How El Chapo Ended Up in a Brooklyn Courtroom
The Daily
The New York Times
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🗓️ 19 November 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the New York Times, I'm Michael Warbarrow. |
| 0:02.4 | This is The Daily. |
| 0:10.0 | Today, after months of anticipation, |
| 0:14.0 | the trial of legendary Mexican drug lord El Chabo |
| 0:18.0 | is finally underway. |
| 0:20.0 | The story of why it took so long to get to this day. |
| 0:25.0 | It's Monday, November 19th. |
| 0:35.0 | It's now about 615 on Tuesday, November 13th, |
| 0:40.0 | and I am sitting outside the Federal District Court in Brooklyn |
| 0:44.0 | where I just arrived. |
| 0:46.0 | For the first day of the El Chabo trial, |
| 0:50.0 | Alan set the scene for me on the first day of the El Chabo trial. |
| 0:55.0 | What's the feeling like in that courtroom? |
| 0:58.0 | There's a real electricity or on the eighth floor |
| 1:01.0 | of the Brooklyn Federal Court House, |
| 1:03.0 | and it's actually a really small room. |
| 1:06.0 | The press is in the front row on the right, |
| 1:10.0 | directly across on the left, government officials. |
| 1:13.0 | El Chabo's wife, generally dressed in black, |
| 1:17.0 | often wearing very heavy perfume. |
| 1:19.0 | It sits directly behind the first press row. |
| 1:24.0 | You can smell it. |
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