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GOP snatches defeat from the jaws of victory after tanking border bill

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Playing politics or playing with fire? As the Republican Party tanks a border security deal it spent months demanding, Christiane asks former GOP lawmaker Will Hurd what his party stands for, and whether it's ready to reap what it sows in November. Hurd accuses Donald Trump of using the border crisis as a “political tool,” and agrees that his competency is in doubt after a string of low-energy rambles. He also tells Christiane that Putin is an adversary, despite what “nuts like Tucker Carlson'' say. Then, veteran democratic political strategist Simon Rosenberg reveals what the polls aren’t telling you about “damaged goods'' Donald Trump - and why the GOP implosion on the border crisis is another major win for Democrats. CNN Senior International Correspondent Fred Pleitgen shows us the remarkable resilience of Ukraine’s war-weary children, forced to learn in subterranean “bunker schools,” as Putin’s war rages overhead. In the Amanpour Archive this week - a look at a transformative time in Iran, the homeland where Christiane grew up and then left after the 1979 islamic revolution, which took place 45 years ago this week. Then, in her Letter from London, Christiane stops in at Kim's Convenience - the award-winning comedy-drama which became a major Netflix sensation - that has just made a triumphant return to the stage. Christiane talks to the show's creator and star Ins Choi, along with cast-mates Miles Mitchell and Jennifer Kim. And finally in Ask Amanpour - why AI doesn’t have to be scary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Ammonpour hour. Here's where we're headed this week.

0:14.8

Playing politics or playing with fire,

0:17.4

the Republican Party tanks a border security deal

0:20.7

that it had spent months demanding.

0:23.0

That is the kind of chaos that Donald Trump instills.

0:26.4

Then competency test.

0:28.2

You have voter ID to buy a loaf of bread.

0:30.7

You have ID to buy a loaf of bread.

0:32.7

What the polls aren't telling you about Donald Trump's re-election chances,

0:36.8

also ahead.

0:38.8

The remarkable resilience of Ukraine's war weary children still forced into

0:47.3

subterranean schools. And then from my archive the Islamic Revolution came

0:52.3

to Iran 45 years ago this weekend.

0:55.6

Twenty years later, there was hope for reform.

0:58.5

Democracy in Iran is literally being born in these newspapers.

1:02.8

The struggle continues today.

1:04.8

And finally, the edgy little play that could.

1:08.0

Kim's convenience comes full circle

1:10.4

as it lights up London with its slice of Asian life.

1:14.0

Welcome to the program everyone.

1:19.0

I'm Christina Manpur in London.

1:21.0

The world is once again watching a Congress in disarray with

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