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The Daily

Thursday, June 29, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.3107.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The United States says its goal in Syria is to help its allies defeat the Islamic State, not to fight the government. But it’s getting harder stay out of the civil war. Guests: Helene Cooper, the Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times; Jennifer Steinhauer, who covers Congress. For more information on today’s episode, visit http://nyti.ms/2tdgVBP.

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0:32.9

This is the deal.

0:36.9

Today, the United States says its mission in Syria is to defeat ISIS and stay out of the

0:45.5

Civil War.

0:46.8

But as it turns out, it can't do both.

0:50.4

And where did Mitch McConnell go wrong on the Senate's healthcare bill?

0:57.2

It's Thursday, June 29th.

1:05.2

Helene Cooper, the last time you and I spoke about Syria, it was after, just after, the

1:12.1

US dropped missiles there on the Syrian military.

1:17.5

Remind us what happened.

1:19.4

All there had been a chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians by the regime of Bashar

1:26.3

Assad.

1:29.1

What the hell is that?

1:33.3

Overwhelmed with patients that being kicked by some sort of chemical.

1:37.6

That President Trump said that he reacted strongly to it because he saw images of dead

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