Amanpour: Scott Jennings, Dr. Paul Offit, Afua Hirsch and Beth Fukumoto

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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As the Republican National Convention kicks off, Republican strategist Scott Jennings joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss how the committee’s decision to not put out a new platform could weaken the party in the long run. Then turning to coronavirus - virology expert Dr. Paul Offit lays out the facts surrounding the Covid-19 outbreak as the global community deals with a surge in new cases. Journalist and author Afua Hirsch discusses Britain's colonial history and exploring Africa's art and culture in her new BBC series 'African Renaissance’. She explains how colonial gaze has made us blind to the truth. Our Michel Martin speaks to Beth Fukumoto former member of the Hawaii State House about switching sides to the Democrats. She opens up about drawing her red lines too late in the day. 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 Amantour. Here's what's coming up.
0:10.0	This convention will come to order.
0:15.0	Republicans enter stage right.
0:17.5	As their convention gets underway, we ask,
0:20.0	what is President Trump's second term agenda?
0:22.8	Also ahead.
0:23.8	Africa.
0:26.8	One of the fastest growing regions in the world.
0:29.8	An African Renaissance following the footsteps of British journalist Afroj
0:34.4	as she rediscovers the continent through culture.
0:37.3	Plus, your family members ask you later,
0:40.0	how could you have supported that?
0:41.9	And that regret is not a fun thing to live with.
0:46.0	The Hawaiian Republican who turned on her party, Beth Fulcomoto tells our Michelle Martin,
0:52.0	her regrets and her red lines. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpour in London. It is the Republicans turned this week to make their case
1:15.1	to the American voters, kicking off their Slim Down Convention in Charlotte,
1:19.6	North Carolina. In a twist President Trump is speaking every night of the week as he accepted his
1:25.6	party's nomination the president once again challenged the validity of the
1:30.2	upcoming election and mail-in ballots.
1:34.3	They're going to mail out 80 million ballots.
1:40.6	It's impossible they have no. Who's mailing them? Mostly Democrat
1:46.9	states and Democrat governors. Well supposing they don't mail them to Republican
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