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The NPR Politics Podcast

London, the President's Tweets, Listener Mail

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The President's comments following Saturday's attack in London, and a few of your questions, answered. This episode: host/White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, and political editor Domenico Montanaro. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0

This week on Invisibilia Emotions, I felt at times that maybe my feelings were too intense

0:07.5

for the situation I had never felt anything like that before. We introduced a completely

0:13.7

different way of thinking about your emotions. Listen in the MPR-1 app or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:23.9

Hi, this is Kari Kamoto, cook and dinner in Santa Monica, California. Today's podcast was

0:29.8

recorded at 306 PM on Monday, June 5th. Things may change by the time you listen to it.

0:37.5

Keep up to date with all of MPR's political coverage at mpr.org on the MPR-1 app or with your local

0:44.3

MPR station. Now, here's the show. It's the NPR Politics podcast here to talk about the events in

0:54.7

London over the weekend, the president's response, infrastructure week at the White House, and to

1:00.4

answer a few of your political questions. I'm Tamar Keath, I cover the White House for NPR.

1:04.9

I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress. And I'm Dominican Montenegro, our political editor.

1:09.0

So we had a busy weekend of news and let's start with Saturday night with the terror attack in London.

1:16.4

Now this was the third significant attack in the UK in recent months. The first was near British

1:22.0

Parliament. And then on May 22nd, there was a bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester

1:27.9

that killed 22 people. And then finally, Saturday, a van plowed into pedestrians on the London

1:33.7

bridge. The attackers then got out of the vehicle and began stabbing people at random.

1:38.9

Seven people were killed. 48 people were injured. But last night, Ariana Grande and a ton of other

1:45.9

big performers, big acts held a benefit concert in Manchester. And people came, they sang along,

1:52.8

they cried, and it was broadcast worldwide.

1:55.6

I love you guys so much and I think that the kind of love and unity that you're displaying

2:00.8

is the medicine that the world would need. Really need you right now. So I want to thank you for being

2:05.1

just that. And I want to thank you for coming tonight. I love you so much.

2:09.9

Thank you. Meanwhile, on the internet, President Trump poured his thoughts about the London

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