Amanpour: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Max Hastings, Dr Jane Goodall & Tom Ridge

Amanpour

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🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Marking the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Max Hastings join Christiane Amanpour to discuss the importance of VE day and the leadership that made it possible. World-renowned primatologist Dr Jane Goodall tells Christiane about her new National Geographic documentary "Jane Goodall- The Hope", and the risk that the coronavirus could pose to apes. And Michel Martin talks to former Pennsylvania governor and veteran Tom Ridge, about his take on the armed protests against lockdown orders in the US and the importance of unity and self-sacrifice.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.
0:08.0	Hostilities will end officially at one minute after midnight tonight
0:16.7	Tuesday the 8th of May. Celebrating 75 years since World War II's victory in Europe
0:24.7	with prominent historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Max Hastings,
0:28.8	reflecting on leadership and the war against coronavirus.
0:33.0	Then, I connect with people, with words, with animals, it's more mind to mind.
0:40.0	Leading through science, pioneering primitologist Jane Goodall on what COVID tells us about our place in the natural world.
0:48.0	And later, I mean, the president said he wants to be viewed as a wartime president.
0:52.0	Well, you know, the enemy is Mother Nature. President said he wants to be viewed as a wartime president.
0:52.6	Well, you know, the enemy is Mother Nature, and it's COVID-19.
0:57.0	Former Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge,
1:00.0	speaks with our Michelle Martin about winning this war. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wanpur working from home in London.
1:23.0	Today we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.
1:28.0	A fly pass over London by the Royal Air Force marked the occasion as the French President Emmanuel Macron
1:34.8	lit the flame at the tomb of the unknown soldier on an empty chanceelise in Paris.
1:40.3	Indeed, there were no crowds in the streets, no big parades, no pomp, no pageantry, as the whole
1:46.6	world fights a new enemy, this time invisible.
1:50.5	And this battle is taking its toll in dramatic ways.
1:53.7	The virus keeps claiming lives and inflicting deep economic pain and hardship.
1:59.4	The unemployment rate rose to 14.7% in April in the United States.
2:05.0	It's the highest since records began in 1948
2:08.3	as people self isolate and the economy comes to a halt.
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