Amanpour: Scott Jennings, Alec MacGillis, Tim Robbins and Esperanza Spalding

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Scott Jennings, former aide to Mitch McConnell, and Alec MacGillis, author of "The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell," join Christiane Amanpour to dig down into the rise of Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, his relationship to President Trump and his approach to the impeachment trial. Tim Robbins, the award-winning actor and director, talks about directing his new play "The New Colossus," that pays homage to all the immigrants and refugees over the years that have set sale for America in search of a better life. He reflects on his iconic roles in "Mystic River" and "Shawshank Redemption" and how he channels his advocacy through his art. Our Walter Isaacson sits down with Esperanza Spalding, the two-time award-winning Grammy musician to explain how she's pushing the boundaries of jazz and using music to heal the soul in her latest album, "12 Little Spells."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 Ammonpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	The process was good enough for President Clinton and basic fairness dictates it ought to be good
0:14.0	enough for this president as well. Senator Mitch McConnell holds the key to
0:19.8	the impeachment trial of President Trump. I ask his former aide, Scott Jennings, and his political
0:25.9	biographer Alec McGillis, about the taciturn Senate leader.
0:30.9	Then, it is a story that unifies us it is our story bringing his career of art and
0:36.2	activism full circle the award-winning actor Tim Robbins on raising up
0:40.9	refugees in the new Colossus and
0:44.6	I have painfully turned every stone
0:48.4	Esperanza Spalding takes the jazz scene by storm. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in New York.
1:08.6	Senator Mitch McConnell is the man in the spotlight as the architect of the Senate impeachment rules.
1:15.4	The majority leader and Republican senator from Kentucky has long enjoyed a reputation
1:20.3	as a master tactician from stonewalling President Obama's choice of Merrick Garland
1:25.7	to the Supreme Court to blocking campaign finance reform, his imprint will shape America for
1:31.4	years to come.
1:33.0	And now as power broker in the impeachment trial of President Trump,
1:37.0	a task he says the Senate should handle fairly.
1:41.0	Our founders trusted the Senate to rise above short-term passions and factionalism.
1:46.8	They trusted the Senate to soberly consider what has actually been proven and which outcome
1:52.4	best serves the nation.
1:54.0	But Democrats are crying foul, not fair at McConnell holding out against witnesses
2:00.0	and pushing for a short and swift trial.
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