Amanpour: Alex Gibney, Rick Bright, Caroline Fourest, and Kara Swisher

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Oscar-winning documentary maker Alex Gibney and coronavirus whistleblower Rick Bright join Christiane Amanpour to discuss their film, “Totally Under Control,” which investigates how political opportunism cost thousands of lives. Then, former Charlie Hebdo writer and journalist Caroline Fourest explains why she thinks the killing of a school teacher by a terrorist was an attack on a "symbol" of France. Walter Isaacson speaks to business technology reporter Kara Swisher about tech giants and how Facebook is now trying to step up, and stamp out the spread of conspiracy theories. 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.
0:07.0	We have a totally under control.
0:10.0	Out of control as Europe and the United States are in the grip of a vicious
0:15.1	second way. We look back at what the Trump administration did with one of
0:19.6	America's most important documentary makers Alex Gibney and COVID whistleblower Rick Bright then
0:29.6	Thousands march for freedom in France as they commemorate a slain teacher, echoes of the Charlie
0:35.7	Hebdo massacre.
0:36.7	I speak to former columnist Caroline Forrest about tolerance and how to fight extremism and
0:43.6	There's no such thing as big tech.
0:45.5	There is a lot of big tech companies and each in their own way
0:48.9	have contributed to problems that we've had in our society.
0:52.4	The power of sway are Walter
0:54.5	Isaacson speaks to top tech journalist Kara Swisher about her new podcast and
0:59.5	taking on everyone from senators to CEOs. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London and tonight we start with leadership
1:25.6	rewarded. Prime Minister Jacinda Arden of New Zealand has become a bit of a local and global
1:31.3	hero for her approach to governance
1:34.0	she's celebrating her landslide re-election victory over the weekend
1:38.0	a vote of confidence in her handling of the coronavirus pandemic
1:42.0	and before that the massacre of Muslim
1:44.6	worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch. Consider this a visual aid. A
1:49.6	rugby match in Auckland, no mask, no social distancing, just a cram stadium
1:56.0	full of people doing what they used to do.
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