Amanpour: Kellyanne Conway, Daniel Benjamin, William Barber and Danah Boyd

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, joins Christiane Amanpour to defend Trump's rhetoric that many blame for stirring up white nationalism and hatred in the U.S., leading to mass shootings like the one in El Paso, Texas over the weekend. Daniel Benjamin, former coordinator for counter-terrorism under President Obama, and Reverend William Barber, a Protestant minister and political activist, discuss the many factors that need to be combated in order to tackle gun violence; both legislative and moral. Our Hari Sreenivasan sits down with Danah Boyd, the founder and President of "Data & Society" and social media scholar, to talk about how some use digital media to spread lies and hate.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 Amman for here's what's coming up.
0:09.0	We cannot allow ourselves to feel powerless.
0:12.0	We can and will stop this evil contagion.
0:15.8	After another devastating weekend of mass homicide, why won't America stop this
0:22.0	violence?
0:23.0	I'll ask Kelly Ann Conway councillor to President Donald Trump.
0:26.0	Plus, I'll speak with counter-terrorism expert Daniel Benjamin,
0:30.0	and minister and activist William Barber.
0:33.0	And,
0:34.0	You'd say, well, maybe we don't yet know why that plane came down.
0:37.0	Maybe we don't yet know what happened in that election.
0:41.0	A closer look at how bad actors use digital media to... in that
0:43.0	a closer look at how bad actors use digital media to spread lies and hate.
0:46.0	Our Harry Sri Avasan talks to social media scholar Dr. Dana Boyd. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London. A bloody
1:09.0	weekend of gun violence and racial terror in America with at least 31 people killed in two cities in
1:15.6	less than 24 hours. In El Paso, Texas a two-month-old baby lost his father and his
1:21.1	mother who sacrificed themselves to save his life.
1:24.8	And according to the Mexican foreign minister, seven people from his country were killed.
1:29.5	They were among at least 22 people killed there in El Paso.
1:33.0	Then in Dayton, Ohio, the gunman's own sister was among the nine victims.
1:38.0	President Trump spoke from the White House today and called out the racial hatred that motivated the El Paso attack.
1:46.4	The shooter in El Paso posted a manifesto online consumed by racist hate. In one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry,
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