In The Loop
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🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and Josie Duffy Rice discuss this week's impeachment bombshells, the Democratic presidential debate, and emails confirming that Steven Miller is a white nationalist.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 21st, 2019, the In The Loop Edition. |
| 0:13.3 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm taping from a hotel room overlooking Times Square in Manhattan, |
| 0:19.6 | in Gotham, in New York City. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm joined by, of course, Emily Bazelon of Yale Law School in the New York Times Magazine. |
| 0:27.3 | Hello, Emily, where are you? |
| 0:28.9 | I'm in New Orleans, which is lovely. |
| 0:31.3 | And nice and warm, too. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm excited about that. |
| 0:34.3 | Wow. |
| 0:35.4 | And John is who knows where. Maybe he's in New Orleans too. We don't even know, |
| 0:40.7 | but he's not here. But instead, we have GabFest regular, GabFest regular sub, Josie Duffy Rice, |
| 0:47.8 | president of the appeal from her home in Brooklyn probably. Hello, Josie. How are you? |
| 0:53.7 | Hi. I'm actually up for my home in Atlanta, |
| 0:56.7 | but um, that's right. You're not in Brooklyn anymore. Dang it. I am not. I am in Atlanta, which is |
| 1:03.2 | not like Brooklyn, but did host the Democratic debate last night. So we are, you know, on the map. |
| 1:10.7 | That kind of puts us on the map, Josie. It's not why you're on we are, you know, on the map. |
| 1:12.6 | That kind of puts us on the map, Josie. |
| 1:17.5 | It's not why you're on the show, but actually it makes us all see, like, a little more with it this morning. |
| 1:18.2 | Very coordinated. |
| 1:19.6 | On today's GabFest, Gordon Sunland drops a bomb at the impeachment hearing. |
| 1:25.3 | Then Democrats debate again in Atlanta with Josie as Mayor Pete |
| 1:30.7 | surges. Is his surge going to last? Is he now the frontrunner? Then should Stephen Miller be |
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