Amanpour: Paul Krugman, Russ Feingold, Paul Rosenzweig and Eduardo Padrón

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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With coronavirus benefit payments in the U.S. set to expire imminently and Congress unable to agree a new aid deal, many Americans face an uncertain financial future. Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the fight to protect American prosperity and the "body blow" that political inaction deals to ordinary citizens. Then, Russ Feingold, president of the American Constitution Society and Paul Rosenzweig, founder of Red Branch Consulting, give their take from either side of the political aisle on Attorney General Bill Barr’s testimony this week. And our Walter Isaacson speaks to Eduardo Padrón, president emeritus of Miami Dade College, about the imperative for diversity and flexibility in education, and the systemic inequalities that the coronavirus pandemic has exposed in America's collegiate system. 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 Amman poor here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	The American people need more help.
0:11.0	The Senate squabbles over a benefit bill as the U.S. economy faces a COVID catastrophe.
0:17.4	We talk to Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman.
0:20.2	Plus, the Attorney General Barr sees himself more as a handmaid in the President Trump's political interest
0:27.0	than he does as attorney for the United States of America.
0:31.6	Conservative lawyer Paul Rosenzwey tells us why he soured on a... America's
0:35.0	chief law enforcement officer.
0:37.0	Also joining us, former Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold.
0:41.0	And what the pandemic has made so real is the consequences of inequality.
0:47.0	Eduardo Padron, President Emeritus of Miami-Dade College, tells our Walter
0:52.4	Isakson,
0:53.0	America's top universities are failing on social mobility. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpore working from home in London.
1:17.2	Things are not looking good for millions of Americans. Coronovirus benefit
1:21.9	payments are set to expire today and Congress is nowhere
1:25.2	near a new aid deal.
1:27.2	There's little overlap in the proposals that are being put forward by Democrats and Republicans,
1:32.3	and this is all happening at the end of a week
1:34.1	when we learned that the US economy contracted at an annual rate of 33% in the
1:40.0	last quarter, which is a record. and the country topped 150,000 deaths from COVID-19.
1:46.6	The Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman writes in his latest New York Times column,
1:51.6	that the disaster unfolding in America is quote what happens
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