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The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday Morning Politics: Washington Reacts to Mamdani, Alligator Alcatraz, Texas Flooding and More

The Brian Lehrer Show

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

USA Today's Susan Page talks about the latest national political news including Washington's reaction to Mamdani, Alligator Alcatraz, the floods in Texas, and more.

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0:00.0

It's the brilliant

0:10.9

on WNYC.

0:12.9

Good morning, everyone.

0:14.2

Hope you had a great holiday weekend.

0:16.0

And thank you to those of you who work the holiday weekend, as I always like to say,

0:20.5

so other people can play

0:22.3

you were at work. Thank you. On today's show, we will have the final chapter of our year-long

0:29.4

WNYC Centennial Series, 100 Years of 100 Things. It's thing number 100, 100 years of you. No professional historians, no other experts,

0:41.0

as we've had through the series. This episode is for you, our listeners and participants,

0:47.9

our beloved community. We will be inviting you to answer two questions. This will come later,

0:53.9

but keep it in mind, start thinking about it.

0:56.9

Name one way that you are similar to or different from your grandparents as we invite this personal

1:03.8

take on a hundred-year arc of history. And as a bonus question of, if you choose, in addition to one way that you are similar to or different from your grandparents,

1:14.8

as a bonus question if you choose, we'll invite you to tell us one funny family story that you were part of or that's been handed down from any time in the last hundred years.

1:26.3

One funny family story. That's coming up,

1:28.6

100 years of you later in the show, chapter number 100 of 100. Meanwhile, there is so much local

1:36.3

and national politics to discuss. We were on tape for the holiday on Thursday and Friday,

1:40.8

so we haven't talked yet about the passage of the so-called one big,

1:44.3

beautiful bill and its implications for various things. We haven't talked about Senator Kirsten

1:50.2

Gillibrand apologizing to Democratic mayoral nominees or on Mamdani for something false about him

1:56.9

that she said on this show. We haven't talked about the Texas flooding and besides the

2:02.2

human tragedy of about 80 people is the last number I've seen, 80 people believed to have

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