49 years and 364 days of Plotz
Political Gabfest
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4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
David, Emily and John discuss outlandish impeachment defenses, the approaching Iowa caucuses, and the Supreme Court allowing the “public charge” rule to go into effect.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, and John discuss the Washington Post suspending Felicia Sonmez for her tweets about Kobe Bryant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 30th, 20th, the 49 years and 364 days of Plotz edition. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm David Plotz, Vattles Obscura. It's all about me because my 50th birthday is tomorrow, so I decided to name the show after myself. |
| 0:20.6 | So just enjoy that. |
| 0:24.1 | There's a lot of acts of narcissism going on in the world right now. I'm glad you've added to the pile. |
| 0:29.9 | That is Emily Bazelon, not yet 50, of New York Times Magazine and Yale University. joining from New Haven. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:38.8 | Hello, David. |
| 0:39.9 | And with me here in D.C., thank goodness, he is 50, maybe 51. |
| 0:45.1 | Oh, my God, I'm 51. |
| 0:47.1 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:48.6 | I mean, it's in a marvel that I didn't trip over my walker getting in here. |
| 0:52.3 | It's John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes in town to do some impeachment journalism for CBS. |
| 0:59.0 | So check your television for some Dickerson. |
| 1:04.0 | It's always good to get some Dickerson on television on today's GabFest. |
| 1:06.7 | You know, I started putting clips like the people I used to find so annoying. |
| 1:10.4 | I put clips of myself now in my Twitter feed. I'm that person now. Oh, my God. I know. I know. But I don't do it that much, so it's okay. It's okay. Did you name a show after yourself like I did? No, but I'm just, I just want to own that because I just feel as though I need to own that. There we go. |
| 1:29.4 | On today's Gab Fest, the Bolton grenade that has not yet exploded, will it explode, will the |
| 1:36.8 | impeachment trial incorporate John Bolton or not? Will the impeachment trial last beyond Friday or not? |
| 1:43.9 | Then we are just a few days away from the start of Democratic primary season. |
| 1:49.4 | Where do we stand as the Iowa caucuses loom on Monday? |
| 1:53.4 | They loom. |
| 1:54.7 | They loom can caucuses loom? |
| 1:56.2 | They loiter. |
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