Amanpour: Kris Kobach, Cecillia Wang, Steven M. Gillon, Carole Radziwill and Rujeko Hockley

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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U.S. Republican Senate Candidate from Kansas Kris Kobach discusses the fallout from a series of racist tweets by President Trump attacking Democratic congresswomen. Then, ACLU Deputy Legal Director Cecillia Wang talks about her efforts to block Kobach-inspired legislation. Steven M. Gillon, author of "America's Reluctant Prince", and Carole Radziwill, widow of JFK Jr.'s best friend, celebrates JFK Jr.'s life and legacy 20 years after his death. Finally, Rujeko Hockley, co-curator of the Whitney Art Museum Biennial 2019, tells our Alicia Menendez about the latest exhibition.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.
0:08.5	If you hate our country, if you're not happy here you can leave.
0:13.4	President Trump doubles down on his racist tweets.
0:16.4	I'm joined by supporter and hardline immigration advocate Chris Kobak, the Republican
0:21.6	who's running for Senate in Kansas, then reaction from the
0:24.9	ACLU with Cecilia Wong.
0:28.5	And it's only been now as I go through this process that I'm rediscovering him.
0:34.0	20 years since John Kennedy Jr. was killed in a plane crash. I speak to historian Steve Gillen about his new film America's reluctant prince and to Carol Radzewell, John's close friend and relative.
0:48.0	Plus... In the historical moment that we're living through, we found artists incredibly interested in looking at the
0:54.6	past.
0:55.6	Co-currator of the Whitney Museum, Rujeko Hockey brings us up to date with the contemporary
1:00.3	art scene. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.
1:18.0	President Trump is clearly banking on identity politics to define his re-election campaign.
1:24.0	From his racist attack on four congresswomen
1:27.0	to raids on undocumented migrants
1:29.0	to an unprecedented and restrictive new asylum policy.
1:33.7	The president in a tweet today
1:35.3	denied that his attacks over the weekend
1:37.1	were racist, but here's what he had to say yesterday
1:40.1	in the Rose Garden about all of that. It doesn't concern you that many people saw that tweet as racist
1:46.0	and that white nationalist groups are finding common cause with you on that point.
1:51.0	He doesn't concern me because many people agree with me and
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