Amanpour: Gretchen Whitmer, Bill Cassidy, Marietje Schaake and Kim Darroch

Amanpour

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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After an extraordinary and sad day in American history, when hundreds of Trump supporters charged on the U.S. Capitol in an insurgency not seen in hundreds of years, many are asking how this happened? But not Gretchen Whitmer; the Michigan Governor is not surprised as only last year a very similar mob stormed the seat of power in Michigan in response to her covid strategy whilst others plotted to kill her. She joins Christiane to unpack all of this. Then some the striking on-the-ground reporting from ITV News’ Washington Correspondent Robert Moore as he follows the mob breaching the Capitol. For Republican perspective of someone who was in the building on the fateful day, Walter Isaacson speaks to Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy. He talks what should be done about President Trump now. To discuss the global fallout of yesterday’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, Christiane speaks with Kim Darroch, who served as the UK’s Ambassador to the United States during much of President Trump’s term, and former member of the European Parliament Marietje Schaake, who now specializes in cybersecurity at Stanford. 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.
0:10.0	With the world agast at the blood shed and the smashed up wreckage of the United States Capitol,
0:18.3	Michigan's Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer joins me.
0:21.4	She was the first target of this season's mob violence.
0:25.0	Then, this is what happens in a third world country.
0:29.2	It is not what happens in the United States of America.
0:32.2	A Republican response.
0:34.0	Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy talks to our Walter Isaxon, also ahead.
0:38.0	What happened today in Washington, D.C. is not America.
0:42.0	How has America changed in the eyes of the world?
0:44.9	Frank discussion about the ecosystem that
0:47.1	spawns this dangerous alternative reality. Thank you. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London. The world looks on in horror
1:11.5	America's allies expressing shock and disgust at the storming of the U.S. Capitol by American insurrectionists, or as many are calling them, homegrown terrorists.
1:21.0	Four people died. The seat of American democracy was trashed. Police
1:25.3	were vastly outnumbered and unprepared. This is an assault on democracy that will
1:30.4	reverberate around the world.
1:32.8	And today, President-elect Biden said that it was an entirely predictable outcome of the
1:38.6	Trump agenda.
1:39.6	And I wish we could say we couldn't see it coming.
1:47.0	But that isn't true.
1:49.0	We could see it coming.
1:51.0	The past four years we've had a president who's made his contempt for
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