Amanpour: John Kirby, Vali Nasr, Laurie Santos and Ken Burns
Amanpour
CNN
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. A devastating |
| 0:09.0 | attack on Saudi Arabia's oil fields leaves production hobbled and threats of retaliation. |
| 0:15.0 | I'll look at the evidence and the ramifications. |
| 0:18.0 | Then, the science of well-being is relatively simple. |
| 0:21.0 | What does it take to be happy? Dr Lori Santos taught the most popular class in |
| 0:25.7 | Yale history and now she's teaching us the psychology of happiness. |
| 0:30.0 | And... Hello I'm Johnny Kay. |
| 0:33.0 | Ken Burns goes country. |
| 0:35.0 | The documentary filmmaker tunes into the heart and soul of America. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London. |
| 0:57.0 | World oil prices are soaring after an audacious attack on two critical Saudi oil fields. |
| 1:03.7 | It knocked out half of that country's production capacity, |
| 1:06.7 | which represents 5% of the daily global supply. |
| 1:10.8 | And while Yemen's Iran-backed Hooti rebels claim they are behind the attacks, the |
| 1:15.1 | United States is pointing at Iran itself. Meanwhile Saudi Arabia says it is |
| 1:20.2 | still trying to figure out the exact origin but that so far quote all practical |
| 1:24.8 | evidence shows that Iranian weapons were used. President Donald Trump says America |
| 1:30.0 | is quote locked and loaded and ready to respond. |
| 1:33.3 | Iranian officials warn that the Islamic Republic is ready for full-fledged war and they say |
| 1:39.0 | is absolutely no chance of a meeting between Trump and the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the |
| 1:44.8 | UN General Assembly next week. So the Sabres are rattling and the tensions are |
| 1:50.1 | mounting in the Persian Gulf. Are they threatening to explode. |
| 1:54.0 | Joining me now to assess what to make of all of this, John Kirby, who was Pentagon spokesman |
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