Amanpour: Elliott Abrams, Vali Nasr, Margaret MacMillan, and John Dickerson
Amanpour
CNN
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. |
| 0:08.0 | It's been a very interesting journey. I learned a lot about COVID. |
| 0:13.0 | The president insists he's on the men, but what does the public or America's adversaries really know about his condition? |
| 0:19.5 | I ask Elliot Abrams about national security. He's the US special rep for Iran and Venezuela. |
| 0:25.1 | And Middle East expert Valinassa joins me. Then, how will history judge our leaders in this time of crisis? |
| 0:32.4 | Perspective with author and Oxford historian Margaret |
| 0:35.4 | McMillan. Plus, the hardest job in the world. Journalist John Dickerson talks about the |
| 0:40.9 | American presidency with our Walter Isakson. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm'm Christina Montpur in London |
| 1:03.0 | President Trump's COVID infection has thrown some chaos into the final weeks of |
| 1:08.0 | the election campaign with just 29 days to go now Today another six states began early voting and in mail-in-balloting |
| 1:16.6 | and absentee voting that is already underway with more than 2 million votes already cast. |
| 1:22.0 | The polls show the same story more or less, former Vice President, |
| 1:26.5 | holding a lead over the President, up 10 points according to the latest poll average. |
| 1:32.1 | In recent days a coronavirus outbreak has also spread within the White House, |
| 1:37.0 | among senior staff and also some Republican senators. |
| 1:41.0 | But the president still is in campaign mode taking a |
| 1:44.9 | drive on Sunday to wave its supporters outside Walter Reed Hospital. It was a move |
| 1:49.8 | that was immediately criticized by some doctors. |
| 1:52.8 | The irresponsibility is outstanding, |
| 1:55.3 | tweeted one who says that Trump has put the agents |
| 1:58.6 | inside the SUV with him at risk. |
| 2:01.4 | Also worrying are conflicting reports of the President's actual |
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