Two Former World Leaders on Trump's Tariffs

Amanpour

CNN

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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As Donald Trump's historic tariffs trigger a global trade war, two former leaders join the show to discuss what this means for their countries and the world: Sanna Marin was Prime Minister of Finland-- she knows the threat posed by Russia all too well; and Juan Manuel Santos, the former president of Colombia, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 for his role in bringing the country's decades long conflict to an end. Also on today's show: actors Tom Basden and Tim Key on the new feel-good film "The Ballad of Wallis Island"; former US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.4	Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up. In many cases, the friend is worse than the foe in terms of trade.
0:41.3	Trump's war on allies, no corner of the world is spared.
0:45.3	How to handle a destabilizing American president?
0:48.5	I asked the former leaders of Finland and Colombia.
0:52.1	Then, welcome to Wallace Island.
0:53.7	No, no, no! No! No!
0:56.6	Do you sell rice? My fire got wet?
0:58.5	We got pasta.
0:59.8	Has to be rice, apparently.
1:01.3	Oh, you've got rice pudding, look.
1:02.9	A bomb for troubled times.
1:05.0	My conversation with the stars of Feel Good Film
1:07.8	that isn't trying to tell us anything.
1:10.0	Tim Key and Tom Bazden of The Ballad of Wallace Island.
1:13.9	Plus, the American people want a shot,
1:15.7	and they want the children have a shot at the American Dream,
1:17.7	and all they have gotten out of Washington is a chat.
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