Amanpour and Company

February 4, 2021

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson discusses vaccine rollout and the state of the Republican Party. Tobias Lindholm, Ingrid Wall and Joachim Wall discuss the murder of journalist Kim Wall and the new HBO series “The Investigation.” Andrew Ross Sorkin explains how Reddit users threw the stock market into disarray.

Andrew Ross Sorkin Breaks Down the GameStop Saga

16m 21s

The GameStop subversives rocked Wall Street and the whole investment world last week, as amateurs outwitted longtime professionals. Simply put: lots of hedge funds had bet against the struggling high street store, so when Reddit users shared tips and bought shares en masse, GameStop’s price rocketed up and set off a loss-making scramble among hedge funders. Andrew Ross Sorkin discusses this saga.

Previews + Extras

  • Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on the GOP's Existential Crisis: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on the GOP's Existential Crisis

    S2021 E3157 - 2m 55s

    The Republicans are in a highly divisive fight for the soul of their own party as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy refuses to strip a GOP congresswoman who embraced QAnon conspiracy theories of her committee assignments. Where does the Grand Old Party stand these days? Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson joins Christiane to discuss his party's existential crisis.

  • The Legacy of Murdered Journalist Kim Wall: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Legacy of Murdered Journalist Kim Wall

    S2021 E3157 - 2m 58s

    A new HBO series focuses on the 2017 murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who went missing after she boarded a homemade submarine in Copenhagen to interview its designer. After an exhaustive investigation, she was found to have been murdered. Writer and director Tobias Lindholm joins the show alongside Kim’s parents to discuss the series and Kim’s legacy.

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