Amanpour: Rev. Jesse Jackson, Melvin Carter, Eric Fischl and Oskar Eustis

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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As protests over the death of George Floyd rage from coast to coast, Christiane Amanpour speaks to civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson about institutionalized racism and inequality in the United States. Melvin Carter, Mayor of Minneapolis’ twin city St Paul, discusses the latest news on the ground and the charges brought against Derek Chauvin, the police officer filmed kneeling on Floyd’s neck shortly before his death. Artist Eric Fischl reflects on the complex relationship between art and trauma. And artistic director of The Public Theater Oskar Eustis, talks to our Michel Martin about why he says theatre and democracy are inextricably linked. 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 Ammanpore and company. Here's what's coming up. In Minneapolis and from coast to coast protests rage at the death of George Floyd.
0:19.0	I speak to one of the last lions of the Civil Rights Movement Reverend Jesse Jackson.
0:24.0	Then, capturing the underbelly of whites suburbia in America,
0:28.4	artist Eric Fisher on the role art plays in these traumatic times and change is possible we can be better
0:37.5	we can take the bull by the horns and it's what makes us human.
0:42.0	Tony Award winning artistic director Oscar Eustace tells our Michelle Martin why
0:47.0	theatre is essential to democracy. Amenpourin Company is made possible by Rosalind P. Walter, Bernard and Irene Schwartz, Sue and Edgar Waukenheim the third,
1:06.7	Candice King Weir, the Anderson Family Fund, the Cheryl and Philip Milstein family, Charles Rosenblum, the Strouse Family Foundation,
1:17.0	Jeffrey Katz and Beth Rogers.
1:19.5	Additional support provided by these funders and by contributions to your PBS station from
1:25.8	viewers like you. Thank you.
1:28.6	Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Man Aman poor working from home in London
1:33.7	protests raged in parts of the country for a fourth day against the death of George
1:39.1	Floyd an unarmed black man who died after white police officer pinned him down with his knee.
1:45.6	That officer has just been taken into custody today and a warning this next video I'm about
1:50.5	to show is disturbing.
1:52.4	It appears to depict two other officers also kneeling
1:56.0	on George Floyd as he begs for his life. Earlier on Twitter President Trump called
2:01.5	on the National Guard to restore order in Minneapolis.
2:05.0	Twitter then tagged the tweet as promoting violence since it read
2:09.0	When the looting starts, the shooting starts, which is a chilling phrase from the Miami Police Chief
2:15.0	Walter Hedley way back in 1967. This morning a CNN crew were released from
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