Monday Morning Politics: Trump's Gaffes; Kash Patel
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lair on WNYC for our first national politics segment of the week. |
| 0:15.2 | We're happy that David Graham from the Atlantic is back with us. |
| 0:18.7 | Among his latest articles is his latest. Trump's latest gaffs could hurt the GOP. |
| 0:25.4 | And by gaffes, he clearly means the definition of gaff that the legendary journalist Michael |
| 0:30.7 | Kinsley is very associated with. |
| 0:33.0 | A gaff is when a politician accidentally blurts out what he really thinks. |
| 0:37.4 | One of Trump's on David Graham's list, when a reporter asked blurts out what he really thinks. One of Trump's on David |
| 0:39.0 | Graham's list, when a reporter asked the president last week whether he considers the rising |
| 0:42.9 | price of gasoline and other things when deciding whether to keep the Iran war going, not even |
| 0:48.4 | a little bit, he replied, I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody, unquote. |
| 0:55.5 | He said he only thinks about stopping Iran from having nuclear weapons. We've talked about that on |
| 1:00.5 | this show. But another one that David Graham now points to, when a reporter asked the president |
| 1:05.5 | how he would respond to black voters worried that changes to congressional districts, |
| 1:12.7 | changes spearheaded by his GOP allies and urged on by his Justice Department, would reduce black representation. He replied, |
| 1:18.8 | quote, I think it's been a wonderful process. Graham writes, this may have been another moment of |
| 1:25.5 | imprudent to honesty. At least he's answering his |
| 1:28.8 | 2016 question to black voters. What the hell do you have to lose? Remember that part of his |
| 1:34.3 | campaign for president? He said it a lot in ways like this. Look how much African-American |
| 1:41.3 | communities have suffered under democratic control. |
| 1:46.0 | To those I say the following, what do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump? |
| 1:58.0 | What do you have to lose? |
| 2:07.7 | Well, now they've lost most of the Voting Rights Act and are in the process of losing much of the representation that goes with it. |
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