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Amanpour: Jens Stoltenberg, Gérard Araud, Karin von Hippel, Yaron Zilberman and Jonah Peretti

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Norway, joins Christiane Amanpour to reflect on 70 years of NATO, their strategy on terrorism and their approach to Trump's foreign policy. Gérard Araud, former French Ambassador to the United States, and Karin von Hippel, the Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute, weigh in and assess the future of the post-war alliance. Yaron Zilberman, co-writer and director of "Incitement", talks about dramatizing the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He explains how the consequences of that deep division and religious extremism seen 25 years ago can still be felt in Israeli society today. Our Walter Isaacson sits down with Jonah Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed and co-founder of The Huffington Post, to unpack what "public interest" means in the age of the internet.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 Ammanfur. Here's what's coming up. This is one of the most important journeys that we make this president.

0:15.0

President Trump en route to NATO's 70th birthday, but he's been its biggest internal threat.

0:22.0

I ask NATO Secretary General and a panel of experts, will it make it to 71?

0:27.5

Then, I speak to the director of incitement about the assassination of the Israeli

0:37.0

Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin from the perspective of his Jewish killer.

0:41.0

Plus, do you really want a few, you know, companies? of his Jewish killer. Plus.

0:42.8

Do you really want a few companies in California

0:46.0

to be the ones who can determine what speech is okay

0:48.5

and what speech isn't okay?

0:49.7

Busfeed CEO and Huffington Post co-founder Jonah Perretti on the internet and free speech. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London

1:12.8

President Trump arrives here for a meeting of NATO leaders he'll be landing in a city

1:18.0

still reeling from this weekend's terrorist attack that killed two people

1:22.4

and injured three others. This year

1:24.9

marks the 70th anniversary of the post-bore alliance which was forged on the

1:29.4

principles of democracy, civil liberties and the rule of law.

1:33.4

However, this gathering comes amid squabbling

1:36.6

between world leaders, especially

1:38.8

after French President Emmanuel Macron declared

1:41.5

that NATO is brain dead. Donald Trump has criticized NATO even

1:45.9

before becoming president. He famously called it obsolete and even once

1:50.3

threatened to pull the US out altogether.

1:53.4

Of course, he's also criticized the Paris Climate Accords.

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