October 8, 2019

Ukraine is at the center of the ongoing impeachment investigation. Many politicians from that country have expressed horror at being sucked into this growing political firestorm, particularly while it is still fighting a war with Russia in the east. Christiane gets the Ukrainian perspective from a former deputy foreign minister.

President Trump is facing a bipartisan backlash, not over Ukraine, but his decision to pull U.S. troops from northern Syria. To some, it’s seen as an abandonment of the Kurds who fought for the U.S. in the battle against ISIS. Turkish forces, who view Kurds as terrorists, want to move into the territory and push them out. Peter Galbraith joins the program fresh from traveling to Syria himself.

Last year, the world was shocked by the revelations of data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica having illegally harvested and exploited the data of millions of Facebook users. The man behind the revelation was whistleblower Christopher Wylie, former director of research for the company, which didn’t survive the scandal. He speaks to Hari Sreenivasan about data crime and its dangers to democracy.