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Political Gabfest

Halloween

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss the impeachment resolution, Twitter’s ban on political ads, and the downfall of Katie Hill. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily and John review the Founders’ meticulous efforts to establish a balance of power across the three branches of government. Subscribe today! 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 tweet suggestions, links, and questions 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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1:01.9

Hello and welcome to the slate political gap test. October 31st, 2019. You really reached

1:17.3

forward on that one. Nice. Lean into it. You're like, you can change their Twitter

1:21.4

files like these weird Halloween. Halloween additions. I'm doing plots about this

1:29.2

year. I don't really like Halloween at all. I have no interest in it. It's raining here,

1:34.0

which is not good for trick or treaters. That's Emily Faslon of the New York Times

1:39.0

magazine and Yale University Law School. Hello, Emily from New Haven. Hello. And then next

1:45.6

to me, it's throwback Thursday because it's super sweaty and John and I are in a studio

1:50.8

and it's unbelievably hot, even though it's the end of October. John Degersen of CBS's

1:56.4

60 minutes. Hello, John Degersen. Hello, David. It's great to be in this sweat lodge with

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