Ep. 384 — Gayle Smith
The Axe Files with David Axelrod
CNN
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Gayle Smith is the president and CEO of the ONE Campaign and the former administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). She joins David to talk about her two decades spent in Africa as a young journalist and NGO worker, insights from her career in global development and humanitarian assistance, efforts to combat the Ebola epidemic in the Obama administration, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Axe Files, with |
| 0:12.5 | your host, David Axelrod. |
| 0:20.0 | Gail Smith is a warrior against global poverty and disease. |
| 0:23.5 | For 20 years she reported from war zones and pockets of despair across Africa and as a |
| 0:28.6 | member of President Obama's National Security Team, which is where I met her, and later |
| 0:32.9 | as director of the U.S. Agency for International Development, she helped organize America's |
| 0:37.2 | response to humanitarian crises including the H1N1 and Ebola pandemics. |
| 0:42.9 | Today Gail serves as President and CEO of the One Campaign, the organization founded by |
| 0:47.4 | Bono of U2, to combat extreme poverty and preventable disease around the world. |
| 0:52.6 | I sat down with her this week to hear about the remarkable road she's traveled and glean |
| 0:57.3 | the lessons that are more than relevant as the world struggles with COVID-19 today. |
| 1:02.3 | Here's our conversation. |
| 1:08.6 | Gail Smith, great to see you. |
| 1:10.4 | It's been a long time. |
| 1:11.4 | I used to see you all the time. |
| 1:13.5 | Back in the day at the White House, you have a remarkable story and I want to get to that |
| 1:19.5 | story. |
| 1:20.6 | Because of the position that you held within the White House and the work that you do now, |
| 1:28.0 | it seems like we should start on the subject that's on everybody's mind, which is the virus. |
| 1:33.3 | First of all, I should ask, how are you doing? |
| 1:35.3 | I'm doing fine. |
| 1:36.6 | I have a home. |
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