Political Gabfest - Diligent Search
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🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss Trump’s strange legal maneuvering in the obstruction investigation; what Trump’s second term would do to U.S. democracy; and what voters deserve to know about a candidate’s health.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Jonathan Rauch for The Atlantic “Trump’s Second Term Would Look Like This”
Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, by Studs Terkel
This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together, by Jon Mooallem
The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope
Here are this week’s chatters:
John: Ella Koeze, Denise Lu and Charlie Smart for The New York Times: “Can You Gerrymander Your Party to Power?”
Emily: Aaron Byrd, Weiyi Cai, Geoff Macdonald, Emily Rhyne, Noah Throop, Joe Ward and Jeremy White for The New York Times: “The Toss”
David: CityCast DC; Bad Sisters
Listener chatter from Michael Koehler: Christo Grozev for Bellingcat: “Socialite, Widow, Jeweller, Spy: How a GRU Agent Charmed Her Way Into NATO Circles in Italy”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss the non-political books that most influenced their understanding of politics.
Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Kevin Bendis.
Research by Bridgette Dunlap.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest. |
| 0:15.6 | For September 1st, 2022, it's the Dilligent Search Edition. |
| 0:21.1 | I am David Plotts of CityCast, I'm here in Washington DC, I'm joined by my confrairs, |
| 0:27.5 | John Dickerson of CBS News from not from New York, but from somewhere traveling. |
| 0:32.7 | Hello John. |
| 0:33.7 | You reach me in a hotel room as we are dropping off our child to college, the last one, |
| 0:42.3 | a whole new chapter opening in human experience. |
| 0:46.3 | He's gonna empty nest tomorrow, friends, John Dickerson, so shut it here for John Dickerson. |
| 0:51.8 | We're joined by already empty nest or Emily Vaslon of the New York Times Magazine and |
| 0:55.4 | Yale University Law School from New Haven, hello Emily. |
| 0:58.3 | Hey David, hey John. |
| 1:00.1 | Hey. |
| 1:01.5 | This week on the Gap Fest, we're not gonna talk about Serena, although that is all probably |
| 1:06.6 | Emily wants to talk about. |
| 1:07.8 | We will talk about whether Trump or his lawyers will pay any price for hiding top secret |
| 1:13.0 | documents and lying about that, then how bad could a second Trump presidency be? |
| 1:18.8 | We will talk to Jonathan Roush about his bone chilling Atlantic article Lane out what Trump |
| 1:23.9 | might do to a road democracy forever if he is reelected. |
| 1:28.1 | Then John Federman Stroke, Beto O'Rourke's nasty bacterial infection, what should happen |
| 1:34.4 | when political candidates are knocked off the trail by health problems and how crass can |
| 1:38.9 | their opponents be? |
| 1:40.2 | Plus, of course, we will have cocktail chatter. |
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