With Warnings From at Home and Abroad, Is Trump's 'America First' Agenda Working?

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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South Africa's Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola joins Christiane to discuss President Trump snubbing the G20 and the mysterious flights shuttling Palestinians from Gaza to South Africa. Then, retired Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré explains his fear for American democracy in the wake of the White House's immigration crackdown. From Mozambique, CNN's Nick Paton Walsh brings us a report on the sudden ISIS resurgence there in the wake of U.S.A.I.D withdrawal. Plus, movie star Tilda Swinton tells us about her new book "Ongoing" that traces her career and artistic collaborations. And from Christiane's archive, we mark the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials with Chief Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, who witnessed the horrors of World War II and convicted dozens of Nazi leaders. Air date: November 22, 2025 Guests: Ronald Lamola Russel L. Honoré Tilda Swinton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Amunpur hour. Here's where we're headed this week.
0:12.0	First COP 30, now the G20, Trump snubs another crucial summit, this time accusing South African hosts of genocide against white
0:22.7	farmers.
0:23.7	Really?
0:24.7	I asked their foreign minister.
0:26.6	And the Icemen cometh, the dragnet terrorizing immigrant communities as the army patrols
0:32.6	American cities, now retired three-star general Russell Honoré raises the alarm.
0:38.3	We don't do that kind of stuff in America.
0:41.3	It's not normal.
0:43.3	Then...
0:44.3	Brutal violence in Mozambique as ISIS surges in the absence of USAID.
0:52.3	We have a special report.
0:58.1	Also ahead, actor, artist, muse, Oscar winner Tilda Swinton on the collaborations that have defined her career
1:01.1	and the wonder of being weird.
1:03.8	Everybody feels like a freak.
1:05.8	There will be people listening here now
1:07.3	who will say, I never did, not true.
1:09.6	Then...
1:10.2	The trial of Germany's war leaders has moved towards a climax.
1:12.6	80 years since the Nuremberg trials brought justice to senior Nazis from my archives
1:18.6	what the trial's chief prosecutor Ben Forens told me about working one of the most important criminal cases of all time.
1:29.8	Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christian Amunpour in New York this week, another global
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