December 13, 2019

As the results of the U.K. general election became clear early on Friday morning, Christiane spoke with a man who knows better than most just what an achievement Boris Johnson’s victory was. Gavin Barwell is a former Member of Parliament and current member of the House of Lords, and he served as chief of staff to former Prime Minister Theresa May. He joins the program to discuss the election.

With his large majority, Boris Johnson will push the first stage of Brexit through Parliament by January 31st. But what does his promise to “get Brexit done” really look like? Europe will have an important say. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former Danish Prime Minister and wife of British Labour MP Stephen Kinnock, joins the program to discuss perspectives from both sides of the English Channel.

This week, a trove of documents reveal how U.S. officials allegedly misled the American people about the war in Afghanistan in an effort to conceal fears that America was losing. But now, the Washington Post has obtained more than 2,000 pages of these documents through a FOIA request. Journalist Craig Whitlock has been looking into the papers for the last three years and joins the show to discuss.