Ask Governor Murphy: September 2025 Recap
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Mayer on WNYC's Nancy Solomon is back with us, as she usually comes on the morning after her monthly asked Governor Murphy call in, which was last night on the station. |
| 0:22.7 | Yesterday, Governor Murphy began his conversation with Nancy on the news of the death of |
| 0:28.1 | conservative activist Charlie Kirk by noting the bipartisan condemnation of political violence. |
| 0:34.8 | God rest his soul, and let's hope that, and so far I'm happy to say that people are |
| 0:40.8 | saying the right things. Let's hope we learn the right things from this and that we reject across |
| 0:46.7 | the board political violence. The governor tied that act of political violence by sharing his vivid |
| 0:53.8 | experience of 9-11 and being in London. |
| 0:56.9 | At that time, the governor and his wife were attending memorial services in Manhattan this morning. |
| 1:02.3 | He then highlighted his upcoming economic mission to India. |
| 1:05.9 | He felt it's more complicated now. |
| 1:07.5 | In light of the recent raid of immigrant workers at the Hyundai plant in Georgia, |
| 1:12.5 | more than 300 South Koreans were arrested and are currently in the process of being deported |
| 1:18.2 | if the administration gets their way. Governor Murphy also talked about a recent executive order |
| 1:23.8 | at the state level that he signed to make vaccines available to anyone, age six months |
| 1:29.7 | and up. He talked about how he'll work with insurance companies to make sure those are covered |
| 1:34.8 | and related. A new report from acting controller Kevin Walsh on George Norcross's insurance empire. |
| 1:44.2 | That's the very prominent New Jersey politician and businessperson, George Norcross. |
| 1:50.7 | His insurance empire is making headlines. |
| 1:53.8 | The, quote, scathing investigation, unquote, alleges undisclosed conflicts of interest, |
| 1:59.9 | contract steering, and violations of public |
| 2:02.1 | contracting laws, quoting from Politica. We'll also take a look at the race to replace |
| 2:07.6 | Governor Murphy, which obviously is in the home stretch now. A new poll from Quantus Insights |
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