Brian Lehrer Weekend: The Colorado Trial to Keep Trump off the Ballot; The Culture War and Election Day in New Jersey; NYC Marathon
The Brian Lehrer Show
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🗓️ 4 November 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on a lawsuit to keep former president Donald Trump off the ballot (First) | How culture war issues may help conservative candidates on election night in New Jersey (Starts at 12:10) | The New York City Marathon and a 'running renaissance' (Starts at 44:00)
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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. So have you heard about this lawsuit that aims to keep |
| 0:37.9 | Donald Trump off the presidential ballot next year because he violated the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment. |
| 0:45.0 | The trial began yesterday with opening arguments and the first witnesses for the |
| 0:50.0 | plaintiffs against Trump and we are very happy to have with us to talk about this now |
| 0:54.6 | someone very relevant to this issue because this is for the moment a state case |
| 0:59.0 | in Colorado we have the highest state election official there Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold. |
| 1:06.4 | She is also chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State. |
| 1:11.4 | Secretary Griswold, thanks so much for coming on for this. Welcome to WNYC. |
| 1:15.0 | Well, thanks for having me on. |
| 1:17.0 | And I know you're on a tight schedule and we have you for about 10 minutes, so I'm going to jump right in and read this relevant |
| 1:24.4 | sentence in section 3 of the 14th amendment so our listeners know the context. |
| 1:29.0 | It says no person shall be a senator or representative in Congress or elector of |
| 1:34.0 | president and vice president or hold any office civil or military under the |
| 1:37.8 | United States or any state who having previously taken an oath as a |
| 1:41.6 | member of Congress or as an officer of the United States or as a member of any state legislature, this is a long sentence, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state to support the Constitution of the United States, here we go, shall have engaged |
| 1:56.0 | in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof. |
| 2:04.4 | And so my question to you off the bat is, |
| 2:07.8 | are you just explaining this to us |
| 2:09.5 | or are you taking a position that Trump should be disqualified? |
| 2:13.2 | I'm taking the position that this is in a court of law and a judge should weigh in. |
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