we had andrew neil and christiane amanpour addressing the question of how to triage trump.hat he says is designed to outcome at the munich security conference. was there a joint conclusion from the journalistic titans of christiane amanpour of cnn and andrew neil of all over the times these days? i was trying. it was all over the place. i was going to say formerly of this parish, i would never actually, this will really chime with newscasters. confident about the facts. potentially as a cover for doing other things. and andrew neil argued that while some of what the president says is outlandish, politicians could use when he says things like like a real estate developer. that obviously isn't going to happen, but it raises is that what is to be done with gaza? it has to be rebuilt. can that be done with 2 million palestinians still there? there's nojoy in that. image of the riviera of the middle east. to simply to mouth platitudes about a two state solution it was really interesting to hear. this morning we spoke to president herzog, the president of israel, and we asked him

i'm christiane amanpour in london. no chance in hell, says a top egyptian official. just statements. no plan. it'll disappear sooner rather than later, says a former israeli prime minister. and even israel's current u.n. ambassador tells cnn palestinians cannot be forced off their land. even the white house is walking back. some of president trump's shock statement this week on taking control of gaza and removing the entire palestinian population in order to rebuild into a, quote, riviera of the middle east. but condemnation and confusion persist amongst all parties, even as trump has elon musk all but raising the federal government to the ground this week, usaid, a critical arm of u.s. soft power around the world, was effectively dismantled. it's a $40 billion agency with 10,000 employees and provides critical, life saving humanitarian aid while bringing goodwill to the united states. on top of that, a purge of the fbi and the cia appears to be well underway. so to break down trump's attempt to throw the entire kitchen sink at washington, i speak to matthew bartlett

cnn christiane amanpour former "washington post" editor are among the panelists. this is an hour and 15 minutes. [background noises] >> is this working? great, excellent. thank you. thank you everybody. welcome. good afternoon it is a true honor to be here today in the company of giants both in the audience with her arteries and lunch for chicken on the panel in which i think for asking me too be here and giving me this privilege. bob woodward was supposed to be able to join a city but in the end could not. i suspect that very few people here today who do not know the panelists. but for those few here are a few highlights let me start closest to me julie pace executive editor of the associated press. she has spent almost her entire career. she was named to her current hee in 2021. christiane amanpour chief international anchor for cnn and host the show on pbs. she has also worked over the years at cbs news and abc news. marty barron is a former executive editor of the "washington post." and earlier editor boston globe executive editor of the miami herald is also t

i'm christiane amanpour in london. democracy is about more than just elections. of course. it's about the institutions. it's a global shift to the populist right. those very institutions are being tested worldwide. and in the united states, the president is flooding the zone with executive orders, including a sweeping freeze on federal aid that it then had to rescind after prompting widespread fear and confusion, and also accusations that those orders were illegal under u.s. law. so the battle lines are firmly drawn as trump aggressively tests the limits to transform the u.s. government and society entirely. as democratic senator chris van hollen told me. >> but what you're seeing is and flood the zone is a good word for it. just an effort in these last, these first 8 or 9 days of the trump administration to grab power and to try to implement the president's agenda through any means possible, regardless of whether it's legal or not legal. >> so the question is, how far can trump bend these democratic institutions before they break? or as my first guest asks, is the united s

i'm christiane amanpour in london. thank you for watching and see you again next week. >> hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i'm fredricka whitfield, and we begin this hour with a major new court ruling, putting the brakes on president trump's plans to nearly wipe out all of the workforce of a major u.s. humanitarian agency. a federal judge has temporarily blocked a plan by the trump administration to put thousands of workers at usaid on indefinite leave, or firing them. the president's executive order would have left the agency with fewer than 300 employees. hours before the ruling, the court ruling crews were seen removing signage from the agency's headquarters in washington, dc. the judge's ruling prevents more than 2200 people from being placed on administrative leave. he also, the judge rather ordered the government to reinstate 500 workers who have already been placed on leave. it's an agency, trump's daughter ivanka, once championed when she served as a white house adviser. cnn's be

i'm christiane amanpour in london. thanks for watching and see you again next week. >> hello everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield, and we begin today in philadelphia where investigators are on the scene after a medical jet carrying six people crashed into a neighborhood. a warning this video may be disturbing to some viewers. the jet had taken off from a northeast philadelphia airport carrying a child patient. her mother, along with four crew members, a pilot, copilot, doctor and paramedic. stunning doorbell cam video of the moment a witnesses saw the small jet burst into flames. and right there and then plunge. and today, the debris from the crash is scattered in parking lots on the streets throughout neighborhoods. a crater can be seen alongside burned out cars. we learned from a press conference moments ago that seven people have died. cnn's danny freeman is in philadelphia. danny, what more are you learning? >> fred. >> that was the big headline that that fatality count is up to seven