Firing Line is on the road as host Margaret Hoover sits down with three dissidents during the Human Rights Foundation’s Oslo Freedom Forum in Miami for a discussion on the global fight against human rights abuses.

Hatice Cengiz is the fianceé of slain Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. She has inherited his fight for human rights after his murder three years ago at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in an operation U.S. intelligence says was approved by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. She tells Margaret justice for Jamal means he “shouldn’t be king.”

Former Venezuelan political prisoner Leopoldo Lopez, who was jailed for years for challenging the Maduro regime, explains that “authoritarianism is on the rise” and tells Margaret that the U.S. needs to lead other democracies in opposition. “Americans need to understand that they have a responsibility to the rest of the world to promote and to defend freedom.”

Uyghur activist Jewher Ilham’s father was “symbol of the voice of the Uyghurs” until 2013 when he was detained by Chinese authorities and given a life sentence. Ilham has expanded her fight beyond her father’s case — and is now speaking for more than a million Uyghurs facing similar mistreatment. “What is happening in China to the Uyghurs, it is a humanitarian crisis,” she says, calling for legislative action in Congress.

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Billionaire real estate mogul, sports team owner and civic entrepreneur Frank McCourt discusses his $250 million investment to transform the internet and fix social media’s “broken model.”

Frank McCourt tells host Margaret Hoover “surveillance” capitalism has allowed tech giants like Facebook to “weaponize” user data against them. He says the new blockchain-powered Internet protocol created by Project Liberty, his venture, would give users the ability to control and port their data.

McCourt says a consumer product he is also developing could be ready for use in less than 18 months, and responds to questions about whether he is creating a direct competitor to an existing social media platform.

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Economist Mohamed A. El-Erian explains his concern that inflation exacerbated by the pandemic response will persist and says the Federal Reserve must take action or risk missing “the window.”  

El-Erian tells host Margaret Hoover, "The minute you have a whiff of persistent inflation — and I think we have much more than a whiff right now — you've got to do something about it." El-Erian also breaks down the Evergrande crisis in China, discusses the changing nature of the workforce, and reflects on the “huge shock” his daughter gave him that made him revisit his priorities.  

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Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author George Will joins Firing Line's Margaret Hoover for an in-depth conversation examining the conservative movement from William F. Buckley Jr.’s National Review to today. 

Will, who was hired by Buckley as his Washington editor in 1973, reflects on why he left the Republican Party in 2016 and his belief that many mainstream Republican politicians today are not true conservatives. Will argues that Donald Trump's hold on the Republican Party will not last and says of the former president, "History will pass him by.” Will also talks about his love of baseball, which he calls a “great sport for democracy.” 

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As America marks the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, Rep. Peter Meijer, R-MI, discusses the U.S. exit from Afghanistan, his decision to fly into Kabul amid the evacuation and who should be held accountable for the botched ending of a two-decade war.

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Let. Gen. H.R. McMaster joins host Margaret Hoover to respond to the suicide bombings that killed more than a dozen U.S. service members outside the Kabul airport. American forces will pursue the terrorists “to the ends of the earth,” McMaster says, but the attack shows “the limits of this sort of over-the-horizon approach to counterterrorism.”

Gen. David Petraeus, interviewed the day before the attack, discussed the chaotic withdrawal from America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan and warned of the future terror threat from the region, including from ISIS-K. “The Islamic State is there now...trying to establish a sanctuary, most likely in eastern Afghanistan.”

Support for “Firing Line for Margaret Hoover” is provided by The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation, Robert Granieri, Charles R. Schwab, The David Tepper Charitable Foundation Inc., The Fairweather Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, and Rosalind P. Walter. Corporate funding is provided by Stephens Inc. and Morgan Stanley.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-MN, discusses the explosive growth of big tech and her concerns about mega-mergers and the monopoly power of tech titans like Facebook, Apple and Google. 

Klobuchar, who ran for president in 2020, tells host Margaret Hoover, “I'm not against big companies. I'm against no competition.” She explains why every American should be paying attention, outlines her proposal for antitrust reforms and says a bipartisan solution is possible. 

Support for “Firing Line for Margaret Hoover” is provided by The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation, Robert Granieri, Charles R. Schwab, The David Tepper Charitable Foundation Inc., The Fairweather Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, and Rosalind P. Walter. Corporate funding is provided by Stephens Inc. and Morgan Stanley.

Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-MI, the only Democrat in Congress from a district that voted Republican in the last three presidential elections, discusses division in America, which she says is the country's greatest national security threat. 

A former CIA analyst who served in Iraq, Slotkin describes how her training kicked in during the January 6 Capitol riots and shares her concerns about how prepared the U.S. is to handle future terrorist threats in Afghanistan. 

Slotkin says don’t “let the perfect be the enemy of the good” when it comes to passing legislation, a pragmatic approach that sometimes puts her at odds with the progressives in her caucus. She supports the bipartisan infrastructure deal and is urging a more tailored approach with voting rights to speed up the legislative process. 

Support for “Firing Line for Margaret Hoover” is provided by The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation, Robert Granieri, Charles R. Schwab, The David Tepper Charitable Foundation Inc., The Fairweather Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, and Rosalind P. Walter. Corporate funding is provided by Stephens Inc. and Morgan Stanley.

As America faces a resurgence of COVID-19, epidemiologist Dr. Céline Gounder and Dean of Brown University School of Public Health Dr. Ashish Jha join Margaret Hoover for an extended conversation on the “most contagious, most transmissible” variant yet. 

They explain why Delta is so dangerous, answer questions about vaccines, breakthrough cases and booster shots and offer a frank look at what must be done to bring America — and the world — out of this pandemic. 

Support for “Firing Line for Margaret Hoover” is provided by The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation, Robert Granieri, Charles R. Schwab, The David Tepper Charitable Foundation Inc., The Fairweather Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, and Rosalind P. Walter. Corporate funding is provided by Stephens Inc. and Morgan Stanley.