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The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday Morning Politics: Trump's Legal Troubles, the GOP Field and More

The Brian Lehrer Show

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Lemire, host of “Way Too Early" on MSNBC, Politico White House bureau chief, and the author of The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020 (Flatiron Books, 2022), discuses the latest national political news, from new obstruction charges in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden's 2024 challengers.

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0:00.0

It's the Ryan Lair show on WNYC Good Monday morning, everyone.

0:12.9

All I took was two days off, just two days, Thursday and Friday, as we played some recent

0:18.4

best of segments, and I got into the country for a couple of days and look at all that

0:23.1

has happened in national politics.

0:26.0

That Biden's border policy got thrown out in court as too restrictive to migrants seeking

0:31.5

political asylum.

0:33.4

Hunter Biden's plea deal got thrown out in court because the government said it's still

0:37.9

investigating him.

0:39.7

Rudy Giuliani admitted in court in a filing that yes, he defamed those two Georgia election

0:46.2

workers, Shay Moss and Ruby Freeman, when he falsely claimed they were rigging the 2020

0:51.0

election when they were just normally doing their job.

0:53.6

He hasn't admitted to the racism involved though, when he said the black mother and daughter

0:58.5

were passing around thumb drives like heroin or cocaine.

1:02.6

Donald Trump was hit with a serious new charge, and another Mar-a-Lago employee was charged

1:08.4

too in the classified documents case.

1:11.1

This is about Trump allegedly telling Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira to

1:17.0

delete certain surveillance video last year, and de Oliveira is allegedly telling another

1:23.2

worker who oversees the surveillance cameras that, quote, the boss, wanted it deleted.

1:31.2

But hey, what's a little destruction of evidence between friends?

1:34.6

What's the big deal, right?

1:36.7

It's certainly not a big deal to Republican voters.

1:39.7

The first New York Times see anapole of the 2024 election cycle, published this morning,

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