Amanpour: Tony Blair, Greta Gerwig, Anne Applebaum and Michael Crick

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Tony Blair, the former Labour British Prime Minister, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the landslide Conservative victory in last week's election. He reflects on a looming Brexit and his party's move to the left and why that's cost them dearly. Greta Gerwig, the writer, director and actor, talks candidly to our Michel Martin about her meteoric rise to the top of Hollywood and what it was like to re-create one of the world's most beloved classics, "Little Women". Anne Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic, and Michael Crick, former BBC political correspondent, look at the current British government's aversion to the state-funded British broadcaster and what it would mean for the BBC and if they scrapped the license fee.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	It's going to happen now.
0:10.0	It's tragic. We should never have agreed to Brexit general election by the way. It was crazy to mix the two issues up.
0:14.6	Former Prime Minister Tony Blair bows to the inevitable, but what's the way forward in populist
0:20.4	partisan times. Plus...
0:23.0	Oh, my goodness.
0:24.0	I did not think that was going to be the first question.
0:26.0	The Oscar-tip Director Greta Gowery on her new film, The American Classic Little Women.
0:32.0	Then, why politicians are... the American classic little women.
0:32.6	Then, why politicians attack the media and the dark consequences.
0:37.5	I'm joined by author Anne Applebaum and veteran British journalist Michael Crick. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London
0:59.3	where Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative government has been laying out his agenda with the
1:04.6	traditional Queen's speech to Parliament.
1:07.4	Top of Johnson's wish list, finishing Brexit, trade deal and all by this time next year. It is an incredibly ambitious deadline and it sets
1:16.2	up yet another year of roller coaster politics. Add to that the recent election death
1:21.6	nail resounding around the opposition
1:23.4	labor party after it's worth showing since 1935 including the loss of a seat that
1:30.0	once belonged to former Prime Minister Tony Blair. He is the only Labour Party
1:34.8	Prime Minister elected since 1974 and he won mostly by taking progressive policies
1:40.6	to the consensual center.
1:42.8	Blair joined me for a wide-ranging interview discussing this loss for his party,
1:47.6	the inevitability of Brexit, and the deeply partisan politics rocking both sides of the Atlantic.
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