Amanpour: Jim Sciutto, Steve Hall, Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts and Sarah M. Broom

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jim Sciutto, author of "The Shadow War", and Steve Hall, former Head of CIA Russia Operations, join Christiane Amanpour to discuss U.S. national security, Russia and the recent resignation of U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton. Film-makers Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts join Christiane on set in London to talk about their new documentary "For Sama", which provides a first-hand look at the horror and humanity of life in Aleppo, Syria. Our Walter Isaacson is joined by author Sarah M. Broom, whose latest memoir "The Yellow House" recalls the devastation caused by 2005 Hurricane Katrina, and the struggle to rebuild.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 Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	President Trump fires his hawkish National Security Advisor John Bolton over foreign policy clashes
0:14.8	amid news of a CIA spy extracted from the highest levels of the Kremlin.
0:19.9	Then...
0:20.9	I'm a mother d'emut.
0:22.4	Life and death in Aleppo.
0:26.0	Award-winning documentary makers,
0:28.0	Wired Al-Katib and Edward Watt,
0:30.0	take us inside Syria's lost city and show us hope, joy, and deep sadness hidden within the ruins.
0:37.0	Plus, if something is there the day before and then suddenly not, the mind has a really hard time trying to process what happened.
0:45.0	Author Sarah Broome tells our Walter Isaxon about loss and recovery after Hurricane Katrina. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London.
1:08.0	John Bolton is out. After 17 months as National security advisor to President Trump, the president
1:15.1	announced on Twitter that he asked for Bolton's resignation saying I
1:18.8	disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration and he said he
1:25.1	announced his replacement next week. This major shakeup comes after public
1:29.8	disagreements on Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea, among other issues, and just after major
1:35.8	revelations regarding US national security and Russia.
1:40.2	New reporting by CNN and backed up by the New York Times,
1:43.6	revealing that for decades a spy with extraordinary access to the Russian government
1:49.6	has been providing information to the CIA. A top-level asset that was extracted by the US in 2017.
1:57.0	Well joining me now is the journalist who broke this incredible story, Jim Chuto in New York.
2:02.0	He is also author of the Shadow War
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