Political Gabfest - Are British Politics More Or Less Crazy Than Ours?
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🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the final midterm sprint; the latest British Prime Minister; and Trump’s legal troubles.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Adrian Wooldridge for Bloomberg: “Rishi Sunak Is a New and Old-Fashioned Tory”
Barton Gellman for The Atlantic: “The Impeachment of Joe Biden”
The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump
Nathaniel Rakich for FiveThirtyEight: “The Most Important Elections Of 2022 Could Be In State Legislatures”
Brittany Bernstein for The National Review: “Why Some Trump-Country Pennsylvanians Still Aren't Sold on Dr. Oz”
Anna Bower for Lawfare: “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Georgia Special Purpose Grand Juries But Were Afraid to Ask”
Emily Bazelon for The New York Times: “I Write About the Law. But Could I Really Help Free a Prisoner?”
Here are this week’s chatters:
John: States United Democracy Center; Third Way Paul Revere Project
Emily: Charlie Savage for the New York Times: “Garland Formally Bars Justice Dept. From Seizing Reporters’ Records”
David: Dhruv Mehrotra for Wired: “Hot on the Trail of a Mass-School-Shooting Hoaxer”; Ben Collins’ Twitter thread collecting favorite tweets.
Listener chatter from Brian DeGeer: Theresa Vargas for The Washington Post: “Fiona Apple Uses Her Voice To Call Out Prince George’s Justice System”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily discusses The Prison Letters Project with John J. Lennon and Reginald Dwayne Betts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest. |
| 0:16.1 | October 27th, 2022, the our British politics more or less crazy than ours edition. |
| 0:23.6 | I am David Plotz of CityCast in Washington, D.C. I'm joined by Emily Bazelon of the |
| 0:29.8 | New York Times magazine and Yale University Law School from New Haven, Connecticut. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:33.6 | Hello. |
| 0:34.6 | And from Manhattan, John Dickerson of CBS, prime time with John Dickerson. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, John. |
| 0:41.0 | How are you? |
| 0:42.0 | Hello, David. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:44.0 | This week on the Gab Fest, the state of the race two weeks out, how do the midterms look? |
| 0:49.8 | And we will try to make sense of the chaos that has engulfed the UK and its politics |
| 0:55.1 | recently. |
| 0:56.1 | We'll talk to Bloomberg, Opinions, Adrian Muldridge. |
| 0:59.4 | Then Justice Thomas protected Lindsey Graham from an election related subpoena will catch |
| 1:04.2 | up on the various Trump election, Jan 6th legal machinations that are going on. |
| 1:10.8 | Plus, of course, we'll have cocktail chatter and a reminder. |
| 1:14.0 | This is our last regular show before our live show in Atlanta. |
| 1:18.6 | Wednesday, November 2nd at 7 p.m. will be at Georgia Tech's first center for the arts. |
| 1:23.9 | Slate.com slash Gab Fest live to get tickets. |
| 1:26.5 | Please come join us. |
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