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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 landmark political cases such as Bush vs Gore and Hollingsworth vs Perry, he is now fighting for America's Dreamers, the young DACA recipients under fire from the Trump administration.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 climate change and how the dramatic slowdown in manufacturing and driving caused by the infection is leading to a reduction in China's carbon emissions.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 analyze the situation in Syria and Afghanistan. Then our Michel Martin sits down with Peter Harckham, a Senator from New York's 40th District, for a candid conversation about his battle with alcoholism and how he was inspired to tackle the worsening opioid crisis in New York head on.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 with Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, director at the center for infection and immunity at Columbia University, to explain the spread of coronavirus and how we may never totally eradicate it from the world.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Isaacson to highlight how climate change is intrinsically linked to race and segregation. He explains how minority communities in Houston suffer most from pollution.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 deal. She explains how the Afghan government is determined to protect the rights of women, but she fears a return of the Taliban to power. Our Walter Isaacson sits down with Raul Ortiz, deputy chief of U.S. border patrol, to reflect on his time stationed at the border, witnessing and implementing President Trump's controversial child separation policy that tears migrant families apart.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 show is a satire that is loosely based on disgraced fashion mogul Philip Green.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom Frieden, the former CDC director, joins Christiane Amanpour to explain why a global coronavirus pandemic is inevitable. Michael Higgins, author of "Jean Vanier, Logician of the Heart," reflects on the shocking new revelations that Vanier, once referred to as a "living saint", allegedly abused at least 6 women. He highlights how the Church has a "track record of failure" in preventing the abuse that took place. Aaron Glantz, the award-winning journalist and author of "Homewreckers," sits down with our Hari Sreenivasan to analyze at America's 2008 housing crisis and how a group of Wall Street magnates took advantaged of a rigged system.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nina Turner, the national co-chair for the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the current frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. She digs into the most recent debate in South Carolina, Sanders' policy and her hopes for the future of U.S. politics. Jill Wine-Banks, former assistant special prosecutor in Watergate, talks about the sexism she experienced as the only woman in her team for the prosecution. Our Walter Isaacson sits down with Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw in his home state of Texas for a candid conversation about losing his right eye when he was a stationed in Afghanistan as a Navy SEAL and therefore why healthcare is at the top of his priority list as a politician. He also weighs in on the 2020 race and explains his policy on gun laws.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices