Amanpour: Kristalina Georgieva, Reverend William J. Barber II, Anne Milgram, Matthew Desmond and Afua Hirsch

Amanpour

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🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Kristalina Georgieva, the head of the International Monetary Fund, joins Christiane Amanpour to assess the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. She reveals that the global recession will be worse, and the recovery potentially slower, than currently forecast. Reverend William Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, highlights the urgent need to combat voter suppression before the 2020 presidential election. He says voting rights are a matter of life and death. Former federal prosecutor Anne Milgram discusses the firing of U.S. attorney Geoffrey Berman; stating the removal was bizarre, political and raises questions that need to be answered by Attorney General Barr. Then our Michel Martin speaks to Princeton professor and author of "Evicted", Matthew Desmond, about the eviction crisis in the United States and how ending up on the street is a very real possibility for many Americans. He lays out how investing in affordable and stable housing is economically beneficial. And finally – today the UK mark Windrush day, a day honoring the contribution of the Windrush Generation who emigrated to the UK after WWII, but many of whom were wrongfully detained and even deported. Afua Hirsch, journalist and author of “Brit(ish), delves into the country's history of systemic racism. 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 Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	Coronovirus cases rising millions out of work and a reckoning with racial injustice.
0:15.8	Could this be the fork in the road to building back a better world?
0:19.7	I ask the IMF chief.
0:21.6	And taking up Dr King's mantle Reverend William Barber joins me
0:25.9	about fighting the structural poverty that platforms structural racism.
0:30.9	Then when the rule of law is under threat in America, what does that mean for
0:35.2	democracy around the world?
0:37.3	I speak to former federal prosecutor Ann Milgram about Trump firing a top attorney investigating his allies.
0:44.7	Plus, all of us know that we need stable affordable housing to live.
0:50.3	This is essential to us, but our country has not invested in this fundamental human need.
0:56.0	Another brick in the wall of racism, unfair housing in America.
1:00.0	Matthew Desmond tells our Michel Martin about the coming pandemic evictions. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpore working from home in London.
1:24.0	The WHO is now warning the coronavirus pandemic is far from over.
1:29.0	In fact, it's accelerating in some countries, including the United States where nearly half of
1:34.6	states are reporting an increase in infections.
1:38.6	Along with the mounting body count, the brazen killing in broad daylight of George Floyd, which has reignited the Black Lives
1:45.2	Madam movement. On the streets around the world, there is a sense of seizing the moment.
1:50.4	And now some unlikely institutions, including the US Federal Reserve, are speaking out warning
1:56.6	that income inequality for minorities could get even the
2:03.7	the notoriously hard bargaining international monetary fund is talking about
2:07.2	building back a better world from the current crises while also
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