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The Playbook Podcast

May 23, 2017

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

President Trump reacts to the attack in Manchester, South Korea fires a warning shot and more in today's Playbook Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good Tuesday morning and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing sponsored by the Coalition for Affordable Prescription Drugs.

0:07.3

President Donald Trump had a new line he used when speaking in the West Bank.

0:11.8

Terrorists, he said, are evil losers in life.

0:15.8

Trump's explanation comes from Pooler Mike Memole.

0:19.2

Trump said, quote, so many young, beautiful, innocent people living

0:23.0

and enjoying their lives murdered by evil losers in life. I won't call them monsters because they would

0:29.8

like that term. They would think that's a great name. I will call them from now on losers because

0:35.7

that's what they are. They're losers. And we'll have

0:39.2

more of them, but they're losers. Just remember that. Of course, what Trump was referring to was the

0:44.6

22 children and adults who were murdered by a suicide bomber in Manchester, England, outside of a pop

0:50.1

concert. The AP has the latest, describing it as an apparent suicide bomber attack at the end of

0:55.1

an Ariana Grande concert. Forensic investigators are trying to figure out if he acted alone or if the

1:00.6

bomber had accomplices. Police have provided no information on the attacker. They have said they are

1:05.6

treating it as an act of terrorism until they know otherwise. Fifty-nine people were taken to the

1:10.1

hospital and campaigning for

1:11.3

Britain's June 8th election was suspended. The AP also has news out of Seoul, South Korea,

1:16.5

where the South Korean military said it has fired a warning shot after an unidentified object

1:22.8

flew south from North Korea. And tensions are rising between the U.S. and Turkey after Turkish officials

1:28.6

fought with protesters outside the Turkish embassy in Washington. Turkey's foreign minister on Monday

1:34.2

summoned the U.S. ambassador to lodge a formal protest days after Washington police intervened to stop

1:40.9

Turkish security officials from beating up protesters. The Washington posted a scoop on how Trump asked the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coates

1:47.7

and the NSA director, Admiral Michael Rogers, to publicly deny the existence of any evidence

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