Mahmoud Khalil Speaks to CNN About His 104 Days in ICE Detention

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Free after more than 100 days without charge, Christiane speaks with Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil as the Trump Administration continues its efforts to deport him in what is his first interview on CNN. They speak about the accusations against him, whether the campus protests were antisemetic and about what it was like missing his son's birth while in I.C.E. custody. Then, after New York Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani's stunning victory in the democratic primary, Christiane speaks with Senator Bernie Sanders about whether a new wave of progressive activism is rocking the Democratic party. Plus. with a ceasefire deal on the line, Galia David, mother of Israeli hostage Evyatar David who remains in Gaza, joins Christiane to talk about why she's hopeful for the first time her son will come home. And, thirty years since the Srebrenica massacre took place, Christiane revisits her face-to-face interview with Ratko Mladić, known as the "Butcher of Bosnia," who conducted the genocide, to understand how the world let it happen. She also recalls witnessing the families of the victims looking for closure and coming to bury the bodies of the victims 20 years later. And finally, 40 years since the humanitarian concert event that made history, Christiane takes peek at the road to Live Aid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.6	Hello and welcome to the Amunpur hour.
0:40.3	Here's where we're headed this week.
0:42.3	Free after more than a hundred days in detention without charge.
0:48.3	My conversation with Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil
0:52.3	as the Trump administration continues its efforts to deport him.
0:56.6	Then, is the pro-Palestinian movement fueling a new U.S. progressive street? I ask Senator
1:03.8	Bernie Sanders. Also ahead? This is the first time that I really have hope.
1:09.3	Ghalia David's son Eviatar is still a Hamas hostage,
1:12.6	why she thinks a deal to return them all and end the Gaza war could be closer than ever.
1:18.6	And...
1:19.6	We'd be poor without the Muslims.
1:21.6	It's good to have them around, but in a smaller concentration.
1:24.6	Face to face with the butcher of Bosnia,
1:30.1	30 years since the Srebrenicaa massacre,
1:33.7	we look into my archive to see how the world let it happen and how Mladic and the other architects of that horror
1:36.9	eventually did face justice.
1:39.2	And finally,
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