Amanpour: Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Igor Leshchenya, Ron Klain, Tom Perez and David Chalian

Amanpour

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🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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As countries around the world try to adjust to a new normal, it's clear that there is no perfect blueprint for handling the coronavirus. Greece had remarkable early successes fighting the virus, but having now opened up to tourists, cases have surged and a new shutdown has been hurriedly implemented. Christiane Amanpour is joined by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to discuss the pandemic, heightened tensions with neighboring Turkey and the ongoing migrant crisis. Then, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko continues to cling to power after a disputed election result and a week of protests. Igor Leshchenya, Belarusian Ambassador to Slovakia, explains why he chose to side with the people, tendering his resignation and denouncing Lukashenko. Our Walter Isaacson speaks to Ron Klain, former Chief of Staff to Vice President Biden, about the Trump administration's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, and why he thinks it will cost Trump the presidency. Chair of the Democratic National Committee Tom Perez talks to Christiane about the unconventional format of this year’s event and how he thinks the presidential race is shaping up. And correspondent David Chalian speaks to Christiane about the latest from the virtual convention floor. 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.
0:08.0	As Democrats put decency and leadership in the age of coronavirus top of their convention.
0:15.2	I talked to party chair Tom Perez.
0:17.8	Then Greece took an early lead controlling the virus in Europe, but it faces a new spike. The country's Prime Minister joins me and
0:25.2	standing up for democracy in Belarus. I speak to the top diplomat who switched sides from Lukashenko to the protesters.
0:36.0	Plus, if we don't have this disease under control, which we don't, and if we don't have a national
0:41.6	strategy to fight it, which we don't, then what's going to happen
0:44.9	at colleges and universities is the same thing that's happening every place else.
0:48.4	Our Walter Isaacson talks to Ron Klain, President Obama's former Ebola czar are and Joe Biden's former Chief of Staff. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. Now in America they have recorded their
1:15.0	lowest daily number of COVID cases since June, but the number of deaths is still
1:20.2	holding steady at around a thousand people per day.
1:23.8	Meanwhile at their national convention the Democrats continue to make their case
1:28.6	for a change in government citing the need for decency and strong leadership during this crisis.
1:35.0	And I'll speak to the party chairman in a moment, but first to Europe,
1:39.0	where some countries look at the United States with a mixture of pity but mostly alarm.
1:44.4	Greece took an early and successful stance on combating the virus with less than 250 deaths.
1:50.4	But now, after opening up its vital tourism industry, cases have spiked again.
1:56.2	And it comes at a time of heightened tensions with Turkey over oil exploration in the Mediterranean, and reports of a crackdown on migrants seeking refuge in
2:05.9	Greece. With me now to discuss all of this is the Prime Minister Kiryakaz
2:10.4	Mitzotakis. He's joining us from Athens.
2:13.0	Prime Minister, welcome back to the program.
2:17.0	Christian, thank you very much for having me on your program once again.
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