Political Gabfest - Manchin on the Hill
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🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss Joe Manchin, how the Trump DOJ lives on, and George Packer’s four Americas.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
John Dickerson for CBS News: “Sen. Joe Manchin on Face the Nation, June 6, 2021”
Ruth Marcus for the Washington Post: “Attorney General Garland, Please Stop Digging”
George Packer for the Atlantic: “How America Fractured Into Four Parts”
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal, by George Packer
George Packer for the Atlantic: “Can Civics Save America?”
The Ezra Klein Show: “Obama Explains How America Went From ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘MAGA’ ”
Jane Mayer for the New Yorker: “Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century”
Here’s this week’s chatter:
John: Elizabeth Weise for USA Today: “This Man Spent Last Year Flushing Hundreds of Toilets. The New Fear as the Pandemic Wanes: Legionnaires' Disease”
Emily: Michael Powell for the New York Times: “Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis”
David: Rachel Gutman for the Atlantic: “A Crumpled, Dried-Out Relic of the Pandemic”
Listener chatter from Andrew Goetz: Mick West's YouTube videos explaining UFO footage.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.5 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for June 10th, 2021, the Mansion on the Hill edition. |
| 0:16.6 | I am David Plotz of CityCast here in Washington, D.C.C. |
| 0:38.5 | Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine in Yale University Law School is New Haven. Emily is the only person who didn't write a story about Yale University Law School this week, as far as I can tell. There's a story about Yale University Law School in every single publication that I read, and most of them were really long. So congratulations on your non-by-line, Emily. |
| 0:39.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:41.2 | I feel pretty good about that one, actually. |
| 0:47.0 | John Dickerson of CBS's Face the Nation, CBS's Sunday morning, |
| 0:51.6 | and CBS is Everything is joining us from New York. |
| 0:52.3 | Hello, John. |
| 0:57.9 | And CBS is CCTV of the lower utility room. |
| 1:03.4 | That's good. Is that where your new show is going to air? Yeah, exactly. It's the new streaming channel of CCTV. If I got a show, that's where it would be. This week is Joe Manchin responsible if President |
| 1:13.0 | Biden and the Democrats can't pass any laws if voting reform fails? If criminal justice reform, |
| 1:18.0 | it goes nowhere if no new states are admitted to the union. And if the filibuster survives, |
| 1:22.3 | should he be blamed? Then what is going on at the Biden Justice Department and why is it defending weird and |
| 1:29.3 | seemingly abhorrent positions taken by President Trump's Justice Department? Then we will dig into |
| 1:35.8 | George Packers fascinating piece about the four Americas, each America worse than the next that we have |
| 1:42.2 | fractured into. Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:47.7 | So progressives and even just regular old liberals are irritated with West Virginia |
| 1:53.2 | Senator Joe Manchin, who this week threw a vicious one-two at his Democratic colleagues by |
| 1:59.2 | first coming out firmly against H.R.1, |
| 2:01.8 | which is the voting rights bill. |
| 2:04.0 | Voting rights bill, Emily? |
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