Monday, Apr. 9, 2018

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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President Trump has warned that there will be a “big price to pay” after yet another suspected chemical weapons attack on Syrians. But the suspicion that the Assad regime continues to use those weapons suggests it views the United States as being focused on a different fight. Guest: Ben Hubbard, who covers the Middle East for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:25.6	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:32.6	This is The Daily.
0:39.6	Today, President Trump is threatening that there will be a big price to pay after yet another
0:46.0	chemical weapons attack on the people of Syria.
0:50.0	But the fact that Syria continues to use those weapons suggests it understands that the
0:56.5	US is focused on a different fight inside Syria.
1:03.5	It's Monday, April 9.
1:08.6	Tell me about this town in Syria, Duma.
1:11.6	Duma is one of these towns that before the uprising began, there was nothing really
1:15.2	all that significant about it.
1:16.8	Ben Hubbard covers the Middle East for the times.
1:19.5	These are sort of mid-sized towns that's basically a satellite town to a major city.
1:24.2	You have them all over Syria.
1:26.1	These tend to be sort of lower middle-class towns that are primarily populated by people
1:30.0	who immigrated from the countryside.
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