Amanpour: Rahm Emanuel, Bobby Ghosh and America Ferrera

Amanpour

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🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Rahm Emanuel, the former Mayor of Chicago and Barack Obama's former chief of staff, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss to impact of mayors in American politics, the current state of the Democratic Party and his own inspiring personal story. Bobby Ghosh, the former editor-in-chief of the Hindustan Times and current member of the Bloomberg Opinion Editorial Board, reflects on President Trump's state visit to India and how the nation led by Prime Minister Modi is not behaving like the world's biggest democracy. He assesses the controversial citizenship law and the violent clashes between Hindus and Muslims. Then our Michel Martin speaks with actress and director America Ferrera about her iconic role in Ugly Betty and producing her new show "Gentefied," a bilingual drama following three Mexican-American cousins' fight to keep their grandfather's taco shop open. She offers a candid account of her how her experiences as a Latina shape the way she explores identity in her work.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.
0:08.0	Harvey Weinstein guilty as charged on two of the five counts.
0:15.0	We dig into what this verdict on sexual assault means and...
0:20.0	The President of the United States of America, Mr. Dolan Trump.
0:27.0	India says Namaste Trump,
0:31.0	while the Democrats vying to replace him at home,
0:33.3	enter a critical voting phase.
0:35.4	We talk to the President's top campaign
0:37.6	communication strategist Mark Lotto.
0:40.5	Plus.
0:41.1	I think Democrats, we have not spent enough time and I think this is fair to say the people in the Obama administration
0:47.1	myself included focused on the the actual blocking and tackling work of politics.
0:56.0	President Obama's advisor Dan Fyfa on what Democrats need to do to win back the White everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. The revelations two years ago that sparked a movement have finally
1:25.2	produced a verdict in a criminal court. Today the former movie mogul
1:30.0	Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of committing a criminal sexual
1:34.3	act in the first degree involving one woman and rape in the third degree involving
1:39.7	another woman. The New York jury acquitted Weinstein on the more serious charges of
1:44.7	predatory sexual assault. Weinstein is now in custody and his team is appealing.
1:50.3	The Manhattan District Attorney Saivas has called it a new day.
1:55.0	The message is, this is a big day, this is a new day, and I hope women will, I hope women will understand the significance of the jury verdict today.
2:06.6	My hope is with this verdict, survivors of sexual assault, whether it's of Mr Weinstein, or whether it's of someone else,
2:16.0	will come forward and our office and others like our office will, I hope, be there to listen to them and to help them move forward.
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