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Amanpour: John Brennan, Laurie Woolever, Brian Castrucci and Frank Luntz

Amanpour

CNN

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4.2929 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

John Brennan, former CIA director, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the ongoing G7 meeting in London and it's key theme of promoting democracies in a world with increasingly strong autocracies. Laurie Woolever, co-author of "World Travel: An Irreverent Guide", talks about her colleague, the late Anthony Bourdain, with whom she discussed writing this book about his travels before he took his life almost three years ago. Hari Sreenivasan talks with Brian Castrucci, President and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation, and Frank Luntz, political pollster and strategist, about how to change the minds of vaccine hesitant Americans. 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

What we are trying to do is to uphold the international rules-based order.

0:13.4

The world's top democracies huddle in London.

0:16.4

Former CIA Director John Brennan gives his insight

0:19.7

on the global struggles President Biden cannot ignore.

0:23.2

Then, okay, I'm officially in anoy now.

0:25.9

Magic.

0:31.9

Remembering Anthony Bourdean.

0:33.7

I talked to his former assistant Lori Woolver about finishing the book they started together.

0:39.1

World Travel and Ir reverent Guide.

0:41.5

Plus, my fear of the vaccine is more than my fear of

0:46.3

getting the illness. Tapping into the vaccine hesitant and how to reach them. Focus group Guru Frank Lund's and public health policy expert Brian Kastrucci

0:55.8

talks to our Harry Sri Navasan. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. The G7

1:16.8

meeting continues here today and this picture says it all the Secretary of State

1:21.3

and foreign ministers from every country posing for a very

1:24.9

COVID-era photo. A little awkward looking but it is a show of unity in the face of an

1:29.8

equally daunting task. The key theme of the summit is to promote democracies in a world

1:35.3

where autocracies seem to be gaining strength. And the group has admitted some friends,

1:40.9

top diplomats from other allies, South Korea, South Africa, Australia,

1:44.8

and India, all to help figure out how to do that.

1:48.0

Driving the point home, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin is sending a message to

1:52.2

autocratic Russia by visiting

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