David, Emily, and John present a special livestream of the Political Gabfest on police abuse, the 2020 election, and John’s new book, The Hardest Job in the World.

Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:

Emily: Charlie Savage and Adam Goldman for the New York Times: “Outsider Tapped in Flynn Case Calls Justice Dept. Reversal a ‘Gross Abuse’ of Power”

David: Emily Cochrane for the New York Times: “That Trump Tweet? Republicans Prefer Not to See It”; Aaron Blake for the Washington Post: “No, It’s Not Just a Trump Tweet”

John: Whistlestop: “The Spring of 1787”

Listener chatter from Josh Delaney @jddelaney and Andy O))) @alchemistscave: Johnny Diaz for the New York Times: “Someone Found the Buried Treasure That an Art Dealer Hid in the Rocky Mountains”

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For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David, Emily, and John answer questions from viewers of the special livestream of the show.

Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:

Thomas B. Edsall for the New York Times: “How Much Is America Changing?”

Matthew Yglesia for Vox: “Study Suggests Democrats Should Be Running More Ads About Biden, Fewer About Trump”

Anne Applebaum for the Atlantic: “History Will Judge Trump’s Enablers Harshly”

Frederick Douglass: Prophets of Freedom by David W. Blight

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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.

Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.

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