Friday Morning Politics: Polling, Presidential Campaigns, and More
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Susan Page, USA Today Washington bureau chief and the author of Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power (Twelve, 2021), rounds up the latest news from Washington, including the GOP debate and the pending shutdown.
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| 0:17.0 | It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. I'm Tiffany Hanson, host here in the WNYC newsroom filling in for Brian today. On today's show, we are observing Veterans Day one day early with a conversation about adverse mental and physical health |
| 0:25.0 | effects experienced by troops in the US military campaign against the Islamic State. |
| 0:30.8 | We hope to hear from vets. Plus, billionaire Mets owner, Steve Cohen, has thrown his hat in the ring to try to build a casino. |
| 0:38.0 | Really, actually a giant entertainment complex with a casino right next to Citifield. |
| 0:43.0 | Crane's New York reporter Nick Garber will talk politics with us and pushback and |
| 0:48.0 | how likely that casino is. |
| 0:50.0 | And we'll end today's show with a subject that is sure to elicit some strong feelings. |
| 0:55.0 | Subway etiquette. Yes. |
| 0:57.0 | Stories of smoking on the train, eating fragrant food on the subway, more train transgressions. We know you have them. We'll talk about what the |
| 1:07.1 | New York Times found out about manners in the subway after COVID. But first this week we had the second Republican |
| 1:16.4 | primary debate the first since the start of the war in Israel and Gaza also this |
| 1:20.8 | week 22 Democrats including several New Yorkers and one rep from New Jersey, joined |
| 1:25.6 | fellow Republicans in the House in a vote to censure Michigan Democrat Rashida Talib over comments |
| 1:31.3 | she made about Israel. Plus, newly minted Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson |
| 1:35.2 | is staring at the potential of a government shutdown if a stopgap spending bill can't get passed |
| 1:41.1 | before Thanksgiving. Oh, and there was an election this week. We'll talk |
| 1:46.2 | about all of the developments from the week with Susan Page, the Washington Bureau Chief |
| 1:50.7 | at USA Today, she joins us now for our Friday Politics Roundup. Hi Susan. |
| 1:55.0 | Hey Tiffany, it's great to be with you. Thanks for being here and of course |
| 1:59.2 | Susan and I would love to hear from you listeners. let's talk about this weekend politics |
| 2:03.4 | election results challenges on the horizon for speaker Mike Johnson |
| 2:07.4 | widening party divisions you can call us at 212 433 WNYC that's 212 433 962. Susan it has been a busy week so I |
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