Amanpour: Amy Klobuchar, Amanda Bennett, Rana Ayyub and Malcolm Gladwell

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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U.S. Senator and author of "Antitrust" Amy Klobuchar joins Christiane Amanpour to explain how giant tech companies are stifling competition. She says that America needs to get serious about taking on monopolies again. Then to mark World Press Freedom Day, journalists Rana Ayyub and Amanda Bennett discuss global attacks on reporters in the age of COVID-19 and disinformation. Our Walter Isaacson speaks to best-selling author and “Revisionist History” podcast host Malcolm Gladwell about his new book, "The Bomber Mafia." They explore the technological innovation and moral conundrums that scientists and generals wrestled with during WWII. 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 Amunfor. Here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	G7 foreign ministers in the UK for their first face-to-face meetings since COVID.
0:15.3	Senator Amy Klobushar talks about Biden's foreign policy goals, American policing,
0:20.5	and why she's bringing on the antitrust fight then.
0:24.0	This is the last fight for the country.
0:28.0	They don't give up.
0:29.0	On World Press Freedom Day, we shine the light on dark powers, repressing reporters.
0:35.8	Plus, you know, try and drop a bomb with any accuracy of a plane when it's being blown
0:41.8	sideways at 200 miles an hour.
0:43.5	It's impossible.
0:44.8	Malcolm Gladwell tells Walter Isaacson
0:47.0	the fascinating story of World War II's bomber mafia. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London and the
1:08.8	US Secretary of State Anthony Blincken has touched down here today as G7 foreign ministers gather here in the UK for
1:16.1	the first in-person meeting since the pandemic began.
1:19.8	They'll be laying the groundwork for the big summit next month when their presidents and
1:23.9	prime ministers will meet in Cornwall and it'll mark President Biden's first trip
1:28.3	abroad since his inauguration in January.
1:31.1	According to British Foreign Secretary Dominic Rab, high on the agenda this week will be
1:36.0	Russian disinformation. Of course, this is the kind of stuff that thrives online via social media.
1:42.3	And joining me now on the need for digital oversight
1:44.9	is the Democratic senator from Minnesota Amy Klobeshar. Her new book is called
1:49.2	Antitrust. She's also chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust.
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