One-On-One With Garry Kasparov

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4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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As President Biden kicks off the first ‘Summit for Democracy’ at the White House, former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, now Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation joins to discuss the worldwide rise in authoritarian leaders, the left/right divide in politics and why he thinks our generation will either renew democracy or lose it forever.

With Philadelphia’s homicide rate increasing 57% from just two years ago, former Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter joins to discuss the comments made by the current district attorney who said the record murders “don’t equal a crisis”. Plus, confusion grows amongst the booster push: what counts as fully vaccinated now? Dr. Frances Collins, Director of the NIH joins with the facts. Finally, Michael speaks with Amy Carson, the plaintiff in a pivotal Supreme Court case on the funding of religious schools.

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0:00.0	The news continues.
0:02.6	Let's hand over to Michael Smirconish and CNN tonight, Michael.
0:05.4	Anderson, thank you so much.
0:06.5	I am Michael Smirconish and welcome to CNN Tonight.
0:09.6	We have a special in-studio guest this evening, the perfect person who has borne the brunt
0:14.7	of autocratic rule and is here to sound alarm bells about the future of democracy.
0:20.3	And that's a subject that President Biden warned the world about today, citing a backward
0:25.6	slide of democracy globally calling it the defining challenge of our time.
0:33.0	Democracy needs champions.
0:34.8	We know, as well as anyone, that renewing our democracy and strengthening our democratic
0:40.5	institution requires constant effort.
0:44.1	American democracy is an ongoing struggle to live up to our highest ideals and to heal
0:49.2	our divisions.
0:51.1	President Biden hosted the very first summit for democracy, didn't virtually.
0:55.5	And promised that he'll keep fighting to pass critical legislation to shore up the foundation
0:59.4	of American democracy, that is our sacred right to vote.
1:04.1	You heard him touch on our own homegrown threats to freedom, but this was very much a message
1:08.6	to the masses around the world.
1:10.8	During this week, he confronted two rising authoritarian states, Russia and China over
1:15.0	their actions.
1:16.7	He's shaming China for its increasing aggression against Taiwan and human rights abuses and
1:22.0	issued a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics.
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