Trump and the DOJ
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lairn Show on WNYC. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom. |
| 0:17.4 | Keeping the seat warm for Brian today, |
| 0:19.3 | Shana Tova to all of our Jewish listeners and to |
| 0:22.5 | our Mets fans out there listening today, you got to believe. Watch out, Phillies. The Amazons are |
| 0:28.5 | coming for you. Coming up in today's show, Brooklyn DA, Eric Gonzalez will join us. He'll talk about |
| 0:34.5 | the work his office is doing on wrongful convictions and public safety |
| 0:39.3 | in the borough, where shootings have fallen to some of the lowest levels in recent history. |
| 0:44.4 | Later in the show, one of my guests will be journalist Sarah Smarsh. We'll talk about her |
| 0:49.1 | new collection of essays called Bone of the Bone, Essays on America by a daughter of the working class. |
| 0:55.8 | And we'll wrap today's show with your stories of canvassing or door knocking for a political campaign. |
| 1:01.9 | Are you planning to head to Pennsylvania or another battleground district or state this weekend? |
| 1:06.7 | Or have you already done it recently? |
| 1:08.8 | We want to hear your experiences. |
| 1:11.0 | That's going to be at about 1140 this morning, so get ready to call in with those stories. |
| 1:16.1 | But first, as we creep closer to election day, there's been an increasing focus on what a second |
| 1:22.3 | administration of former President Donald Trump might look like. |
| 1:26.1 | He has said openly that he plans to seek a kind |
| 1:29.1 | of retribution against individuals he feels have wronged him. On Truth Social, just last month, he |
| 1:35.0 | wrote, When I win those people that cheated will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, |
| 1:41.3 | which will include long-term prison sentences. But what could he really do? |
| 1:47.0 | Emily Bazelon surveyed 50 legal experts and offers an expansive look at their concerns. It's in an |
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