Amanpour: Jonathan Powell, Mark Landler, Jim Tankersley and Lang Lang

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Former UK Chief Negotiator for Northern Ireland, Jonathan Powell, and New York Times London Bureau Chief, Mark Landler, join Christiane Amanpour to unpack the parallels between UK PM Boris Johnson and U.S. President Donald Trump as the UK moves to break international law over Brexit. Then Jim Tankersley, author of "The Riches of This Land," debunks the myth of the middle class. He also explains to our Michel Martin why restricting immigration to boost wages is the wrong way to go. And finally, Chinese pianist Lang Lang gives a private concert from his home in Beijing where he has spent the duration of lockdown keeping up his musical fitness. He reflects on realizing his life-long dream of playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations. 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.
0:09.0	Yes this does break international law in a very specific and limited way.
0:13.9	The UK tries to break its Brexit deal.
0:16.8	Amid emergency talks with the EU, I talk to Tony Blair's former chief negotiator,
0:21.8	Jonathan Powell
0:22.8	and New York Times London Bureau Chief Mark Landler
0:25.6	about Boris Johnson taking a page out of the Trump playbook,
0:29.1	disrupting alliances and the rule of law.
0:32.2	Then. and the rule of law. Then...
0:33.0	China...
0:34.0	...
0:35.0	... ... ...
0:36.0	...
0:38.0	...
0:40.0	China Superstar Pianis Long, China's superstar pianist Lang Lang Lang
0:45.0	tells us about achieving his lifelong dream
0:47.7	of playing Bach's Goldberg variations.
0:51.0	I think the whole fallacy of the immigration debate is the idea that American workers are competing for a finite number of jobs.
0:57.5	And that's just not true. Myth-busting and the economy author Jim Tankersley tells our Michel Martin about his new book
1:04.5	The Riches of this land and what really happened to America's middle class. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London.
1:27.0	Britain and the United States are often seen as champions of a rules-based world order.
1:32.0	But by its own admission now, the British government... of a rules-based world order.
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