walter. >> good evening, everyone. welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in new york, with the global view. it's the book that's sending shockwaves around the world. "fire and fury," michael wolff's inside account of the white house has dominated headlines and best seller lists. driven by his reporting that inside the white house, there's universal belief that president trump is incapable of functioning in his job. but critics point out inaccuracies and questionable journalistic practices by wolff, raising questions about his credibility. i spoke with him here in new york after a massive white house counterattack. michael wolff, welcome to the program. >> glad to be here. >> this is, i would say week two, the real pushback week. president trump's major defenders were on television all weekend, and they have chipped away to the point that steve bannon himself is issuing some sort of mea culpa. how do you feel about that? >> that's just the donald trump playbook, attack, attack, attack. >> but he's your main source -- >> you mean -- >

walter. >> good evening, everyone. and welcome to "amanpour" on pbs. at a time of unprecedented tension between the presidency and the press, a new movie "the post" is incredibly well timed. it features two hollywood giants, tom hanks and meryl streep, playing two giants of journalism. the legendary washington >> the pen is so sharp. of course it's punitive. she compared tricia nixon to a vanilla ice cream cone. >> yes, she did. >> yes. why would her father want her to come? >> i mean, come on. >> i mean, are you sure we're striking the right tone, ben? the news style section. the party coverage -- i've talked to you about this before. you are losing female readership. and i think you might want to focus more on women -- >> katherine, keep your finger out of my eye. >> you -- >> meryl streep, tom hanks, welcome to the program. >> nice to be here. >> so incredible film, and really what incredible timing. steven spielberg called it a patriotic film. would you agree? >> oh, absolutely. hing that gets down to the bottom of an assault on the first amendment

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walter. >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with a global perspective. this was this weekend one year ago when donald trump officially took power, following his surprise election as president of the united states. the year has been a bumpyne, health care, media fights. outside the united states, it's cmer. the president is facing serious threats and a miscalculation could lead to all-out war. i spoke to the secretary of defense, ash carter. >> secretary carter welcome to the program. >> good to be here. >> on the eve of president trump going to davos, they put out a global survey saying the risk of military conflict is rising and it will sharply rise in 2018. what do you make of that? does that sound right to you? >> the principal place that that may be true is on the korean peninsula, elsewhere there's danger, but it may be a continuation of the past. we may see -- it's not highly probable, but never rule it out, is an incident on the korean peninsula. particularly the north korean military, s

walter. >> good even, everyone. welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with the global perspective. if it wasn't extraordinary enough to see president trump on stage at the heart of the global elite he disdained, their unprecedented trumpet heralding his presence amongst them truly was extraordinary. ♪ >> with that, president trump launched into a fairly conciliatory address at the economic forum in davos, switzerland. he told the gathering he wants to be a team player. >> as president of the united states i will always put america first just like the leaders of other countries should put their country first also. but america first does not mean america alone. >> trump added that america is open for business, and he touted the booming u.s. stock market and the reform slashing corporate taxes. davos loves that. earlier the floor belonged to the french president emmanuel macron who urged the west to push back against protectionism and nationalism. >> translator: we are moving back again towards strategies, greater protec

. ♪ >> "amanpour on pbs" was made possible by the generous support of rosalind p. walter. >> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london. jane fonda -- actress, activist, force of nature. for decades, jane fonda has delighted onstage and on the screen, taking home oscars for the 1971 thriller "klute" and the acclaimed "coming home" in 1978. as her star power grew, fonda dove into acvism, fighting for women's rights, campaigning against war, even traveling to vietnam. there was her fitness empire, churning out 17 million exercise videos that were sold worldwide. fonda's famous marriage to cnn founder ted turner coincided with a break from acting, but she came back with a bang, most recently starring in the netflix hit "grace and frankie." and in "our souls at night," she reunites with actor robert redford. she is indeed hollywood royalty, and she joined me in the studio just as one of the biggest stories of the year was breaking, the sexual harassment of dozens of actresses by the mega-producer harvey weinstein. joining me n

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walter. >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with a global perspective. this was this weekend one year ago when donald trump officially took power, following his surprise election as president of the united states. the year has been a bumpy one, health care, media fights. outside the united states, it's no calmer. the president is facing serious threats and d a miscalculation could lead to all-out war. i spoke to the secretary of defense, ash carter. >> secretary carter welcome to the program. >> good to be here. >> on the eve of president trump going to davos, they put out a global survey saying the risk of military conflict is rising and it will sharply rise in 2018. what do you make of that? does that sound right to you? >> the principal place that that may be true is on the korean peninsula, elsewhere there's danger, but it may be a continuation of the past. we may see -- it's not highly probable, but never rule it out, is an incident o

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walter. >> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with the global perspective. if the united states government shuts down friday night, it could all come down to the fate of the d.r.e.a.m.ers, the 8 help you,000 or so young, undocumented immigrants brought into the country as children. democrats say they'll oppose any bill that keeps the government up and running if it fails to give the d.r.e.a.m.ers legal protection. meanwhile, what's lost in all of this political drama is the human drama. almost a million young americans living under constant fear of deportation and they can't make the most basic life choices about work or schooling or even whether to start a family. he is himself a d.r.e.a.m.er and he was 5 years old when his mother brought him across the border from tijuana to san diego. he had no choice in the matter, but now he's the first immigrant without legal status to join the new york state bar. >> peter vargas, welcome to the program. >> thanks so much for having me. >> caesaesar, you ar

p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. the anderson family fund. rosalind p. walter, in memory of abby m. o'neill. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. and by: >> babbel. a language app that teaches real-life conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more. babbel's 10-15 minute lessons are available as an app, or online. more information on babbel.com. >> additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, alison stewart. >> stewart: good evening and thank you for joining us. people around the world are ringing in 2018. the celebrations kicked off in new zealand and australia. in sydney, rainbow colored fireworks marked the passage of marriage equality there, while hong kong lit up a new bridge set to open in the ne

pbs was made possible by the generous support of rosalind p. walter. >> good evening. welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in new york. there is no more important newspaper in america maybe even the world than "the new york times." no one else gives themselves the mandate to cover as many topics as definitively as the paper of record from politics to business, to the arts and the science. at the helm of this is dean baquet. himself a life long print reporter. the executive editor tells me that journalism is most definitely still under threat and it is more important now than ever. dean baquet, welcome to the program. >> thank you for having me. >> in the ongoing trumpian war against the press this week the president has once again opened the front that he threatened before, that is opening up the libel laws. he threatened again to revisit america's libel laws. is that just rhetoric? do you fear that might happen? >> it's hard to know if it's just rhetoric with this president. i honestly think he's already done a certain amount of dam

walter. >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with the global perspective. in the age of me too, women across the globe are rising up against the toxic aspects of masculinity. and most importantly, they are talking. but there's another half of the planet that isn't talking. the other victims of masculinity, men themselves. men, who it turns out, are also paying a terrible price for their silence. it is something that's argued by the renowned british contemporary artist and social commentator grayson perry. fresh off debuting his latest exhibition "making meaning" in the windsor gallery in florida, he joined me in our studio for the discussion we rarely have. grayson perry, welcome to the program. so you have a big new show that you are sending to america. or is it already there? "making meaning." >> yes, it's in a place called windsor near vero beach in florida, which is a kind of very wealthy, kind of gated community. quite an unusual environment to have an exhibition in. >> what are you trying

walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressed optimism today that congress could make an immigration deal in the wake of the white house's four point immigration proposal. they think it can happen before february 8. that's when the latest short term spending bill expires. president trump tweeted last night that he offered "a wonderful deal"-- which proposed a legal pathway for 1.8 million daca or daca-eligible immigrants in exchange for $25 billion in funding for a wall on the mexico border and increased security. in the proposal,

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walter barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. a massive suicide attack killed at least 95 people in afghanistan's capital today. officials say an ambulance packed with explosives detonated in a busy area in central kabul around lunchtime. at least 158 people were injured and the foreign ministry said the majority of the casualties are civilians. the taliban is claiming responsibility for the blast, which is one of the deadliest since the start of the afghan war. today's bombing comes just a week after an attack on kabul's intercontinental hotel that killed 22 people, including

walter. >> good evening, everyone, and welcome. i'm christiane amanpour in london with a special edition of our program on pbs. tonight, my conversation with j.k. rowling, the much-loved author of the "harry potter" series. 20 years after the publication of her very first book, she sat down with me here in london to talk about her remarkable life, and she opened up about something we rarely hear about -- a cause very close to her heart -- helping millions of children in orphanages all over the world through her charity, lumos. j.k. rowling, welcome to the program. >> thank you for having me. >> what is it that got you interested from the beginning? how did you decide that this was your mission? >> well, like a lot of people, i had no idea. i really had no idea about the scale of this problem. and what drew me in was one child. it was a news report about one child in the newspaper. i was pregnant [chuckles] and therefore, perhaps, particularly vulnerable and emotional to anything to do with small children. and i'm flicking through t

walter. >> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with the global perspective. >>> as the u.s. government suffered a bout of paralysis this weekend, women all over america and all over the world were on the move. in almost every major city, hundreds of thousands of women marched for the second year in a row, demanding their rights. so is the opposition to trump female, is the future female? cecile richards is one of america's most well-known women's rights activists. she's president of the planned parenthood federation of america and she joins me now from new york. cecile richards, welcome to the program. >> thanks for having me. >> so what do you say to those questions? is the opposition female? is the future female? >> it's absolutely extraordinary here in the u.s. to see, christiane. i think after one of the most devastating elections of our lifetimes that women now have become the most important political force in america. they have been leading the resistance to this administration and to congre

walter. >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with the global perspective. this week, republican senator jeff flake will take to the senate floor to defend free speech against what he calls donald trump's unrelenting, daily assaults, and he's not pulling any punches, tracing the president's enemy of the people attack on the press all the way back to the soviet dictator, joseph stalin. flake is one of the few prominent republicans willing to stand up and criticize the president. not coincidentally, he's also one of the many republican legislators leaving congress this year. so, in accusing president trump, is senator flake also accusing the president's republican enablers who stay quiet? senator flake joins me now from phoenix, arizona. you plan to take to the senate floor on wednesday, as i just said. and i'm just going to quote a little bit from your speech. you said, "2017 was a year we saw the truth, objective and empirical evidence-based truth more battered abused than any other in the histor

walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. it is day two of the government shutdown. and both sides appear to be at a stalemate, this afternoon a bipartisan group of more than 20 senators met to come up with a deal to fund the government for at least three more weeks and address immigration. but as hundreds of thousands of federal workers from almost every agency wait for word on whether to show up for work tomorrow, at this hour there is still no deal. both the house and the senate were in session today and leaders from both parties say they wanted the shutdown to end, but ea

walter. >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with the world view. and we begin with an image that's haunted us for more than three decades and the photographer who captured it for the world. it's one of the most memorable magazine covers in history. "national geographic's" june 1985 issue known simply as "the afghan girl." those fierce green eyes mesmerized the world but into whose lens was she looking? it was renowned photographer steve mckury. i spoke with him on the publication of his new book "afghanistan," named for the country he holds so close to his heart. >> this is the book. steve mccurry, welcome. we've moved over to our window onto the world and into your images. so let me first ask you you're so famous for that one picture and we'll get to it. but what drew you to afghanistan in the first place? >> i was a young freelance photographer i started my career in india. i thought this would be an interesting place to start. and after about a year of looking around for stories and pictures

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. >>> "amanpour" on pbs was made possible by the generous support of roselyn p. walter. katty: you are watching "beyond 100 days" on pbs. the dow surges through 26,000, breaking records and giving the white house something to cheer about. christian: a new survey of economists says the financial market boom is likely thanks to trump, not obama. katty: this was the moment u.s. stock market broke records, fueled by high investor confidence. the 13 children held captive in the family home in california, some chained to their beds. police arrest the parents. christian: also on the program, building bio defense. why the united states is not only worried about the threat of nuclear missiles. and on the hop, australian style. the type of police chase that can only happen down under. do get in touch with us.

walter. ♪ >>> good evening, everyone. welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with the global perspective. the american president takes every opportunity to tout america's booming economy as the success story of his first year in office, whether on twitter, last week at the capitalist mecca in davos, switzerland, or tomorrow during his state of the union address. >> there has never been a better time to hire, to build, to invest and to grow in the united states. america is open for business and we are competitive once again. >> so is president trump's tax reform responsible for reversing the american carnage that he deride it at his inaugural last year? and is the boom sustainable? joining me now from new york is the economist and former u.s. treasury secretary larry summers and from stanford university in california, the historian and writer niall ferguson, whose latest book is "the square and the tower." gentlemen, welcome to the program as we fry try do dig do into what is happening with the u.s. economy. so can i ask you bo

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ronnie jackson the p's physician will conduct the exam. dr. jackson has been physician to the president for three consecutive administrations. he will release a statement after the exam. he will join me here in the briefing room next tuesday to give a detail readout to answer a few questions. with that update i will take your questions. reporter: sarah. sarah. [laughter] >> jonathan. reporter: thank you, sarah. can you walk us through the events in the building that informed the president's tweets about the reauthorization vote on the house today? they seem to be, took different positions at different times and as a follow-up to that, would you, what do you say the idea that, you know having seemingly conflict stances undermines the administration's ability to get agenda done? >> we don't think there was a conflict at all. the president fully supports the 702. he was happy to see it passed the house today but he does have overall concerns with the fisa program more generally. the president doesn't feel we should have to choose between protecti

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