Reverend William J. Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss why it is immoral not to focus on the poor during this pandemic. He highlights why it is important to celebrate Easter, even if at a distance. Our Michel Martin speaks to Katie Porter, Democratic congresswoman who sits on the Oversight & Reform Committee, about why Americans need straight answers during these uncertain times. They reflect on her fiery exchange with CDC director Robert Red...
Apr 14, 2020•57 min
Lisa Blunt Rochester, co-chair of Joe Biden's Presidential Campaign, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the former vice president's strategy as the November election draws closer. Our Walter Isaacson speaks to LaToya Cantrell, the Mayor of New Orleans, about revealing new data that shows the black community are being disproportionately impacted by Covid-19. They also reflect on the decision not to implement lockdown measures sooner, instead letting the famous Mardi Gras festival go ahead. Then...
Apr 10, 2020•58 min
David Axelrod, former senior adviser to President Obama, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the news that Senator Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the race to be the Democratic nominee, leaving the road clear for Joe Biden to go head to head with Donald Trump in the November election. As countries around the world deal with the coronavirus pandemic in varying ways, Erna Solberg, the Norwegian Prime Minister, explains how her country is responding. Kara Swisher, editor at Recode, and Carl Came...
Apr 09, 2020•57 min
George Osborne, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the shocking news that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who tested positive for coronavirus, has been admitted to the ICU due to his worsening condition. They dig into how the country are dealing with the crisis and this new development. Jeremy Farrar, director of The Wellcome Trust, talks about the race the find an effective treatment for the virus. Billie Jean King, the iconic Tennis Champion and founde...
Apr 07, 2020•57 min
Cancer physician Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee joins Christiane Amanpour to outline why people should be wearing masks to protect against Covid-19, the unusual behaviour of the virus and his new documentary "The Gene." Mohammad Nahavandian, the Iranian VP for Economic Affairs, speaks exclusively about the Iranian government's handling of the crisis and U.S. sanctions. Our Hari Sreenivasan talks to Parag Khanna, author of "The Future is Asian," about the spread of Covid-19 across Asia and how this wil...
Apr 07, 2020•57 min
Dr. Atul Gawande, surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and staff writer at the New Yorker, joins Christiane Amanpour to outline the importance of protective equipment for our frontline health care workers and how we at home can employ simple strategies to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Nick Clegg, VP for global affairs and communications at Facebook and former British Deputy PM, answers questions about what Facebook are doing to stop the spread of misinformation about Covid-19 and how...
Apr 06, 2020•57 min
Lawrence H. Summers, professor at Harvard University, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the record surge in U.S. unemployment. He says that the government is underreacting to this crisis and expects to see those numbers go into the tens of millions. Dr. Celine Gounder, assistant professor of medicine and infectious diseases at NYU, and Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London whose app tracks Covid-19, dig into what everyone is talking about right now - the need...
Apr 03, 2020•58 min
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek Prime Minister, joins Christiane Amanpour from Athens to discuss how his country is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and what the country are doing to protect its thousands of refugees who are unable to social distance or isolate safely. Airforce General Terrence O'Shaughnessy, Commander of United States Northern Command, talks about leading the fight against Covid-19 and defending the homeland from this new threat. Our Hari Sreenivasan speaks to Sara Goldrick...
Apr 03, 2020•57 min
Christiane Amanpour talks with William Burns, the former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, about how the global Coronavirus crisis could create a chance for restoring democratic leadership. With millions around the world confined to their home some relationships are under strain. Sociologist Eric Klinenberg and Dr. Orna Guralnik, psychoanalyst and host of Showtime series "Couples Therapy," talk about the unprecedented challenges facing couples on lockdown. They also dig into a troubling new U.N re...
Apr 01, 2020•57 min
With more nations around the world going under lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19 President Trump says they would be doing well to keep U.S. deaths under 100,000. Beth Cameron, the Vice President for the Global Biological Policy Nuclear Threat Initiative, joins Christiane Amanpour to give her take on this global crisis and how we are and aren't dealing with it. As a former NSC senior director for global health security and biodefense she quite literally wrote the Pandemic playbook - but ...
Apr 01, 2020•57 min
Democratic congresswoman Elissa Slotkin of Michigan joins Christiane Amanpour to talk about the bailout plan Congress passed to help Americans in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Nicolai Wammen, Dutch Finance Minister, discusses the substantial economic actions Denmark took early during the outbreak. James Shapiro, academic and author of "Shakespeare in a Divided America" talks about how the author's works can be invoked in the se extraordinary times. To learn more about how CNN protects li...
Mar 27, 2020•58 min
Senait Fisseha, chief advisor to the Director-General of the World Health Organisation, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the latest efforts to tackle the coronavirus and why the World Health Organisation thinks world leaders have not acted fast enough. Next to the spread of Ebola in Africa, and the undeniable parallels to today's pandemic, addressed in a PBS Frontline film by Ben C. Solomon. Our Michel Martin talks with David Kessler, author of "Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief" abo...
Mar 26, 2020•57 min
Arancha González Laya, Spanish Foreign Minister, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the alarming rise in coronavirus cases in her country. Dr. David Shulkin, former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, talks about the pressure U.S. hospitals are under and the designated medical backup role the Veterans Administration plays. Our Hari Sreenivasan talks to Lawrence Bartley about The Marshall Project's "News Inside" - a newspaper written for inmates. To learn more about how CNN protects listener pr...
Mar 25, 2020•58 min
Dr. Boris Lushniak, Dean of the Maryland School of Public Health, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the Trump administration's response to the continuing coronavirus outbreak. Jay Carney, Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs at Amazon, talks about how the company is thriving during the pandemic. Dick Pound, International Olympic Committee Member and Olympic Golf Medalist Eliud Kipchoge discuss the postponement of the summer Olympics. Our Walter Isaacson talks to Anthony Monaco, P...
Mar 24, 2020•58 min
Karen Armstrong, author and religious scholar, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the aloneness many of us will feel in self-isolation as the coronavirus continues to spread worldwide and the hit the pandemic will have on practicing religion. Mike Chinoy, former Senior CNN Asia Correspondent, talks about China's response to the coronavirus and his new book "Are You With Me?" detailing the life of renowned human rights lawyer Kevin Boyle. Our Hari Sreenivasan talks to sociologist Nicholas Chris...
Mar 20, 2020•57 min
George Osbourne, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the UK's economic response to the coronavirus. David Ho, the inventor of a cocktail therapy for AIDS, joins our Walter Isaacson to talk about the medical advances to fight COVID-19. Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of jailed British-Iranian citizen Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, talks about her temporary release from prison. Actor Brian Cox discusses the hit to the entertainment industry that the pandemic is a...
Mar 20, 2020•57 min
Peter Piot, the Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, joins Christiane from self-isolation in London to explain the ongoing health risks of Covid-19 and whether warmer weather could stop it's spread. Symone Sanders, a senior adviser to Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden, discusses his latest primary wins and the impact of the virus on the 2020 election. David Miliband talks about the impact of the coronavirus on the world's refugees and most vulnerable. To lear...
Mar 18, 2020•57 min
Phil Murphy, the Governor of New Jersey, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the worsening crisis in his state and the impact the coronavirus is having on people's lives. Neel Kashkari, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, discusses the actions needed to fight the economic impact of the pandemic. Dr. Laurie Santos, Psychology Professor at Yale University and host of "The Happiness Lab" podcast, discusses the impacts self-isolation and quarantine will have on our loneliness ...
Mar 17, 2020•58 min
Oxiris Barbot, New York City Health Commissioner, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the ongoing spread of the coronavirus and the city's response. Dr. Sonia Adesara, a doctor with the National Health Service, talks about her experiences on the front lines of the fight against the pandemic. Jason Furman, former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and a top economic adviser to President Obama during the financial crisis of 2008, discusses the impact the virus continues to have on the long...
Mar 16, 2020•57 min
Christiane Amanpour speaks to Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author of 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' about the social impact of Coronavirus and the border between the human and the virus sphere. Broadcaster and writer Stephen Fry tells Christiane about the lessons we can learn from Ancient Greece and his work exposing the brutal realities of mental health. And our Walter Isaacson speaks to David Zucchino, author of 'Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White S...
Mar 16, 2020•57 min
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the ongoing lock down in his country. Gina Raimondo, Governor of Rhode Island talks about the U.S. travel ban. Rory Stewart, former cabinet MP and candidate for London Mayor, criticizes the UK government's response to the virus. Author E.J. Dionne discuses the social and cultural impacts of the pandemic. Zenei Cortez, Co-President of National Nurses United, gives a view from the front lines tackling the outbreak. To lear...
Mar 13, 2020•57 min
Christiane Amanpour speaks with Matteo Renzi, former Italian Prime Minister, about Italy's response the Coronavirus and the decision to impose a nationwide lock down. Trump 2020 Advisory Committee member David Urban talks about the presidential race, and what steps America can take to control the spread of the Coronavirus. And our Walter Isaacson speaks with David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, about US-China trade relations and the potential long-term impact of the Coronavirus. To l...
Mar 11, 2020•57 min
Christiane Amanpour is joined by Adam Schiff, Chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, to discuss how the Coronavirus is affecting both political and economic life in America. In Mexico 10 women are killed every day because of their gender. Mexican Journalist Lydia Cacho tells Christiane about her experience of femicide and of being forced to flee her country because of her gender. And our Walter Isaacson speaks to Ted Olson, former United States Solicitor General. Once involved in lan...
Mar 11, 2020•57 min
Christiane Amanpour is joined by Austan Goolsbee, former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Obama, to talk about the dramatic impact the Coronavirus is having on the global economy. Dr. Bruce Aylward, Assistant-Director General of the WHO, tells Christiane what lessons we can learn from China's response to the Coronavirus outbreak. And Sheelah Kolhatkar speaks with Christiana Figueres, Co-Author of "The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis", about the threat of c...
Mar 09, 2020•57 min
To mark this International Woman's Day Helen Lewis, Author of "Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights" joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss why its up to difficult woman to lead the charge. Author Daniel Kehlmann talks about his new book "Tyll" and the role the Jester has played in Europe's complicated history. Daniel Markovits talks to our Hari Sreenivasan about his thesis outlined in his book "The Meritocracy Trap" that meritocracy is a sham. To learn more about how CNN protects l...
Mar 06, 2020•57 min
Giorgos Gerapetritis, the Greek State Minister, joins Christiane Amanpour amid the migrant crisis at the Turkish-Greek border. As the Greek government's point man for handling this worsening crisis, he explains how President Erdogan's actions have opened the floodgates, but "no excessive violence" has been used in handling it. Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Vali Nasr, professor at Johns Hopkins university, weigh in on the geopolitical challenges that caused this crisis. They ...
Mar 05, 2020•57 min
As Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden face off for the top spot in the Democratic race, David Plouffe, the former Obama Campaign Manager, joins Christiane Amanpour to give his take on who will win and how. David Simon, the creator behind "The Wire," talks about his new project, "The Plot Against America." Adapted from Philip Roth's 2004 novel, it delves into an alternative reality where the anti-Semitic war hero Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election. Then our Walter Isaacson sits down w...
Mar 05, 2020•57 min
As Super Tuesday is in full swing, we dig down into a key issue for the Democrats: climate. Paul Polman, the former CEO of Unilever, tells Amanpour why investing in climate solutions could unlock economic growth. Environmentalist Bill McKibben was one of the first to sound the alarm on the climate crisis over twenty years ago - he lays out how divestment efforts are affecting the fossil fuel industry. Then Robert Bullard, the author and celebrated environmental scholar, sits down with our Walter...
Mar 04, 2020•57 min
Dr. Paul Offit, professor of Vaccinology at the University of Pennsylvania, joins Christiane Amanpour to lay out the facts surrounding the coronavirus outbreak as the global community deals with a surge in new cases. Jim Clyburn, House Democrat Majority Whip, says Biden's win in South Carolina was not a 'flash in the pan' but rather a prediction of his future success in his bid for the Democratic nomination. Adela Raz, the Afghan Ambassador to the United Nations, discusses the U.S. - Taliban dea...
Mar 03, 2020•57 min
Thant Myint-U, historian and author of "The Hidden History of Burma," explains how Aung San Suu Kyi has always been a nationalist, we just failed to see it. He digs into the history of racial division, illicit industries and the Rohingya crisis. Jeremy Wallace, political reporter at the Houston Chronicle, looks at the crucial battleground of the 2020 race; Texas. Steve Coogan, the actor best known for "Alan Partridge," talks about his new project "Greed" with director Michael Winterbottom. The s...
Feb 28, 2020•58 min
