'The Last Politician'

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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President Biden will soon travel to India for this weekend’s G20 summit in New Delhi, where climate change, economic development, and the war in Ukraine will all be on the agenda. Many of Biden’s fellow world leaders will no doubt be quizzing him on the 2024 presidential election and wondering whether they need to brace for Trump 2.0. One useful source of insight could be a new book, one of the most anticipated political tomes of the year: Franklin Foer’s The Last Politician. It recounts Biden’s first two years in office, from the inauguration to the sweeping domestic legislation, the Afghanistan debacle to his administration’s stalwart support of Ukraine. Foer joins Christiane from New York to discuss. Also on today's show: actor Jodie Foster, author Sung-Yoon Lee To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	Every time everybody writes him off he somehow manages to find a way to arrive at his greatest successes.
0:15.6	A fly-on-the-wall account of Joe Biden's triumphs and failures.
0:20.0	Author Franklin Ford joins me with his All- book on the US President's first two years.
0:26.2	Then, why this CCTV footage could help bring ISIS members to justice,
0:31.2	we bring you an exclusive report. Also ahead.
0:34.4	Since when did we start locking people up without a trial in this country?
0:37.6	Before ISIS there was Al-Qaeda, 9-11 and Guantanamo. We look back at the hit movie about surviving America's most notorious prison
0:47.3	with Jody Foster and lawyer Nancy Hollander in the film The Moritanian. Plus, just how powerful is Kim Jong-un's sister,
0:57.0	Harry Sri-Navas and asks her biographer Sun Yoon Lee. Soon, Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.
1:20.0	One of the most anticipated books of this political cycle is finally out.
1:24.1	The last politician is Franklin Fours account of Biden's first two years in office,
1:29.6	from the inauguration to the many legislative achievements to the Afghanistan
1:34.4	debacle and everything in between. The Atlantic staff writer leaves no
1:39.1	stone unturned in his book and in our conversation.
1:44.0	Franklin 4, welcome to the program.
1:46.6	It's so great to be here.
1:48.0	Franklin, your book is already
1:49.3	being gobbled up for the access you've had,
1:52.0	for the fact that it's being described as the first real deep dive
1:55.2	into this presidency. You call it the last politician. What do you mean calling Joe Biden the last politician?
2:03.4	Well, we live in an age of anti-politics.
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