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Amanpour: Anne Applebaum, David Rohde, Nicole Newnham, James Lebrecht & Eric Lander

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Christiane Amanpour is joined by historian Anne Applebaum and executive editor of New Yorker online David Rohde to discuss how the coronavirus pandemic is fueling a rise in autocratic leadership. Nicole Newnham and James Lebrecht, co-directors of "Crip Camp", speak to Christiane about their new Netflix documentary, which tells the story of a historic summer camp for the disabled community which launched a generation of activists. And our Walter Isaacson talks to Eric Lander, a pioneering mathematician and geneticist, who was a principal leader of the Human Genome Project. Lander explains how and why in just two weeks he has transformed his lab at the Broad Institute (MIT & Harvard) into a coronavirus testing facility.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.

0:08.0

A disaster for many, opportunism for some,

0:13.6

nations creeping towards authoritarianism amid the battle against coronavirus.

0:18.6

I speak to two Pulitzer Prize winners,

0:21.2

Anne Applebaum and David Road about threats to democracy.

0:25.0

And...

0:26.0

I remember being at my grandmother's listening on the transistor radio and saying,

0:30.0

wish I got go, wish I could go, wish I could go.

0:32.0

And then, when I went to Jan it was like there I was I was in Woodstock

0:38.0

How a camp for teens launched a disability revolution I speak with the filmmakers Nicole Newnham and James

0:45.2

Lebrecht on their new documentary Crip Camp. Then if you're going to reopen

0:50.5

you better have a certain amount of testing you better have a certain amount of

0:53.6

contact tracing it'd be really good to make sure that everybody's wearing masks a

0:59.4

pioneering geneticist Eric Lander speaks to our Walter Isakson about filling the

1:04.7

coronavirus testing gap and the tough decisions ahead. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur working from home in

1:27.2

London. Outcried from the medical community today around the world after

1:31.7

President Trump suggested injecting

1:33.9

disinfectant into the body and using UV radiation as possible treatments

1:38.8

for coronavirus. As the medical community and disinfectant companies warn that the president's

1:45.3

ideas could have fatal results. Look here, this is DETOL, also known as

1:49.8

Lysol in the United States. The makers of this, among other makers, have come out and said

1:55.4

on no account, must these substances be ingested any way at all? Read the instructions, they

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