Amanpour: Giuseppe Sala, LaToya Cantrell, Sarah Longwell and Mehrsa Baradaran

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Mayors Giuseppe Sala and LaToya Cantrell, of Milan and New Orleans respectively, join Christiane Amanpour to discuss how their cities are dealing with coronavirus pandemic. They reveal their agenda for a green and just recovery after covid. Groups like Republican Voters Against Trump are trying to convince party members to abandon the president. The co-founder Sarah Longwell talks candidly about her hopes for the November election. Then our Michel Martin speaks to Mehrsa Baradaran, law professor and author of “The Color of Money”, about how black communities have been systemically shut out of the banking system causing a vast racial wealth gap. And finally, since slave trader Edward Colston’s statue was toppled in Bristol, his plinth has stood empty. We explain how an artist has now replaced it with a symbol of the black lives matter movement. 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.
0:07.0	Mayors of the world unite to build a better fairer world out of the COVID and racism pandemics.
0:17.0	I'm joined by two of these leaders from New Orleans and Milan.
0:21.0	Then...
0:22.0	I'm tired of being embarrassed. I have been riddled with guilt. I am ashamed to this day for voting for him.
0:28.0	We've had enough. These are Republicans talking about their president. Sarah Longwell, co-founder of Republican
0:34.6	voters against Trump, is on the program. Plus, insofar as the market is
0:39.2	coded with racism, capitalism's not going to work. The color of money, Mirse Baradaran tells our Michelle Martin
0:46.7	how the banking system shuts out black communities. Yes. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Pristiana Montpur working from home in
1:08.5	London. We must not return to normal after the coronavirus pandemic.
1:13.4	That is the message from the world's most powerful mayors today
1:17.4	as they announce their agenda for a green and just recovery.
1:21.5	The task force released a roadmap for cities to tackle inequality
1:25.5	as well as the climate crisis throughout the coronavirus pandemic and beyond.
1:30.3	And as the disease deepens, they're not the only ones going all in on a green recovery,
1:35.8	Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, announcing his own plan to invest $2 trillion over four years on clean jobs and infrastructure.
1:45.0	Listen to how he put it.
1:47.0	These investments are a win-win win for this country. creating jobs, cutting energy costs, protecting our climate.
1:58.8	That's why today I'm releasing my plan to mobilize millions of jobs by building sustainable infrastructure and an
2:07.5	equitable clean energy future.
2:12.4	So joining me now are two mayors whose cities are at different ends of this
2:16.3	coronavirus pandemic from Milan is Mayor Giuseppe Sala. He's chair of the
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