Amanpour: Michael Fallon, Mairead McGuinness, Pat Toomey, Claire Stapleton and Meredith Whittaker

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Michael Fallon, U.K. Conservative MP and former U.K. Secretary of State for Defense, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the next British Prime Minister; Boris Johnson. Mairead McGuinness, Irish Member of the European Parliament and first Vice-President of the European Parliament, weighs in on Johnson's new-found leadership, his next steps and the U.K.'s exit from the European Union. Pat Toomey, U.S. Senate Republican, talks about the future of the special U.S.-U.K. relationship. Claire Stapleton and Meredith Whittaker, two organizers of the Google Walkout For Real Change, unpack the allegations of sexual harassment, gender inequality and racism which sparked walkout of twenty-thousand Google employees last year and why they won't be silenced.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 Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	Do you feel daunted? I don't think you look remotely.
0:13.0	Boris Johnson becomes the next UK Prime Minister, a divisive populist who looks and sounds a lot like Donald Trump.
0:20.0	We get the view from backers like former British defense minister Michael Fallon
0:24.8	and exhausted European negotiators. Irish MEP and Vice President of the
0:30.1	European Parliament, Mairead McGinnis joins me.
0:33.0	Then, there's no nothing.
0:34.8	They're wasting their time.
0:36.2	Mullermania strikes in the United States
0:38.5	as the former Special Council prepares to publicly testify.
0:42.0	I speak with Republican Senator Pat Toome, plus
0:45.0	practices of retaliation are one of the you know are the first thing we need to
0:50.2	tackle when we begin to tackle these sort of me too issues.
0:53.8	The women walking off the Google campus speak out against what they call a culture of retaliation. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London where today
1:16.1	the United Kingdom got a new Prime Minister. To no one's surprise the
1:20.2	favorite former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was selected by an
1:23.8	inner circle of Conservative Party members. In his victory speech he whipped up the
1:28.4	crowd with his typical bombasse. I read in my financial times this morning that
1:32.4	there are no incoming leader, no incoming
1:35.4	leader has ever faced such a daunting set of circumstances it said.
1:41.0	Well I look at you this morning and I ask myself do you look daunted do you feel
1:46.7	daunted I don't think I don't think you look remotely daunted I know I know
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