The National Guard Comes to the Subways
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
First, Richard Davis, president of TWU Local 100, shares his thoughts on Governor Hochul's move to send members of the National Guard to patrol the subways and inspect bags, and what members of the Transport Workers Union are feeling about their safety underground.Then, Donna Lieberman, executive director for the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), shares criticism of Gov. Hochul's plan to send members of the National Guard and state police officers to patrol subway stations, as well as search bags, in an attempt to reassure riders of their safety.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone on the morning after the 2024 Oscar Awards and maybe some of you got to see the whole thing this year as I think they didn't get the memo about moving the clocks |
| 0:24.4 | ahead for daylight saving time. It started at seven o'clock, not eight o'clock as it has in many |
| 0:30.4 | years in the past which blessedly I think for many folks meant you could stay up through the end at 1030, |
| 0:36.7 | which was earlier than the State of the Union address ended on Thursday night, |
| 0:41.3 | but Jimmy Kimmel was apparently up and watching to the end of that, |
| 0:46.0 | Senator Katie Britt from her kitchen giving the Republican rebuttal, that's how that ended. |
| 0:51.6 | Here's Kimmel from his opening monologue |
| 0:53.9 | at the Oscars last night, when he noted the role |
| 0:56.6 | that Emma Stone played in poor things. |
| 0:59.8 | Emma played an adult woman with the brain of a child like the lady who gave the rebuttal to the |
| 1:05.1 | State of the Union on Thursday night. |
| 1:08.4 | And later, Kimmel read live on the air a social media post from Donald Trump criticizing his hosting of the |
| 1:14.3 | Oscars which Kimmel turned into an opportunity for a laugh at Trump's expense. |
| 1:18.9 | More on the Oscars coming up later with Sam Sanders and more on national politics coming up with Sam Sanders and more on national politics coming up with |
| 1:24.8 | Susan Glasser from the New Yorker later this hour but let's start local with |
| 1:29.7 | the announcement by Governor Hockel that she's deploying a thousand National Guard troops and state police to the New York City subway system. |
| 1:38.5 | I have 1,000 individuals. I don't have to keep them there long. I may keep them there a long time. I'm not going to tell the criminals the day I'm stopping this because then they'll be back the next day. |
| 1:49.0 | Governor Hockel on MS NBC will hear more clips as we get two opposing views on this |
| 1:56.1 | and on Mayor Adam's own deployment of more NYPD officers |
| 2:00.2 | and his new order for more bag checks as you enter the subways and will invite your reactions. |
| 2:06.0 | We'll hear in a few minutes from Donald Lieberman of the New York Civil Liberties Union |
| 2:09.7 | who's concerned that this will all do more harm than good. |
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