Christiane Amanpour is an award-winning journalist and Chief International Correspondent for CNN. She is also the host of Amanpour & Company, a CNN, PBS and WNET collaboration that features conversations with leaders and influencers across the globe.

Christiane and Preet discuss:

Her career as an international correspondent covering war zones

The difference between being truthful and neutral

How to prepare for an interview with a dictator

Reporting on the trial of Saddam Hussein in 1995

References and supplemental materials

The Q&A and the Button

The National Emergencies Act

Trump’s press conference where he declares a National Emergency

Multi-state lawsuit challenging Trump’s National Emergency declaration

An article in the Washington Post on the origin of the National Emergencies Act and its previous uses.

An article from The Atlantic on eminent domain

Chris Wallace interview with Stephen Miller

The NYTarticle, Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trump’s Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling Him

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee

An article in Washington Post on Trump’s (*not Preet’s) $50,000 golf simulator

President Reagan’s remarks at the Ceremony for the Medal of Freedom (1/19/89), and transcript. 

From the interview

Amanpour’s show, Amanpour & Co.

Amanpour’s pinned tweet, “Truthful, not neutral”

Amanpour’s interview with Pres Erdogan and transcript

Amanpour’s interview with President Mugabe, and transcript  

Amanpour’s interview with President Obiang, and transcript

Amanpour’s report on Saddam Hussein’s trial in 2005

Amanpour’s Sex and Love Around the Worldseries

Amanpour reflects on reporting in Bosnia in the 1990s

Amanpour’s reflection on working in the Gulf War pool system

CNN’s rise during the Gulf War

The Hollywood Reporterarticle where Anthony Bourdain calls Amanpour a “badass”

A profile of Anthony Bourdain in The New Yorker

Bourdain’s show, Parts Unknown

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