Introducing: Christiane Amanpour Presents The Ex Files with Jamie Rubin
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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If you love The News Agents USA, then we think you'll love The Ex Files with Christiane Amanpour, where she and her ex-husband Jamie Rubin - a former US State Department official - unpack today’s defining global crises. Drawing on decades of insider experience in global affairs, reporting from conflict zones and grilling world leaders, they explain how we ended up where we are – and where we might be going.
In this episode they discuss why Trump thinks he can force Ukraine to accept a 'surrender document' that hands Putin almost everything he wants. Plus Trump and Mamdani's first meeting in the Oval Office and how tech bros have muscled their way into US politics.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | Hi everyone, just a quick note to say we're taking a short Christmas break to recharge and eat ourselves silly and get ready for an exciting new year of episodes. |
| 0:15.7 | But if you love our show and are looking for something great to listen to in the meantime, check out Christian Ammanpour presents The X-Files with Jamie Rubin. |
| 0:24.4 | Here's one of their latest episodes which we think you'll love. |
| 0:28.2 | Enjoy Christmas and we've got a few special shows for you over the Christmas break. |
| 0:32.8 | And we'll be back in full swing on the 5th of January. |
| 0:39.4 | Literally horrified I was last week when I heard this leaked so-called peace plan for Ukraine. |
| 0:45.1 | I don't know what idiots they take us to be or the Ukrainian people. |
| 0:49.1 | Russia wakes up every morning and attacks them and tries to take more territory and invades |
| 0:54.0 | villages and attacks them with drones and missiles more territory and invades villages and attacks |
| 0:55.2 | them with drones and missiles all over the country. Putin doesn't want to stop the war. He still |
| 0:59.2 | thinks he can win. |
| 1:00.8 | When they started hearing about this peace plan, peace plan, I hate even using that word, this 28-point |
| 1:07.2 | surrender document. Why have we handed our public square to Chinese companies and to American tech bosses? |
| 1:14.8 | What have we done? |
| 1:16.3 | Mamdani and Trump in the Oval Office scrambled everybody's brains. |
| 1:21.6 | Nobody could believe it. |
| 1:23.0 | It was a masterclass in outfoxing the expectations. |
| 1:30.3 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to the latest episode of The X-Files with me, Christiana Manpur, in London. |
| 1:36.3 | And Jamie Rubin in New York State, former official in two state departments, one under Clinton, |
| 1:42.2 | one under Biden. |
| 1:43.4 | Yes, and I'm a longtime CNN reporting in the field, wars, Clinton, one under Biden. Yes, and I'm a long-time CNN reporting in |
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