Modi Comes to America
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ryan Lair Show on WNIC. Good morning, everyone. And here we go again. Supreme Court decision |
| 0:17.3 | day, the rulings come down at 10 a.m., which is now, so we are watching their feed for the major |
| 0:23.3 | decisions we're awaiting on student loan forgiveness, affirmative action and college admissions, |
| 0:29.3 | denying business services to gay customers and more. We will let you know if anything comes down |
| 0:35.2 | in these coming minutes, if anything does. And we have Ellie Mistal, just as corresponded |
| 0:40.9 | for the nation, standing by again to explain and opine on whatever comes down. He'll be on after |
| 0:46.7 | he has a little time to read through a decision a little later in the show if we get any of these |
| 0:51.3 | big rulings. But I will read the details for you on any big decisions as soon as they come in, |
| 0:57.4 | which should be any minute if today turns out to be the day. The Supreme Court works in mysterious |
| 1:03.0 | ways. They could tell us what decision they're going to release on what day, but they don't. |
| 1:08.4 | But Supreme Court decisions aren't the only high stakes things happening right now. For many people |
| 1:13.6 | around the world, there was serious cognitive dissonance, you might say, yesterday, seeing the pageant |
| 1:20.8 | and extreme making nice that President Biden engaged in when he welcomed Indian, India's controversial |
| 1:27.6 | leader Narendra Modi to Washington yesterday, Modi who has widely been seen as a model for Donald |
| 1:33.8 | Trump in the way he was leading India toward becoming an illiberal democracy and cultivating what |
| 1:40.3 | you might call a majoritarian nationalism, Hindu nationalism in the case of India, helping show |
| 1:46.0 | Trump how to rally white and Christian nationalists in this country to feel they are victims of racial |
| 1:52.9 | and religious minorities here. Biden hopes that he and Modi are forging an important alliance |
| 2:00.1 | against economic and military threats from China and also pushing back on Russian aggression, |
| 2:05.9 | especially in Ukraine right now, obviously. But Modi yesterday, to a lot of people's eyes, |
| 2:11.7 | was kind of non-committal. Yesterday, the Prime Minister addressed Congress, took questions |
| 2:19.2 | at a press conference, well, too, and dined with President Biden. With a 76% approval rating at home, |
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