This Week (12.15.2013) Podcast








ABC News Sunday morning program featuring newsmaker interviews and panel debates on a wide range of issues, and commentary.
In this episode, Christiane held an in depth interview with House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. The Republican congress members went home this week to defend their sweeping budget plan before their constituents, and Christiane accompanied Ryan to some of his Town Hall Meetings. She also sat down with Ali Nasr, who was the senior adviser to the State Department on the Middle East Affairs, and Aaron David Miller, of the Woodrow Wilson International Center to discuss the situation in the Middle East.
In this episode, Christiane Amanpour sits down with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to discuss the country's plan on how to prevent the economy from tipping with the debt swelling over 14 trillion dollars. Geithner says he is confident that congress will raise the debt ceiling. How the current budget debate will shape the country is then discussed with ABC's George Will, Bill Clinton's former budget director Alice Rivlin, former cheif political strategist Matthew Dowd, and Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick.