The Orlando Tragedy Is Thrust into Presidential Politics
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
President Obama injected himself into this year's campaign for the White House today with an angry attack on Donald Trump. He ranged from this weekend's attack on an Orlando nightclub to success in the campaign against ISIS.
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| 0:41.8 | campaign. Hello again. I'm Norman Olney and this is To the Point from Public Radio |
| 0:49.5 | International. An angry President Obama today denounced the presumptive Republican nominee, making no secret he was talking about Donald Trump. |
| 0:57.4 | He slammed Trump's call for a ban on Muslim immigration, and he scoffed at the idea that using the phrase radical Islam would make any difference. |
| 1:06.5 | What are the administration and law enforcement doing to prevent attacks like the one in Orlando? |
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| 1:14.6 | The presumptive nominees have very different answers to those and other questions. |
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