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Amanpour: Rukmini Callimachi, Frank Luntz, Elizabeth Holtzman and Aarti Shahani

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Rukmini Callimachi, award-winning correspondent at The New York Times, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the life and death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who died during a U.S. raid in Idlib, Syria. Frank Luntz, pollster and political strategist, and Elizabeth Holtzman, former U.S. House Democrat, give their views on this win for President Trump, during a tumultuous time in The White House and the ongoing impeachment inquiry. Aarti Shahani, author of "Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares," talks about her immigrant family and their fight for justice in America.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

Baghdadi and the thugs who follow him were responsible for some of the most brutal atrocities of our time.

0:15.0

Does the killing of ISIS commander Abu Bakr al-Bardadi leave ISIS on its knees or inspire

0:20.7

it to lash out around the world.

0:22.8

We're joined by the award-winning reporter Rukmini Kalimaki.

0:26.8

Then success against that enemy on the battlefield

0:30.6

while bracing against domestic opponents at home.

0:34.0

Democratic Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman played a major role in the Watergate probe.

0:39.0

She joins me with Republican strategist Frank Lance.

0:43.0

Lusk.

0:44.0

No matter what happened to her husband,

0:45.1

she can tell her daughter.

0:46.7

Arthy, be grateful for the life you have here

0:49.2

because it's much better than anything

0:50.6

you would have had back there.

0:51.9

Trust me, I know. Journalist

0:53.6

Artie Schahani shares the tortuous tale of her family's immigration to

0:58.4

America. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancourt in London.

1:16.5

Abubaka al-Bagdadi rose from a fervent religious student to rule the brutal

1:22.3

self-declared Caliphate of ISIS, overseeing

1:25.5

medieval style punishments, ordering barbaric executions including of

1:30.0

journalists such as James Foley and destroying important parts of the region and the

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