Amanpour: E.J. Dionne, Norman Ornstein, John Bachmann and Eric Liu

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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E.J. Dionne, a columnist at the Washington Post, and Norman Ornstein, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute join Christiane Amanpour from Washington D.C. to discuss dysfunction in the White House as President Trump refuses to work with Congress. John Bachmann, the former EPA Associate Director for Science/ Policy, talks about the impact of rolling back Obama era environmental protection laws. Our Michel Martin talks to Eric Liu, the author of "Become America" about why he wants to increase civic engagement.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 Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	This whole thing was a takedown attempt at the President of the United States.
0:16.0	D.C. dysfunction.
0:17.6	If a president flat out refuses to work with Congress,
0:21.3	can America's institutions work?
0:24.0	And struggling to breathe, the EPA's new plan to change the way air pollution deaths are counted.
0:31.0	Plus...
0:32.0	My notion of civic religion is of course not, it's not godly religion, it is not
0:36.2	worshiping a deity, but it is about believing in democracy.
0:39.8	Eric Lou delivers a sermon on civics to engage and inspire the disillusioned citizen. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London well political dysfunction
1:04.2	is officially transatlantic now here in the UK prime minister Theresa May defies
1:09.5	cries for her to quit over the chaos of Brexit.
1:13.0	And in Washington, President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
1:17.0	are engaged in a very public and very nasty war of words.
1:21.0	It started on Wednesday when Pelosi said the president was engaged in a
1:25.1	cover-up prompting Trump to storm out of an infrastructure meeting and refused to
1:30.0	work with Congress until the oversight investigations are over.
1:34.4	And today it only got more heated.
1:36.6	Here's the speaker detailing the several times
1:39.2	he's abruptly ended meetings.
1:42.7	The president again stormed out.
1:44.4	I think, what, first pound the table, walk out the door.
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