Special Episode: The Year in Sound

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A riot in Charlottesville, Va.; hurricanes in Houston and the Caribbean; shootings outside a music festival, in a church and on a baseball field. Big new jobs for Donald Trump and Neil Gorsuch; big jobs lost for Michael Flynn, James Comey, Bill O’Reilly and Harvey Weinstein. A health care bill stymied; a tax bill fast-tracked. Here’s what a breathtaking year sounded like, from start to finish. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. We're taking Monday off for Christmas. For the rest of next week, we’ll revisit our favorite episodes, adding what has happened since the stories first ran. We’ll be back with a new episode on Tuesday, Jan. 2.

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0:26.0	3 2 1 Happy New Year Beacons.
0:46.4	Good morning.
0:47.4	Sunday January 1st 2017.
0:50.4	Happy New Year.
0:51.4	New Congress.
1:01.4	January 20 2017 will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation
1:11.8	again.
1:14.8	Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families,
1:20.1	and good jobs for themselves.
1:24.2	But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists.
1:29.1	Crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country
1:36.5	of so much unrealized potential.
1:40.8	This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.
1:50.8	Now there are many people here celebrating the inauguration of President Trump, but there
1:54.8	are also many others who are protesting his inauguration.
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