Amanpour: Jessica Anderson, Dahlia Lithwick, Dave Eggers, and Natasha Trethewey

Amanpour

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🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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It’s day two of confirmation hearings in the U.S for Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s third Supreme Court appointment. Jessica Anderson, executive director of Heritage Action for America, joins Christiane Amanpour to makes the conservative case for the nominee. Senior editor at Slate Dahlia Lithwick explains why she thinks Amy Coney Barrett could find herself "bound by the promises" President Trump and conservatives made on Roe v Wade. Then, Dave Eggers speaks to Amanpour about his novella, “The Captain and the Glory” and his take on the U.S election. Michel Martin talks to Pulitzer prize-winning poet and domestic abuse survivor Natasha Trethewey about her new book, “Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir.” 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.
0:07.0	Judges can't just wake up one day and say I have an agenda I like guns I like abortion I hate abortion
0:15.3	and walk in like a a royal queen and impose you know their will on the world
0:19.8	what impact will the new Supreme Court nominee Amy Koney Barrett have on health care, civil rights and abortion rights?
0:27.0	I ask pro-life activists who support her nomination.
0:31.0	And I ask legal expert Dahlia Littwick about originalism, textualism, and what all
0:36.2	this means for democracy itself.
0:38.8	Then novelist Dave Eggers on how he thinks his Trumpian satire has held up since it was first published a year ago.
0:46.0	Plus, she wasn't going to let him batter my soul in the same way that he was battering hers.
0:55.0	Domestic abuse rises to shocking levels under cover of COVID.
0:59.0	Our Michelle Martin speaks to Pulitzer Prize winning author Natasha Trethaway about her new memoir Memorial Drive. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. It is day two
1:26.8	of confirmation hearings in the United States for Amy Coney Barrett. She's
1:30.7	President Trump's third Supreme Court appointment, and the state could not
1:34.6	be higher with health care amid this pandemic, top of mind on both sides of the Atlantic.
1:40.4	In yet another case of politics versus science, here in Britain a bombshell revelation that the government of Boris Johnson rejected advice from its own scientific advisors in September to implement a short lockdown as cases dangerously rose and they
1:55.7	continue to rise across the United States as senators question Judge Barrett's
2:00.0	interpretation of the law amid concerns about her faith and previously stated opinions.
2:06.0	Familiar battle lines are drawn between Republicans and Democrats from the Affordable Care Act or
2:11.1	Obamacare to abortion and civil rights.
2:14.3	Judge Barrett claims personal faith should not interfere with court rulings.
2:19.1	But what do pro-life activists make of her nomination.
2:22.6	My first guest tonight is one of them.
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