Samantha Power (Extended) | Amb. Linda Thomas-Greenfield

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this extended interview with Samantha Power, the head of the United States Agency for International Development explains what her agency accomplishes around the world on behalf of the American people, and why the United Nations is still a crucial venue for the world to connect and work together to solve problems (Original Air Date: September 20th, 2022). And U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield tells Stephen that China will become “part of that problem” if they support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by providing lethal weapons (Original Air Date: February 27th, 2023). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If the late show's hot show with Stephen Colvin.
0:07.0	Ladies and gentlemen, my next guest is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who spent
0:13.7	four years as UN ambassador and is currently the administrator of USAID.
0:18.8	Please welcome back to the late show Samantha Power.
0:22.2	Nice to see you again.
0:26.4	Nice digs.
0:27.4	Yeah, it is.
0:28.4	Nice digs, isn't it?
0:29.9	No, you actually have, have you physically been here since COVID or was it only over
0:34.5	Zoom for a long time?
0:35.7	Zoom, zoom.
0:36.7	Nice.
0:37.7	We did.
0:38.7	Nice to see you again.
0:39.7	Welcome back to the friendly confines.
0:40.7	Amazing.
0:41.7	Last summer, I guess, over Zoom, UNI discussed President Biden's pledge to send COVID vaccines
0:47.4	around the world.
0:48.4	And USAID, of course, is part of the administration and distribution of that.
0:53.1	What do you make of President Biden saying that the pandemic is over?
0:56.5	Do you think he got that right?
0:58.1	Because there's been some backpattling at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and go ahead and
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