Political Gabfest - Great and Unmatched Wisdom
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🗓️ 10 October 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss obstruction of impeachment investigations, the new Supreme Court term, and Bernie Sanders’ health.
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Correction 10/10/2019: When first published, this episode referenced a Tweet in which Ivanka Trump was quoted criticizing Hunter Biden for getting a position through nepotism. The quote was fabricated and has been removed from our episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for October 10th, 2019, the Great and Unmatched Wisdom |
| 0:13.6 | Edition. That could be every edition of the Gab Fest, in my view. There's only great and |
| 0:18.4 | unmatched wisdom here. I'm David Plaza, Atlas Obscura. Providing the |
| 0:22.4 | great wisdom is John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes from New York. Hello, John. Hi. And providing |
| 0:30.0 | the unmatched wisdom is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and of Yale University Law |
| 0:35.3 | School from New Haven. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello. What kind of wisdom are you offering? None. I don't have to offer any wisdom. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm like, you know how in the Socratic dialogues or the Dumbo's who ask questions and that Socrates just kind of demolishes? That's me. That's my role. Not at all. Not at all. Never. |
| 1:02.4 | His name is my name is like anaphylaxis. Anaphylaxis shock. On today's GabFest, |
| 1:07.4 | the president is obstructing the impeachment investigation. Will it cost him? Then the Supreme Court kicks off a big, big term with one of the biggest gay and trans rights cases ever. |
| 1:13.5 | We will discuss that. |
| 1:15.0 | Then should Bernie Sanders end his campaign because he had a heart attack last week? |
| 1:19.3 | Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. |
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