Amanpour: Steven Reed, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Alex Gibney and Megan Phelps-Roper

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Steven Reed, mayor-elect of Montgomery, Alabama, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss his historic victory as the African-American mayor of the former Confederate capital and battleground of the civil rights movement. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, exiled Russian businessman and former oligarch, talks about Russia's unique form of gangster capitalism. Alex Gibney, director of documentary "Citizen K", speaks about creating his new doc that delves into the extraordinary and complex life of Khodorkovsky. Our Michel Martin sits down with Megan Phelps-Roper, former member of the notorious Westboro Baptist Church, to talk about why she left and how she feels about religion now.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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0:30.3	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:37.0	That's why people elect leaders and that is to not maintain the status quo, but to change it.
0:44.0	A young African American leader brings change to the cradle of the Confederacy and the civil rights movement.
0:50.5	I speak with Montgomery, Alabama's first black mayor Stephen Reed and Citizen
0:56.1	Kay, a new documentary tracks Mikhail Kordikovsky's journey from Russia's richest man
1:02.1	to Putin's greatest nemesis. I speak to him and to the
1:06.1	Oscar winning director Alex Gibney. Then we absolutely were out there to bring terror to
1:12.1	people. A true believer breaks away from her hate-spewing
1:15.9	church and family. Michelle Martin speaks with author Megan Phelps Roper about
1:21.6	leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.
1:41.0	Montgomery, Alabama is a city of great contradictions. The former
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