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Amanpour: Gérard Araud, Jane Harman, Al Gore and Kevin Sneader

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Gérard Araud, the former French Ambassador to the U.S. and the UN, and Jane Harman, the President and CEO of the Wilson Center, join Christiane Amanpour in New York to discuss President Trump's speech at the UN General Assembly, the constitutional crisis Boris Johnson faces at home and House Speaker Pelosi starting the impeachment process. Al Gore, the former U.S. Vice President, discusses the UN climate summit and the action world leaders now need to take to stop the crisis. Our Walter Isaacson talks to Kevin Sneader, the Global Managing Partner at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, about the company's involvement with the opioid epidemic.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

If you want freedom, take pride in your country.

0:12.0

If you want democracy, hold on to your sovereignty.

0:18.0

They may be addressing the world from the United Nations, but Donald Trump and Boris Johnson face major headaches at home.

0:25.0

Democracy and the rule of law, we discuss with the experts.

0:29.0

Then...

0:30.0

Four years of this assault on the environment and the climate is recoverable.

0:36.0

Having a longer period, this would be extremely dangerous for the US and for the world.

0:42.0

Former Vice President and Climate Action Pioneer Al Gore

0:46.0

on what's at stake and why there is also cause for hope.

0:50.0

Plus, we want to be on the right side where we're helping solve the crisis not create

0:54.4

the crisis. As the world's most prestigious consulting firm comes under fire for

0:59.4

helping to push opioid sales, McKinsey's global managing partner tells us what they're doing to address

1:06.0

this crisis. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in New York where world leaders

1:25.1

are speaking at the United Nations General Assembly. President Donald Trump's

1:28.9

speech was heavily focused on his domestic re-election agenda, lashing out at what he called a

1:34.6

permanent political class. He railed against China and Iran too, and later though he

1:40.0

seemed to relax at a meeting with his closest European soulmate, the British

1:44.3

Prime Minister Boris Johnson. But both face major crises at home, controversies

1:50.1

that call into question their commitment to the rule of law and democracy itself.

1:55.0

Here in the United States, the latest scandal to engulf the President, his phone call to the

1:59.4

Ukrainian leader and request to investigate his political opponent the former vice president

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