This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 10th, 2020, The Rage Edition.

I am David Plotz.

Still, not quite ready to announce my next thing. So I'm just David Plotz again. In Washington, D.C., I am David Plotz, still not quite ready to announce my next thing.

So I'm just David Plots again in Washington, D.C.

I am joined from New Haven, Connecticut by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine

in Yale University Law School.

Hello, Emily.

Good morning.

It is raining here, which is nice and soothing, actually.

And from New York City, I think, I'm guessing. Yeah, I'm just going to assume New York City.

John Dickerson of CBS at 60 Minutes. Hello, John. Hello, David. Hello, Emily.

It's probably raining there, too. On today's Gab Fest, Bob Woodward has a new book, Rage, which has all kinds of interesting revelations about the president.

Maybe not revelations, because they kind of confirm everything.

We know, notably that he minimized the virus.

This comes a week after the president was revealed to have grossly insulted America's

war dead. Will any of this affect the race at all? Then the Justice Department, the Bar Justice

Department, has seized control of a case. The president's defense in a lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll, a lawsuit

against the president over her accusation that he raped her and then his defamation of her

in response to her accusation. What happens when the government is warped, when justice is warped and twisted to

protect the president's private interests? Then the brilliant and delightful Vox journalist,

Matthew Iglesias, has written a fascinating and audacious book, One Billion Americans,

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