Amanpour: Jared Kushner, Marwan Muasher, Aaron David Miller and Ted Koppel

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jared Kushner, senior adviser to the President Donald Trump, joins Christiane Amanpour to answer questions about his newly unveiled Middle East Peace Plan. Marwan Muasher, former Jordanian Foreign Minister, and Aaron David Miller, former U.S. Middle East negotiator, weigh in and give their views on the controversial plan drawn up by Kushner, President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu without the involvement of the Palestinians. Ted Koppel, the award-winning journalist who made his name as ABC News' Nightline show, speaks to our Walter Isaacson about the state of journalism and democracy today. In 1988 he hosted an unprecedented town hall meeting between Israelis and Palestinians live from Jerusalem; he gives his take on the current state of the relations between the two states.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.
0:08.0	Our plan is 80 pages and is the most detailed proposal ever put forward by far.
0:15.6	President Trump finally unvails his Middle East peace plan amid his Senate
0:20.7	impeachment trial. I talked to Jared Kushner, the President's trusted advisor, son-in-law, an architect of this plan.
0:28.0	Then, we speak to both Jordanian and American negotiators in previous peace deals.
0:34.0	Plus...
0:35.0	Let's not get ourselves.
0:37.0	Donald Trump has been very, very good for the business of journalism.
0:42.0	A legendary American broadcaster, Ted Koc, for the business of journalism.
0:42.6	A legendary American broadcaster Ted Koppel tells our Walter Isaacson of his worries about
0:48.0	the state of journalism today. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London. The
1:06.6	President's impeachment trial is in full swing and yet Donald Trump decided
1:10.6	now is the time to unveil his Middle East peace plan.
1:14.0	He was joined at the White House by only one party to the conflict,
1:17.0	the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
1:20.0	who himself, just hours earlier, was formally indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.
1:26.7	They stood side by side to praise the proposal that included no input from the Palestinians.
1:35.0	My vision presents a win-win opportunity for both sides.
1:39.0	A realistic two-state solution that resolves the risk of Palestinian statehood to Israel's
1:46.7	security. Too many plans try to pressure Israel to withdraw from vital territory like the Jordan Valley.
1:55.0	But you, Mr President, you recognize that Israel must have sovereignty in the Jordan Valley and the other in other strategic areas of
2:07.3	Judea and Samaria.
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