Monday, June 5, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 5 June 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

What we know and don’t know about the attack in London on Saturday; a discussion of the political context; and what role the Islamic State might have played. Plus: a brief history of back channels. Guests: Rukmini Callimachi, who covers the Islamic State for The Times; Katrin Bennhold, a reporter based in London; David E. Sanger, chief Washington correspondent. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. And as mentioned on today’s show, we’re offering listeners a free trial of a New York Times digital subscription. Visit nytimes.com/dailytrial to sign up.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the Daily.
0:08.0	Today, enough is enough.
0:11.0	Prime Minister Theresa May is promising to intensify Britain's counter-terrorism efforts
0:16.0	after the third major terrorist attack in three months.
0:20.0	And, with James Comey scheduled to testify this week,
0:24.0	a key question at the heart of the Russia investigations.
0:28.0	When does diplomacy cross over into collusion?
0:32.0	It's Monday, June 5th.
0:38.0	Hi, Michael. The claim for ISIS just came in.
0:41.0	I need to get back to the desk before I can talk to you.
0:44.0	I'll call you back.
0:46.0	Okay, talk to you a little bit.
0:48.0	I spoke to my colleague, Rukmini Kalamaki, late Sunday night.
0:51.0	Hi, guys. How are you?
0:53.0	Hey, so we're exactly at my reaching you right now.
0:56.0	I've been one of the typical London black cabs on my way to my hotel from the airport.
1:01.0	It was crazy. And I took a flight very early this morning and just not here about two hours ago.
1:07.0	And at this point, the first thing I was waiting for is ISIS's claim of responsibility.
1:13.0	We expected it.
1:15.0	It's taken a little bit longer than normal.
1:17.0	They typically take around 12 hours to claim these attacks.
1:20.0	They just claimed it now as I was in the cab.
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