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Amanpour: Beth Cameron, Stanley McChrystal, David Urban and Jennifer Doudna

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

With more nations around the world going under lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19 President Trump says they would be doing well to keep U.S. deaths under 100,000. Beth Cameron, the Vice President for the Global Biological Policy Nuclear Threat Initiative, joins Christiane Amanpour to give her take on this global crisis and how we are and aren't dealing with it. As a former NSC senior director for global health security and biodefense she quite literally wrote the Pandemic playbook - but she explains why the White House aren't using it. Stanley McChrystal, the former Commander of International Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan, weighs in and discusses why we need a leader who brings people together at this time. He argues that the U.S. haven't yet managed to harness all its potential in fighting this pandemic. Whilst cases of infected and death tolls rise around the world the 2020 election campaign has lost traction. David Urban, senior adviser for the Trump 2020 Campaign, argues for cross-party co-operation in these unprecedented times. Our Walter Isaacson talks to Jennifer Doudna, leading biochemist at UC Berkeley and co-founder of CRISPR gene editing technology, about why she is adapting her university biology lab to help fight Coronavirus. She believes the key to that fight is through rigorous testing and hopes to use CRISPR in the search for a cure and prevention.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 Ammanfur. Here's what's coming up.

0:08.0

The better you do the faster this whole nightmare will end.

0:15.0

President Trump reverses himself to extend social distancing rules

0:19.5

amid some cautious positive signs in Europe. I asked the expert who wrote the

0:24.4

pandemic playbook for the White House, why was it left on the shelf?

0:28.4

Then, leadership in times of crisis, how four-star general Stanley McChrystal converts his battlefield

0:35.2

experience into fighting the coronavirus. Plus, Trump's high-rated White House

0:41.4

briefings despite uneven messaging.

0:43.6

I'm joined by Trump Confident and 2020 campaign advisor David Urban.

0:48.4

We should find a way to use our resources and our knowledge to test for the virus.

0:55.0

The co-discoverer of gene editing tool CRISPR tells our Walter Isaksen

1:00.0

how her tech could target COVID-19. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London where we are

1:20.6

still working from home and broadcasting to you from here as

1:24.0

coronavirus continues to surge in the West.

1:27.5

But here in the UK officials report,

1:30.0

two consecutive days of declining numbers of cases.

1:34.0

It's much too soon to talk about a trend, but it's welcome news nonetheless.

1:39.0

After the first week of strict lockdown measures here,

1:42.0

and the UK Deputy chief medical officer is

1:44.4

saying it could take six months for life to return to normal. The Russian capital

1:49.4

Moscow is now entering a strict quarantine. Meantime India has been under lockdown for a week

1:55.8

and it's hitting the poorest hardest. This video shows some of the poorest self-isulating

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