Amanpour: Tammy Duckworth, Kent Nishimura, Jelani Cobb and Joan C. Williams

Amanpour

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🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the Republicans covid-19 response and what she says is a lack of leadership. She explains that majority leader Mitch McConnell hasn't shown up to a single negotiation on COVID relief. As the coronavirus pandemic continues we see the deadly effects of the climate crisis. Then Kent Nishimura, photojournalist at the Los Angeles Times, talks about coming face to face with California’s wildfires. And from one crisis to another, Jelani Cobb, correspondent for FRONTLINE's "Policing the Police 2020," discusses the fight for racial justice inside America’s police system. He reflects on Newark's police reforms and his updated documentary. Our Michel Martin speaks to Joan C. Williams, Director of the Center for WorkLife Law, about how the pandemic is impacting working mothers. 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 Al-Anport. Here's what's coming up.
0:10.0	Fires rage, apocalyptic images from the United States beam around the world.
0:14.8	We go to the front lines with the LA Times Photo journalist Kent Nishimura and
0:21.6	with the president under pressure, I'll talk about these crises and much more with
0:26.0	Senator Tammy Duckworth. Then... Calling for defunding or even abolishing the police.
0:37.0	They were all in essence asking the same question. Can this ever be different?
0:41.0	The challenges for America in eradicating police brutality.
0:44.8	Historian and journalist Jalani Cub joins us about policing the police.
0:49.3	Plus, I feel like we may well be facing a generational wipe out of mother's careers.
0:55.6	Joan C Williams at the University of California talks to our Michelle Martin about tough
1:00.9	choices facing working mothers in the age of coronavirus. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur back in our London studio this
1:24.9	week. Now wildfires of historic proportions are ravaging America's West
1:29.7	Coast. They continue to burn millions of acres across California, Oregon and Washington.
1:35.5	Entire towns have disappeared and thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes.
1:40.5	At least 35 are dead and dozens are still missing. The pictures seen
1:46.0	all over the world show complete devastation in some areas and of course this is
1:50.9	all set against the backdrop of a pandemic that continues to kill hundreds of people every day.
1:57.0	The fingerprints of the climate crisis are all over these wildfires, of course, teeing up a political brawl as Democrats accused
2:04.2	President Trump of denying that reality. Not only has the president tried to
2:08.7	muzzle climate science and roll back safety regulations,
2:12.8	but the same is true of health officials
2:15.2	who disagree with him on coronavirus.
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