Live at 100 Days
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
A live Gabfest with Emily, David and John on the policies and politics of Biden’s first 100 days— with special guest Jamelle Bouie!
A reference from this week’s show:
Thomas B. Edsall for The New York Times: “Should Biden Emphasize Race or Class or Both or None of the Above”
Here’s this week’s chatter:
John: The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis; Gertrude Stein on punctuation from Lectures in America.
Emily: Rosanna Xia for The Los Angeles Times: “DDT Waste Barrels Off L.A. Coast Shock California Scientists”
David: Steven Johnson for The New York Times Magazine: “How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life”
Listener chatter from David Friedlander-Holm: Cara Giaimo for The New York Times: “One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt”
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Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for April 29th, 2021, the Live at 100 Days edition. |
| 0:12.3 | This is a special live Gab Fest sponsored by Lord Jones. |
| 0:16.5 | I am David Flots of CityCast. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm here in my apartment in Washington, D.C., joining me from his home in Manhattan, New York City. |
| 0:27.1 | John Dickerson of CBS is 60 Minutes. Hello, John. |
| 0:29.8 | Hello, David. |
| 0:30.8 | And from her home, but a room I'm not sure I recognize in her home, Emily Bazelon of Yale University of Law School. |
| 0:37.1 | It's the room she's in every week. And the New York Times Magazine. The study in my attic. Emily Bazelon of Yale University law school. It's in every week. |
| 0:38.2 | And the New York Times magazine. The study in my attic. It's just like a slightly different |
| 0:43.2 | vantage point. Huh. Well, it's the difference vantage point. It's literally not daylight. |
| 0:48.3 | Confuse me. Okay. That's the only. On today's show, President Biden is going to sum up his first 100 days tonight, but we are |
| 0:57.0 | going to beat him to it. |
| 0:58.3 | We will be joined by Jamel Bowie of the New York Times for the first two topics. |
| 1:02.2 | The first topic, we're going to consider Biden's accomplishments, policy accomplishments, |
| 1:06.8 | his plans. |
| 1:07.9 | And then we're going to talk about the politics of the first 100 days. |
| 1:10.3 | And the second topic, has anything fundamentally shifted, has any of the poisonous partisanship leached out of the |
| 1:16.4 | system? And then for our third topic, we're going to talk about the Supreme Court taking up a monumental |
| 1:22.2 | gun rights case. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. You, dear watchers and listeners who are live watching us, you can put questions in your chat. |
| 1:31.8 | We will use them for the Slate Plus segment later on, so please put questions that can |
| 1:36.8 | be about anything. |
| 1:38.3 | Before we get started, speaking of the Supreme Court, we have a tempest in a teapot. |
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