Why Trump’s Civil War Comments May Be Worse Than Nikki Haley’s and Other Monday Politics
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, January 8th. |
| 0:14.6 | It's the Brian Lairor show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Happy January 8th, 2024. Did you do anything to commemorate |
| 0:23.7 | January 6th over the weekend? Maybe binge watch CNN or MSNBC or watch former Capitol |
| 0:30.1 | Police officer Harry Dunn launch his run for Congress from the district where he lives in Maryland |
| 0:35.5 | after becoming a little famous for his January 6th committee testimony about fending off rioters while being called racist names for his efforts. |
| 0:45.5 | For his part, former President Trump marked the anniversary with a campaign stop in Iowa. |
| 0:52.1 | Don't know if you paid attention to that over the weekend. |
| 0:54.4 | The Iowa caucus is there, of course, just one week from today. |
| 0:58.1 | And for those of you who are inclined to not pay attention to Trump saying outrageous |
| 1:04.3 | things anymore because that's just what he does, don't give him any attention, he does |
| 1:09.9 | keep going further in ways that more and more I'm seeing |
| 1:13.5 | professional Trump watchers, political analysts, people like that, find very concerning for what a |
| 1:21.9 | second Trump term might be like. So, for example, he used to say some version of that the people |
| 1:27.4 | who rioted at the Capitol were wrong to do so, but that he didn't ask them to. |
| 1:32.6 | But now he doesn't acknowledge the crimes they've been convicted of at all. |
| 1:36.5 | He calls them hostages of Joe Biden. |
| 1:39.3 | Listen to Trump from Saturday. |
| 1:41.4 | What they've done, and they ought to, you know what they ought to do? |
| 1:44.4 | They ought to release the J6 hostages. |
| 1:48.0 | They've suffered or not. |
| 1:49.4 | They ought to release them. |
| 1:52.0 | I call them hostages. |
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