Amanpour: Bernie Sanders, Marjane Satrapi and Thomas Chatterton Williams

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Senator Bernie Sanders joins Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview about his presidential run, Covid-19, Trump, and the shape of Democratic politics. He explains why he thinks Joe Biden has made significant movement in a progressive direction. Then filmmaker and author Marjane Satrapi talks about directing “Radioactive”, a new biopic that showcases the complicated genius and life story of Marie Curie. An open letter recently published in Harper’s Magazine argues that cancel culture threatens free speech. The letter’s co-author, Thomas Chatterton Williams, speaks to our Walter Isaacson about the toxic culture of cancelling versus the very necessary calling out of those who have overstepped the line. And finally, we give you a snippet of a previously unheard Rolling Stones song. 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. An exclusive interview with Senator Bernie Sanders, I asked him about Joe Biden's swing towards more progressive policies and Democratic Party unity heading into the election.
0:21.0	Then, they don't like you here.
0:23.2	When have other people's opinions ever affected anything I've done.
0:28.6	The new film about Mary Curie, the brilliant scientist who discovered radioactivity and the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
0:36.4	I speak to the director Marjan Satrappy of Persepolis Fame.
0:41.0	Plus...
0:42.0	I have an inbox all all of emails from young associate professors, editorial assistants, people
0:47.4	working in law firms who tell me that they are afraid to say what they actually think.
0:51.9	The problem with cancel culture,
0:54.2	our Walter Isaacson speaks to one of the co-authors of an open letter
0:58.0	saying free speech is under threat. Okay. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur working from home in London.
1:19.0	The US election is just over 100 days away and the race is becoming increasingly
1:24.5	dominated of course by two issues, coronavirus and the reckoning over racism and
1:29.6	polls show Joe Biden leading President Trump, who now says the pandemic will probably
1:35.3	get worse before it gets better. In response to these multiple crises, the former Vice President
1:41.4	is calling for the largest public sector investment in generations.
1:46.0	And he's just unveiled a build back better plan, a $775 billion effort to help parents and caregivers, this right on the heels of his $2 trillion
1:57.1	proposal for climate and environmental justice.
2:01.1	In a new campaign video, Biden appears with the hugely popular former
2:04.9	President Barack Obama and the pair hold a socially distanced conversation about
2:10.3	the nation's challenges. But what is truly remarkable is the vital unity that's being forged right now between
2:17.0	Biden and his main rival for the nomination, Senator Bernie Sanders, who says that Biden could be the most progressive president since FDR.
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