Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Senator Bob Corker, the Republican head of the Foreign Relations Committee, was asked on Tuesday if President Trump was a role model for American children. "Absolutely not," he replied. A few hours later, another Republican senator, Jeff Flake of Arizona, denounced the president. Congressional Republicans seem to be revolting against Mr. Trump. But is that what is really happening? Also, Xi Jinping, the leader of China, is consolidating his power. Guests: Glenn Thrush, a White House correspondent; Chris Buckley, a reporter for The Times in China. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the David.
0:09.0	Today, Bob Corcor's tweets, Jeff Flakes' speech,
0:14.0	congressional Republicans seem to be revolting against their president.
0:19.0	But is that really what's happening?
0:23.0	And the leader of China consolidates his power.
0:28.0	It's Thursday, October 26th.
0:34.0	All right, Glenn is here. Hi, Glenn.
0:36.0	Hi, Glenn. Hello.
0:38.0	Oh, yeah. You don't get a last name because you're such a household light on at this point.
0:41.0	You're like, you're like tied. You're like...
0:43.0	Charo.
0:44.0	Remember Charo?
0:45.0	No.
0:47.0	What's the other thing you're like?
0:49.0	Kleenex.
0:50.0	Kleenex. Kleenex.
0:51.0	Yeah.
0:52.0	Okay, here we go.
0:53.0	Glenn, why was Tuesday such an important day for Republicans in Washington?
0:59.0	Well, Michael, on its surface, it was a day of historic insurrection by the Republican rank and file against a Republican president.
1:07.0	I don't know why he lowers himself to such a low, low standard and debases our country in the way that he does, but he does.
1:15.0	It started off with this incredibly vicious fight between Bob Corcor who is the powerful head of the Foreign Relations Committee and the president, just exchanging these mutually assured destruction kind of tweets and comments about each other.
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