Monday Morning Politics: Talks of a Trump Third Term, 'Signalgate' and More
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lairn Show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm Matt Katz, former reporter here at WNYC and Gothamist. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm now running a news podcast in Philadelphia called CityCast Philly, and I'm |
| 0:22.7 | filling in for Brian for the next few days. First, Eid Mubarak to all of our listeners who celebrated |
| 0:28.6 | the end of the Holy Month of Ramadan yesterday. And coming up on today's show, we'll talk about |
| 0:33.8 | the city's plans to enforce the new composting rules, which went into effect last year. |
| 0:40.3 | Starting tomorrow, the city will issue fines to landlords and homeowners who are not complying. |
| 0:46.4 | As a reminder, everyone is supposed to be separating their food waste from their trash, |
| 0:51.0 | but it turns out only a tiny fraction of people are actually doing this so far. |
| 0:55.6 | Plus, today's 100 years of 100 things conversation will be about the history of the village. |
| 1:00.9 | It has long been a center of bohemian and artistic life. |
| 1:05.1 | We'll talk about Greenwich Village from the 1920s through today. |
| 1:09.0 | And with the baseball season now underway and the Yankees bats hopping, |
| 1:13.6 | curiously, perhaps, we'll chat about what's happened so far with our local teams and what |
| 1:19.1 | might be in store for the Yanks and Mets in the season ahead. But let's start this Monday with |
| 1:24.3 | national politics. Last week, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed |
| 1:29.1 | that he had been inadvertently added to a signal channel in which top members of the Trump |
| 1:34.4 | administration discussed plans to bomb Yemen. Over the weekend, Fallout continued over the scandal, |
| 1:40.9 | dubbed Signalgate. A new U-Gov poll shows three out of four Americans, including 60% of Republicans, |
| 1:48.4 | say the Trump administration's use of a signal group chat to discuss military strikes |
| 1:53.2 | is a, quote, serious problem. |
| 1:55.9 | Yesterday, during a phone interview with NBC's Kristen Welker, |
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