Amanpour: Jack Goldsmith, Katharine Gun and Robbie Robertson

Amanpour

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🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Jack Goldsmith, former Head of the U.S. Office of Legal Counsel, joined Christiane Amanpour to discuss how his step-father became the prime suspect in the disappearance of labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa, which is now the topic of new film "The Irishman." He delves into this as well as what he sees as executive overreach in The White House, past and present. Katharine Gun, the Iraq War whistleblower, reflects on leaking memos that exposed a plot by U.S. security officials to secure votes for the invasion. Our Walter Isaacson sat down with Robbie Robertson, musician in "The Band", to look back on his rock career and his more recent work on "The Irishman" music score.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.
0:07.0	We've endowed a president, especially in the Foreign Affairs area. He's most unchecked there.
0:13.2	That's where he has most free reign.
0:15.0	He led the office of legal counsel
0:17.0	under President George W Bush.
0:19.2	Jack Goldsmith talks to me about executive overreach,
0:22.4	then and now, and about living in the shadow of
0:25.8	Jimmy Hoffa. Plus my motive was to stop a war and save lives. In the UK whistleblower Catherine Gunn's story is the subject of the new film Official Secrets.
0:38.0	She joins me to talk about the price she paid for raising the alarm about the Iraq war and
0:44.8	Take a load off band it.
0:47.8	Take a load for free.
0:49.8	Musician Robbie Robertson on shaping the band, scoring for Scorsese and taking Bob Dylan Electric. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London. As he flexes
1:16.0	executive power to the limit President Trump is facing massive bipartisan
1:20.6	pushback after his unilateral decision to abandon allies, the Syrian Kurds, to the
1:26.3	Turkish military.
1:28.0	And on the Ukraine crisis, his own former fired National Security Advisor John Bolton as well as his
1:34.3	former Russia advisor are saying they objected to his actions. Well my first
1:39.4	guest tonight has personal experience challenging the White House from within.
1:44.0	Jack Goldsmith headed the office of legal counsel under President George W Bush,
1:49.0	where he spoke up on issues like excessive wiretapping and so-called torture memos.
1:55.9	Now in a new book, Goldsmith is looking back to the events of his childhood that led him to a
2:01.8	career in law and justice.
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