Amanpour: John Kasich, Taghi Amirani, Walter Murch and Wade Davis

Amanpour

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🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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A Democratic National Convention unlike any seen before kicks off in the United States. Many of the biggest names in democratic politics are due to speak at the virtual event, demonstrating as much socially distanced unity as the party can muster. Christiane Amanpour is joined by former Governor of Ohio John Kasich, who ran against Donald Trump four years ago for the Republican nomination, and has now crossed the political aisle to speak at this year’s DNC. Then, in 1953 the CIA and MI6 instigated a coup d’état to overthrow Iran’s Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and reinstall the Shah to power. Operation Ajax set in motion a course of events that would lead to Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, and which continue to shape the country today. Documentary film “Coup 53” uses new archival evidence to tell this story and Christiane speaks to the men behind the film, director Taghi Amirani and editor Walter Murch. And our Hari Sreenivasan speaks to professor of anthropology and best-selling author Wade Davis about his latest article for Rolling Stone “The Unraveling of America”, and the end of American exceptionalism. 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.
0:08.0	It should be a party that delivers a bounce and amid COVID the first presidential
0:15.6	nominating convention starts today online. I speak to the Republican making the case
0:21.3	for Joe Biden, the former governor of Ohio, John Casey.
0:25.0	Then, in 1953, the United States together with Britain, participated in a coup in Iran.
0:32.0	How did relations between Iran and the USA become so toxic? A
0:37.2	thrilling documentary, Koo 53, examines just how the CIA and MI six overthrew Iran's budding democracy.
0:46.0	The filmmakers join me.
0:48.0	Here we were a nation with 2,000 people dying a day, discovering that we were living kind of in a failed state.
0:55.8	Could COVID-19 signal the end of the American century?
0:59.6	Author and anthropologist Wade Davis talks to Harris Rienasan about his latest work, the unraveling of America. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London and we begin a week
1:25.3	in which the fight for democracy is on display around the world from the streets of
1:30.3	Belarus to the United States where the Democratic Party is holding its
1:34.7	national convention virtually for the first time in history. While in Belarus
1:39.4	hundreds of thousands of protesters have come out again against Alexander Lukashenko.
1:45.3	In the biggest threat ever to the man they called Europe's last dictator, they demanded
1:49.8	do-over of last week's election, widely viewed as rigged.
1:53.8	It gave him a six term in office after already 26 years.
1:58.2	Even his most fervent base is coming out on strike,
2:01.4	and the European Union is preparing to impose sanctions.
2:05.1	It appears that leaders like Lukashenko or Brazil's Bolsonaro are being judged as much
2:11.1	on their response to the coronavirus epidemic as anything.
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