Amanpour: Kevin Sheekey, Richard Gere, David Gere, Julia Neuberger and Darren Walker

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Kevin Sheekey, campaign manager for Bloomberg 2020, joins Christiane Amanpour to explain why the media mogul and billionaire Michael Bloomberg has made a late entry to the 2020 presidential race. Brothers Richard Gere, the iconic actor and activist, and David Gere, the director of UCLA Art & Global Health Center, give an emotional and candid account of the friends they've lost to AIDS. They talk about coming together to help create new and powerful photography exhibition and book called "Through Positive Eyes" to celebrate World AIDS Day and end stigma once and for all. Julia Neuberger, senior rabbi and member of the British House of Lords, discusses the Labour party's anti-Semitism problem and how this might impact the upcoming UK election. Our Walter Isaacson sits down with Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, to discuss his new book, "From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth."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 Ammonpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	He is an existential threat to our country, to our values and our national security.
0:15.0	U.S. elections and a billionaire's bid for the presidency.
0:18.0	Michael Bloomberg's campaign manager tells us why he thinks he's the man to beat Trump and British
0:26.6	elections the row over anti-Semitism. I am determined with our society
0:31.9	is safe for people of all faiths.
0:34.0	Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refuses to apologize after the chief rabbi rebukes the
0:39.4	party's handling of anti-Semitism allegations.
0:43.2	We discuss with Rabbi Baroness Julia Neueberger.
0:46.7	Plus, this is a story about real people.
0:49.4	Actor Richard Gere and his brother David
0:51.7	tackle the stigma of AIDS through positive eyes, a moving
0:55.7	collection of portraits from those living with HIV.
0:59.8	Then, and when hope is expixiated, the American dream is expixiated.
1:06.7	A bold new philanthropic vision.
1:09.3	Ford Foundation President Darren Walker tells our Isakson about moving from generosity to justice. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancore in New York. After a flurry of campaigning
1:35.1	in Virginia and Arizona, the former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will pause for
1:40.4	Thanksgiving, but probably only briefly, because he's got some catching up to do.
1:45.8	On Sunday, the billionaire businessman declared that he too is running for the Democratic presidential
1:51.0	nomination.
1:52.0	Quickly laying out $37 million of his own fortune
1:55.8	to fund a massive two-week ad blitz,
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