The State of Democracy, Three Years Since January 6
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Saturday marks three years since Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Wendy Weiser, vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, and Joseph Nunn, counsel in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, talk about the state of election denialism as the 2024 election nears, and explain how Donald Trump might use the Insurrection Act if he is reelected to tamp down protests or dissent against him.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC in |
| 0:16.7 | Gothamist Newsroom, filling in for Brian today. On today's show, we'll talk about several |
| 0:21.8 | proposals Governor Hockel has been rolling out ahead of her |
| 0:24.7 | state of the state speech, which is on Tuesday. |
| 0:27.9 | She's got plans related to the cost of insulin, maternal, and infant health, how school children are taught to read, and of course, |
| 0:35.8 | housing. |
| 0:37.7 | And New York Times reporter Grace Ashford will join us to talk about how the legislature is |
| 0:42.2 | sizing up these ideas. |
| 0:44.0 | Plus, 2024 is not just a big election year here in the United States. |
| 0:49.0 | There are more than 60 countries with national elections, and the state of democracy globally could look very different |
| 0:55.8 | when all is said and done. |
| 0:57.6 | And later in the show we'll talk to a woman who is on a quest to visit every museum |
| 1:02.2 | in New York City. There are more than 170 by |
| 1:05.2 | her account and she'll recommend some lesser-known museums to check out. But |
| 1:10.0 | first, tomorrow is January 6th, and it marks three years since violent protesters |
| 1:16.9 | stormed the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., an attempt to prevent the peaceful |
| 1:21.3 | transfer of power. But despite piles of |
| 1:24.4 | evidence and convictions that show participants committed a variety of |
| 1:27.8 | crimes and related charges against former President Donald Trump, a new |
| 1:32.3 | Washington Post, University of Maryland |
| 1:34.7 | poll found that Americans still have very different ways of looking at what |
| 1:39.0 | happened during the attack on the Capitol. The Washington Post article about the poll quotes an independent |
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