Amanpour: Jim Clyburn, Barry Gibb and Jack Lew

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jim Clyburn, Democratic Congressman, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the climate agenda President Biden set out today and the theme of equity that runs through the President's executive actions. Barry Gibb, the last surviving member of the Bee Gees, discusses the band's legacy and the new HBO documentary that looks at their extraordinary stardom, 'The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart'. Our Hari Sreenivasan talks to former Treasury Secretary Jack Law about Biden's massive stimulus plan and the economic challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. 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 Amman Poir. Here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	We need to make equity
0:15.0	is at the heart of a more perfect union,
0:18.0	from race to climate.
0:19.0	The highest-ranking African-American congressman
0:21.0	House Majority with Jim Clyburn joins me.
0:24.0	Then...
0:25.0	The most exciting sound in the world.
0:30.0	The Bee geez come alive again in a new film and a new album. I speak to the last surviving brother, Barry Gibb, about legacy and reinventing their classics. Plus, the risk today, you know, as it was in September, is doing
0:46.7	too little and not for long enough. A Herculean task. How to get the U.S. economy back on track.
0:54.8	Former Obama Treasury Secretary Jack Lou tells our Harry Sri Navasan. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.
1:17.0	The news is dominated by all kinds of grim COVID milestones,
1:21.0	more than 100,000 deaths here in the UK and 100 million cases reported around the
1:26.8	world. And with vaccines which first looked like light at the end of the tunnel now
1:30.9	turning into an ugly spat between rich and poor countries.
1:35.1	The struggle for equity across all sectors is at the heart of President Biden's new agenda,
1:40.6	and this
1:44.0	climate crisis is the right
1:45.0	climate crisis is the right thing to do
1:48.0	it's not just a pandemic to do
1:50.0	it's not just a pandemic that keeps people inside, it's poor air quality.
1:55.0	Multiple studies have shown that air pollution is associated with an increased risk of death from COVID-19. And just like we need a unified national response for COVID-19,
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