This Week (10.30.11) - Cain On Top

During This Week’s episode, ABC’S Christiane Amanpour sat down with Jake Tapper about issues in Afghanistan.  Amanpour also talks with Michelle Bachmann about her loss of ground in a short amount of time.  Bill Gates joins Amanpour to discuss the economic crisis as well as his partnership with Steve Jobs.  During the roundtable, ABC’s Christiane Amanpour sat down with George Will, Cokie Roberts, Austan Goolsbee, former head of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisors and Ron Brownstein of National Journal to discuss whether Cain can continue to be on top and stay there.



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This Week (10.02.11) - GOP Candidates

In This Week’s episode, ABC’s Christiane Amanpour talks with Herman Cain about his position in the polls.  Next, ABC’s anchor of This Week Christiane Amanpour sits down with George Will, Hillary Clinton's former chief campaign strategist, Mark Penn, Nicolle Wallace, former Communications Director in the last Bush White House and Senior Adviser to the McCain campaign, and ABC senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper to discuss the latest about businessman Herman Cain and other GOP candidates.  Also, this week marks a sober milestone in America's longest war.  It has now been ten years since the start of the war in Afghanistan.   Amanpour talks with Martha Raddatz to discuss whether the United States is any closer to victory. 



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This Week (8.7.11) - America's Downgrade

In this episode, Christiane Amanpour sits down with ABC's Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz to find out exactly what happened in the deadliest attack on American forces since the start of the war in Afghanistan. Next Christiane talks with S&P Managing Director John Chambers about reaction to the first ever downgrade of America's AAA credit rating.  Then she interviews the chair of the Democratic Governor's association, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley and top Republican on the Budget Committee Senator Jeff Sessions to discuss whether the parties have the ability to make real economic progress.  In the roundtable Christiane discusses the downgrade and how it effects the American economy with ABC's George Will, former counselor to the Treasury Secretary and President Obama's one-time car czar, Steven Rattner, Senior News Analyst Cokie Roberts, Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz of Utah, and Chicago, financial advisor Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments.  Next to Syria, Christian talks about America's struggle to respond to President Bashar Assad's expanding crackdown on anti-government dissent.  

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