Political Gabfest - Burner Phone
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🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss Biden's gaffe in speaking too honestly about Russia; Trump’s missing phone logs; and Ginni Thomas’s efforts to subvert the election.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa for The Washington Post: “Jan. 6 White House Logs Given To House Show 7-Hour Gap In Trump Calls”
Hugo Lowell for The Guardian: “Trump Used White House Phone For Call On January 6 That Was Not On Official Log”
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa for The Washington Post: “Virginia Thomas Urged White House Chief to Pursue Unrelenting Efforts to Overturn the 2020 Election, Texts Show”
Benjamin Wittes for Lawfare: “Donald Trump, John Eastman and the Silence of the Justice Department”
Karl Rove for The Wall Street Journal: “Republicans’ Jan. 6 Responsibility”
Here are this week’s chatters:
David: Beforeigners; City Cast
John: Anna P. Kambhampaty for The New York Times: “Want to See the Weirdest of Wikipedia? Look No Further.”; Morning Brew newsletter; Elden Ring video game
Emily: “The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Refutation”; Anne Frank House
Listener chatter from Andre Walker: All The Sex I've Ever Had at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, John, and David discuss what they would do if they needed to disappear.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gapest from March 31st, 2022, the burner phone edition. |
| 0:13.8 | I am David Plotz of CityCast here in Washington, D.C. If I sound a little loggie, it is because I am still recovering from last night's cocaine-filled orgy. |
| 0:23.5 | It was a doozy last night's one. You guys must miss it. You must be missing it now that you |
| 0:30.1 | are not in D.C. anymore. What are you talking about? What? You don't know about the cocaine-fueled |
| 0:34.8 | orgies in the parking garages? Oh my gosh, between the key bumps that are flurrying around the head and the smell of the oil stains in the parking lot, man, it's... The orgies in the parking garages are not great. I have to say, I don't like the ones in the parking garages, John. I don't know about you. I only thought, I thought they only happened to parking garages. Sometimes I guess they could happen in the little valet booths, but, um, |
| 0:58.0 | Emily, I don't know about you. I thought they only happened in parking garages. Sometimes I guess they could happen in the little valet booths. |
| 0:57.3 | But Emily, obviously. |
| 0:58.8 | A whole orgy in a valet booth. |
| 1:00.1 | You've missed the story. |
| 1:02.6 | Madison Cawthorne, that horrible, horrible right-wing. |
| 1:07.2 | South Carolina, maybe? |
| 1:08.5 | North Carolina. |
| 1:09.4 | North Carolina has finally said the thing, which enraged his fellow Republicans in the house, |
| 1:15.1 | which is that he said in Washington, people he respected had had, you know, were doing |
| 1:21.7 | cocaine and drug-filled, cocaine-filled orgies in parking lots. |
| 1:26.8 | And had invited him. Well, first he said they were, these people he were inviting him to orgies in parking lots. And had invited him. |
| 1:27.6 | Well, first he said these people, he were inviting him to orgies to do co- and then he saw |
| 1:32.7 | people doing cocaine. |
| 1:33.7 | And then he was pressed by the Republican leader. |
| 1:36.5 | And then he said, oh, I saw a dude out 100 feet away in a parking lot. |
| 1:40.8 | That's what he copped to. |
| 1:42.7 | But the Republicans are really mad at him for talking about the orgies and blaming them saying they're implicated in the orgies. |
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