Brian Lehrer Weekend: Romney's Republicanism; Tracy K. Smith's Manifesto; How Abortion Did on the Ballot
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
Atlantic writer McKay Coppins talks about his biography of Mitt Romney and the state of the GOP (First) | Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, on a manifesto for moving forward together (Starts at 29:45) | How the issue of abortion affected the outcomes of a few key election races around the country (Starts at 47:22)
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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 Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. Now Atlantic |
| 0:38.4 | magazine journalist McKay Coppins who has a new biography of Mitt Romney. |
| 0:43.1 | It's called Romney, a reckoning. |
| 0:45.3 | Some of you may know that Coppins became a nationally known |
| 0:48.0 | journalist when Romney was the Republican presidential |
| 0:50.5 | nominee in 2012. |
| 0:52.3 | Coppins was with Buzzfeed at the time and wrote about covering |
| 0:55.8 | Romney, who was a Mormon, as a Mormon himself with that extra understanding a journalist might |
| 1:01.7 | have from personal experience of a candidate with a minority religion. |
| 1:06.0 | In 2012, you might have heard Mitt Romney say things like this. |
| 1:11.0 | Barack Obama and I have fundamentally different visions of America. |
| 1:17.0 | He spent the last three or four years laying the foundation for a new government-centered society. |
| 1:27.0 | I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of our opportunity society led by free people and their free |
| 1:36.4 | enterprises. |
| 1:37.7 | Mitt Romney in 2012 but by 2020 after Donald Trump was impeached for inciting insurrection and |
| 1:45.8 | Romney was a rare exception in his party in the Senate for voting to remove Trump |
| 1:50.6 | from office over that, he sounded like this. |
| 1:54.0 | Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive |
| 2:01.9 | violation of one's oath of office that I can |
| 2:05.0 | imagine. It's also easy to forget that Mitt Romney was a Republican |
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