Big trouble in little Qatar as diplomatic crisis grows
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The tiny nation of Qatar is the latest focus of conflict and confusion in the Middle East. President Trump has joined its Arab neighbors, who call it a funder of terror. But the US is still selling the oil-rich country $12 billion worth of jet fighters.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.1 | Flip-flops and confusion, from the White House to Cuba to the Middle East. |
| 0:15.3 | Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:18.1 | After weeks of denial, the president has conceded he is under investigation after all. |
| 0:23.7 | The issue was firing the FBI director obstruction of justice. We'll start there. |
| 0:29.1 | On today's talking point later, Mr. Trump is partially rolling back the Obama outreach to Cuba. |
| 0:34.5 | We'll hear about politics versus business. Our main topic, the tiny oil-rich nation of Cotter, suddenly isolated by Arab neighbors, |
| 0:42.2 | including Egypt and Saudi Arabia. |
| 0:44.7 | President Trump agrees that Cotter supports terror, but the Secretary of State calls for |
| 0:49.2 | calm, and the U.S. is selling Cotter $12 billion worth of jet fighters. First, here's the U.S. is selling Kotter $12 billion worth of jet fighters. |
| 0:54.9 | First, here's the news. |
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| 1:29.7 | Hello again, Mormon-Aulney. Back with To the Point. The tiny nation of Cotter is the latest focus of conflict and confusion in the Middle East. |
| 1:36.5 | President Trump has joined its Arab neighbors, who call it a funder of terror, but the U.S. is still selling that very rich country, $12 billion worth of jet fighters. |
| 1:45.6 | We'll hear a lot more about that. On our talking point later, in Miami, the president announces how |
| 1:50.3 | Barack Obama's liberalization of relations with Cuba are going to be rolled back. First, this news |
| 1:55.7 | update. In October, candidate Donald Trump said this about Hillary Clinton. |
| 2:00.0 | If Hillary is elected, she would be under protracted criminal investigation, likely followed by the trial of a sitting president. |
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