Amanpour: Peter Westmacott, Samantha Stark and Bill Cassidy

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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What can Biden’s America can offer the world? Former British ambassador Peter Westmacott, author of "They Call It Diplomacy," joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss. He says that despite a "nasty bump," the U.S. can be a guiding light for democracy. Then the documentary that everyone has been talking about; Samantha Stark, the director behind "Framing Britney Spears," explains what she learned about the pop icon and her controversial conservatorship. Out of 50 Republican senators, only seven dared to cross Trump and vote to convict the former president. One was Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy; he speaks to our Walter Isaacson about why he’s sticking to his guns. 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.
0:07.0	The worldview on Trump's acquittal. He was Britain's man in Washington.
0:13.8	Ambassador Peter Westmapot joins us and...
0:16.4	I voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty.
0:19.8	A bold move by the senator from Baton Rouge, Louisiana Republican Bill
0:24.1	Cassidy tells our Walter Isakson why he dared go against the president and his party.
0:29.3	Plus.
0:31.3	But now I'm stronger than yesterday.
0:35.6	Framing Britney Spears, the new documentary that's empowering the call for her freedom
0:40.8	and shattering everything we thought we knew about the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.
1:04.0	Donald Trump's second impeachment trial may now be in the history books, but his acquittal
1:08.5	and what it means for American democracy is very much a live issue.
1:12.6	President Biden says,
1:14.1	this sad chapter in our history has reminded us
1:17.1	that democracy is fragile.
1:19.3	Leaders and their citizens overseas are also questioning the strength of America's political system.
1:25.2	An Australian newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald, calls the acquittal a demoralizing blow
1:30.6	to the ideals of democracy, justice and accountability.
1:35.0	And in China, a foreign affairs professor writes in a Communist Party paper,
1:39.8	the US remains in a precarious situation.
1:43.0	Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson had a more optimistic view saying that despite the
1:47.2	trial, American democracy remains strong.
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