Political Gabfest - Assassination of Charlie Kirk
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the assassination of Charlie Kirk amid an extremely troubling climate of political violence in America, another Supreme Court order with no majority explanation allowing racial profiling by ICE in LA, and a score-settling excerpt from Kamala Harris’s upcoming memoir 107 Days.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss the astonishing new details revealed by the release of a book of letters collected for Epstein’s 50th birthday from his friends, including Donald Trump.
In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with Jonathan Mahler about his new book, The Gods of New York. They discuss the unraveling of Mayor Ed Koch’s New York City; how the city’s current mayoral race is mirroring the past; and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest. |
| 0:10.3 | September 11th, 2025, The Assassination of Charlie Kirk edition. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm David Plotz of Citycast in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:28.2 | From New Haven, Connecticut and the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School, Emily Basel. Hello, Emily. Hello, hello. Good morning. And from New York City and the CBS evening |
| 0:34.4 | news and CBS evening news plus John Dickerson, hello, John. Hello, David. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:40.7 | This week on the Gab Fest, the assassination of Maga Leader Charlie Kirk and the extremely troubling, dangerous climate of political violence in America. |
| 0:51.8 | Then the Supreme Court clears the way for racial profiling in the |
| 0:56.3 | service of ICE's mass deportation efforts. Is there any check possible on Trump's harsh |
| 1:02.4 | immigration policies? Then Kamala Harris has a new memoir about her presidential campaign, |
| 1:07.7 | 107 days. We'll talk about an excerpt from the book that savages Joe Biden |
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| 2:16.4 | protected if something goes wrong. Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, one of the most |
| 2:21.7 | effective pro-Trump organizations. A key architect of the surge Trump had among young voters last year |
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