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Amanpour: Adam Schiff, Lydia Cacho & Ted Olson

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Christiane Amanpour is joined by Adam Schiff, Chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, to discuss how the Coronavirus is affecting both political and economic life in America. In Mexico 10 women are killed every day because of their gender. Mexican Journalist Lydia Cacho tells Christiane about her experience of femicide and of being forced to flee her country because of her gender. And our Walter Isaacson speaks to Ted Olson, former United States Solicitor General. Once involved in landmark political cases such as Bush vs Gore and Hollingsworth vs Perry, he is now fighting for America's Dreamers, the young DACA recipients under fire from the Trump administration.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:09.0

We lost precious time I think when the administration was engaged in a bunch of

0:14.3

happy talk. Top Democrat Adam Schiff joins me as Congress and the president grapple

0:19.8

with the coronavirus. Plus, Mexico's women on strike against femicide. They say their

0:28.0

government just ignores these brutal killings. And... These are the last people in the world we want to deport.

0:35.0

President George W Bush's former Solicitor General tells our Walter Isakson why he's going

0:40.2

to bat for America's dreamers. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpore in London.

1:01.0

President Trump and Congress are trying to hammer out a financial

1:04.7

package to stave off the worst of the coronavirus economic impact and of course

1:09.9

the effect on vulnerable workers. This week saw the steepest stock market drop in

1:15.1

more than a decade. Markets tanked around the world as governments struggled to

1:19.2

curb the panic and contain the virus. Italy is taking the unprecedented step of now telling all of its 60 million citizens to stay home.

1:28.0

A whole country in quarantine.

1:31.0

Could that ever happen elsewhere? Could it happen in the United States?

1:35.3

As Democrats got ready to try to reach a compromise with Republicans and the White House,

1:40.0

I spoke with Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff.

1:46.0

Congressman Schiff, welcome to the program.

1:48.0

Thank you, great to be with you.

1:49.5

I mean, of all the crises that you've all been grappling with of all the roller coaster in

1:53.9

politics and everything over the last several years did you ever think you'd get to

1:57.7

this point where a virus is literally melting markets and social conduct and everything.

2:05.0

I think we've always known that this was a possibility as we've seen over the last several years

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