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🗓️ 4 May 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey, Gapfess listeners. Just a heads up, we're going to be talking about sexual assault in the |
0:04.4 | second segment of the show today, and some of the details may be upsetting. |
0:13.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest. |
0:25.2 | Thursday, May 4, the Why Didn't You Scream Edition. |
0:30.0 | I'm Emily Baslon from the New York Times magazine and Yale Law School. |
0:33.7 | David Plott's is away this week, and so I am delighted to be joined by Jamel Buie, |
0:39.2 | who is a calmness for the New York Times. Hey Jamel. Hello. |
0:43.0 | And also with us, of course, is John Dickerson of CBS News Prime Time. Hi, John. |
0:48.6 | Hello Emily. Hello, Jamel. On the show today, we'll talk about the fight over the |
0:53.4 | debt ceiling. Is there a way out of what looks like a huge impasse that could lead to a default |
0:59.2 | on the national debt? Our second topic is a trial about the allegations that the writer E. |
1:05.3 | Jean Carroll has made of rape and defamation against former President Donald Trump. |
1:10.8 | And third, we'll talk about how Republicans are using their super majorities in state |
1:15.6 | legislatures in some ways to defy the will of the voters. And finally, we'll have cocktail |
1:21.6 | chatter. Oh man, the debt ceiling. All right, so here's where we are, I believe. |
1:27.6 | The Republicans in the House are insisting they won't lift the debt ceiling without big spending |
1:32.5 | cuts and they passed a bill that had a package of those. President Biden is saying that he is not |
1:39.6 | going to agree to those spending cuts because that would amount to holding the American economy hostage. |
1:44.5 | These are not budget negotiations. He's saying this is just about paying off the nation's debts. |
1:50.0 | For over 200 years, America's never ever ever failed to pay its debt. |
1:56.0 | To put in the capital and colloquial terms, America is not a deadbeat nation. We have never |
2:02.8 | ever failed to meet the debt. As a result, one of the most respected nations of the world, |
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