Former US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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President Biden was in Kentucky today, touting last year’s massive infrastructure bill alongside Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. It’s that kind of bipartisanship that’s necessary to support the defense of democracy in Ukraine, whose foreign minister said today that preparations are underway to receive America’s Patriot air defense systems. This after Washington pledged another $45 billion in emergency assistance over the holidays. Every day that aid becomes more critical, as President Zelensky says Russia is digging in for the long haul – including with the bombing of cities and crucial infrastructure. John Sullivan is deeply familiar with the dynamics at play: for almost three years, he served as America’s Ambassador to Russia, and was there as Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine. Also on today's show: An Afghan aid worker with Women for Women International; Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council; Beverly Gage, author of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammonpour here's what's coming up.
0:11.0	Russia mourns the soldiers killed in one of the deadliest strikes on its own forces since
0:16.2	the invasion.
0:17.2	While Ukraine's president says the Kremlin is planning for the long haul.
0:22.3	I get details from my guest the former US
0:24.7	Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan. Plus we call on the Taliban to urgently reverse
0:29.8	this harmful decision. The United States joins the chorus of condemnation after the Taliban bars
0:34.9	women from working at NGOs in Afghanistan. Inside the latest crackdown on the rights of women and girls
0:42.0	and what it reveals about the bitter power struggle
0:44.8	inside that country.
0:46.7	Then he built the security agency and then he used it to really police the boundaries
0:52.2	of what he thought was legitimate in American
0:54.7	democracy. The controversial legacy of J Edgar Hoover, Yale History Professor
0:59.9	Beverly Gage, explains why the former FBI chief targeted everyone from Martin Luther King
1:05.6	Jr. to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wampur in London. Can he get the
1:26.6	votes? That is the big question today on Capitol Hill as Kevin McCarthy tries
1:30.9	again to rebound after hemorrhaging support in his bid to become
1:34.9	House Speaker. The deadlock has ground the gears of government to a halt, but
1:39.9	President Biden wants to show that government can actually work and today he's in
1:44.4	Kentucky touting last year's massive infrastructure bill alongside the
1:49.2	Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Now it is that kind of bipartisanship that's necessary
1:54.8	to support another democracy that's the one in Ukraine. Its foreign minister said
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