Good Order and Discipline

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and Jamelle Bouie discuss the firing of the Navy Secretary, the case for prolonging impeachment investigations, and new holidays everyone should celebrate. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, and Jamelle discuss things they learned in college that have stuck with them.. Get your tickets to the Gabfest’s December 18, 2019 “Conundrum” live show at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA here. And submit your conundrums at Slate.com/conundrum You can also tweet suggestions, links, and questions generally to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter or post it to our Facebook page. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.4	Hello and welcome to the Slate political gap fest for November 27, 2019 at the good order
0:42.0	and discipline addition. I am David Plotts, fatless of scurrying and Washington DC joining
0:47.8	me from New Haven from the campus of Yale University where she is associated with it in some
0:55.9	fashion which I can never remember and the New York Times magazine also but she is not at
1:02.0	the New York Times magazine Emily Baselon. Hello Emily.
1:04.9	Hello that was like more detail and introducing unnecessary uncertainty into my world.
1:11.0	It was it was also ungrammatical too. And then John Dickerson is off again this week.
1:16.8	I don't even know why maybe he's finishing his book. That's okay.
1:21.2	Gapfest stalwart Jamel Bowie, New York Times columnist Jamel Bowie joins us from Charlottesville
1:27.0	probably. Hi Jamel. Hello.
1:29.7	And we are taping on Tuesday. So we're a little bit before Thanksgiving. So you're getting
1:35.3	a slightly early gap fest this week on today's show what is going on in the Navy. We'll talk
1:41.0	about the Gallagher case and the Naval Secretary being made to walk the plank. I guess that's
1:46.0	the right metaphor if it's the Navy being made to walk the plank. Then impeachment takes
1:51.0	a breath kind of after a while a couple of weeks where do we stand? What is about to happen?
1:56.0	Is there more room to build a stronger case against the present? And then Thanksgiving is
2:01.3	here Thanksgiving of course is a holiday manufactured in part by President Abraham Lincoln. What
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