Amanpour: Gary Cohn, Barham Salih, Paul Romer & Rajiv Shah

Amanpour

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🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Christiane Amanpour is joined by Gary Cohn, former chief economic adviser to President Trump, to discuss how the US economy could reopen post-coronavirus and Monday's jaw-dropping White House briefing. Amidst falling oil prices and a prolonged power vacuum, Iraqi President Barham Salih tells Christiane how his country is coping with its coronavirus outbreak. And Hari Sreenivasan speaks to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer and the President of the Rockefeller Foundation Dr. Rajiv Shah about their approach to reviving the US economy - scaling up access to testing, and a phased return to work.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	It would be nice to be able to open with a big bang and open up our country or certainly most of our
0:15.9	country and I think we're going to do that soon.
0:17.9	Millions out of work, trillions on the line.
0:21.2	How will America reopen its economy? I speak to President Trump's
0:25.2	former top economic advisor Gary Cohn. Then coronavirus hits Iraq where
0:31.2	the government is already in crisis and the economy in free fall
0:34.7	President Bahram Saled joins me for an exclusive interview and...
0:39.7	Either we shut our economy down off and on in a rather unpredictable manner over a 12 to 18 month
0:46.3	period or we have widespread access to testing.
0:50.1	Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Roma and the head of the Rockefeller Foundation Dr. Rajiv Shah
0:56.2	break down the best way to reopen the economy and keep Americans safe.
1:01.2	And the war hero honoring our health heroes. How a World War II
1:06.3	veteran went above and beyond by going round and round. And then. The Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur reporting from home in
1:29.5	London. The world approaches 2 million coronavirus confirmed cases now.
1:35.8	It's a new milestone that comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns
1:40.6	that the United States outbreak could peak this week.
1:44.0	Meantime, a worrying economic diagnosis from the International Monetary Fund,
1:49.0	which is predicting the world economy, could shrink, will shrink by 3% this year. The IMF says the
1:56.8	quote great lockdown will cause the biggest downturn since the Great Depression of
2:02.0	the 1930s, before a partial rebound might be possible in 2021.
2:08.0	Well, President Trump is vowing to reopen the world's largest economy, the US, potentially by May 1st.
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