Trump Moves to Gut USAID & Takeover Gaza

Amanpour

CNN

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Trump and Musk are all but razing the U.S. federal government. This week, USAID, a critical arm of U.S. soft power around the world was effectively dismantled and a purge of the FBI and CIA appear well underway. Christiane speaks with Matthew Bartlett, former Trump appointee to the State Department about the President's latest shake-up in Washington. Then, as the White House walks back some of Trump's comments about Gaza's future, while regional powers outright reject his proposal, Mustafa Barghouti, President of the Palestinian National Initiative Party joined Christiane from Ramallah with the Palestinian rresponse. And to explore whether there is any hope left for a two-state solution, Christiane sits down with Daniel Levy, president of the U.S.-Middle East Project and an adviser in the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who put forward the most far reaching Israeli proposal at the doomed Camp David Summit nearly a quarter of a century ago. Also, as Trump signals openness to Israeli annexation of the West Bank this weel, Christiane revisits her 2007 report about the rise of Israel's extremist religious settler movement. And finally, with less than a month until the Academy Awards, Mikey Madison joins Christiane to discuss her breakout performance in "Anora," where she plays a Brooklyn sex worker who falls in love with the son of a Russian Oligarch. She's up for an Oscar having already earned nominations for best actress at every major awards ceremony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.3	Hello everyone and welcome to the Amunpur hour. Here's where we're headed this week.
0:42.3	It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn't want to return.
0:48.3	Why would they want to return?
0:50.3	It's been a week of utter confusion in Washington and abroad. as Trump vows the U.S. will have control of Gaza,
0:58.5	while also ordering a full-on purge at USAID, the arm of vital U.S. soft power.
1:04.7	The notion of closing and extinguishing USAID is more than dangerous. It is deadly.
1:11.2	Trump's former State Department appointee Matthew Bartlett joins me.
1:14.9	And the Palestinians tell Trump no thanks.
1:17.8	President Trump thinks he can steal our land.
1:21.5	Politician Mustafa Barguti says the shock plan amounts to ethnic cleansing.
1:26.7	He joins me from the occupied West Bank.
1:29.3	Then has Trump signaled the end of any two-state solution? I asked former Israeli-Palestinian
1:35.5	negotiator Daniel Levy. And last but not least.
1:39.3	It's a pretty small piece of land. Trump again dangles annexing all Palestinian lands
1:46.0	from my archives the history of occupation
1:49.0	and Israel's religious extremist settler movement.
1:52.0	And finally, we go to the movies.
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