Confronting Divisions: The Pope, Trump, and Global Tensions
Amanpour
CNN
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Amunpur Hour. |
| 0:10.0 | Here's where we're headed this week. |
| 0:12.0 | I am not afraid. |
| 0:15.0 | Words of an American pontiff as he clashes over war with an American president. |
| 0:20.0 | Pope Leo's ally, Chicago Cardinal Su Subic, joins me with the moral imperative. |
| 0:25.3 | Comments that attack the Pope really are not about attacking one person, |
| 0:31.3 | but attacking the church itself and its mission. |
| 0:34.3 | Then, leadership in war, as a four-star general, Stanley McChrystal, who led U.S. forces in Afghanistan |
| 0:42.6 | and Iraq joins me. |
| 0:44.5 | And with MAGA splitting over this war, former congresswoman and loyalist Marjorie Taylor Green |
| 0:50.5 | tells me why she has finally lost faith in Trump also on the program, |
| 0:55.0 | mired in four years of unwinnable war against Ukraine, |
| 1:00.0 | how Russia is now using video games and university professors to recruit students. |
| 1:08.0 | And from my archive, what war actually looks like |
| 1:14.1 | for the innocence caught up in it, what I saw in Sudan. |
| 1:17.8 | And finally, dignity, defiance, and dressing up |
| 1:21.8 | what these photos tell us about elderly Ukrainians |
| 1:25.0 | choosing to look their best under the bombs. |
| 1:31.5 | Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London, where this week the world |
| 1:36.6 | has watched aghast as President Trump spats with allies like British Prime Minister Kiyosama |
| 1:42.6 | and Italian leader Georggio Maloney have extended |
| 1:45.6 | into a spiritual sparring with the first American Pope, Leo the 14th. |
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