Amanpour: Paul Krugman, Kim Ghattas, Paige Winfield Cunningham

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🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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As the first major contest in the 2020 election is wrapping up in Iowa Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist and economist, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss a key concern for many voters: the economy. Krugman explains his surprising argument that the Democratic nomination is irrelevant when it comes down to actual economic policy. Journalist Kim Ghattas, who has been covering the Middle East for twenty years, digs into President Trump's Middle East Plan that the Arab League of nations has just unanimously rejected. She also unpacks the forty-year rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia that she details in her new book, "Black Wave." Our Hari Sreenivasan sits down with Paige Winfield Cunningham, reporter at The Washington Post, to talk about healthcare policy in the U.S. and why she believes neither party will make major changes to healthcare if elected in the 2020 race.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.
0:05.0	Democrats should unify behind whoever this is the candidate.
0:10.0	They shouldn't be worried.
0:11.0	Amid the noise about electability, Nobel Economist Paul Krugman tells me why it
0:16.0	doesn't matter which top Democrat wins the nomination.
0:20.0	Then Trump's Middle East peace plan falls flat.
0:23.5	So what next for US foreign policy?
0:25.9	Kim Guttas, author of Black Wave on the ongoing Iran's Saudi
0:30.3	battle to dominate the region.
0:32.3	Plus, I don't ultimately see a situation where you have any kind of seismic shift in the insurance programs that are available to Americans.
0:41.0	Healthcare is the number one election issue for voters, but the Washington Post,
0:45.2	Paige Winfield Cunningham tells our Hari Streinovasan,
0:48.2	neither party will make major changes. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wanpur in New York and the
1:09.0	2020 election season is off to the races. With its first major contest in Iowa
1:15.0	wrapping up, voters are revealing which topics they care about most and who
1:20.1	they think can address them. Among the top concerns is as always the economy.
1:26.2	Under President Trump, wages are up, unemployment is down, and the stock market is booming,
1:32.2	which he's banking on to win re-election.
1:35.0	And while all campaigns hearken back to the famous Clinton adage that,
1:40.0	it's the economy stupid, Democrats have a wide choice of candidate from
1:44.5	center left to further left. Amid all the angst over that choice and who can
1:49.3	beat Trump, my first guest tonight has a surprising new insight.
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