Amanpour: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Chanel Miller and Jonah Berger

Amanpour

CNN

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A Democratic National Convention like no other concludes in America, and anticipation builds for next week's Republican National Convention. Christiane Amanpour is joined by presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to discuss these extraordinary events and how the 2020 presidential race shapes up against it's historic forbears. Then, artist and author Chanel Miller was once only known to the world as Emily Doe, a sexual assault survivor whose powerful anonymous victim impact statement went viral in 2016. Last year she revealed her identity and published an award-winning memoir, “Know My Name”. Miller speaks to Christiane about the struggle to find her voice and what it really means to be a survivor. And our Hari Sreenivasan talks to Jonah Berger, professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, about the art of persuasion and his new book “The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind." 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 Ammonpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	I accept this nomination for President of the United States of America.
0:15.0	From Joe Biden all the way back to FDR.
0:18.0	You have nominated me, and I know it, and I am here to thank you for the honor.
0:25.0	We put this week's Democratic Convention into context with the esteemed presidential historian Doris
0:32.4	Kearns Group Women.
0:33.8	And...
0:34.8	My name is Chanel Miller and I am an artist.
0:36.8	Know her name.
0:38.2	Chanel Miller on how her lifelong passion, drawing, helps process the trauma of sexual assault.
0:45.0	Plus, when we know what we think that someone's trying to persuade us, our defenses
0:50.0	go up.
0:51.0	Marketing professor Jonah Berger tells our Hur Srenewassen the secret to changing someone's mind. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London. Donald Trump and his
1:15.4	party are just days away from making their case to the American people with the
1:19.9	Republican National Convention slated to begin on Monday.
1:24.2	The Democrats might be taking a breather this weekend after wrapping up the first ever
1:28.9	virtual convention.
1:30.8	It saw the first woman of color to accept the nomination for vice president,
1:34.8	that's Kamala Harris of course, and accepting his nomination Joe Biden characterized
1:39.8	November's presidential election as a choice between dark and light.
1:46.5	American history tells us that it's been on our darkest moments that we made our
1:51.6	greatest progress, that we found the light.
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