Amanpour: Nancy Pelosi, Volodymyr Zelensky, James Jacoby

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Speaker of the House, sits down with Christiane Amanpour in Munich where she is attending a security conference with leaders from around the world. She gives an earnest warning to the Democrats, urging them to unify in order to defeat President Trump in the 2020 Presidential race. She discusses that, the failure to impeach and the now infamous moment of her tearing up Trump's State of the Union speech. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is also attending the Munich Security Conference, answers crucial questions about Ukraine's relationship with the U.S. and place at the center of the impeachment crisis. He says he is ready to meet President Donald Trump at the White House. Then our Hari Sreenivasan talks to James Jacoby, director of new PBS Frontline documentary "Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos," to unpack the rise Jeff Bezos and his trillion-dollar business.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 Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	Two exclusive interviews.
0:12.0	They can't even envision a situation where he would be reelected.
0:16.0	House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tells me why Democrats must defeat the president in 2020.
0:22.0	Then Ukraine I told... must defeat the president in 2020.
0:23.0	The Ukraine, I told him very honestly,
0:26.8	and I was very open with him.
0:28.6	I told him that we fight with corruption.
0:31.4	The Ukrainian president fights back against Trump's charges of corruption
0:35.8	and opens up for the first time on television
0:38.5	about getting caught in what he calls the impeachment soap opera. Plus everything that is admirable about
0:46.1	Amazon is also something that we should fear about it. A new PBS documentary
0:51.8	investigates the retail Juggernaut reshaping our world. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Kristiana Manpur in London. While a crowded
1:14.4	field of Democrats make their pitch to voters in Nevada next,
1:18.2	Senator Bernie Sanders seems to be breaking away from the pack as his
1:22.0	progressive base continues to turn out in
1:24.1	force and the moderate vote remains split. Among adding to competition the
1:29.5	former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's sudden rise in the national polls.
1:33.7	So who will unite the Democrats to fight Trump?
1:36.8	It's a key question for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who masterminded the Democrats' winning
1:41.7	strategy for the 2018 midterms.
1:44.5	We sat down for an exclusive interview at the Munich Security Conference to discuss the election
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