Bomb Iran--We’ve Had a Bomb Iran Edition Before
Political Gabfest
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4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz, with Iran expert Suzanne Maloney discuss Iran, the Democratic presidential race, and John Bolton.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, and John discuss The Morning Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 9th, 2020, the bomb Iran edition. |
| 0:13.0 | We've had a bomb Iran edition before, actually. As I say that, we've done that before. I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:19.7 | I am in Washington, D.C., where I'm joined by no one, |
| 0:23.1 | but in New Haven, Connecticut, on the campus of Yale University, is Emily Bazelan with the New York Times |
| 0:30.0 | magazine. Hello, Emily. Hello, that was such a wind-up. It seemed like you were going to say |
| 0:34.5 | something more exciting, and then you didn't. Oh, well. I had exactly the same reaction. I thought, I'm like, gosh, he's really reaching into the old bag of trip. I was trying to think if I could think of something interesting to say about you after all these years, and I have nothing left to say about you. Well, I mean, he used the word sinecure a couple of weeks ago, and we all rained down on him with the fury of a thousand sons. |
| 0:58.3 | That voice back after a trip elsewhere to beyond. |
| 1:03.5 | I don't even know where you were, John. |
| 1:05.0 | I think I'm about to find out. |
| 1:06.3 | Is John Dickerson of CBS of 60 Minutes? |
| 1:08.3 | Hello. |
| 1:09.2 | Hi. |
| 1:09.7 | I was on, I was on break. I was in Tennessee and Utah, a place, both places with mountains. |
| 1:17.1 | Wait, what was the first place? I didn't hear. Tennessee. I was in Knoxville. |
| 1:21.4 | I love it when John says Knoxville. When he says Knoxville, where are the rest of us, East Coast people say Knoxville. |
| 1:28.5 | John gives it a good Knoxville, where are the rest of us? East Coast people say Knoxville. Don't give it a good Knoxville pronunciation. |
| 1:32.6 | Welcome back. |
| 1:33.5 | On today's Gab Fest, are we at war with Iran? |
| 1:37.0 | Are we about to be at war with Iran? |
| 1:39.5 | Are we done with our war with Iran? |
| 1:41.4 | Then the unsettled state of the Democratic primary race, presidential |
| 1:46.1 | race a month before voting starts. Then what is happening with the impeachment trial? Plus, |
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