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The Gist

Facebook Should Fact-Check

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, storming the SCIF. In the interview, podcast producer and Canadian Chris Berube is here to talk with Mike about the recent Canadian election, how much shorter their elections are, and the government Trudeau has had to cobble together. Berube is a producer for 99% Invisible.  In the Spiel, Facebook and fact-checking. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0

I cannot swear to you that there is swearing on this show, but there might be. It's the kind of behaviour I engage in.

0:40.0

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 from Slated to the Gisdai Mike Pesca, and they stormed the skiff.

0:47.0

I can't believe they stormed the skiff.

0:50.0

Scads of Republicans, scores of Republicans.

0:53.0

What is the collective oil? A limbaugh of Republicans entered the sensitive, compartmented, information facility.

1:02.0

24 hours ago, if I asked you what was storming the skiff, would you answer A, escape board move, B, enable maneuver, C, a mass internet trolled thing, or D, a fairly blatant violation of national security protocol.

1:17.0

D is the correct answer.

1:19.0

The Republican Party is inventing new ways to embarrass themselves.

1:24.0

They're out to violate all the norms, to find norms that we didn't even think were norms, and to violate them.

1:31.0

Now the details of this skiff violation, if you don't know what I'm talking about, it's this.

1:36.0

Let's go back to yesterday, Bill Taylor, the top US diplomat in Ukraine, testified to the House Intelligence Committee inside the skiff.

1:44.0

He confirmed that President Trump withheld aid to Ukraine as a condition of investigating Hunter Biden, essentially.

1:52.0

It basically couldn't be clearer that this was the quid pro quo, and that it was a quid pro mal quo, which is to say the quid that the president sought, or actually he sought the quo, he was giving the quid, but it was all illegitimate.

2:06.0

There is another witness, scheduled to testify today, and it's sensitive, so they're going to do it inside the sensitive compartmental information facility.

2:14.0

You know, so secrets don't get out. Good thing, right? Republicans usually like that sort of thing.

2:21.0

All patriotic Americans should, not liking the secrets to get out.

2:26.0

But now, this time the Republicans pounced.

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