Amanpour: Khalid Aljabri, Mark Mazzetti, Mona Fawaz and Tyler Shultz

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Christiane Amanpour speaks exclusively with Khalid Aljabri, son of a former Saudi intelligence official who claims Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman sent an assassination squad after him in 2018. To unpack this, Mark Mazzetti, New York Times investigative correspondent, weighs in. He explains the significance of the AlJabri's family allegations against the Saudi government. Turning to Lebanon: Beirut professor Mona Fawaz assesses the Lebanese government's response to the Beirut explosion and the political fallout still to come. Then our Hari Sreenivasan talks to Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz who explains how the company put lives in grave danger. 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 Amamport. Here's what's coming up.
0:09.0	New allegations against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman filed in a US court.
0:17.0	Dr. Saad al-Jabri, former Saudi spy chief, claims he could be the next victim after journalist Jamal Koshoggi,
0:23.8	are exclusive with his son Khaled Al-Jabri.
0:26.8	Then, as the investigation continues
0:29.5	into the catastrophic Beirut explosion,
0:32.0	we examine the impact of this latest crisis on the people there.
0:36.0	And everyone loves a good story.
0:39.0	And unfortunately, I think people like this story so much that they didn't really question it.
0:43.4	The whistleblower who brought down Pheronus and its miracle blood test technology
0:48.3	and what that case says about the current gold rush for a coronavirus vaccine. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. A suit filed in
1:12.2	Washington DC raises stunning new allegations
1:15.1	against the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. Dr. Saad Al-Jabri, a
1:20.0	former top Saudi intelligence official, claims that bin Salman sent an assassination
1:24.8	squad to kill him just two weeks after the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Keshoggi.
1:30.8	Al-Jabri is a longtime veteran of the Saudi government, an intelligence official with deep
1:35.5	ties to the United States and other Western nations.
1:38.8	He claims that bin Salmaan dispatched a hit squad to murder him at his new home in Canada in October 2018
1:46.2	and that the government kidnapped two of his children in an attempt to lure him back to Saudi
1:51.4	Arabia. Now regarding this allegation a senior State
1:54.5	Department official says that the United States condemns the unlawful
1:58.6	Saudi imprisonment of the children, Sarah and Omar Al-Jababri and is working to secure their release.
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