Amanpour: Peter Neumann, Ernest Moniz, Walter Isaacson, Peter Pomerantsev and Siddhartha Mukherjee

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Peter Neumann, author of "Bluster: Donald Trump's War on Terror", joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the definition of domestic terrorism following the tragedies in El Paso and Dayton over the weekend. Peter Pomerantsev, journalist and author of "This is not Propaganda", talks about the age of disinformation and fake news and the tools we need to combat it. Ernest Moniz, former U.S. energy secretary and nuclear physicist, explores the threat of nuclear weapons, as tensions rise between India and Pakistan. He also discusses the U.S. pulling out of the Iran Nuclear deal that he helped engineer. Our Walter Isaacson sits down with Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, oncologist and author, to dissect the ethical implications of a pioneering cancer treatment.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 Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:09.0	Within that category, the majority are white supremacist extremists motivated.
0:13.0	White nationalism at the top of the agenda now,
0:16.0	but will domestic terrorism become a federal crime?
0:20.0	And...
0:21.0	We always have to be in the lead.
0:22.0	You know, I've redone our nuclear. We have new nuclear coming.
0:27.0	Are we entering a new nuclear arms race? I ask Ernest Moniz, nuclear physicist, Former Energy Secretary, and Technical Whiz behind the Iran Nuclear
0:36.6	Deal.
0:37.6	Plus, shining a light onto these dark ages of disinformation, author and journalist Peter Pomeranseth, and the war against reality.
0:47.0	Then...
0:48.0	So you don't want to treat a person who doesn't have a disease, but you also don't want to ignore
0:51.6	the fact that they have a propensity.
0:53.3	The ethical implications of a pioneering cancer treatment,
0:57.0	author and oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee gives us a glimpse of the future of medicine. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London.
1:19.2	The United States is of course still reeling after the twin mass murders in Dayton, Ohio and
1:24.7	El Paso, Texas, which killed at least 31 people over the weekend. As the
1:29.9	vigils for the dead grow, so too do demands for action among them among those
1:35.5	raising their voice is the FBI Agents Association which is calling for a
1:40.4	domestic terrorism statute they say it would, quote,
1:43.8	ensure that FBI agents and prosecutors
1:46.9	have the best tools to fight that scourge.
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