Political Gabfest - Not Exculpated
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss Robert Mueller’s testimony, the downfall of Al Franken, and the deal to raise the debt ceiling.
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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 July 25th, 2019, the not exculpated edition. |
| 0:17.1 | I am David Ploss of Atlas Obscuro, Washington, D.C. |
| 0:22.0 | So exciting. |
| 0:22.7 | Why is it exciting? |
| 0:23.9 | Why is it exciting? |
| 0:26.4 | In our sweat box of a studio. |
| 0:28.1 | It's fine right now. |
| 0:29.3 | It's not even hot. |
| 0:30.3 | He's just anticipatory. It's because we just started. |
| 0:33.0 | We have all three of us, and just the combined intellectual heat that we're going to generate on the show is going to... |
| 0:40.6 | We're going to cut weight for our wrestling matches later. |
| 0:43.9 | We're going to be down 10 pounds each. |
| 0:45.5 | So I have Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale. |
| 0:48.7 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:49.5 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:50.1 | Why are you in Washington? |
| 0:51.4 | I came to give a book talk, and I stayed to tape the show with you two |
| 0:56.0 | lovely people. And John Diggerson of CBS 60 Minutes. John, why are you in Washington? |
| 1:02.0 | I'm in Washington to do interviews for my book and write some of it at my old kitchen table. |
| 1:13.5 | I cannot tell you how excited John is to do his interviews. |
| 1:17.8 | If the quality of a book was based on the excitement of the author, |
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