Crossfire Hurricane
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz discuss impeachment, the FBI Inspector General’s report on the Russia investigation, and the Afghanistan Papers.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.6 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for December 12, 2019, The Crossfire Hurricane Edition. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm in Washington, D.C., just down the street from Congress where the House Judiciary Committee is, even as we start the tape, is debating amendments to the articles of impeachment. |
| 0:30.6 | Joining me from New York City and studios of CBS Radio is John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes. |
| 0:38.1 | Hello, John. |
| 0:39.4 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:42.0 | I think I say welcome, but that's okay. |
| 0:44.0 | I know. |
| 0:44.7 | It's a general welcoming. |
| 0:46.4 | John is being beneficent. |
| 0:48.6 | From the campus of Yale University, the hardest working person in journalism. |
| 0:56.3 | Emily Bazlon of the New York Times Magazine. |
| 0:59.0 | Hello, Emily. |
| 1:00.0 | David is making up for an earlier description of me, which perhaps we will play at the very |
| 1:04.9 | end. |
| 1:06.6 | On today's GabFest, the House files and debates articles of impeachment against the president. |
| 1:12.8 | What is going to happen? |
| 1:14.3 | What will happen if he's impeached? |
| 1:16.6 | And is this a wise political move? |
| 1:18.5 | Then the FBI's inspector general finds no partisan motivation or witch hunt in the 2016 FBI investigation of President Trump, but plenty of FBI incompetence, misbehavior, |
| 1:30.9 | corner cutting, we will discuss. And then the Washington Post gets hold of a huge trove of |
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