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Amanpour: Evan Osnos, Laura Bates, Jim Bittermann, and Susan Zirinsky

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

New Yorker writer Evan Osnos joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss his new Joe Biden biography and why he thinks Biden hopes to find common ground; but is prepared to go scorched earth if necessary. Then, feminist writer Laura Bates talks about her new book, “Men Who Hate Women,” which exposes communities of extreme misogyny. Turning to coronavirus developments, correspondent Jim Bittermann joins Amanpour from Paris to break down President Macron’s latest announcement that France will go into national lockdown again. CBS News President Susan Zirinsky speaks to Walter Isaacson about the now infamous “60 Minutes” interview with President Trump.     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.

0:09.0

I'm running as a proud Democrat.

0:11.0

Well, I will govern as an American president. Biden's starkly different message

0:18.0

of unity for a nation divided under Trump. I ask Evan Osnos about his new Biden biography and

0:24.5

whether it's third time lucky for this Democratic candidate.

0:28.0

And... We are talking about a very serious offline threat in terms of the number of women who have been killed by these men.

0:36.4

Not just everyday sexism but radicalized misogyny.

0:40.4

I talk to activist and writer Laura Bates about her new book, Men Who Hate Women.

0:45.0

Then, we're at the precipice of one of the most important elections of our time.

0:50.0

No one knows how this race is going to go.

0:52.0

Our Walter Isaacson speaks to the only female... No one knows how this race is going to go.

0:52.5

Our Walter Isaacson speaks to the only female network news chief,

0:56.2

Susan Zorinsky of CBS, about getting ready for a very different kind of election night. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Pristiana Montpour in London.

1:21.3

President Trump's closing argument to voters

1:24.2

we're ending the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an actual press release from the

1:29.1

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and it reads a little like President George

1:34.5

W Bush declaring mission accomplished in Iraq back in 2003 which the former

1:40.2

president came to bitterly regret not least because the nation still is at war,

1:44.9

and US forces are still there.

1:47.3

It's a lesson in politics versus reality as the pandemic rages on, nearly 230,000 Americans are dead, and a record nearly half a million have

1:57.3

tested positive for COVID in the last week alone, leaving the United States

2:01.9

with the highest casualty level in the world.

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