Political Gabfest - Cooper, Taylor, SCIFer Spy
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss damning new impeachment testimony, Facebook under fire, and taking to the streets against Trump.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, Emily, and John take inspiration from Christine Lagarde’s lesson on pretending to drink wine and discuss things they fake doing.
Get your tickets to the Gabfest’s December 18, 2019 “Conundrum” live show at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA here.
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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.
Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for October 24th, 2019, the Cooper-Taylor-Skipper-Spy Edition. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas, Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C.C. Joining me from New Haven, Connecticut, |
| 0:20.6 | from the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. |
| 0:25.5 | It is Emily Bazelon. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:28.2 | Hi, you sound like an announcer for the next Democratic debate. Are you practicing? |
| 0:32.7 | They brought you in as a moderator? |
| 0:34.4 | They have not asked me to moderate. Maybe they're asking John to moderate. And from CBS's 60 Minutes, where he has now been inaugurated, he has said, I'm John, and I'm John Dickerson on 60 Minutes. It is, in fact, John Dickerson. Hello, John Dickerson. Hello, David. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:55.3 | Hello. We are very excited for your debut. Can I just say that? Yes, we are excited. We're |
| 1:00.1 | even going to hit it up, hit back to it in Slate Plus. Oh, yeah, that's right. |
| 1:03.3 | Very good. Yes, they keep the log rolling. We'll reference it. On today's GabFest, |
| 1:09.4 | the most shocking impeachment testimony yet. Impeachment takes some dark, |
| 1:14.5 | strange turns this week. Then Facebook, is it evil or just terrible or merely wicked? We will |
| 1:22.3 | discuss. Then should Democrats, should progressives take to the streets to try to end the Trump presidency? |
| 1:30.2 | What has happened to mass protest? Why is there not more mass protest during this presidency? |
| 1:36.5 | Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:39.0 | So much impeachment action this week, there were a bunch of critical elements on Tuesday and Wednesday. |
| 1:46.5 | On Thursday, as we tape, no doubt more things are happening. First, probably most importantly, Bill Taylor, |
| 1:51.2 | ambassador to Ukraine, testified that there absolutely was a quid pro quo planned within the U.S. |
| 1:57.7 | government. Apparently, President Trump's orders to withhold $391 million in military aid to the government of Ukraine until the Ukrainian president publicly announced a probe into the Biden's. |
| 2:09.0 | Second, there was a scheme that was, again, seems to have come out of Taylor's testimony in other places, which was delineated, which involved getting the Ukrainian |
| 2:19.2 | Prime Minister to act out his announcement of a probe on CNN. They attempted to sort of extort him |
| 2:25.3 | to go on CNN and gave him a script of what he would need to say to announce his probe. |
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