Gates, Mullen invade Sunday airwaves
Published: July 31, 2010
When legendary CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour announced she was hanging up her globetrotting foreign correspondent boots to sit behind the table at ABC's This Week, there was much chatter that the show, she, and certainly CNN would not be served well by the move.
She's too serious. Too international. Too heady.
Sunday talk is too petty. Too domestic. Too partisan.
Well, this Sunday morning, brew your cuppa joe, eat your oatmeal, do some sit ups, then settle in to watch Amanpour bring a whole new flavor to the Sunday soup. For her first show, she leads off with the biggest story in our world, the war in Afghanistan, tapping Defense Secretary Robert Gates to be her first guest.
In a clip of the prerecorded interview, Gates said WikiLeaks has a "moral culpability" for releasing tens of thousands of secret documents. Earlier in the week, Gates and Mullen lashed out at WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange.
Then she keeps Sunday feeling more like Sunday with the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Cali., and a promise of a discussion about one of the most ambitious legislative sessions in recent memory.
Oh, by the way, your Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen is a guest on the day's competing shows, NBC's Meet the Press and CBS's Face the Nation.
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