Steve Bannon exits stage right as America tries to make sense of the events in Charlottesville, Fareed & a panel discuss whether some sort of civil war is in the offing in the United States today, CNN's national security analyst Peter Bergen on the use of
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🗓️ 20 August 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We'll start the show with Steve Bannon, exiting stage right. |
| 0:06.3 | What will a Trump administration look like without the president's chief strategist? |
| 0:10.9 | Will a deeply divided country become slightly less so or has the dye already been cast? |
| 0:18.3 | Then more vehicles used as weapons, the Spain attacks. |
| 0:22.8 | Is there any way to protect against such acts of terror? |
| 0:26.8 | Is this the new normal? |
| 0:28.4 | I'll talk to Peter Bergen. |
| 0:30.4 | Also, no one has done better than Germany in tackling an ugly past. |
| 0:36.4 | Can America learn any lessons from it? |
| 0:40.1 | And President Trump and the nuclear deal with Iran. |
| 0:43.2 | Lee Stupider's deal of order. |
| 0:45.5 | Why the president's disgust with that deal could lead to a major showdown next month. |
| 0:53.2 | But first, here's my take. |
| 0:55.1 | Much of America has reacted swiftly and strongly to Donald Trump's grotesque suggestion that |
| 1:00.8 | there is a moral equivalence between the white supremacists who converge last weekend on |
| 1:05.5 | Charlottesville, Virginia, and those who protested against them. |
| 1:09.9 | But the delayed, qualified, and often nearly mouthed reactions of many in America's leadership |
| 1:15.3 | class tell a disturbing story about the country's elites, and the reason we are living in an |
| 1:20.9 | age of populist rebellion. |
| 1:23.9 | The least respected of today's leaders are, of course, politicians. |
| 1:27.9 | The public largely views them as craving and cowardly, pandering to polls and focus groups. |
| 1:33.4 | And that is how too many Republican officials have behaved in the face of Trump's words |
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