Amanpour: Leonid Volkov, Celeste Wallander, Larry Krasner and Nicole Perlroth

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Leonid Volkov, Chief of Staff to Alexey Navalny, who's said to be gravely ill in prison, tells Christiane Amanpour the Kremlin does not want him to "die in custody but they want him to suffer." Then Celeste Wallander, former Special Assistant to President Obama on Russia, says the White House is preparing for a productive relationship with the Kremlin. Turning to America’s reckoning with racism, Philadelphia District Attorney and author of "For the People" Larry Krasner weighs in on the Derek Chauvin trial as well as making his case for re-election. Then our Hari Sreenivasan speaks to Nicole Perlroth, author and The New York Times Cybersecurity reporter, about today's cyber arms arms and what more the U.S. need to do to protect its citizens. 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 Amunfor. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	They don't want him to die in prison in Putin's custody, but they definitely want him to suffer.
0:15.0	After three weeks on hunger strike, global concern grows for the imprisoned Russian opposition
0:20.7	leader Alexei Navalny. I get the latest from his chief of staff. Russian opposition
0:30.2	ways in, I get the latest from his chief of staff and there will be consequences if Mr.
0:27.8	Navalny dies.
0:28.8	As the Biden administration weighs in, I ask former special assistant on Russia, Celeste Wallander, what those consequences could look like.
0:37.0	Then, I am a career civil rights lawyer, the only attorney in the history of this city to overturn 800 convictions by corrupt police officers.
0:45.0	The Chauvin trial puts the whole US criminal justice system in the spotlight.
0:50.0	The pioneering progressive Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner joins us
0:55.0	with what it takes to reform.
0:57.0	Plus, I think it is time, probably high time
1:00.9	we are way past due to refocus on our cyber defense.
1:05.0	Harry Srinovosin talks to cyber security reporter Nicole Rolf
1:09.2	about why America's losing the Cyber Arms Race. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. After three weeks on hunger strike jailed Russian opposition leader
1:34.8	Alexei Navalny is in solitary confinement in a prison hospital. He's being
1:39.8	treated for what his team calls life-threatening symptoms.
1:44.7	His supporters are calling for protests on Wednesday,
1:47.8	the same day that President Putin will give his annual state
1:51.1	of the nation speech.
1:52.3	The government is warning people not to
1:53.8	take part in any such protest after months of harsh crackdowns on opposition activists.
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