	Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christian Amantpur in London. President
1:07.3	Trump says that he will fight congressional subpoenas to have his officials
1:10.9	testify on the hill as House Democrats pledged to carry the mantle
1:15.5	of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
1:18.7	Politicians and lawyers and investigators are still all picking over this report and today we have
1:24.4	the rare opportunity to speak with a man whose interactions with Donald Trump's
1:28.4	presidential campaign earned him a spot in that two volume term.
1:33.2	Dimitri Symes immigrated to the United States
1:35.7	from the Soviet Union in the 1970s,
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