Wednesday, Aug 9, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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From his golf course in New Jersey on Tuesday, President Trump threatened North Korea “fire and fury” and warned that the country “best not make any more threats to the United States.” How should we interpret the latest escalation in tensions with Pyongyang? Plus: Why American law may block the biggest medical breakthrough in decades. Guests: Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The Times; Carl Zimmer, who writes about biology and genetics. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:33.0	This is The Deep.
0:36.0	Today, the President threatens North Korea with fire and fury and says the country best
0:46.5	not make any more threats to the United States.
0:50.6	And for the first time, scientists in the US have edited the DNA of human embryos to
0:56.0	prevent a fatal disease.
0:58.3	Why American law may block the biggest medical breakthrough in decades?
1:04.0	It's Wednesday, August 9.
1:08.6	Peter Baker, your embedments from New Jersey with the President take us through this remarkable
1:14.7	verbal escalation between the President and North Korea over the course of the day.
1:19.9	Well, tensions have been building with North Korea, of course, for weeks and months.
1:23.7	It just last month, it tested for the first time an intercontinental ballistic missile that
1:27.2	can actually strike the continental United States.
1:30.4	The UN responded over the weekend with a new sanctions.
1:33.4	In North Korea, it said today that it was going to respond with physical action to those
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