Election Day in America
Amanpour
CNN
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up. |
| 0:07.0 | Election Day in America as the world waits with bated breath, we look at one big issue rarely mentioned in this campaign. |
| 0:17.0 | Today's big power struggle between the United States and China then. |
| 0:21.9 | People have always been interested and now they're sort of worried and concern about |
| 0:27.6 | the unelected power, unchecked power and the fact that it might be coming for America. |
| 0:35.5 | As America votes, a look at unelected power, |
| 0:38.3 | revisiting my conversation with biographer Robert Caro, |
| 0:42.3 | 50 years since he examined Robert Moses, |
| 0:46.3 | who built and even trampled over New York. |
| 0:49.3 | Plus, |
| 0:50.3 | You are probably the most important payer person on the face of the earth |
| 0:53.3 | when you're President of the United States States and people can't resist that power. |
| 0:56.5 | The highest calling, conversations on the American presidency. |
| 1:00.6 | Walter Isaacson speaks to historian David Rubinstein about his interactions with most living |
| 1:06.9 | presidents, what it means to lead America. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London. No exaggeration to say that today, the eyes of the world are on the United States. In the coming hours or days, we'll learn who will lead the world's most powerful country. Of course, there's another nation vying for that title, China. The major issues of this |
| 1:46.3 | campaign, reproductive rights, immigration, the economy, and Israel's war on Gaza, America's |
| 1:52.6 | relationship with China was not among them. And no matter who the next president is, competition |
| 1:58.5 | between the world's two biggest economies and militaries will |
| 2:02.0 | continue. |
| 2:03.5 | Many analysts and experts say the US-China rivalry will dominate this century and perhaps |
| 2:09.9 | even be decided by the end of this decade. |
| 2:13.3 | So what are the possible scenarios ahead in a fundamentally changed world? |
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