Amanpour: Howard Bryant, Ken Blackwell, Robert P. Jones and Susan Rice

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In a major moment, professional sports players across the United States walked out in protest over the shooting of Jacob Blake. ESPN Columnist, Howard Bryant joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss their protests and the impact these statements may have. And as the shooting shocks and saddens people around the globe, Ken Blackwell, an Advisory Board Member for Donald J. Trump for President defends his messaging on law and order. Turning to election tactics, scholar and author of “White Too Long”, Robert P. Jones explains why Trump’s strategy of targeting white, evangelical voters isn’t sustainable. Then our Walter Isaacson speaks to Susan Rice, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN and former National Security Adviser under President Obama, about Russian interference in the 2016 election. She’s concerned they’re using the same tactics to interfere again this year, and feels it could add to the political divisions across the U.S. 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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0:39.0	As a black man, as a former player, I think it's best for me to support the players and just not be here tonight
0:49.0	Sports comes to a screeching halt over racial injustice.
0:53.2	Major League players unite in an unprecedented strike
0:56.4	over the police shooting of Jacob Blake,
0:58.4	and I speak with sports journalist Howard Bryant.
1:01.3	And at the Republican Convention, the Grand Old Party takes a page from Richard Nixon's
1:08.5	Divide and Rule Law and Order playbook.
1:11.3	I ask the Trump campaign whether this will be their strategy for
1:14.5	November. Then will President Trump's evangelical base rally behind his
1:19.6	message again? I'll ask religious scholar and author Robert P. Jones.
1:25.0	Plus, there's still no doubt even today among Trump's sitting senior officials that the Russians
1:31.1	interfered in 2016 in our election with the aim of
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