Amanpour: Margaret Sullivan, Fintan O'Toole, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Paul Mescal and Charles Duhigg

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Columnists Fintan O'Toole, from the Irish Times, and Margaret Sullivan, from the Washington Post, join Christiane Amanpour to discuss how President Donald Trump's misleading comments about Covid-19 may have cost lives. Then in a much-needed dose of culture to distract us all during these times - actors Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal talk about portraying Marianne and Connell is the TV series adaptation of Sally Rooney's best-selling book, "Normal People." They talk intimacy, mental health and why this love story so perfectly captures the zeitgeist. New Yorker contributor Charles Duhigg gives his assessment of the varying pandemic responses in Seattle and New York to our Michel Martin.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.
0:10.0	Missing in action, why the world can't expect trumps America to lead the cavalry against
0:15.3	COVID. Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post and Finton O'Toole of the Irish Times on leadership
0:21.6	and accountability.
0:23.0	Then,
0:24.0	It'd be awkward if something happened with us.
0:26.0	No one would have to know.
0:28.0	Everybody's talking about normal people,
0:31.0	and I speak to the stars of the hit news series Daisy Edgar Jones
0:35.0	and Paul Meskle about this beautiful story of love, intimacy and coming of age.
0:41.0	Plus, that New York had moved about 10 days faster to shut things down, we would have seen
0:46.4	50 to 80 percent fewer fatalities in New York. Journalist and author Charles Dewig compares how different states are fighting this virus. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Mont Manpur working from home in London for
1:14.6	months now the world has been connected and consumed by one struggle the health and
1:19.6	economic devastation waged by the coronavirus.
1:23.0	And these images beamed around the globe of overwhelmed hospital wards,
1:27.5	unbearable scenes from care homes, lines of people rushing to go home
1:32.2	as borders closed, or waiting at food banks,
1:35.3	raised a horrified question.
1:37.6	Sure, it's happening elsewhere, but how did this happen in America,
1:42.0	the richest, most scientifically advanced nation in America? How did a third of all confirmed cases globally one million infections come to be in the
1:45.2	whole world?
1:46.5	How did a third of all confirmed cases globally, 1 million infections, come to be in the United States.
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