Amanpour: Stacey Abrams, Jeremy Farrar and Doris Kearns Goodwin

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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With a little less than two months away from the U.S. election, voting rights activist Stacey Abrams joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss America's history of voter suppression, how voting can fix it and her new documentary "All In: The Fight for Democracy." Then we unpack at the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic, including a second wave in the UK, with government adviser and director of the Wellcome Trust Jeremy Farrar. Our Walter Isaacson speaks Doris Kearns Goodwin, U.S. presidential historian, about the extraordinary life and legacy of the cultural icon and late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 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 Amman poor. Here's what's coming up.
0:09.0	If the power of the right to vote was truly made available to everyone in America.
0:17.0	It would change the future of this nation.
0:21.0	Let our people.
0:22.0	Unprecedented election challenges in the United States from voter suppression to
0:27.0	coronavirus.
0:28.3	I speak to Stacey Abrams who ran for governor in Georgia about her new documentary all in the fight for democracy.
0:35.0	Then at the moment we think that the epidemic is doubling roughly every seven days.
0:43.4	Act now or risk an even more dangerous second wave,
0:46.4	says the UK's top scientific advisor.
0:49.1	I'm joined by the infectious disease expert, Sir Jeremy Farrah.
0:53.0	Plus, she just had an amazing work ethic and an ability somehow to persevere through all those difficult
1:00.1	times.
1:01.1	Our Walter Isaacson talks to the award-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin about the
1:05.4	trailblazing life and legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Thank you. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London. A new
1:30.1	coronavirus surge has been steadily mounting in Europe here in the UK, officials are
1:35.7	scrambling to figure out what to do.
1:38.3	In an alarming address to the nation, the Chief Scientific Advisor warns that there could be 50,000 new cases per day
1:46.4	by mid-October if action isn't taken now.
1:49.6	That is compared to 6,000 cases per day at the height of the virus this spring when testing
1:55.2	capacity was low. Cases are rising in the United States as well and the death
2:00.2	toll is about to pass 200,000 which makes it still the highest level in the world.
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