Amanpour: John McLaughlin, Joe Crowley, Yair Golan and Garry Kasparov

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🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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John McLaughlin, former deputy CIA director, joins Christiane Amanpour to talk about the first public impeachment hearings due to take place this week. Joe Crowley, former House Democrat and predecessor to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, sheds light on the political strategies both Republicans and Democrats will employ during these hearings. Yair Golan, Israeli Knesset member and former deputy chief of staff at the IDF, reflects on the political paralysis in Israel and the spike of violence at the Gaza-Israel border. Our Miles O'Brien sits down with Garry Kasparov, the chess grandmaster and pro-democracy activist, to discuss the threat technology and Putin's Russia poses to American democracy.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	Such a friendly group such a nice group.
0:12.0	With the first public impeachment testimony soon to get underway,
0:16.0	we separate the substance from the noise with the former acting CIA director John McLaughlin.
0:22.0	And we talk through the political strategy with
0:24.8	former Democratic Congressman Joe Crowley. Then as Gaza and Israel trade
0:30.9	fire again I speak to a former top commander with Israel's defense
0:35.4	forces. Plus there's a conflict between free and unfremal. Checkmate from the
0:40.9	legendary Russian chess champ Gary Kasparov.
0:44.4	He analyzes Gooten's global strategy. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. Very soon
1:05.1	Americans and the world will be able to see here and judge for themselves what the
1:10.6	president did and why he did it.
1:13.0	As the all-consuming political drama of impeachment goes public on Wednesday for the first time on Capitol Hill.
1:20.0	At its heart, the inquiry focuses on allegations that President Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine
1:26.7	in exchange for an investigation of his political rival Joe Biden, and alleged Ukrainian intervention in the 2016 election.
1:35.0	That has been debunked, but President Trump has strongly denied any wrongdoing.
1:40.0	But a parade of government officials, including his own appointees, have stepped forward to back up the
1:46.3	whistleblower who first brought these allegations to light.
1:50.2	So joining me now is someone with plenty of experience in intelligence and
1:54.0	national security and all that's going around this impeachment inquiry.
1:57.6	He is John McLaughlin and he's the former CIA Deputy Director.
2:01.8	He also served as acting CIA Director under George a
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