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Tuesday Morning Politics with David Remnick

October 20, 2026

Brian Lehrer (0:10)

It's The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. And David Remnick is with me, editor of The New Yorker and host of The New Yorker Radio Hour here on the station. We're going to preview this weekend's New Yorker Festival, everybody you've ever heard of in one series of events, it seems like. And we'll…

One telling sign of what that might be like happened to come yesterday when Trump made this statement to reporters that even David Remnick, skeptic that he is, they find hard to believe.

David Remnick (0:47)

Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven't been doing much.

Brian Lehrer (0:53)

Russia's frankly been fine on Ukraine, said Trump, while in reality they're trying to bomb Ukraine's energy grid out of existence and their war of conquest and increasingly targeting civilian areas of Kiev and elsewhere. Russia's been fine on Ukraine. David Remnick knows a thing or two about how fine Vladimir…

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