Amanpour: Joshua Wong, Tom Malinowski, McKay Coppins and Casey Gerald

Amanpour

CNN

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Joshua Wong, one of Hong Kong's key pro-democracy leaders, joins Christiane Amanpour to explain why protests have endured for a 10th consecutive week. Tom Malinowski, Democratic congressman and former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights under Obama, weighs in on the situation in Hong Kong as well as other human rights issues around the world. McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic, discusses the conspiracy theories surrounding billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's suicide. Our Michel Martin sits down with Casey Gerald, author of "The Black Art of Escape", to reflect on a dark anniversary for African-Americans - 400 years since the first slaves arrived on U.S. shores.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 Ammanpoir. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	Democracy means that Hong Kong people have the majority consensus.
0:13.4	We need to elect our own government.
0:15.9	Hong Kong protests ramp up,
0:17.7	one of the world's busiest airports, closes down.
0:20.7	China steps up its threatening rhetoric and I talk to a young protest leader
0:24.6	Joshua Wong also to Congressman Tom Malinowski he was President Obama's top
0:29.9	man on democracy and human rights. Then, no other girls will be victimized ever again.
0:36.4	Billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein kills himself in jail and conspiracy theories
0:41.4	come to life. We dive into the toxic spread of misinformation.
0:45.8	Plus...
0:46.8	So much of our time right now has been focused on resistance.
0:50.0	I have no interest in that.
0:52.0	What I want to focus on is renewal.
0:54.0	400 years after African slaves arrived on US shores,
0:58.0	author Casey Gerald on where black Americans should go from here. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. In
1:19.6	Hong Kong protests are reaching boiling point.
1:23.0	Demonstrators packed into the airport,
1:25.0	which is one of the world's busiest travel hubs,
1:27.4	forcing authorities to cancel hundreds of flights
1:30.4	and ultimately to shut it down.
1:32.4	Meanwhile, Chinese officials are getting angry
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