Amanpour: Martha McSally, Kevin Sheekey and Matt Ridley

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Humanity stands on the edge of another milestone in space exploration, the first launch of humans into orbit by a private company, Space X. Christiane Amanpour is joined by Martha McSally, the U.S. Air Force’s first female combat jet pilot and now Republican Senator for Arizona. Covid-19 has killed thousands worldwide and triggered a severe recession. Governments are keen to get people back to work, but contact-tracing technology is vital make this possible. Kevin Sheekey, close aide to Mike Bloomberg and campaign manager during his presidential run, discusses Bloomberg's $10.5 million donation to this effort and how the initiatives are going. And our Walter Isaacson is joined by Matt Ridley, British journalist and science writer, who talks about how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting innovation and his latest book "How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom". 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 Amampur. Here's what's coming up. A new era in
0:10.0	human space travel dawns but here on earth still stymied by a viral pandemic.
0:16.4	I speak to Arizona Republican Senator Martha McSally as she bets her political future on President Trump.
0:23.3	Also ahead.
0:24.8	Mike Bloomberg donates $10 million to boost testing and tracing
0:28.9	in New York.
0:29.9	I'm joined by his close aid and former campaign manager Kevin Sheeke.
0:34.4	Plus, what I think we need in the case of vaccines is a lot more platforms for how to develop vaccines faster.
0:41.6	How innovation works, best-selling author Matt Ridley speaks to our
0:45.8	Walter Isaacson about his new book and what it tells us about the obstacles to
0:50.4	vaccine development. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur working from home in London.
1:10.0	Humanity stands on the very edge of another major chapter in space exploration.
1:15.6	SpaceX from Elon Musk is trying to make history by becoming the first
1:20.4	private company to launch humans into orbit. This exciting scientific
1:25.7	milestone perhaps only amplifies the tragedy down here on Earth, where the world is
1:31.0	still being challenged by a virus.
1:33.0	America's coronavirus death toll is nearing 100,000,
1:37.0	with more than a dozen states reporting an uptick in new cases.
1:41.0	Minorities continue to bear the brunt of these deaths and also of acts of police brutality on the
1:47.7	streets.
1:49.0	This shocking video captures another unarmed black man dying after a white policeman pinned him
1:55.2	down pushing his knee into George Floyd's neck while Floyd screams
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