Amanpour: Kay Bailey Hutchison, Michael Lewis and Jonathan Haidt

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the key developments and dramas to come out of the NATO summit in London. Michael Lewis, author of "Fifth Risk" and "The Big Short," digs down into the political crisis unfolding on Capitol Hill, as the House Judiciary Committee hears its fist testimony from four constitutional scholars. He gives his take on the impeachment process so far and the future of the country. Our Hari Sreenivasan sits down with Jonathan Haidt, the social psychologist and co-author of "The Dark Psychology of Social Networks." He serves up solutions for what he calls the "outrage machine," that is spreading anger and toxicity.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 Amampur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	I think NATO is stronger that it's ever been.
0:11.0	President Trump turns from bashing NATO to celebrating it.
0:15.0	Can this London meeting keep the 70-year-old alliance on track? I ask America's
0:20.6	NATO Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchinson.
0:24.0	Then, never before in the history of the republic have we been forced to consider the conduct
0:28.6	of a president who appears to have solicited personal political favors from a foreign government.
0:35.0	New congressional hearings kick off the critical next phase of the impeachment inquiry.
0:39.8	I ask author Michael Lewis about the fifth risk and not leaving national security to the experts.
0:47.0	Plus anything we say can be taken, distorted and made to shame us.
0:52.0	Psychologist Jonathan Hite on the topic of the times,
0:55.0	how social media fuels anxiety and polarization. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiana Wancour in London.
1:17.0	President Trump put his own interests above the countries. That's according to the House Intelligence Committee's conclusion on its impeachment. the withdrawing up articles of impeachment.
1:33.0	While the process shifts into a new gear,
1:35.4	President Trump is on a diplomatic mission to London.
1:38.8	Today, the official meeting of NATO leaders took place.
1:42.2	The President is touting his America First
1:44.5	foreign policy while also discussing key issues like trade, Turkey and Syria.
1:49.6	But after this tape court allies attending a reception at Buckingham Palace joking about
1:54.2	Trons-long press conferences, he lashed out at his nemesis, the Canadian Prime Minister
1:59.2	Justin Trudeau, calling him two-faced and a laggard with NATO payments.
2:06.0	He's not paying 2% and he should be paying 2%.
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