Amanpour: Keith Ellison, Anne Applebaum, Eliot Cohen and Vanita Gupta

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Christiane Amanpour is joined by Minnesota Attorney General, Keith Ellison, who is now the lead prosecutor in the George Floyd case. They discuss the charges filed against the four police officers involved in Floyd’s death and the challenges of winning convictions in a justice system that traditionally favors the police. Then, when riot police were brought in to clear peaceful protesters outside the White House, it was a tipping point for many in the military. Dean of SAIS at John Hopkins University, Eliot Cohen, and historian and staff writer at The Atlantic, Anne Applebaum, set this historic event in context. And our Hari Sreenivasan speaks to Vanita Gupta, a civil rights lawyer who worked under former President Obama as the Acting Attorney General and Head of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. Having led the investigation into the police department in Ferguson, Missouri, after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, Gupta explains why the changes need to go far beyond just police reform. 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 Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	And we want you all over the world to stand with us for 8 minutes and 46 seconds
0:16.0	and make that commitment for justice in the name of George.
0:21.0	As the world watches justice for George Floyd is in the hands of
0:25.4	this man, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, he joins us. Then how will
0:31.2	history regard Donald Trump's defenders and how does the world look at Donald Trump's America?
0:37.0	I speak with the former State Department official Elliot Cohen and Pulitzer Prize winning historian and author Anne Applebaum.
0:43.6	And later, Vanita Gupta headed up the Civil Rights Division
0:47.5	after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
0:50.8	Now she weighs in on comprehensive police reform. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur working from home in London. We're here and all around the world
1:15.3	protesters continue to demand justice for George Floyd. As United States
1:20.3	senators stood or knelt for eight minutes and 46 seconds today, the time it took for Floyd to die with a knee in his neck.
1:28.0	The job of making the case against the officers charged in his death falls to my first guest tonight, that
1:35.2	is the Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.
1:39.2	Ellison is no stranger himself to controversy.
1:41.7	As America's first Muslim congressman congressman he was a prime target
1:45.2	of the right-wing smear machine. Now he faces an unprecedented challenge
1:50.2	winning a conviction in a justice system that traditionally favors the police.
1:55.0	Ellison filed charges against all four officers involved.
1:59.0	Derek Chauvin, who pinned Floyd to the ground for nearly nine minutes, charged with second and third-degree
2:05.9	murder and manslaughter.
2:08.8	To Tao, J Alexander King and Thomas Lane, the other officers at the scene, each charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter.
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