Badly Written & Reseached Disaster
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss impeachment, Kamala Harris, and guest Ruth Marcus’ new book about Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, Supreme Ambition.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for December 5th, 2019, the badly written and reseached disaster edition. |
| 0:13.8 | I am David Klotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C., joining me from New Haven, Connecticut, |
| 0:20.6 | from the campus of Yale University, and the |
| 0:24.1 | mind space of the New York Times Magazine is Emily Bazelon. |
| 0:27.4 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:28.6 | Oh, I liked that division of my life. |
| 0:30.8 | That was good. |
| 0:31.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:32.8 | And then back from somewhere. |
| 0:35.5 | He just got back from somewhere. |
| 0:37.2 | I don't know where he's been. |
| 0:38.4 | Is John Dickerson of CVS's 60 Minutes? |
| 0:41.5 | Hello, John. |
| 0:42.0 | We haven't seen you in a while. |
| 0:43.8 | Hi. |
| 0:44.8 | I know. |
| 0:45.5 | I know. |
| 0:45.9 | I think I'll, I'm not going to tell you, but I'll be, when the story runs, we'll see it soon. |
| 0:51.8 | I like it. |
| 0:52.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.1 | We'll know soon enough. |
| 0:54.9 | Whoa. |
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