Amanpour: Loretta Lynch, Harry Reid, Alexandria Villaseñor and Hansi Lo Wang

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🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss some of the controversial statements and decisions made by her successor, William Barr. She highlights how the current AG has never had to face racism and should recognize that not all Americans had the same experience of the justice system growing up. Then turning to the climate crisis, former Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and youth climate activist Alexandria Villaseñor talk wildfires, government accountability for our planet and their new documentary series "Earth Focus." Our Hari Sreenivasan speaks to NPR correspondent Hansi Lo Wang unpacks fatal problems with this year’s U.S. census; namely the politicisation of the 2020 count and how it could shape the country. 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 must determine how do I need to vote what do I need to do and now is the time to do it.
0:08.0	Everyone must determine how do I need to vote what do I need to do and now is the time to do it do
0:15.3	I need to get my mail-in ballot do it do it today a rallying cry from former US
0:20.8	attorney general Loretta Lynch in an exclusive interview.
0:24.6	Then COVID gave the world a chance to fix the climate crisis.
0:28.5	Are we wasting it?
0:29.7	Allah's veteran Senator Harry Reed and teenage activist Alexandria v.
0:34.1	Senor as they unite the generations in a new documentary.
0:38.0	Plus career officials have a flag that they may find serious errors in this data.
0:44.4	A hurry stream of us and talks to journalist Hansi Lo Wang
0:48.0	about the threats to this year's census count. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London. From her birth in Greensboro North Carolina to
1:15.0	rising to become America's chief law enforcement officer Loretta Lynch made history
1:20.1	in 2015 as the first black woman to be US Attorney General.
1:25.0	The rule of law has been central to her remarkable journey to the top.
1:29.1	During her career, she's tackled everything from soccer and FIFA officials to fraud, terrorism and police
1:35.3	violence.
1:36.3	All of this makes her really ideally placed to navigate this particularly turbulent time.
1:42.4	As Americans on the streets demand racial
1:44.7	justice, a showdown is underway over the Supreme Court and Democrats are
1:49.8	criticizing the current Attorney General Bill Barr for politicizing the Department of Justice.
1:55.7	I ask the former attorney general about the perils and the pitfalls that she sees ahead at today's
2:01.3	annual CNN Citizen Forum.
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