If You Want Her Out
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss new impeachment revelations, the Warren-Sanders rift, and Bill Barr going after Apple’s encryption.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, and John discuss Megxit.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for January 16th, 2020. |
| 0:11.5 | The If You Want Her Out edition, who's the her in that sentence, a vague her. |
| 0:17.6 | It could be Elizabeth Warren. It could be the ambassador to Ukraine. |
| 0:22.2 | I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura, Chortling, snorting in New York. No, not New York. He's in Florida. |
| 0:29.2 | Is John Dickerson of CBS at 60 Minutes. Where are you? You're in Florida, right, John? |
| 0:33.3 | Hello, I'm in Florida. I'm at the Pointer Institute in St. Petersburg. |
| 0:37.8 | That is great. And not chortling or snortling is Emily Bazelon of Yale and the New York Times Magazine. |
| 0:47.9 | Snortling. Snortling. I like that verb. What would that be? Snort chuckle? |
| 0:52.1 | I don't know. I guess it would be both a snort and a chuckle combined in one. |
| 0:59.0 | And listeners, you can't see this, but Emily has a sparkly top. |
| 1:03.1 | And it's so exciting. |
| 1:05.0 | It is like we're doing the show at a gala or something. |
| 1:09.8 | I think she's not wearing. |
| 1:10.6 | I think it has to it posted picture of this |
| 1:12.0 | boring t-shirt just to take it the wind it's very sparkly it's like a dark gray t-shirt with a |
| 1:17.2 | few flowery glitter things on it they're like not even how long have you been a member of the |
| 1:22.4 | ice capades um you know i understand what david means though because it's true that in the |
| 1:27.2 | video it looks really exciting. |
| 1:29.3 | I can't even see it. I can't even see it. Okay. |
| 1:32.5 | On today's Gab Fest, on today's Gab Fest, sparkles all around. The impeachment trial begins with the arrival of a remarkable new witness and his documentation, Lev Parnas. |
| 1:45.9 | We will talk about that then. |
| 1:51.6 | Sanders versus Warren the spat that helps no one but possibly Joe Biden and possibly Donald Trump. |
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