Right back here. Next week. Hello everyone, and welcome to the amanpour hour. Heres where were headed this week supported by china on by north korea and iran as putin tightens his antiamerican alliance, a former native, you says the west should make sure ukraine doesnt just hang on, with Winds Ukraine should receive and are not justice advice, but actually to win the war, then caught between russia and the west. The president of georgia says putin used to pull her country back into the kremlins Orbit Population here is very well aware of this old russian soviet again, the tweets also this hour bethlehem Bourne Shell Bethlehem born chef friday catan on celebrating palestinian food, but struggling to cook while his people have starved in gaza at a certain moment, commodity has to prevail on were being denied our existence from my archive and earlier war that transformed a small group of Israeli Settlers into a Mass Movement that reshaped this holy land and finally, the super sophisticate
Price. Then go to harrys dr. Hello again and welcome. Its part people. Today were asking after a dramatic week of Michael Cohen on the stand, did trumps former fixer blow the prosecutions case, then debating the debate, our panel weighs in on whats at stake. After this weeks Bombshell Agreement between trump and biden and the final jeopardy category is new format weve got the twist coming to the 60 yearold was shot. The gang is here and ready to go. So sit back, relax, and lets talk about up first after an explosive week of testimony, Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial is wrapping up with Closing Arguments expected as soon as tuesday. It could all hinge on the prosecutions star witness, trumps former fixer, Michael Cohen. He made damaging allegations but trumps team pumped serious holes in his credibility i think theres a very interesting day, fascinating donald trump feeling strong after as lawyer grilled cohen about lying under roe including about this, we to work in the white house . No
Cohen could not be trusted and this entire sham trial has been built on a Foundation Of Sand politicized sand i might add. And today we were proven right, again. In a Bombshell Moment during crossexamination, defense attorney Todd Blanche Masterfully and singlehandedly destroyed what little shred of credibility Michael Cohen may have had left. Now it started earlier this week when cohen testified about an october 24th, 2016 phone call he had with trumps body guard keith schiller. He said he called schiller to talk directly to trump. And he claims that he needed to talk to the boss after he trferredz i mean cohen transferred 130,000 to Stormy Daniels. Well, the entire call lasted 1 1 36 seconds. Text messages from minutes before reveal that cohen wanted to talk to shirley about Something Else entirely. Prank calls from a 14yearold. Blanche says that cohen texted schiller who can i speak to about harassing calls to my cell and office. Shischiller said by calling cohn and texting call me.
sanders told me colleague hallie jackson just on thursday. take a listen. the president has a great deal of respect for secretary mattis. he s going to stay on for another couple of months. i think that s a great indicator of the type of cooperation they have. ambassador, what is with this about-face? what could have possibly changed in just three days? well, it s pretty clear what happened was the letter that general mattis sent to the president. he also put out publicly, it s unclear whether the president knew that was going to happen, and more fundamentally the reaction of the public especially on the congress and in particular among republican senators and congressmen was pretty severe about this. so i think the president realized the news cycles were dominated by this in the last couple of days and so the president decided he will show him, he will get rid of him within a week. so, again, it is an example of the fact that it s not just chaos, but it s also chaos set in motio
anti-americanism that just is sweeping across the globe, especially in the muslim world? so much chaos set loose supposedly over a film that was linked up, but that seems to me to be more of an excuse than anything else. i think it is an excuse. and of course, it tells you first that, as you were reporting, the afghanistan war is not over. it s not settled. the issues are still there. of course, the anti-americanism runs very, very deep. and the problem, the intelligence problem and the policy problem for any government is you can have a handful of people in almost any country spring up and seize embassies or kill diplomats or protest in a way that gets extremely violent. and there s no way to get a