Gabfest Extra: Day 16, The End, For Now
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🗓️ 16 October 2013
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This GabFest Extra is brought to you by MailChimp. |
| 0:03.1 | More than 4 million people and businesses around the world use MailChimp to send email newsletters. |
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| 0:10.5 | This is a GabFest Extra, day 16 and quite possibly the final day of the 2013 government shutdown. |
| 0:17.4 | It's Wednesday, October 16th. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Slate editor David Plotz here in our DC studio with John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent. Hello, John. |
| 0:25.2 | Hello, David. It's been such an honor, a pleasure to share this dreadful couple of weeks with you. |
| 0:30.8 | I don't know what I'm going to do with my afternoons without you. I'm sure you will you do it fixing your hair as ever. as ever. Playing the guitar you picked up from my house. |
| 0:39.3 | Joining us as a special guest on today's podcast is the New York Times columnist, |
| 0:44.2 | brilliant columnist, Ross Douthit. |
| 0:45.9 | Hello, Ross. |
| 0:47.3 | Hello, David. |
| 0:48.2 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:49.2 | Is this your first Gab Fest appearance? |
| 0:51.2 | This is my first ever Gab Fest appearance. |
| 0:53.7 | I'm hoping that this is the |
| 0:55.0 | entering wedge that lets me talk about the Oscars with Dana Stevens someday. One day. One day, |
| 1:00.2 | that will happen. I can't wait for it. So let's quickly recap the day's events. The days |
| 1:06.1 | events are actually ongoing. So we'll recap, even though they're going to recap themselves later tonight. |
| 1:13.8 | So John Boehner said earlier today, we fought the good fight. We just didn't win. The House Speaker |
| 1:19.1 | today gave up, essentially, on his party's effort to link funding of the government with a |
| 1:24.7 | defunding of Obamacare. A bipartisan deal worked out in the Senate by Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, mostly, is scheduled to be voted on by both the Senate and the House later tonight. Bainer, is Bainer urging Republicans to vote yes on this? I haven't heard. Well, he's saying that they won't block it. I don't know that he is, I don't know that he's asking them to vote for it. But the question would be if your senators are voting for it and your minority leader in the Senate put it together, it's kind of a poke in the eye if you don't kind of climb on board. |
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