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Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The Ukraine scandal, the politics of impeachment, and Jodi Kantor about investigating Harvey Weinstein and She Said, a new bookwritten with co-author Megan Twohey. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Kirsten Powers discuss what makes Greta Thunberg wonderful and why she drives her critics crazy. 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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0:00.0	Ah, the sound of spring cleaning.
0:03.6	Steam clean your way to brighter bathrooms and sparkling kitchens with the carcass deen cleaner.
0:09.6	You'll be done before you know it, with more time to pitch your feet up.
0:14.0	Find your carcass deen cleaner at carcature.co.uk or a carcass retailer.
0:20.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for September 26, 2019.
0:32.0	I would like you to do a favor edition.
0:34.0	How could it be titled in any other way?
0:37.2	I'm David Plots of Atlas.
0:38.4	Subscura, I'm here in Slate DC.
0:42.0	John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes joins me from CBS Radio Studio.
0:48.0	Hello John.
0:50.0	Good morning.
0:52.0	How are you?
0:54.0	That's like a super 60 minutes a portentous CBS newsy voice.
1:00.0	You can do better than that.
1:02.0	You can be a casual Dickerson.
1:04.0	Emily is absent this week, but that's okay.
1:08.0	No worries.
1:10.0	We have Kirsten Powers who is of course a CNN political analyst in the USA today columnist
1:14.0	and frequent Gap Fest host, subhost.
1:18.0	Although Kirsten and I realized we've never met.
1:22.0	You've never been on.
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