From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday, December 4th.

We've promised to cover the incoming Trump administration on at least two tracks on this show, straight up policy

debates and analysis and calling out threats to democracy or attempts to move toward authoritarianism

if they occur. Brooklyn and Manhattan Congressman Dan Goldman seems to be moving on those two tracks

too. He's had a lot to say recently about policy issues from affordable

housing and child care to the mass deportation that Trump has vowed to carry out in New York City

and elsewhere. And Goldman, he'll join us in a minute, has had a lot to say about Trump

as a threat to democracy. We've talked on the show about a Trump laugh line at a meeting of the House

of Representatives Republican caucus a few days after the election. Remember that. It's already faded from

the headlines. The line was, I suspect I won't be running again unless you say he's so good,

we've got to figure something else out. And that was received as funny

by the House Republican crowd in attendance, but not everyone was laughing, right?

Including Congressman Goldman. He quickly introduced a resolution that would reaffirm the

22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution, the amendment that says,

no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice. Pretty straightforward.

No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice. The press released

from Goldman on his resolution emphasized that Trump's remark wasn't funny, in part, because he had

said similar things at least 15 times about not abiding by the Constitution's term limits

for president. I pulled the soundbite of two of the incidents that Goldman cited. Here's one at a campaign

rally in 2020.

And we're going to win four more years in the White House. And then after that we'll

negotiate, right? Because we're probably, based on the way we were treated, we're probably

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