Amanpour: Ali Soufan, Margaret Sullivan, Sam Pollard and Melinda Gates

Amanpour

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🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Washington D.C. is in Lockdown as officials warn of the potential for domestic terrorism, the danger is underscored by new details from last week’s insurrection on Capitol Hill. Correspondent Shimon Prokupecz spoke to several police officers about what they were up against that day – we bring you that report. Then counterterror expert Ali Soufan and Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan join Christiane Amanpour to weigh up free speech and national security in response to Trump's challenges. Looking back on history – Veteran filmmaker Sam Pollard talks about his new film "MLK/FBI" which tracks the FBI's attempts to destroy the reputation of Martin Luther King Jr. The pandemic’s broader impact falls disproportionately on women and jobs are nearly two times more vulnerable to this crisis than men’s jobs – o-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Melinda Gates speaks to our Walter Isaacson about this, the coronavirus vaccine and her book “The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World.” 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 Amamport. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	We are seeing an extensive amount of concerning online chatter.
0:15.4	The FBI director sounds the alarm about the potential for armed protests around the US.
0:20.6	With hate speech percolating online for years before the US capital was
0:24.9	ever stormed, we hear from former FBI agent Ali Sufant and Washington Post
0:30.1	media columnist Margaret Sullivan.
0:32.1	Then this represents the darkest part of the Bureau's history.
0:37.4	The FBI's actions from more than 50 years ago come under new scrutiny
0:42.1	in a film about Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
0:45.0	Why did the Bureau obsessively spy on the civil rights leader?
0:49.0	On King's 92nd birthday, we speak to the film's director, Peabody winner, Sam Pollard.
0:55.0	And the pandemic has really set women back.
0:59.0	Women bearing the economic brunt of the crisis.
1:02.0	Our Walter Isitsen talks with philanthropist and author Melinda Gate
1:06.5	on helping the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.
1:27.0	President-elect Joe Biden says that come Wednesday, America will start a new chapter, but the country is still reckoning with a homegrown
1:35.9	threat in the days leading up to his inauguration.
1:39.2	Washington, D.C. is in lockdown now, as officials warn of the potential for domestic terrorism.
1:45.0	The danger underscored by new details from last week's insurrection on Capitol Hill.
1:50.6	Correspondent Schimmon Prokupares spoke to several police officers about what they were up against that awful day.
1:57.0	In last week's deadly coup attempt at the US capital, a pro-Trump mob swarmed the building,
2:07.0	outnumbering and battling police officers fighting to defend it.
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