Political Gabfest - I Would Like You To Do Us A Favor
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2019
⏱️ 71 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.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 26th, 2019, the I would like you to do us a favor edition. |
| 0:14.1 | How could it be titled In Any Other Way? |
| 0:17.3 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm here in Slate, D.C. |
| 0:22.4 | John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes joins me from CBS's radio studio. |
| 0:28.7 | Hello, John. |
| 0:29.9 | Good morning. |
| 0:31.5 | How are you? |
| 0:34.1 | That's like a super 60-minutecy portentist CBS Newsie voice. |
| 0:39.5 | You can do better than that. You can be a casual Dickerson. |
| 0:44.2 | Emily is absent this week, but that's okay. No worries. We have Kirsten Powers, who is, of course, a CNN political analyst and a USA Today columnist and frequent Gab Fest host, sub host. |
| 0:58.9 | Although Kirsten and I realize we've never met. |
| 1:01.8 | So you've never been on. |
| 1:03.4 | You've always sub for me, apparently. |
| 1:05.3 | I think we went on once, but you were in another place, so I only saw you far away. |
| 1:10.7 | Yes. |
| 1:10.9 | So I'm very happy to be sitting here with you. |
| 1:12.6 | Well, she's now in Washington. |
| 1:15.2 | We are sharing an extremely humid and hot studio, but we're both wearing very short-sleeves. |
| 1:22.9 | Very summer clothes. |
| 1:24.0 | That's okay. |
| 1:24.8 | On today's Cab Fest, well, guess what we're talking about? We're going to do a double dose of Ukraine and impeachment. For the first segment, we'll talk about the substance of what's happening in this incredible Ukraine affair that is breaking instantly, breaking as we speak. And then the second part of that discussion, we've got the |
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