Ed Murray: Meditating in the age of Trump

POLITICO's Off Message

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics

4.5 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray joins Off Message to discuss the city's lawsuit against the federal government on the sanctuary cities, how a monk encouraged him come out as a young man and what President Trump doesn't understand about the immigrant community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, I'm Isaac Tover and welcome to OffMessage. Today's guest, Ed Murray, the mayor of Seattle,
0:07.1	who's completing his first term, running for a second, hoping to get it. We caught up with him in
0:11.9	New York where he was in town for Mike Bloomberg's What Work Cities event and talked about the lawsuit
0:17.8	that he was at that moment about to file against the federal government on the sanctuary city's policy. We talked about the lawsuit that he was at that moment about to file against the federal government
0:21.3	on the sanctuary city's policy.
0:24.1	Talked about meditating in the age of Trump, how a book from a trappist monk long ago when
0:30.1	he was in college helped him realize that he was actually gay.
0:34.3	Talked about operationalizing a movement, that big question for Democrats at this point,
0:38.9	people on the left, and how it relates to his own experience going from AIDS activism into
0:44.6	running a campaign for state senate for a mentor of his and then into getting into politics
0:49.6	himself. And then we talked about the itinerary that he would hope that he would be able to bring President Trump on, should he ever come visit Seattle.
0:57.3	One of the things that he'd like to bring the president to see is a classroom there of people who are either undocumented immigrants themselves, children, or children of undocumented immigrants.
1:08.2	He said President Trump doesn't understand the fear.
1:11.4	I want to remind everybody to subscribe on iTunes or whatever your favorite podcast platform is,
1:16.1	rate us and follow me on Twitter at Isaac Dover or on Facebook and email me at Isaacatpolitico.com.
1:23.7	While we're talking about podcasts and platforms, check out the nerdcast, Politico's roundtable discussion with some of the smartest people in our newsroom, giving you the numbers behind the punditry.
1:33.3	We talked about Neil Gorsuch's nomination and what's going to happen with it, what the future is for Donald Trump and his approval rating and his legislative agenda.
1:42.6	There's a lot to get into. Check it out. And now let's
1:45.5	get to Ed Murray. I must say this is one of my favorite conversations that we've had so far on this
1:50.3	podcast. This is a guy who's not rehearsed, not thinking through these answers so far ahead of time.
1:56.7	It was really fresh, different perspective, getting thoughtful about his own personal story and about
2:02.0	the political moment that we're in. So take a listen, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from POLITICO, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of POLITICO and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.