in line. and so being that rich allows him the kind of space that you might not get with trump. and so in this case, ellen does have the upper hand and will be able to stay in there, despite the fact that other billionaires will try to make incursions. and so it's going to last a little bit longer. it could boast, are tolerant of shamelessness and forgiveness for heinous behavior. >> and i think trump appreciates the power of x in the media landscape. everyone, thank you very much. and you can catch wendell in the hit cbs series elsbeth and in starz network's raising cain. and starting march 7th, thank you very much for watching table for five. you can catch me every weeknight, 10 p.m. eastern with our news night roundtable. but in the meantime, cnn's coverage continues right now. >> hello, everyone, and welcome to the amanpour hour. here's where we're headed this week.

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and from my archive, how america's evangelicals laid the groundwork for today's fight over reproductive rights. welcome to the program, everyone. i'm christiane amanpour in london. donald trump has been in office a week and already the strong arm of the u.s. president is making itself felt around the world. out of the world health organization, out of the paris climate accords again and gone for 90 days. all u.s. foreign assistance. while he checks whether it meets his policy goals, aiming tariffs at china and the americas, threatening to occupy territory and end wars at the same time. but he's facing pushback already. kremlin allies have already rejected trump's attempt to tax, sanction and tariff putin into ending the ukraine war. sir john sawers came into the studio here to help sort out where the world is headed as a new era of competition, instead of cooperation seems to be taking shape. sawers was chief

of the uk's mi6 intelligence agency and also ambassador to the un. to your mind, is there a trump doctrine? is there a plan? >> i don't think there's a trump. >> doctrine yet. i think what. >> we have is a is an approach to the rest of the world. obviously, america first is the is the starting point of that. i think he also has a sort of belief in spheres of influence. he likes and admires to some extent, other powerful leaders. and i think some of this stuff which we've taken surprised by perhaps on greenland and panama and so on, is about consolidating america's sphere of influence over the western hemisphere and we'll see what the approach is going to be on europe, on ukraine, on the middle east and on china. but it's step by step at this stage. i don't think there's an overall global plan. >> okay, so on that issue, before we get to greenland and some of the other, you know, the strongest survive business, he

has just tweeted a message to russia and to putin himself. and these are just a couple of the things we've pulled out. i'm not looking to hurt russia. i love the russian people and always had a very good relationship with president putin. then if we don't make a deal and soon, i have no other choice but to put high levels of taxes, tariffs and sanctions on anything being sold by russia to the united states and various other participating countries. so they're already very heavy sanctions. they haven't really worked in the way that i think the west thought they would. and according to experts, russia doesn't sell much to the u.s. that's correct. okay. so what about this tweet? >> well, i think it's a statement of intent towards president putin to take a tougher approach than perhaps some people have expected. as you say, taxes and tariffs aren't going to make any difference to to putin because there's no us-russian trade of any substance sanctions. well, then you'd have to interrupt russia's oil exports to countries like india and china. now that would

take quite a quite a heavy lifting to do that. the biden administration. won't happen. the biden administration avoided doing that because they didn't want to raise the global price of oil. he launched this war in order to destroy the independence of the ukrainian state. ukrainians are resisting, fighting for their very existence. i think the answer if president putin is not prepared to reach some form of fair deal or recognizing what this, you know, freezing the conflict on the on the present border, if he's not prepared even to do that, then the only real answer for the united states, the u.s. president, is to reinforce the level of military support for ukraine and provide the weapons and wherewithal to enable ukraine to defend itself against the russian invasion. >> the french foreign minister and other officials. when trump started talking about buying greenland and, you know, taking the panama canal, essentially, it looks like the americans are going to go in for the survival of the strongest, the very darwinian. i put this

interaction to outgoing secretary of state antony blinken two days before the end of the administration. just take a listen. what do you think, then, would be the consequence if president trump pulled a putin, so to speak, and annexed greenland or invaded canada or mexico or whatever? >> this this is not going to happen. and so, um, of course not a good idea to begin with, but not much point really spending time talking about it because it's not going to happen. we have a very strong relationship, of course, with denmark, which is, after all, a nato ally. i've been to greenland myself very early in my term. we have a military base there that that's critical. we have important economic relationships and those can grow deeper and stronger. that would be a good thing. but not not by taking the route that you just described. >> i guess you agree, even though historically, you know, going back to truman and before they've talked about it. but again, it was a completely

different era with different challenges. >> i think the right way forward is for the united states and canada, which is obviously closely involved in this. and denmark, to find some form of agreement which strengthens, um, the, the greenland's anchoring in the west and doesn't allow the russians and the chinese to manipulate the small and greenland population. >> so, so to that, you know, to that idea of, of of intelligence and what it does to china and all the rest of it. are you concerned or to the u.s., are you concerned by all the the facts surrounding the nominee for the for the director of national intelligence? um, tulsi gabbard. she's basically, you know, has to answer for her pro-russia pro-syria, you know, conversations. s does. >> what does it mean for the united states to have that? i mean, in the past, that person before the senate for

confirmation. >> i think that's right. and i think senators have got a lot of responsibility to ensure that only people who are suited to top jobs get through to them, especially those in the most sensitive areas. and the united states is the most powerful intelligence community in the world. and one of its biggest challenges is russia. and another is the biggest challenge is, is china. well, to have someone who's a director of national intelligence who basically takes a very pro-russian approach, well, that strikes me as very difficult, and it makes it difficult for america's partners as well. how do you deal with an intelligence community where the the most senior figure in it, or the cabinet member in it is basically sympathetic to our biggest enemy? >> we'll have to have you come back, hopefully to talk about the relationship with with the uk, the special relationship, because this administration, certainly elon musk, is already casting aspersions, but we'll have that conversation. >> that's another day. and i wouldn't take it too seriously if i were you. >> all right. well, from your

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east makeover with peace, security and sovereignty for all. so i want to ask you what you think marco rubio will be like as secretary of state. he is an effectively a mainstream, traditional republican. is he, you think, going to be all in on trump foreign policy or is there are there going to be problems, like with rex tillerson, who eventually resigned? >> so i think first we need to clarify what trump foreign policy actually is. he wants to put an end to what he called the continuing catalog of crises overseas, and his direction, for that matter, to marco rubio, to put american interests first, contrasted with some of the actions that he has taken on day one that you referred to, as well as some of the statements by, for example, u.s. ambassador to the un in coming elise stefanik, or for that matter, marco rubio. you know, with stefanik saying, for example, that she believes israel has a biblical right to

all of the west bank. and marco rubio talking about this unconditional support for israel. i think the question there is is that putting america first, and where is president trump going to land on this and other thorny issues? so i don't think we can really say what role marco rubio will play until we know exactly what direction his boss is going in. >> you were particularly, you know, central to a lot of the dissent around the previous administration's policy on the current war and the crisis there. how do you think the trump administration is going to take forward the current u.s. policy? >> so i think this is really one of the important questions right now, because the conflict, the attacks by israel on gaza, the conflict in the middle east was one of the defining issues of the biden administration, one of the defining failures of the biden administration. i think president trump comes to office with he and his team having played an important role in getting to the cease fire that

we are at now. i think the question needs to be asked of, and the first test will be, does that ceasefire hold? do we get to phase two of the planned ceasefire, or do we slip back into conflict? i think that the developments already in the west bank, for example, with israel's issuance of evacuation orders to palestinians in the west bank, is very concerning. there is also, i think, a tension within the circles around president trump where on the one hand, you have a growing number of americans, including in president trump's base and i would argue as well, a common sense that says we need to reevaluate our policy towards israel. it is no longer make sense, if it ever did, to provide israel with unconditional support. we need to start thinking about conditions that align israel's actions with american foreign policy. or is he going to listen to elise stefanik and stephen. miller? >> stephen miller clearly has an historically has had trump's ear, so that that is going to be

a very interesting. but let's drill down a little bit. how do you think and why do you think the biden administration, for instance, allowed, from your perspective, the leahy act not to be fully, you know, fully respected? >> so, first of all, it wasn't, of course, just the biden administration. the leahy law has been on the books since 1997, and there have been no administration since that time that has properly applied it to israel, israel being the exception. and under the biden administration, a whole process was created that was exceptional for israel. and so i think what we face is actually a deep structural problem, a deep systemic problem within u.s. politics that is not going to shift, not going to change overnight with any one president, with any one change in administration. this is something that i think americans are going to have to work at shifting for many election cycles and many years to come to be a part of that, to to drive that change is why i and one of the others who resigned from the biden

administration, tariq habash, formed a new policy. this is an organization that is dedicated to shifting american policies and politics, so that they align with our interests and with our values when it comes to u.s. policy towards israel and palestine. and that's the organization that recently put out a report not in america's interest, outlining exactly why our current policy of unconditional support for israel isn't in america's interest. >> so my question to you is, do you think your new initiative has any teeth or any chance at all? >> yes, i do, because i think, first of all, the tide is turning. we have the wind at our back. we have, first of all, a significant shift in american public opinion about u.s. policy to israel over the course, particularly of the last 15 months, we are seeing countries and people around the world accuse us of hypocrisy and express a preference. for example, in southeast asia, we've seen polls in the last year for the first time expressing a preference for partnership with the people's republic of china over the

united states of america precisely because of our support for israel in gaza. i think those factors, combined with an organized, informed, professional effort, can shift things in america. it will take time. >> you resigned even though there is a dissent channel in the state department, which i asked outgoing secretary of state blinken about when i conducted his last interview. that was last week. >> i more than respect i deeply value the fact that we have people in this department and in our system who have different views and speak up, speak out. we have something called a dissent channel in the state department where people object to a policy we're pursuing. they can send me a note, a memo, a detailed brief, and and i see it, i read it, i respond to it. and i've gotten, i don't know, a couple of dozen when it comes to gaza, as well as other issues. that is a cherished tradition in this department. and i wanted to make sure that people feel that they can do that. and it's also affected our

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with all its military might, israel has in fact seen hamas recruit almost as many new fighters as it has eliminated, and was surprised to see hamas in full gear, taking charge of the hostage handover. so what's next for palestinians in gaza after the first phase of the cease fire? will hamas continue to rule? what, if any, is the future role of the palestinian authority there? for answers, i spoke with husam zomlot. he's head of the palestinian mission here in the uk. welcome back to the program. i guess a couple of things. president trump has claimed credit for, for this ceasefire and even some hamas political officials in various forums have said that. yeah, i mean, he concentrated people's minds. now he's saying that he's not so sure his envoy, steve witkoff, apparently plans to go to gaza to make sure things are holding. what do you think? >> i think. it did show. >> the last few. >> days that when the u.s. has

the leadership and the will to change things, it happens. it's as simple as that. and therefore we want to continue seeing that leadership and that will because what we have stopped was carnage catastrophic in every sense. and we shall not see that again happening. we need to move forward and we need to use the momentum now and turn this tragedy into an opportunity. >> so let me just ask you, because as you've heard, the israeli officials have said they're going into around jenin and other places to do what they did in gaza. in other words, remove terrorism and its infrastructure. and there is a fact and i think the pa has said it and, you know, has said hamas is sending operatives to the west bank with weapons and where it's losing in in gaza, it's reinforcing in the west bank. is that a problem for the government there that you represent the palestinian authority? >> of course. >> it's a problem. and israel is set on one thing to undermine the palestinian government and

to undermine with it any possibility of a two state solution. you have been following that the settlement expansion is mushrooming. you are seeing the settler terrorism only two nights ago, burning many villages around ramallah. you are seeing the erection of new checkpoints all over the west bank. now you have almost 900 checkpoints and roadblocks all over the west bank. this is unprecedented. >> hamas put on a show of force during the exchange. it's freaked everybody out in israel. they've said, look, our war aims were not achieved. hamas is still in charge. we wanted to make sure they're not in charge. and there they are with their bandannas and balaclavas and, i don't know, weapons. complete show of force there. what was the point of that? do you think so? you think how helpful is that to you? >> that's that's a cause of reflection in the part of israel. exactly. because after 15 months of genocide, of mass murder and destruction, this is what they. >> get, right? and according to the u.s., they're recruiting as many new as they have lost. but

my point is, how does it help the situation going forward? how does it help you who are not a hamas? nick? >> well, this isn't about hamas. we've said it from day one. this is about the root cause, christiane. and so long as we think hamas or all other palestinian political groupings are the cause of the conflict, we will never get anywhere. they are the product of the conflict. and short of israel realizing that it will keep creating and repeating the same situation as it has been doing for 76 years, the only option israel has right now is violence. they have no other. >> option but the only option you all have. also, if you want a plan as espoused by, you know, people who can support you is to have a reformed pa. i mean, basically, i assume you admit that they're ossified. i mean, it's just a catastrophe. it's a catastrophe. your leadership. where do you think the big palestinian political program needs to start and end. >> with the palestinian people?

start and end. it's the palestinian people that have to decide and will decide on their own leaderships. the palestinian people have their national institutions. they have a state recognized by the international community. that state is occupied. they have a government of that state that is the plo. the palestine liberation organization. >> is it effective? >> and they have, of course, it is effective because it represents it has the legitimacy. you have to separate between performance effectiveness, the need for reform, all legitimate. >> and is. deeply legitimate. >> and and democratization among our own institutions. and between legitimacy, the only legitimate umbrella of the palestinian people representation is the plo. and that is uncontested by any palestinian. these institutions exist. we need to make sure that they are empowered and there, and we need to make sure that the process of election is convened and we need to remove israel's veto over our democratic process. and there is a prerequisite for that, christiane, we cannot convene perfect democracy under the boots of the occupation. we've

tried many times. the israeli occupation has got to be in there, that this is the time to unify the west bank and gaza and let the palestinians lead their own future. >> husam zomlot, representative of the palestinians, to the mission here. thank you very much indeed. coming up, some hard truths with legendary filmmaker mike lee and actress marianne jean-baptiste. >> the whole story. with anderson cooper is a five time emmy winner for long. >> form journalism. >> this week, a whole story, exclusive operation panda the whole story with anderson cooper tomorrow at eight on cnn. >> oh, it's. >> cold outside. >> time to protect your vehicle from winter's wrath. of course, the hot sun can be tough on vehicles, too. you need weathertech laser measured floor liners and cargo liner will shield the carpeting from sand and snow for your interior. there. seat protector and sunshade. plus mudflaps and bump step for the exterior impact

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harassed by people all day. i'm sick to death of it. i just want it to all stop now. >> the last time leigh teamed up with jean-baptiste was back in 1996. she was nominated for an oscar for best supporting actress in his secrets and lies. and they both joined me here on set in london to talk about character led dramas and leigh's unique creative process. mike leigh and marianne jean-baptiste. welcome to the program. thank you. thank you. here is another in your series of examining the human condition, for want of a better word. how do you pitch this when you want to go to wherever you go to get the financing? there's no plot. there's no script yet. you don't have it all done yet. and you want to just tell an ordinary story about human beings. what do they say? the studios? >> well, first of all, the question is, what do i say? i say there's no script with no script. i can't tell you what

it's about. i can't tell you about the casting. um, can't tell you anything about it at all. i'm pleased. don't interfere with it while we're making it. so it's very straightforward. either they say fantastic. great. here's the money. go away. make a film or, as in a majority of cases, they tell us to get lost and they don't want to know. or, um, the big boys like. netflix ish will say, we love what you do. we respect your films, but not for us. not for us. is code for we can't get involved with something which we can't interfere with. we can't screw up. we can't change the script. we can't dictate the casting, et cetera. so i don't even in terms of your question, i don't even get as far as saying it's about life or it's about this woman or none of that, because we do embark when we make the films and we made this film hard truths, no exception. we embark on a journey of discovery as to what the film is by making it.

>> and i'm going to ask you about that journey, because it is actually fascinating and unique in the film world. but, marianne, and how does the director pitch it to you? i mean, obviously you've worked with mike leigh before, but the first time. okay. so when he said this probably to you as well. >> well, yeah. >> i mean you get i want to work with you. um, there's no script. you won't know what you're doing in it. um, you won't know anything that your character wouldn't know. but we'll have a great time. >> so let's play the first clip that we have. >> it's a scam. they're scamming people. can't trust them. they want your phone number, your email. i asked one of them. i said, why do you want my postcode? i might as well just give you my front door key so you can break into my house for my things and kill my only child, and nobody calls the police on them. please

won't come anyway. they're too busy harassing black boys walking. >> so she's, you know, she's being encountered on the street and she has this reaction. um, what's happening there in terms of her, how she reacts to people. she's a bit misanthropic or panicked and troubled. plus, you see throughout the film that she does not have a solid relationship with her husband and son. >> well, i just think that she's somebody who is terribly unhappy and views the world. she's an observant person, but her observations are very subjective and judgmental. do you know what i mean? we've all been to the supermarket and wanted to sort of creep past people that were, you know, asking for donations or what have you, you know, because you're in a hurry or what have you. and we don't get irate about it. well, pansy does, because, you know, the whole world and people and things either upset her or scare her. you know. >> now i want to know because

you are legendary. and as you say, there may be misconceptions or the mythology about the improvizational mandate that you that you bring to the set. so i think some people would think maybe even i thought that, you know, you get your cast, you bring them to to a lot of unknowns. as you describe, turn on the cameras and you shoot forever until you get it right. but it's not like that, right? >> absolutely isn't. it's the other end of the spectrum. this is absolutely not that at all. what you never on the screen see actors improvising or very, very rarely in certain moments, maybe out in the street in the real world, but very, very it's hardly hardly happens at all. we arrive at something very precise. i don't go away and write a script on paper or on my laptop and bring it back. um, we script through rehearsal. we start with improvising, and we only do that in the location, scene by scene, sequence by sequence. after a long period of developing the characters and

the premise of the film, we script through rehearsal until it's very precise. we do that without the crew there. the film crew, the film crew joins us again, and we look at it and decide how to shoot it, and we shoot it. so it is very, very distilled, very precise. and in that sense, for far be it for me to say, but it's kind of classical cinema, really. it's not. it's not ad lib. um, found cinema. it's not handheld and all that stuff. >> all right. mike lee, marianne jean-baptiste, thank you so much for coming in. >> thank you. >> thank you. hard truths is out now in theaters across the united states. it'll be here in the uk at the end of the month, and you can see my extended interview with lee and jean-baptiste online. still to come. he oversaw the end of roe versus wade in his first term. but trump says there would be no federal ban on abortion in his second. that doesn't mean women still aren't worried. so on roe's 52nd anniversary, we go

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president trump said that he thinks god has delivered him for this task. >> my life was saved for a reason. i was saved by god to make america great again. >> comments that thrilled his evangelical base and also concerned many who fear losing some hard won rights, like, for instance, die trans rights. when trump in his inaugural declared the u.s. government would henceforth recognize only two genders, leading one american bishop to plead for clemency. >> in the name of our god. i ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. >> now, among other scared people, are women who wonder about their reproductive rights already in dire straits since roe versus wade was overturned by many, trump installed supreme court justices in 2022, stripping women across the nation of the right to a safe abortion. roe became federal law

52 years ago this week, and ever since, abortion access has been target number one of america's evangelicals. so from my archive, how the powerful televangelist reverend jerry falwell wrote the playbook for this fight and followed it through right up until he died, which was just one week after i interviewed him for this report to the end, reverend jerry falwell continued to connect liberal beliefs to islamic terrorism, such as blaming the attacks of september 11th on the prevalence of abortion in america. you know, you caused a huge amount of controversy after nine over 11 when you basically said that the lord was removing his protection from america. >> i don't believe that. i believe that a country. >> that and that america probably deserved it. >> here's what i said. what? no, i said that the people are responsible, must take the blame for it. >> you did. >> you went on to say what i've.

>> just said. killing a million babies a year in this country by abortion. and i was saying then, i'm saying now that if we in fact change all the rules on which this judeo-christian nation was built, we cannot expect the lord to put his shield of protection around us as he has in the past. >> so you still stand. >> by that? i stand right by it. >> no radical opponents had long waged their holy war against abortion clinics. >> what the. >> hell was that? >> bombings, arson, assassinations that terrified many women. >> we do have one confirmed fatality. >> this bombing at a birmingham clinic killed a police guard in the mid 90s. from boston to florida. angry zealots murdered seven people, three of them doctors. the violence not only frightened a number of abortion clinics into closing, it also caused a public backlash. >> you can't be the yelling and the screaming and the bombing of

abortion clinics and the marching outside and waving. it's got to be the soft but intelligent sell of the facts. >> as we talk. that last week of his life, falwell seemed to recognize that his battle to end all abortions would have to be won by the next generation of god's warriors. >> my children are more likely to see this. this victory won than i am. i think we're 50 years away. we've got to stay with it, stay with it, stay with it, and never give up. >> so in 2007, falwell said it was 50 years away. in fact, it took only 15 years for a woman's right to choose to be struck from federal law. and as a side note, this week, the international criminal court announced that it is seeking arrest warrants and indictments for the taliban fundamentalists in afghanistan on charges of crimes against humanity for restricting a woman's right to,

well, everything. and let us not forget that when president trump negotiated a removal and an end to u.s. forces in afghanistan, he ended up engineering the taliban's return to power. the biden administration then executed that deal in truly catastrophic form. when we come back, hope and light in the darkness from an israeli woman awaiting the release of her elderly father from hamas captivity. >> this park. >> changed my life. superman crazy. >> it's just. >> that simple little thing over the horse. >> that is tough. because i can feel. >> him, but he can't feel it. >> i needed to do something for everyone else in the same condition the christopher and dana reeve paralysis act. >> people are literally walking because of him. >> superman the christopher reeve story february 2nd on cnn.

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families to be a font of light and hope. what has it actually been like for you? no matter your strength inside, no matter the family who you have around you and your friends? what has it been like for these last 15 months? >> it's really impossible to sum it. i think that, you know, you wake up in the morning and you think they are there. they are on the ground in gaza. they are alive and they are there. and, you know, nothing gets you out of bed like that, feeling that they are there. you are here. their voice has been shot and your voice is here. and if i can speak on their behalf, if i can in any way contribute. and you know, i haven't been alone. all the families, in their own ways have been doing so much. you know, people, people have risen out of the most profound atrocities to

speak for their loved ones. and it's, you know, i it's kind of you to say that i feel there's been many amazing ambassadors from the families of the hostages doing the work, doing what they can, each in their own way, to see a mother whose two sons are coming out and speaking is is profound for me. >> and we wish her and the other families joyful reunions. that is it from us for now. don't forget, you can find all our shows online as podcasts at cnn.com, slash audio and on all other major platforms. i'm christiane amanpour in london. thank you for watching and see you again next week.