Putin vs. Kimmel and Colbert; Countdown to Default
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, May 22nd. |
| 0:14.9 | If the TV writer's strike wasn't shutting down the late night talk shows, they'd have some great material for tonight. |
| 0:21.7 | Vladimir Putin's latest front in the invasion of Ukraine is apparently to ban Stephen Colbert, |
| 0:28.3 | Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Myers, all three of them, from entering Russia. That'll keep those F-16s |
| 0:35.0 | from shooting down Russian bombers, right? To be clear, it's not just Stephen Colbert, |
| 0:40.2 | Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Myers. It's also MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Rachel Maddo, CNN host Aaron Burnett, |
| 0:47.8 | who reported from Ukraine at the beginning of the war. Oh, also former president, Barack Obama, |
| 0:52.5 | just for good measure, New York State Attorney General |
| 0:55.7 | Letitia James. How'd she get in there? The only connection seems to be that James is investigating |
| 1:02.5 | Putin's BFF, Donald Trump, who praised Putin yet again in case you missed it in that recent CNN town hall. |
| 1:10.1 | Another Putin-Trump connection there is that Russia now |
| 1:13.3 | also banned from entering their country any officials engaged in what they called persecution of |
| 1:19.9 | dissidents. What does Russia mean by persecution of dissidents? The prosecution of people over the |
| 1:25.7 | January 6th Capitol riots. |
| 1:28.2 | So who needs a Robert Mueller-style Russia investigation to determine who's helping who |
| 1:33.0 | at electoral politics, right? |
| 1:34.7 | But there you go. |
| 1:35.8 | Funny, not funny, right? |
| 1:37.7 | It might be funny if it wasn't to somehow help colonize Ukraine and kill Ukrainians, Russia on Friday, |
| 1:46.4 | banning Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Myers, and 497 other people from doing something |
| 1:52.5 | they probably don't want to do anyway, go to Russia. Meanwhile, this country has its own challenge |
| 1:59.5 | right now. Here we are on May 22nd. Remember what Treasury Secretary |
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