Amanpour: Heather Cox Richardson, Norm Ornstein, Yuval Noah Harari, and Bridget Cambria

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Congressional Scholar Norm Ornstein and historian Heather Cox Richardson join Christiane Amanpour to examine the many shortcomings of America's democracy exposed by this election. 'Sapiens' author Yuval Harari shares why he gave his best-selling book the cartoon treatment and how we as a species are faring in this pandemic. Hari Sreenivasan speaks to lawyer Bridget Cambria about the state of America’s asylum system. 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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0:38.0	We literally are going to change the course of this country for generations to come.
0:45.0	We are going to win four more years for the White House.
0:50.0	What kind of America will emerge from this election?
0:54.5	Political scientist Norm Orrinstein and historian Heather Cox Richardson
0:59.0	discuss this major stress test then?
1:01.5	I think there is a real danger that if we don't have a kind of
1:04.8	global safety net some countries might entirely collapse. Humans have survived and
1:10.8	succeeded because of cooperation unique to our species.
1:14.9	But is this freeing?
1:16.5	Some graphic lessons from Yuval Noah Harare, the best-selling author of Sapiens.
1:21.7	Plus, the cost of incarceration is so high. Why would we
1:25.6	in prison 50,000 people that pose no danger to the United States? Immigration
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