Amanpour: Symone Sanders, Scott Jennings, Karen Bass and Bryan Stevenson

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Stark scenes outside the White House on Monday evening as federal police forcibly cleared a path through a group of largely peaceful protesters in order for President Trump to walk from the White House to St John's Episcopal Church. Meanwhile, former Vice President Joe Biden was out visiting protest sites and advocating for leadership that overcomes fear and division. Christiane Amanpour is joined by Symone Sanders, senior adviser to the Biden campaign, and then Scott Jennings, former special assistant to former President George W. Bush, to discuss this contrast in leadership. Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Karen Bass, explains what can be done legislatively to address the racial injustice plaguing America and reflects on next steps for the Congressional Black Caucus. And our Walter Isaacson speaks to Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, about solutions to the current crisis: from fundamentally rethinking American policing, to embracing truth and reconciliation. 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 Ammanpur here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	The moment has come for our nation to deal with systemic racism. A study in contrast as the
0:16.0	Democratic nominee steps out to Carm a nation. We speak to Vice President Joe
0:20.8	Biden's senior advisor Simon Sanders about the role of a president in a democracy.
0:26.0	Then...
0:28.0	President Trump threatens to send in the shock troops against American protesters.
0:34.3	Republican strategist Scott Jennings joins us.
0:37.1	And I talk to the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Karen Bass.
0:41.6	Plus, you will not see meaningful change until we start this process of truth and justice that has been long delayed.
0:50.0	The campaigner for racial justice Brian Stevenson tells our Walter Isaxacom that America can only move forward
0:56.7	if it truly faces its past. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiane
1:16.0	I'm Kristiana Manpur working from home in London. Former Vice
1:19.5	President Joe Biden has come out swinging today. Sw swinging he says for the soul of the American
1:24.8	nation, swinging for traditional American values and swinging for that unfulfilled promise
1:30.5	in the Declaration of Independence that all are born equal.
1:34.6	Take a listen.
1:35.6	That we're at our best when we open our hearts rather than clinch our fists.
1:43.0	Donald Trump has turned this country in a battlefield
1:47.0	ribbon by old resentments and fresh fears.
1:50.0	He thinks division helps him. His narcissism has become more important than the nation's
1:57.7	well-being that he leads. I ask every American, I mean this in the bottom of our,
2:02.2	I ask every American, look mean this in the bottom of our ask every American.
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