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Amanpour

Amanpour: Tony Blair, Stacey Abrams and Marc Benioff

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the globe's response to the coronavirus pandemic; which he says severely lacks the coordination needed to combat the virus effectively. He also reflects on the UK's death toll and their failure to shut down the nation quicker. And from the UK to the U.S. - Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia State House Minority Leader, explains that whilst she isn't quite pitching herself for the role, she would be a more than capable VP candidate under Joe Biden. She also answers questions on the Tara Reade accusations casting shadow on Biden's run for president. Then our Walter Isaacson speaks to Marc Benioff, the chair and CEO of Salesforce, about how he is giving back during this crisis. They unpack the shortages in PPE in the United States and the creative solutions that are being employed to combat those shortages.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 everybody and welcome to Amunport. Here's what's coming up.

0:09.7

We can't keep our country close. We have to open our country.

0:13.0

As world leaders wrestle with how and when to reopen their economies,

0:17.0

former British Prime Minister Tony Blair offers a roadmap for exit from coronavirus lockdown.

0:23.8

Then, as a young black woman who often didn't see people who looked like me

0:28.4

being asked to serve when I'm asked the question,

0:31.0

I was raised to be honest and to tell the truth and I answer the truth

0:33.8

yes. Throwing her hat in the ring for Vice President while working to assure

0:38.6

every vote counts. I speak with activist and Democrat Stacey Abrams and later I've never even knew what

0:46.4

PPE was you know three months ago the private sector steps in to fill the holes in the

0:51.9

government response.

0:53.2

Walter Isakson speaks with Salesforce CEO Mark Benyoff. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur working from home in London.

1:17.0

In the ongoing battle between science and politics on coronavirus science just took a big hit. In the United States,

1:25.1

the White House says it's considering a plan to phase down its expert coronavirus

1:30.5

task force by the end of the month and while President Trump did respond to a

1:35.5

public uproar saying the work would continue indefinitely he confirms the focus

1:41.1

is now moving towards safety and opening of the US economy.

1:45.8

And here in Britain, leading epidemiologist Neil Ferguson resigned from his government advisory

1:52.2

post on a task force

1:54.0

after admitting that he broke his own

1:56.0

social distancing rules by meeting his lover.

1:59.0

Ferguson leads the team at Imperial College London, whose shocking models for

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