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Amanpour: Anita Hill, Noah Feldman, Jokha Alharthi and Marilyn Booth

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Anita Hill, professor of Brandeis University, joins Christiane Amanpour to talk about how three decades later the same mistakes are being made. She reflects on testifying against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and the shocking similarities with last year's Kavanaugh hearings. Our Walter Isaacson sits down with Noah Feldman, professor at Harvard Law School, to discuss how the ongoing impeachment inquiry is impacting the U.S. constitution. Jokha Alharthi, author of "Celestial Bodies" and Marilyn Booth, the translator of Alharthi's novel, explore how they created the International Man Booker Prize-winning novel set in Oman.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 Amampur. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

Professor, do you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth will help you God?

0:12.0

I do. Anita Hill, her allegations

0:15.1

against now justice Clarence Thomas, was a preview three decades ago of the Me Too era,

0:21.1

but she tells me this battle is not yet over.

0:25.0

Then, that's the textbook definition of abuse of power.

0:28.0

As the president faces a damning week of impeachment testimony,

0:32.0

our Walter Isakson sits down with Harvard

0:34.2

law professor Noah Feldman on how the Constitution is fairing in the age of

0:38.7

Trump. And it was the epitome of the greatest sort of love, a sublime and self-emolating love,

0:44.7

that could not be shattered by anything.

0:46.8

Celestial Bodies, my conversation with the author and translator of the first Arabic novel to win the Man Booker Prize. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpore in New York Before me too, there was Anita Hill.

1:15.3

Nearly three decades ago, the law professor

1:17.7

made the life-changing decision

1:19.8

to testify against then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas for sexual harassment.

1:25.7

Her testimony gripped the nation and a warning.

1:28.4

This clip is sexually explicit and some viewers might find it disturbing.

1:34.0

His conversations were very vivid.

1:37.0

He spoke about acts that he had seen in pornographic films

1:42.0

involving such matters as women having sex with animals

1:46.1

and films showing group sex or rape scenes.

1:50.4

He talked about pornographic materials depicting individuals with large penises or large breasts involved in various sex acts.

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