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🗓️ 29 October 2018
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0:00.0 | The Daily 202's Big Idea is sponsored by Delta Airlines, the commercial airline the U.S. military |
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0:11.2 | Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily 202 for Monday, October 29th. |
0:20.0 | In today's news, Brazil elects a far right candidate who longs for the old days of dictatorship. |
0:28.0 | Angala Merkel is ready to step down as leader of her party after big losses in regional elections. And Ukraine says |
0:35.6 | Facebook ignored its warnings about a Russian disinformation campaign years |
0:40.0 | before the Kremlin interfered in our presidential election. |
0:46.4 | But first, the big idea. |
0:49.6 | Police have identified the 11 victims killed in Saturday's mass shooting at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue, the deadliest attack on Jews in American history. |
1:01.0 | The victims were the synagogues most faithful. They included |
1:05.6 | two brothers who'd walked to services each week since boyhood who were now in their 50s. |
1:10.6 | They handed out hugs and hallows at Tree of Life's front entrance. |
1:14.8 | They included the local doctor who helped set up Dor Hadash's weekly meetings and let its |
1:19.5 | Torah studies and an 88-year-old retired accountant known to attend services every Friday, Saturday, |
1:25.9 | and Sunday. They were tree of life's beating heart, as much fixtures of the synagogue as the fading pews. Their names were Joyce Feinberg, |
1:36.4 | Richard Gottfried, Rose Malanger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Bernice Simon, Sylvan Simon, Daniel Stein, |
1:50.4 | Melvin Wax, and Irving Younger. |
1:55.1 | The man who has been charged with their murders, Robert Bowers, was described as a loner, |
1:59.9 | who mostly kept to himself as he posted hate-filled anti-Semitic rants online. |
2:05.4 | According to court documents filed Sunday, Bowers told a SWAT officer after being shot |
2:10.0 | and captured, quote, they're committing genocide to my people. |
2:14.8 | I just want to kill Jews. |
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