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Amanpour

Takeaways From Trump's Middle East Trip

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.2929 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

With Israel conspicuously absent from Trump's first major Middle East trip, Christiane speaks with Biden's former Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman about the ethical concerns surrounding his overseas deals and meetings, the U.S. role in the war in Gaza, and new revelations about efforts by Biden's inner circle to conceal his decline ahead of the election. Then, Ukraine's former Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, speaks to Christiane about what the country should reasonably expect and where the crisis stands now after Putin was a no-show for ceasefire talks in Turkey. Clare Sebastian reports on Russia's propaganda campaign to maintain its grip on the occupied Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. And, as the war in Gaza continues with no ceasefire in sight, Israeli Alon Lee-Green and Palestinian citizen of Israel, Rula Daood, co-directors of "Standing Together", a Jewish-Arab movement for peace, discuss their hopes for ending the conflict, and shared activism. Also, as the first group of white South Africans landed as welcome refugees in the U.S. this week, from Christiane's archive, her 1997 report on the long post-apartheid path to reconciliation in the country.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.2

I've seen tremendous unity, tremendous friendship,

0:44.8

and the whole world is watching the Middle East.

0:47.5

Wheeling and dealing in the Middle East,

0:49.4

takeaways from Trump's first major overseas trip.

0:52.6

And did Joe Biden really hand him the presidency?

0:55.5

I ask his former Deputy Secretary of State, Wendy Sherman.

0:59.1

There was no presidential decision that appeared to me to be part of any kind of cognitive

1:04.8

decline.

1:05.7

Then, is Putin playing chess or chicken?

1:09.1

After this week's ceasefire talks in Turkey, Ukraine's former

1:12.4

foreign minister, Dmitro Kuleber joins me.

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