Christiane Amanpour

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3,829 appearances 20 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 10 Sep

Christiane Amanpour’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files · Is Trump making America weaker? · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

Now, regarding Trump and the White House and the advisors, let's just take uh one of the latest pieces of news that came out. voice-verified

It turns out that people in his own administration, whether it's intelligence, whether it's other Secretary of State Vice President, have warned him, Trump, that this could actually go on to the end of his term. voice-verified

Such are the issues and such is the entrenchment of the Iranians to actually win. voice-verified

win what they want, which is not necessarily money, I'm told, but it is control of the Strait of Homoors and the ability to I don't know what you know, what control apart from money, but nonetheless, uh that is what I'm what I'm told. voice-verified

And it's not the first time, Jamie, that uh the Iranians have voice-verified

Held America hostage literally, remember in 7980 with the actual hostages in Tehran, until the end of an administration. voice-verified

In that case, it was the end of the Carter administration. voice-verified

They made the Democrats pay the Iranians, and on the uh day of Ronald Reagan, the Republicans' uh uh inauguration, the Iranians released all the hostages who they'd been holding for 444 days. voice-verified

So voice-verified

What do you think? voice-verified

I mean could this kind of pain? voice-verified

be as painful as that was all those years ago? voice-verified

So let's uh let's talk about the big issue 'cause we started by asking um voice-verified

Is this whole thing, is Trump, is Hegseth in the Pentagon, uh, making America weaker? voice-verified

It is still the superpower, it is still the most capable military in the world, uh, although there are these uh, you know, ammunition shortages, which is quite dangerous. voice-verified

But nonetheless, it has done a number of successful things in just this last year, whether you agree or not, it managed to go in and lift a unwanted dictator from Venezuela. voice-verified

Venezuela, they managed to voice-verified

Whether you believe it's it's legal or not, they managed to wipe out, you know, several uh well, the top leadership uh in Iran by militarily uh essentially execu well, killing them uh in in in those bombing raids. voice-verified

And they've managed to extract two pilots who did go down in Iran in the early days of the war. voice-verified

So people point to certain highly voice-verified

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