Amanpour: Will Hurd, Isha Sesay and Richard Florida

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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U.S. House Republican Will Hurd joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss a series of racist tweets by President Trump attacking Democratic congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley. Then, former CNN correspondent Isha Sesay discusses her new book Beneath the Tamarind Tree about the search for the Chibok schoolgirls in Nigeria and the failed #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Finally, urban studies theorist Richard Florida tells our Walter Isaacson about the divide between the city and suburbia in America.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 Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	President Trump lights a dangerous fuse in a time of racial division, telling Congresswomen of color to go back home.
0:18.0	But why is his party staying mostly silent?
0:21.0	We'll heard Republican Congressman from Texas joins us.
0:25.0	Then...
0:26.0	Speak back our girls now and alive.
0:29.0	Five years since Boca Haram snatched hundreds of Nigerian school girls from their dorms,
0:35.0	journalist Isha Saseh with a new book about how this happened and why about half the girls remain captive.
0:42.0	Plus, seeing the future of our cities are Walter
0:45.3	Isakson speaks to Richard Florida editor at large of City Lab. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London. Today the
1:07.3	Trump administration is filing regulation that would make it much harder for
1:11.6	migrants crossing the southern border to claim asylum.
1:15.3	It comes just after US immigration and customs enforcement began raids targeting some 2,000
1:22.0	undocumented migrants.
1:23.6	It's a move the president had been telegraphing loudly
1:26.8	only to be dramatically overshadowed on Sunday
1:29.6	when he himself used what many believe
1:32.2	to be some of his most racist rhetoric yet,
1:35.0	tweeting that four Democratic congresswomen of color should go back to the places they
1:40.3	came from. Leaders abroad and at home have condemned the message here in the
1:45.1	UK. The British Prime Minister Theresa May called the comments completely
1:49.6	unacceptable. House Speaker Nancy Nancy Pelosi, said,
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