Amanpour: Terry Branstad, Robin Wright, Dr. James Gordon and Stacey Plasket

Amanpour

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🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Former Ambassador to China Terry Branstad joins Christiane Amanpour to talk China and Trump. He describes meeting Xi Jinping in the 1980s when he was the Iowa governor Xi was a young Communist official. Actor and director Robin Wright and trauma specialist Dr. James Gordon discuss working together on the new film "Land"; a story of human resilience and hope at its core. Then Michel Martin speaks to Delegate for the U.S. Virgin Islands Stacey Plaskett about her experience as one of the nine impeachment managers in former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial. 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	There will be repercussions for China and he knows that.
0:12.0	President Biden vows China's human rights abuses will not go unpunished, but how to deal
0:17.6	with Zizing Ping from someone who knows him personally.
0:21.1	Trump's man in Beijing, Terry Branster joins me. Then... I'm not running for
0:26.6	anyone. I'm not hiding. I'm here because I choose to be. Award-winning actress and director Robin Wright
0:35.0	weaves a story of grief and healing in land.
0:38.0	Plus, you know, if you think back and really look at the evidence that we presented, it was overwhelming.
0:44.4	Behind the scenes at President Trump's Senate trial, impeachment manager Stacey Plaskett
0:49.6	reveals all to'm Michelle Martin. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.
1:09.0	The temperature is dropping in the Cold War between the US and China, President Biden again criticizing Beijing for what America calls a genocide against its Muslim Uyghur people.
1:20.0	He's threatening repercussions. China strongly denies these accusations.
1:24.9	In a hyper-partisan US standing up to China appears to be one of the few points of consensus.
1:30.7	But what's next as the superpowers face off? Well, joining me now is the former
1:36.0	Iowa Governor Terry Branston until last October he was also President Trump's
1:40.9	ambassador to China. But when he was first governor back in 1985
1:45.2	Branson met Geezing who was on a tour of rural America as a young Communist
1:50.6	Party official. And now the former governor is joining me from Des Moines, Iowa.
1:54.8	Welcome back to the program. Let me talk to you first as the former ambassador to China.
2:01.8	You know, we are in this situation where almost every day it seems the US and China indeed the EU and China are coming up at
2:10.0	log-ahead against each other. There seems to be kind of an inability
2:14.4	to sort of to figure out a modus for random.
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