Amanpour: John Kerry, Dan Rather, Margaret Carlson and Cory Booker

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration announces plans to drill the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the clock ticks down to November 4, the day America looks set to officially leave the Paris Climate Agreement. These moves come in the midst of a presidential election in which climate has played a bigger role than ever before. Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry committed America to the Paris Climate Agreement back in 2016 and he joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the Democratic campaign and share his perspective as someone who went head to head with an incumbent Republican President. Then, this year’s virtual Democratic National Convention is shaping up to be like no other before, but these nominating events have a long history of generating their own magical moments. Our Walter Isaacson talks to Dan Rather, former anchor of the CBS Evening News and Margaret Carlson, columnist at The Daily Beast, about the meaning and purpose of these conventions in the landscape of America’s politics. And Christiane is joined by Democratic Senator Cory Booker to discuss the Biden-Harris ticket and this year’s push for Democratic unity. 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.
0:10.0	Unity to restore the soul of America.
0:13.0	With that, the Democrats are off to the races.
0:16.0	Convention Speaker and former presidential nominee John Kerry joins me.
0:20.0	Then,
0:21.0	The conventions are part of what I call the dance democracy.
0:24.0	Legendary newsman Dan Rather and the Daily Beast Margaret Carlson tell Walter
0:29.1	Isitson why conventions do matter and pick some of their highlights from decades of covering them.
0:35.4	Plus, one of this year's presidential contenders Senator Corey Booker is on the program.
0:40.1	He talks about his call for Civic Grace and his good friend, the vice presidential pick
0:45.4	Carmelah Harris. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London at their unconventional
1:04.5	convention the Democratic message is crystal clear the stakes for the country
1:09.5	and for the world have never been higher as they seek to remove President Trump from office.
1:15.4	The virtual summit framing this year's presidential election as a vital battle for America's
1:20.8	future, a life and death battle even, with pleas for competent leadership
1:26.0	coming from a wide range of voices across the party spectrum.
1:30.0	One of those speakers is the former Secretary of State John Kerry.
1:33.7	He wants to see a Biden administration rejoin the Iran nuclear deal
1:38.0	and the Paris Climate Accord.
1:40.0	The Trump administration has rolled back a whole raft of EPA regulations and now the White House
1:45.4	controversially says it'll open Alaska's Arctic wildlife refuge to oil drilling.
1:51.3	Kerry also knows exactly what it's like to be a Democratic
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