Amanpour: Steve Cortes, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Isabel Wilkerson

Amanpour

CNN

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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As Beirut reels from a deadly explosion, adding to their already struggling economy and political instability, we give you the latest updates from those on the ground. Then looking ahead to November, Steve Cortes, senior adviser to the Trump 2020 Campaign, joins Christiane Amanpour to talk facing off against Biden. Turning back to the coronavirus pandemic, our Walter Isaacson speaks to Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s leading infectious disease expert, about his war of words with President Trump. And finally, Isabel Wilkerson, author of "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," discusses America’s caste problem and why we need new language to understand and heal our divisions. 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 Amunfor here's what's coming up.
0:10.0	They root in ruins. I speak with an eyewitness to the explosion that shattered Lebanon's capital.
0:19.0	And...
0:20.0	They are dying, that's true, and you have... it is what what it is but that doesn't mean we
0:24.7	are doing everything we can campaigning through a crisis from 2020 advisor Steve
0:30.6	Cortez on the president's divisive re-election bid.
0:34.0	Then...
0:35.0	What we do need is a consistent, strong message that you keep hammering home.
0:41.0	The doctor trying to steer America through this health crisis
0:45.1	Anthony Fauchy sits down with our water Isaacson and finally as Americans we have
0:50.6	not yet come to grips with what has always been there.
0:54.4	A racial hierarchy in the land of the free.
0:57.5	Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson tells me why America's systemic oppression of black people resembles a caste system. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiane Manpur in London.
1:23.6	Even during decades of civil war residents of Beirut say they have never felt a blast like this one.
1:29.2	The massive explosion at the city's port that's killed over 130 people and rising and
1:34.7	wounded thousands and left some 300,000 displaced.
1:38.8	Lebanese authorities have declared a two-week state of emergency and as they frantically
1:44.2	dig for survivors and scramble to treat the wounded an investigation is underway
1:48.8	into exactly how this happened. So far the source of the explosion has been linked to a large supply of confiscated and
1:56.0	potentially unsecured ammonium nitrate which was being stored in a warehouse
2:01.0	this in a country already reeling from the coronavirus and economic collapse.
2:06.0	What's important is this possibility.
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