Monday Morning Politics: Greenland, the Panama Canal and Trump's Foreign Policy
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lairn on WNYC. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Amina Cerna, a producer for the Brian Lair Show, filling in for Brian today. |
| 0:18.0 | Coming up on today's show, of course, we'll remember President Jimmy Carter, |
| 0:22.4 | who died yesterday at 100 years old. The one-term president had a long and busy life after he left |
| 0:28.6 | office and gained many admirers for his work in public health, democracy, building houses |
| 0:34.5 | for habitat, for humanity, and in women's rights. |
| 0:38.7 | We were lucky to have President Carter on the show several times throughout the years, |
| 0:43.2 | and today we'll play an excerpt from an interview he did with Brian from about a decade ago. |
| 0:48.1 | Plus, our WMIC Centennial series, 100 Years of 100 Things, continues with a look at the history of Times Square, including |
| 0:56.3 | its New Year's Eve celebrations. This has actually been going on for more than 100 years. |
| 1:01.9 | And we'll round out today's show with a conversation about New Year's resolutions and how to keep |
| 1:06.7 | them. But first, we turn to President-elect Donald Trump and his statements on foreign policy |
| 1:13.2 | plan ahead of his inauguration next month. For the past several weeks, Trump has made multiple |
| 1:18.8 | statements on what his foreign policy will be. Most recently, they include taking over Greenland, |
| 1:24.6 | bringing the Panama Canal under American control, and he's also suggested |
| 1:29.2 | making Canada the 51st state. And while unusual to go after countries seen as traditional allies of the |
| 1:35.8 | U.S., the tactic is provoking reactions from all three countries. Greenland's prime minister has said |
| 1:42.1 | the island is not for sale, and the president of Panama has said that, quote, every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zone belongs to Panama and will remain so. |
| 1:54.5 | And at least two top ministers for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Trump in Florida last week. |
| 2:00.7 | Joining us now to discuss all this and more is Jacqueline Allemaney, Congressional Investigations |
| 2:05.7 | Reporter for the Washington Post. |
| 2:07.8 | Her latest is titled, Trump Team says Canada, Greenland, Panama, comments are part of a broader |
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