Amanpour: Cornelia Griggs, Bill Cassidy, Ted Hui, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, and Dave Krepcho

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Pediatric Surgeon Dr. Cornelia Griggs joins Christiane Amanpour to talk about her experience on the frontline of the pandemic. Then, as time runs out on U.S. government funding, GOP Senator Bill Cassidy explains why he thinks remaining hang-ups to a bipartisan relief bill aren't crucial. Former Hong Kong lawmaker and pro-democracy activist Ted Hui speaks to Amanpour about how he fled from Hong Kong and the struggle for freedom. Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot and Second Harvest Food Bank President Dave Krepcho talk to Hari Sreenivasan about the growing number of Americans going hungry as a result of the pandemic. 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 Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	Vaccines in a race against time. Frontline worker and critical care specialist
0:16.2	Cornelia Griggs talks to me about her daily battle to save lives.
0:20.3	Then we agreed we will not leave town until we've made law.
0:25.0	A financial lifeline for millions of Americans hangs in the balance.
0:29.0	I speak to Republican Senator Bill Cassidy about the critical relief bill that's yet to pass.
0:34.7	Plus, pro-democracy activist Ted Twee tells me about his daring escape from Hong Kong as China targets
0:45.4	democracy there and...
0:47.4	About one in six individuals in this country are likely to be food insecure.
0:52.1	Hari Sri Navasan explores how the pandemic could leave 50 million Americans depending on food banks. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London.
1:17.0	More grim milestones today as America surpasses 17 million COVID cases and here in the UK for the first time
1:26.1	in history the UN Children's Agency UNICEF plans to feed vulnerable families
1:31.9	across this country.
1:33.0	In France, President Emmanuel Macron is the latest world leader to catch COVID,
1:38.0	which is further proof that no one is beyond its reach.
1:41.0	Meanwhile, millions of Pfizer biotech vaccines are being rolled out to
1:46.2	front-line workers. Next up, could be FDA emergency approval for the Moderna vaccine.
1:52.4	A glimmer of hope as experts fear this holiday
1:55.2	season will certainly bring a spike in infections. Pediatric surgeon and
2:00.0	critical care specialist Cornelia Griggs has been manning the front lines and we spoke
2:04.8	first back in March when she was sounding the alarm over how unprepared US hospitals were
2:11.0	for the pandemic. Take a listen to her warning then.
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