Amanpour and Company

January 11, 2021

Nancy Mace; Jon Tester; Kara Swisher; Peter Salk

Montana Senator Jon Tester: It Was Absolutely a Coup Attempt

17m 54s

Senator Jon Tester of Montana was in his office, just a stone’s throw from the Capitol, when rioters attacked, and he calls Wednesday’s event “a terrorist act.” Aside from being a third-term lawmaker, Tester is the Senate’s only working farmer – a job that gives him a unique perspective on how Democrats might appeal to rural America. He joins Walter Isaacson.

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  • Newly Elected Rep. Nancy Mace on Last Wednesday's Violence: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Newly Elected Rep. Nancy Mace on Last Wednesday's Violence

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    The president now stares down the barrel of a second impeachment, as House Democrats introduce a resolution charging him with inciting an insurrection. House Republicans remain deeply divided over whether to punish the president. When the U.S. Capitol was attacked, Nancy Mace had been in office just three days as the newly elected congresswoman from South Carolina. She joins the show to discuss.

  • The Significance of Social Media Banning Trump: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Significance of Social Media Banning Trump

    S2021 E3139 - 2m 57s

    The social media platforms that provided the megaphone for President Trump are now taking action by blocking the president – which raises another issue. What is the appropriate role of unelected business organizations in politics and free speech? Where’s the bar for hate speech, or incitement? And how effective can a ban be? No journalist is better plugged into this world than Kara Swisher.

  • The Importance of Vaccines Throughout History: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Importance of Vaccines Throughout History

    S2021 E3139 - 2m 20s

    Nearly 9 million Americans have received their first dose of the vaccine, while President-elect Biden received his second dose today. Dr. Peter Salk was just nine years old in 1953 when he got his polio vaccine, which was developed by his own father, Jonas Salk. Now an infectious disease expert himself, Peter Salk joins the show to discuss the importance of vaccines, then and now.

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