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Amanpour: Jeff Flake, Radhika Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Rick Perlstein

Amanpour

CNN

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4.2929 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

As the Republican National Convention draws to a close, Jeff Flake, former Republican Senator, discusses why he is endorsing Joe Biden for President. Radhika Jones, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, acclaimed author and guest editor of Vanity Fair, talk about the magazine's September issue and the continuing struggle for racial justice. Our Walter Isaacson talks to author Rick Perlstein about conservatism in America today. 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 Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:09.0

Character matters. Decency matters.

0:13.0

Civility never goes out of style.

0:16.0

Former Arizona Senator Jeff Flague, one of the first senior Republicans to turn on Trump,

0:21.0

makes the conservative case for Joe Biden and Vanity Fair plays tribute to Brianna Taylor's beautiful life. I'm joined by editor-in-chief Radika Jones and the September issues guest editor esteemed author Tana Husi Coates.

0:35.4

Plus Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan were very different people.

0:40.4

Historian Rick Perlstein takes us to Reagan Land. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. A week of

1:05.6

politics and protest across the United States ends with a massive march on

1:10.2

Washington. 57 years to the day after Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech.

1:16.2

On exactly the same hallowed spot today they demand racial justice and reform.

1:21.4

This comes a day after President Trump wrapped up the Republican Convention

1:25.3

on the White House lawn, not so far away, and the election campaign now heads into its

1:30.4

final phase. President Trump enjoys strong support from Republicans, but

1:35.1

more and more high-level party members are coming out publicly to say they just can't

1:40.1

vote for him. Former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake

1:43.2

is a leader in the Republican anti-Trump movement.

1:46.3

Indeed, it was four years ago

1:48.1

when he first came out and said that he wouldn't vote

1:50.8

for the GOP candidate. But this this year he's going a step

1:54.2

further. Flake says he'll vote for the Democrat Joe Biden and he's calling it the

1:59.3

only way to save conservatism. Indifferente to the truth or to the careful stewardship of the institutions of American

2:08.1

liberty is not conservative.

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