Amanpour: Russ Feingold, Mia Love, Rory Stewart and George Church

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Russ Feingold, former Senate Democrat, and Mia Love, former House Republican, join Christiane Amanpour to dig down into the latest developments in Washington. As former Democratic favorite Kamala Harris drops out of the 2020 Presidential race and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces that the house will draw up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, they give their take on why recent events have unfolded as they have and the likely next steps of the big political players. Rory Stewart, the former British Conservative MP, talks about the urgent need to bring politics back to the center and why he's throwing his hat into the ring for London Mayor. From signaling issues on the Piccadilly line, to knife crime in the capital, he highlights key issues and how he hopes to solve them, should he replace current Mayor Sadiq Khan. Our Walter Isaacson sits down with George Church, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, to discuss his extraordinary work that ranges from growing human organs to resurrecting long extinct animals. He addresses the potential that genetic engineering holds, but also the ethical issues it poses.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 Amampur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	I think NATO is stronger that it's ever been.
0:11.0	President Trump turns from bashing NATO to celebrating it.
0:15.0	Can this London meeting keep the 70-year-old alliance on track? I ask America's
0:20.6	NATO Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchinson.
0:24.0	Then, never before in the history of the republic have we been forced to consider the conduct
0:28.6	of a president who appears to have solicited personal political favors from a foreign government.
0:35.0	New congressional hearings kick off the critical next phase of the impeachment inquiry.
0:39.8	I ask author Michael Lewis about the fifth risk and not leaving national security to the experts.
0:47.0	Plus anything we say can be taken, distorted and made to shame us.
0:52.0	Psychologist Jonathan Hite on the topic of the times,
0:55.0	how social media fuels anxiety and polarization. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiana Wancour in London.
1:17.0	President Trump put his own interests above the countries. That's according to the House Intelligence Committee's conclusion on its impeachment. the withdrawing up articles of impeachment.
1:33.0	While the process shifts into a new gear,
1:35.4	President Trump is on a diplomatic mission to London.
1:38.8	Today, the official meeting of NATO leaders took place.
1:42.2	The President is touting his America First
1:44.5	foreign policy while also discussing key issues like trade, Turkey and Syria.
1:49.6	But after this tape court allies attending a reception at Buckingham Palace joking about
1:54.2	Trons-long press conferences, he lashed out at his nemesis, the Canadian Prime Minister
1:59.2	Justin Trudeau, calling him two-faced and a laggard with NATO payments.
2:06.0	He's not paying 2% and he should be paying 2%.
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