Democratic Debate Special: Slate Plus Teaser
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2019
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss the latest Democratic presidential debate including Castro's dig into Biden, nationalized healthcare, and strategies for how to effectively pick a fight with President Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to start something, tell everyone you know you're going to do it. |
| 0:04.8 | And then you don't have a choice. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to a special Slate Plus Gatfest, Gat Fess, Gap Fest for September 12th, 2019. |
| 0:16.1 | I am David Plotz. |
| 0:17.4 | I'm in Washington, D.C., John Dickerson, CBS at 60 Minutes, is in New York. |
| 0:22.4 | Emily Bazelon of Yale and the New York Times Magazine is in Houston, and she's in Houston, |
| 0:27.5 | because she was just at the Democratic debate. |
| 0:30.3 | I know what's broken. I want to be in the fight to fix it. |
| 0:34.0 | I learned that the way you deal with it is you deal with finding purpose. |
| 0:38.3 | What resilience means to me is that throughout my political career, I have taken on virtually |
| 0:45.3 | every powerful, special interest in this country. |
| 0:50.3 | When I trusted voters to judge me based on the job that I did for them, they decided to trust me and re-elected me with 80% of the vote. |
| 0:59.6 | Don't you ever listen and let anybody ever tell you what you can or cannot be. |
| 1:04.1 | You have to believe in what can be unburdened by what has been. |
| 1:08.6 | The first single stage democratic debate that we've had, |
| 1:12.4 | and we're going to do a special Gab Fest tonight. Let's start with you, Emily, because you were there |
| 1:20.1 | in the room, what you weren't really in the room. You were not in the room. I wasn't in the hall. |
| 1:26.3 | I was in the filing room with all the media. |
| 1:28.6 | I've discovered, or John clued me in this morning that that's how it works. |
| 1:33.1 | But you were closer to the actual oxygen that was being breathed by the people on state. |
| 1:39.9 | GabFest fans, that was just a teaser. |
| 1:42.7 | To hear the rest of our Slate Plus conversation, go to slate.com slash gabfest plus to become a Slate Plus member today. |
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