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Amanpour

Leon Panetta on the classified docs dilemma

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Former presidents and vice presidents will be told to check their personal records for classified documents after some were found at the Indiana home of former vice president Mike Pence. It’s the latest discovery in a growing controversy that has led to many questions, including what actually constitutes a classified document, what the process is when a president leaves office, and whether the system is working. Leon Panetta has served as a presidential chief of staff, defense secretary, and director of the CIA, and joins the show from California.  Also on today's show: Dmitri Alperovitch, Co-founder, Silverado Policy Accelerator Think Tank; Kara Swisher, Host, “Pivot”  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 Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:08.0

People need to be conscious of the rules regarding classified information and appropriate

0:14.6

handling of them.

0:15.6

Those rules are there for a reason.

0:17.3

The growing controversy around classified documents, Trump, Biden, and now Pence.

0:23.0

But how do these cases differ?

0:25.0

Does the law go too far?

0:26.0

And what are the implications?

0:28.0

Former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta joins us.

0:32.0

Then, as Ukraine prepares for the next phase of the war,

0:37.0

the West continues to punish Russia.

0:39.4

But are sanctions working?

0:41.4

Plus, they're trying to figure out their businesses when the prospects aren't as good.

0:45.2

Is the tech industry in trouble?

0:47.8

Journalist Kara Swisher decodes the headlines.

0:50.3

And finally, these tapes, this show, The Devil's Confession, will stand against Holocaust deniers that still exists till this day.

1:00.0

On Holocaust Memorial Day, we look back at our interview with Gariv Moser about his documentary, The Devil's Confession,

1:07.5

exposing the heinous crimes of Adolf Eichmann, chief architect of Hitler's Final Solution. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Bianna Galadriguez in Washington sitting in

1:29.7

for Christiane Amanpur. Here in the United States, ex-presidents and vice presidents will be told to check their

1:35.8

personal records for classified documents.

1:38.4

It comes after some were found at the Indiana home of former Vice President Mike Pence.

1:43.3

It is just the latest discovery and a growing controversy in broiling American politics.

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