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Amanpour: Jennifer Granholm, Andrew Gillum, Afua Hirsch, Robert Lacey and Bernard-Henri Levy

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Granholm, former Michigan Governor, and Andrew Gillum, former Tallahassee Mayor, join Christiane Amanpour to unpackthe latest Democratic debate where key candidates Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren faced off on issues of impeachment, trade and foreign policy. Afua Hirsch, journalist and author of "Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging," and Robert Lacey, royal historian and the Queen's biographer, dig down into the latest royal scandal. They asses what has prompted Prince Harry and Duchess of Sussex to step back as senior royals: the media circus, allegations of racism and misogyny. Our Hari Sreenivasan sits down with celebrity intellectual and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy to discuss his return to his roots as a war correspondent. He sat down to talk about two of his gritty new war documentaries - "Peshmerga" and "The Battle of Mosul" in which he's embedded with Kurdish forces battling Islamic State.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 Amampur. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

The president violated his oath of office.

0:12.0

As impeachment articles head to the... violated his oath of office.

0:12.6

As impeachment articles head to the Senate and Democrats debate,

0:17.0

we get reaction from two key swing states.

0:19.8

Plus, a battle royal rages over Megan and Harry's future.

0:24.0

Frank discussion with social commentator Afroix Hirsch and royal biographer Robert Lacy.

0:29.0

Then...

0:31.0

French Intellectual Bernard Henry Levy on living with Kurdish forces fighting ISIS. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London.

0:55.3

Impeachment articles are heading to the Senate triggering a trial of

0:59.5

President Trump. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced the seven impeachment managers who will argue

1:05.1

the case against him.

1:06.5

Meantime, the Democrats campaign to oust him at the polls.

1:10.3

That continues.

1:11.4

And last night, six candidates faced off in a debate which is the

1:15.2

last time they'll do so before the Iowa caucuses the crucial first test. The last

1:20.2

four Democrats to capture Iowa also won the party's presidential nomination.

1:24.8

Just to recap, they were Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and then in 2016 Hillary Clinton.

1:31.2

The party though now is split between two strands roughly described as

1:35.6

moderate and progressive. Which faction stands out at this point? Let's ask

1:40.5

Democrats who represent both sides and hail from two key swing states.

1:45.2

Former Democratic governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, joins me from Des Moines, Iowa,

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