Outrage Over Leaked Witkoff Call Coaching Russia On How To Sway Trump

Amanpour

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🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry joins Christiane to discuss the leaked phone call which appears to show Trump's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff coaching a Putin aide. They also discuss the administration's 28-point peace plan that would see Ukraine surrender territory to Russia, and Kerry weighs in on Trump's case against military veteran and Democratic Senator, Mark Kelly. Then, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba gives Kyiv's perspective on the Witkoff call controversy. CNN's Hanako Montgomery reports on the mass grave site unearthed in the north of Sri Lanka, reopening painful wounds of a decades long civil war. Plus, renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz on her new book "Women", liberating Michelle Obama, the final photo of John Lennon and her Vogue cover of Timothée Chalamet. And as many celebrate Thanksgiving this week, we look at Christiane's archive piece from 1988, where she joined the charity "God's Love, We Deliver" on their meal train for those in need. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the Ammanpur Hour.
0:09.0	Here's where we're headed this Thanksgiving weekend.
0:13.0	Moscow, Kiev and Washington haggled over how to end the war in Ukraine after leaked reports
0:19.0	revealed Trump's special envoy coaching Russia on how to get its way with the president.
0:24.7	Is this standard diplomacy or a sellout?
0:27.5	Just plunking something down and giving somebody an ultimatum, you have to decide this by Thursday.
0:34.8	Not a great way to begin.
0:36.0	I discussed with former U.S. Secretary of State and long-time negotiator John Kerry
0:40.7	and Ukraine's former foreign minister, Dmitro Kuleba.
0:44.6	Then, a special report from Sri Lanka, a cry for justice as a painful past is unearthed.
0:53.2	Also ahead, photographer to the stars Annie
0:55.8	Liebervitz, why she's pointing her camera at the world's women with a new book, and her
1:01.6	emotional reflections on the frame that launched her into the stratosphere. John and Yoko, just
1:07.4	hours before he was assassinated. I promised John that they were both being on the cover.
1:12.6	And a very special Thanksgiving dinner as a New York charity exceeds 40 million meals delivered.
1:19.6	From my archive, how it got started, helping vulnerable AIDS patients.
1:28.7	Welcome to the program, everyone.
1:30.4	I'm Christiana Manpur in London.
1:32.6	The president may have pardoned Turkey's this Thanksgiving,
1:35.4	but could he be putting Ukraine on the chopping block?
1:38.2	We look at all sides of the administration's so-called peace plan
1:41.5	to end Russia's nearly 12-year war against Ukraine. First, we dive into the
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