Political Gabfest - Could You Be A Trump Juror?
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Donald Trump’s first criminal trial and the Supreme Court argument on a criminal charge related to another Trump case and talk with The Atlantic’s Mark Leibovich about his profile of Governor Gavin Newsom.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Norman Eisen for CNN: Don’t call it a ‘hush money’ case
Brian Beutler for the Politix podcast: Alvin Bragg’s Liberal Critics Are Wrong
Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Maggie Haberman, and Wesley Parnell for The New York Times: Prosecutors and Defense Lawyers Begin to Seat Jurors for Trump Trial and Maggie Haberman: A Weary Trump Appears to Doze Off in Courtroom Ahead of Criminal Trial
David Bauder for AP: Trump trial: Why can’t Americans see or hear what is going on inside the courtroom?
Ann E. Marimow for The Washington Post: Supreme Court divided over key charge against Jan. 6 rioters and Trump
Michael C. Dorf for Dorf On Law: The Ejusdem is Loose -- SCOTUS Insurrectionist Case Edition
Mark Leibovich for The Atlantic: Gavin Newsom Can’t Help Himself
HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher: Gov. Gavin Newsom
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Uri Berliner in The Free Press: I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.; David Folkenflik for NPR: NPR editor Uri Berliner resigns with blast at new CEO; Alicia Montgomery for Slate: The Real Story Behind NPR’s Current Problems; A24’s Civil War; and HBO’s The Last of Us
John: The Annie E. Casey Foundation; diversitydatakids.org by Brandeis’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management: Child Opportunity Index (COI); Aliya Schneider for The Philadelphia Inquirer: ‘They’re cheating.’ President Biden floats higher tariffs on Chinese imports in Pittsburgh speech; John Dickerson for Slate’s Navel Gazing podcast; and CBS News Prime Time with John Dickerson
David: Trevor Aaronson, Sam Eifling, and Michael Mooney for Audible’s Hold Fast podcast and Jacques Billeaud for AP: Backpage founder will face Arizona retrial on charges he participated in scheme to sell sex ads
Listener chatter from Josh in Brisbane, Australia: Ross Scott’s website Stop Killing Games
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily talk with Anna Sale about her podcast, Death, Sex & Money, which is now on Slate. See Death, Sex & Money podcast: A Sociopath’s Guide to Death, Sex, and Money and Patrick Page in All The Devils Are Here.
In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with Tana French about her book, The Hunter: A Novel.
Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth
Research by Julie Huygen
Hosts
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome |
| 0:04.8 | welcome to the Slate Political Gapfest. April 18th, 2024, the could you be a Trump juror addition. I am David Plott's of Citycast in Washington, D.C. The Crows |
| 0:26.7 | Have not yet become my friends. I'm still working on it. It's not going great |
| 0:30.2 | Just want to be straight up with that. I'm trying to befriend the crows. They have so far spurned me. |
| 0:36.0 | Never spurned. No one would ever spurned her from the New York Times magazine in Yale University Law School in New Haven. Emily Basil on. |
| 0:43.2 | Hello Emily. |
| 0:44.0 | He David, he John. |
| 0:45.4 | Also he would never be spurned. |
| 0:47.6 | CPS Prime Times John Dickerson from New York. |
| 0:50.6 | Hello David. |
| 0:52.1 | Hi Emily. I feel like I spurned Emily just |
| 0:54.8 | there without because I didn't respond to her immediately I've let you do the |
| 0:58.9 | introduction and I'm not I'm not fully comfortable with that. This week on the Gapfest, |
| 1:04.2 | Trump's first criminal trial, the one |
| 1:06.0 | for interfering in the 2016 election, |
| 1:08.7 | gets underway in New York City with jury selection. |
| 1:11.1 | Then the Supreme Court seems very skeptical or pretty |
| 1:15.2 | skeptical of an obstruction charged filed against 350 January 6th |
| 1:20.1 | protesters as well as against Trump involving his 20-20 election interference. |
| 1:26.4 | And then what does Gavin Newsom want? |
| 1:29.0 | We will talk to the Atlantic's Mark Leibovich about his profile of the Pugnicious California governor. Plus we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:39.1 | You know, finding your best summer shouldn't be so hard. |
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