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Robert Gates - US Defence Secretary, 2006 - 2011

Interviews with newsmakers and personalities from across the globe. Stephen Sackur speaks to the former US defence secretary Robert Gates about his newly published memoirs.

In a special edition of HARDtalk recorded in New York City, Stephen Sackur speaks to the former US defence secretary Robert Gates. In his newly published memoirs he gives the inside story on arguments and tensions inside the Obama White House - particularly over Afghanistan. He has called his book Duty but are some of his revelations an act of disloyalty?

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Fri 17 Jan 201404:30GMT
BBC News UK HD & UK only

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Credits

PresenterStephen Sackur
Interviewed GuestRobert Gates

Broadcasts

  • Thu 16 Jan 201404:30GMT
    BBC News UK HD & UK only
  • Thu 16 Jan 201410:35GMT
    BBC Two
  • Fri 17 Jan 201400:30GMT
    BBC News UK HD & UK only
  • Fri 17 Jan 201404:30GMT
    BBC News UK HD & UK only