Amanpour: Gordon Brown, Chris Arnade and Tim Samuels

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Gordon Brown, former British Prime Minister, joins Christiane Amanpour to examine the Conservative leadership contest between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, the future of the U.K. and Brexit. Our Michel Martin sits down with Chris Arnade, author of "Dignity", to discuss quitting his job on Wall Street in order to document the lives of "back row America". Tim Samuels, award-winning author and filmmaker, talks about his new book "Future Man", the need for a male reckoning and an end to toxic masculinity once and for all.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.
0:07.0	I think Boris Johnson should be very much aware that the background to this is the failure of the American
0:14.5	administration to stay with the Iranian deal. The former British Prime Minister
0:18.6	Gordon Brown joins me for an exclusive interview as tensions with Iran
0:22.1	escalate a day before a new leader
0:24.8	is installed in Downing Street also ahead.
0:28.0	When you see somebody who votes the way you don't vote before simply saying, oh
0:32.2	what a jerk or what a lazy person, you know, or they must have mental problems.
0:37.0	Spend a 15 minutes talking to him.
0:40.0	Chris Arnady tells our Michelle Martin why he quit Wall Street to document the lives of Back Row America.
0:47.0	Plus, confronting toxic masculinity, award-winning author and filmmaker Tim Samuels joins me about his new book, Future Man. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Kristiana Wancour in London.
1:13.4	Britain is trying to diffuse mounting tensions with Iran just a day before this country
1:17.9	gets a new Prime Minister. The issue, Iran's revolutionary guards capture of a British flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Homores on Friday,
1:26.6	claiming that it was violating international maritime rules.
1:30.2	In reality, it is a tit-for-tat escalation after the UK helps seize a tanker carrying
1:35.3	Iranian oil near Gibraltar.
1:37.9	The risky standoff will be a major test for the next British Prime Minister who will be revealed on Tuesday.
1:44.0	The former mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is expected to win in what is a very limited
1:48.7	vote within a special circle within his own Conservative party and he has already demonstrated a risky
1:55.3	willingness to bow to US demands hoping for preferential trade deals after Brexit.
2:02.3	And his much criticized stint as Foreign Secretary has
2:05.0	raised questions about how he would handle the current crisis with Iran. His
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