Christiane Amanpour on Biden's Iran Dilemma
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The world waits to see how the United States will retaliate to a drone strike that killed three American troops in Jordan, after an Iran-backed militia group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Christiane Amanpour, the Iranian-British Chief International Anchor for CNN, is our star guest this week. We hear why Joe Biden now walks a tightrope between avoiding escalation in the Middle East, and projecting strength at home - all while Donald Trump looks on from the campaign trail.
Also on the podcast, Marianna tells us about her new BBC Radio 4 podcast series called 'Why Do You Hate Me?'
She’s been speaking to a survivor of the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in American history, who ended up believing online conspiracy theories that the entire event was a government plot.
HOSTS: • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
GUEST: Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Anchor for CNN
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This episode was made by George Dabby with Catherine Fusillo, Rufus Gray, and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is George Dabby. The senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Okay, Sarah, here's a question for you. |
| 0:06.6 | I've been hearing rumors of a Democratic plot involving Taylor Swift, |
| 0:11.8 | the Super Bowl-bound Kansas City Chiefs and Vivek Ramaswami |
| 0:16.7 | as our resident Taylor Swift expert. Can you explain to me what the heck is going on? |
| 0:21.0 | Yeah, well you forgot that actually there's a |
| 0:23.0 | tie up between Taylor Switzer and the Pentagon as well who are acting in concert |
| 0:26.7 | against Donald Trump. Let me try to explain this this remarkable story to you. |
| 0:32.1 | It's a brand new conspiracy theory that says, well first |
| 0:35.9 | that Taylor Swift and her boyfriend Travis Kelsey who plays for the Kansas City Chiefs are |
| 0:40.5 | not a real couple, they're just pretending. |
| 0:42.9 | It has also been orchestrated by elements of the deep state to get the Kansas City Chiefs into the |
| 0:47.8 | Super Bowl to give more prominence to the couple in preparation for them coming out and endorsing Joe Biden for president |
| 0:56.0 | together as the most glittering celebrity endorsement that you could ever possibly find |
| 1:01.5 | and particularly of course if the Kansas City Chiefs win the Super Bowl, I imagine that's being |
| 1:05.4 | fixed as we speak at the moment. |
| 1:07.2 | Now this might sound absolutely ridiculous for the very good reason that it is absolutely |
| 1:11.9 | ridiculous, but Vivek Ramashwami who you know some |
| 1:15.8 | people were taking seriously in his bid to become the Republican nominee for president |
| 1:20.5 | he's now dropped out in a Dorst Donald Trump. Well he's been tweeting about this |
| 1:23.6 | suggesting he thinks it's actually true. I mean he disappeared down a conspiracy |
| 1:28.3 | through the rabbit hole a while ago but I mean this is really quite something to believe that yeah that this is the entire thing has |
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