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Political Fix

US election countdown: National security in the spotlight

Political Fix

Financial Times

Politics, News, News & Politics

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2016

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The White House candidates each fought to promise greater safety for citizens, with pledges to defeat Isis and scale back access to weapons for those on the terror watch list, after the Orlando nightclub attack. FT reporters discuss Hillary Clinton's and Donald Trump's response, and how their respective national security platforms will play among the electorate.

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I'm joined on the U.S. election countdown podcast.

0:28.0

I'm Kariskinel New York and I'm joined on the line by Courtney Weaver and Sean Donnan in DC.

0:33.0

Hi Courtney, hi Sean, how are you guys?

0:35.0

Hi, hey Care.

0:36.0

Hi, thanks for having us.

0:38.0

So this week was pretty dramatic here in the U.S.

0:41.0

The country was rocked by a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando on the weekend, and the attacker had pledged allegiance to ISIS shortly before committing the crime.

0:51.0

Terror has become the central point of the U.S. election this week.

0:55.1

And Courtney, maybe you could catch us up about how both Clinton and the Trump

0:58.9

camps responded to the shooting.

1:02.4

And maybe you can also dive into that Obama's speech on Tuesday.

1:07.0

Yeah, I mean it's been really interesting to watch how all three actors of Clinton, Obama,

1:12.0

and Trump have all reacted. So starting with Trump

1:14.6

on Sunday right up after the attack, Trump said a tweet along the lines of I

1:19.6

appreciate York, Congrats, being right about Islamic terrorism in the U.S.

1:25.0

Which you know some people thought was not the right tone immediately after close to 50 people had just

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