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Former US Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Tomorrow marks 75 years since NATO’s creation and this anniversary comes at a critical time for the alliance, as it grapples with how to continue supporting the country battling for survival on its doorstep. Kurt Volker is a former US Ambassador to NATO and former US Special Representative for Ukraine, and he joins the show from Poland.  Also on today's show: comedian Bassem Youssef, whose wife has family in Gaza; Charlie Sykes, Founder and Former Editor-in-Chief, The Bulwark  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Amman Poole. Here's what's coming up.

0:08.0

Support Ukraine should be less dependent on short-term voluntary offers.

0:16.5

NATO's long-term Trump-proof plan for Ukraine.

0:20.5

Former US Ambassador to the Alliance Kurt Volker joins me.

0:24.0

Then...

0:25.0

They want to send a message of Don't Come and Let the People Die.

0:29.0

World leaders outrage mounts over the Israeli strike killing world central

0:33.9

kitchen aid workers in Gaza. How could this have happened?

0:37.4

Correspondent Jeremy Diamond reports. Plus can comedy make sense of tragedy?

0:43.2

I speak to satirist Basem Youssef, whose wife has family in Gaza, and he tours his

0:49.0

latest stand-up show.

0:51.2

Also ahead.

0:52.2

For a class of politicians, they look around and they go,

0:55.0

okay, this is not what I thought.

0:57.0

This is not why I got into politics.

0:58.0

I want to do something different.

1:00.0

A wave of American lawmakers are quitting Congress.

1:03.6

Why?

1:04.6

And what does it mean for US politics?

1:06.8

Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes breaks it all down with Michelle Martin. Welcome to the program everyone. I Christina Wantour in London.

1:33.3

Israel is coming under its most intense scrutiny to date in this war.

1:37.9

After an airstrike kills seven aid workers in Gaza which Israel has called, quote,

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