Brian Lehrer Weekend: The Origins of the Border Crisis; NJ Schools Teach Climate Change; Street Safety on McGuinness Boulevard
The Brian Lehrer Show
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🗓️ 1 July 2023
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them:
America's broken asylum system and the origins of the border crisis (First) | New Jersey schools teach climate change (Starts at 45:40) | Why a street safety redesign on Greenpoint's notoriously dangerous McGuinness Boulevard is causing so much controversy (Starts at 1:10:00)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Brian Lair here. Up next, Brian Lair Weekend, three of our favorite segments from the week, |
| 0:04.8 | Package Together, for you to listen to on the weekend. So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the |
| 0:09.5 | radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNYC.org It's the Brian Lair show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. |
| 0:38.7 | If you were listening in the last hour you've been hearing the BBC's coverage of the |
| 0:42.9 | insurrection attempt in Russia, I will add for now that Donald Trump seems to have found an |
| 0:49.0 | insurrection he doesn't support. He posted a short comment over the weekend in support of Putin |
| 0:54.4 | that said to Americans, be careful what you wish for the next one in may be far worse, |
| 1:02.0 | meaning whoever succeeds Putin may be worse. He didn't say worse for whom. Trump always finds a way |
| 1:07.7 | to have Putin's back, doesn't he? During our second hour this morning we will have New Yorker |
| 1:12.5 | magazine editor David Remnick who was also a Russia and Putin watcher in case you didn't know. He's |
| 1:18.4 | written books on the subject and David Remnick will follow however this still fluid situation might |
| 1:24.4 | change this morning and we'll talk about the larger implications of this weekend's events. Most |
| 1:30.0 | striking to me is the analysis that Ukraine can now start using the grievances that the |
| 1:37.1 | rebelling Russian forces have articulated in this revolt to try to go message all the Russian |
| 1:42.8 | soldiers still in Ukraine to try to demoralize them and get them to question whether the mission |
| 1:48.8 | is worth the risk to their lives and the way they've been treated and whether Putin has the power |
| 1:54.1 | anymore to punish them if they refuse in large numbers to fight. And I'm wondering if Putin really |
| 2:01.9 | is weaker so many of the analysts are saying and we'll get David Remnick's take. Does it give any |
| 2:07.3 | new hope for the freedom of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gerskowitz or other Americans |
| 2:13.2 | being held as hostages under phony criminal pretenses by Putin's regime and doesn't make it any |
| 2:19.1 | less likely that Putin will successfully get a lot of disinformation into the social media ecosystem |
| 2:26.2 | during next year's presidential campaign when he will presumably want to support a Republican |
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