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Amanpour

Confronting Divisions: The Pope, Trump, and Global Tensions

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

From the moral implications of war to the surprising recruitment tactics in Russia, this episode is packed with compelling conversations and bold revelations. Tune in for an in-depth analysis of today's pressing issues! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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