Brian Lehrer Weekend: Adam Kinzinger; Hoboken Since Sandy; Open Enrollment
The Brian Lehrer Show
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4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
Adam Kinzinger, 'Renegade' (First) | How Hoboken Is Responding to Climate Change (Starts at 30:00) | Your Open Enrollment Questions (Starts at 56:00)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Brian Lehrer here, up next Brian Lehrer weekend. |
| 0:02.9 | Three of our favorite segments from the week packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend. |
| 0:07.5 | So enjoy and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNYC.org. It's the Brian Larra Show. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome everybody. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Tiffany Hanson filling in for |
| 0:35.4 | Brian who is off today. Former Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger is with us now. |
| 0:41.2 | The Republican was first elected to Congress back in 2010 at a time |
| 0:45.7 | when the Tea Party movement was making its mark on his party and the political |
| 0:50.1 | culture of the nation as a whole. In 12 years in the house, Kensinger got a |
| 0:54.4 | first-hand look at the ways in which the populist energy of the Tea Party gave |
| 0:59.4 | rise to Trump's MAGA extremism. Once finding himself in disagreement with his party, |
| 1:04.6 | Kinsinger was one of 10 Republicans |
| 1:06.6 | who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump |
| 1:09.3 | after January 6th |
| 1:10.3 | and one of only two Republicans, |
| 1:12.1 | along with Liz Cheney, to serve on the House January 6th, |
| 1:15.8 | select committee. |
| 1:17.3 | He's written about his life and his political career in a new memoir called Renegade defending |
| 1:21.7 | democracy and liberty in our divided country and in the book he |
| 1:25.8 | examines the transformation in his party. We'll talk about that transformation. And also |
| 1:31.6 | this week's politics news. Adam Kinzinger, welcome to WNYC, so great to have you. |
| 1:38.0 | It's good to be with you. There's always something. It doesn't matter when I call, there's always something to talk about, that's for sure. |
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