Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The aftermath of a mass shooting has become a familiar cycle in the United States: One side demands change, the other works to block it. But this time, it is the students who survived the assault who are pressing lawmakers to impose new restrictions on guns. Guest: Michael D. Shear, a White House correspondent 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 deal.
0:39.6	Today, the same thing has happened this past week that always happens after mass shootings.
0:46.9	One side demands change.
0:49.1	The other works to block it.
0:51.8	But this time, there's one difference.
0:55.0	The students of Stoneman Douglas High School.
1:02.8	It's Thursday, February 22.
1:09.2	Violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society, and I condemn this action in the strongest
1:17.8	possible terms.
1:20.1	For about the past 10, 15 years, in the wake of what has now become countless mass shootings,
1:26.6	both sides have followed us sort of familiar script.
1:29.6	Michael Sheer covers the White House.
1:32.0	Immediately, there is on all sides a kind of outpouring of genuine emotion and outrage.
1:38.0	There are precious few words for days like this.
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