Did You Apologize to Manchin Yet?

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🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slake political gap fest.
0:07.0	For July 28, 2022, it's the Did You Apologized to Manchin Yet Edition.
0:21.4	I'm David Plots of CityCast.
0:23.1	I'm here in Washington, DC.
0:26.0	I'm joined by John Dickerson of CBS News in New York, hello John.
0:31.1	Hello David.
0:32.6	And back from travels, hither and yon, everywhere, and nowhere to the back of beyond Emily
0:39.2	Baselon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School who's back in New
0:42.4	Haven.
0:43.4	Hello Emily.
0:44.4	Hello, since I was out of the country, I felt like an expat using the gap fest to stay
0:48.2	a breast of America while it was away.
0:50.8	And it worked really well.
0:52.0	Wow.
0:53.0	That's interesting.
0:54.0	You used the gap fest to stay a breast while you're, I do not use it when I'm traveling.
0:57.1	I thought it was great.
0:58.1	Well, you should listen when you're not on the show.
0:59.6	It's a good thing to do.
1:01.1	Kind of, you know, learn something.
1:03.3	This week, Will Joe Manchin's agreement with Democrats saved the party, rescued the Biden
1:08.0	presidency, and ushered in a thousand years of peace and prosperity.
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