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Amanpour: Tom Frieden, Michael Higgins and Aaron Glantz

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Tom Frieden, the former CDC director, joins Christiane Amanpour to explain why a global coronavirus pandemic is inevitable. Michael Higgins, author of "Jean Vanier, Logician of the Heart," reflects on the shocking new revelations that Vanier, once referred to as a "living saint", allegedly abused at least 6 women. He highlights how the Church has a "track record of failure" in preventing the abuse that took place. Aaron Glantz, the award-winning journalist and author of "Homewreckers," sits down with our Hari Sreenivasan to analyze at America's 2008 housing crisis and how a group of Wall Street magnates took advantaged of a rigged system.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 Four. Here's what's coming up.

0:10.0

The risk to the American people remains very low.

0:14.0

With one eye on the markets, President Trump plays down the coronavirus,

0:18.6

as health officials warn of a potential pandemic,

0:21.7

we get the facts from the former head of the CDC and once

0:26.3

revered as a living saint the halo has come crashing down. How did everyone miss

0:31.7

the real story of alleged sex abuser Jean Vanier?

0:35.0

We talked to his biographer Michael Higgins.

0:38.0

Plus...

0:39.0

They are the people who swooped in after the housing vest when 8 million Americans lost their homes

0:46.7

and profited tremendously.

0:49.0

Reporter Aaron Glans takes down the home wreckers in his shocking investigation into America's

0:54.9

housing crisis. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. For the first time

1:15.4

ever there are now more new global infections of coronavirus outside mainland China

1:21.2

than inside where it originated and the world is

1:24.7

scrambling to contain it. Japan is closing all schools and halting sports events for

1:30.3

two weeks. Saudi Arabia has suspended arrivals of foreign pilgrims ahead

1:34.8

of Ramadan. Iran is mourning the death of close to 30 people while Italy battles

1:40.6

more than 500 cases. Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison declares an emergency response plan.

1:47.4

The coronavirus is also creeping into the United States and Americans are now bracing

1:52.4

for a possible epidemic.

1:54.0

Top health officials say it's only a matter of time until we see it spread.

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