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The Brian Lehrer Show

The GOP Field the Week Before Iowa

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It's the week before the Iowa caucuses and Donald Trump is still skipping debates. Aaron Blake, author, "The Campaign Moment" newsletter and senior political reporter for The Washington Post, recaps the latest debate between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, Trump's town hall and more campaign news ahead of a big few weeks for the candidates.

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Laird show on WNYc.

0:03.0

Good morning everyone.

0:10.0

It's the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC.

0:13.3

Good morning everyone.

0:14.8

I love hearing the BBC talk about Bill Bellichet.

0:18.7

Don't you?

0:19.4

Didn't you?

0:20.3

Anyway, we'll talk about Governor Phil Murphy and his predecessor in our first two segments on today's show.

0:27.0

Coming up later this hour, Nancy Solomon will join us with excerpts and analysis from the governor's state of the state address and his

0:35.1

follow-up appearance with Nancy here on WNYC last night for his monthly ask

0:40.1

Governor Murphy Call in and we'll take your reactions from your phones today with

0:45.5

your calls and texts on the governor's speech and appearance but first we'll

0:50.6

talk about Governor Murphy's predecessor in that job and here's why.

0:55.0

The most important moment on the night of CNN's Republican presidential primary

1:00.6

debate in Iowa may have come a little before the debate even started

1:04.5

when former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie dropped out of the race and said this.

1:09.5

I want to promise you this I am going to make sure that in no way do I enable

1:17.0

Donald Trump to ever be president of the United States again. And that's more important than my own personal vision.

1:27.0

Christie fears for us all what another Trump presidency could bring and he means it.

1:34.4

Christie did accidentally step on his message a little though,

1:38.3

despite the heartfelt speech we just sampled from there

1:41.5

when he was accidentally caught on tape saying

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