Amanpour: Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Mike Rogers, Mark Hetfield, Ahmad Sarmast and Zarifa Adiba

Bianna Golodryga talks to Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba of Jackson, Mississippi, who is bracing his city as hurricane Ida continues to charge across the country as a tropical storm. As the chaos in Afghanistan continues, Mike Rogers, the former chair of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, discusses what happens now as the August 31 deadline looms. Mark Hetfield, President and CEO of HIAS Refugee Agency, talks about what lies ahead for those who have been evacuated from Kabul. Ahmad Sarmast, the founder of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, and Zarifa Adiba, the conductor of the Zohra Orchestra, discuss the importance of music is for their country - and how it could be taken away by the Taliban again.   

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