from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, July 7th.

We were on tape for the holiday on Thursday and Friday, so we haven't talked yet about the passage of the so-called one big, beautiful

bill and its implications for various things. We haven't talked about Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

apologizing to Democratic mayoral nominees or on Mamdani for something false about him that she

said on this show. We haven't talked about the Texas flooding and besides the

human tragedy of about 80 people is the last number I've seen, 80 people believed to have

been killed, including all those girls at a summer camp. Oh my goodness. Besides the tragedy,

there are the suspicions that federal funding cuts to the National Weather Service

may have contributed to the failure to warn people in time to evacuate, though in fairness

that hasn't been proven as of now. That's a topic of conversation. And one other thing

about the national reaction to Assemblyman Mamdani, winning the New York City mayoral primary,

with his background as an Indian, Ugandan, naturalized U.S. citizen, as well as as being Muslim,

and a Democratic socialist.

The Deputy White House Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, ardently anti-immigration, as many of you know,

actually posted this on X.

Quote, New York City is the clearest morning yet of what happens to a society when it fails to control migration.

If your ears just perked up, if your eyes just started bugging out of your heads, I'll read it again.

New York City is the clearest morning yet of what

happens to a society when it fails to control migration. So that's one of those saying the quiet part

out loud things, right? They say they're not against immigration, they're just against illegal

immigration, but when there's a big turnout of

new populations like South Asian Americans who are U.S. citizen legal voters and turned out more than

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