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Amanpour

Amanpour: David King, David Enrich and Amanda Little

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Christiane Amanpour is joined by David King, former UK chief scientific adviser, to discuss the easing of Britain's lockdown. He tells Christiane why he thinks that lifting restrictions too soon could damage public trust in science. Meanwhile, the US Supreme Court will decide on Tuesday whether President Trump can block congressional and criminal inquiries into his financial practices. It is the biggest presidential immunity case since Watergate. David Enrich, business investigations editor at the New York Times joins Christiane to discuss his new book "Dark Towers" which explores how Deutsche Bank became one of Donald Trump's go-to lenders. And our Hari Sreenivasan is joined by Amanda Little, Bloomberg columnist and author of "The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World", to talk about the role that our global food industry has played in the coronavirus 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 Amunfor here's what's coming up.

0:09.0

We must stay alert. We must continue to control the virus and save lives.

0:16.2

Confusion rains after the British Prime Minister sets about unlocking lockdown.

0:21.7

Should Britain stay alert or stay home? I asked Sir David King, the

0:27.1

country's former chief scientific advisor then, with the Supreme Court hearing

0:32.2

the biggest presidential immunity case since Watergate,

0:36.1

author and investigative reporter David Enrich looks at what the president doesn't want reveal

0:41.6

and why. and later.

0:43.0

We're even beginning to hear, you know, what feels like this impending famine at a time when, you know, again, we're just dumping all these really valuable high nutrient high flavor food resources in this country.

0:56.3

Could a pandemic that started in an animal market disrupt the global food supply?

1:01.8

Hurry Streinovosen speaks to environmental journalist Amanda Little. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur working from home in

1:24.4

London. Where the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to ease the

1:28.5

lockdown while also mindful that the nation's infection and death rates are the highest in Europe.

1:34.8

This is what he told Parliament today.

1:39.4

Our challenge now is to find a way forward that preserves our hard-won gains while easing the burden of the lockdown.

1:46.4

And I will be candid with the House.

1:47.6

This is a supremely difficult balance to strike.

1:51.6

There could be no greater mistake than to jeopardize everything we've

1:55.0

striven to achieve by proceeding too far and too fast. But moving the country

2:01.6

from stay at home to stay alert has been derided as vague at best confusing and contradictory at worse.

2:09.0

The only really clear departure seems to be that people can leave their houses for outdoor exercise more

2:14.4

than just once a day and while encouraging those who can do so safely to return to

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