Political Gabfest - The “50,000 Texts” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the integrity of the FBI, the usefulness of government shutdowns and the value of survivor testimony during sentencing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this late political gap as for January 25th, 2018, the 50,000 Texts Edition. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obsdure. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm in Washington, D.C. in New Haven is Emily Bazelons in New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily. Hey, David. And in |
| 0:24.6 | Manhattan is John Dickerson of CBS's morning. Hello, John. Hi, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. |
| 0:31.6 | Good morning. CBS, good morning. CBS this morning, good morning. John just pointed out that he was in his |
| 0:36.5 | third hour of banter. |
| 0:38.1 | So it could be amazing. |
| 0:41.0 | It could be awful. |
| 0:42.9 | We'll see. |
| 0:44.5 | We'll seek people. |
| 0:46.7 | It's like too much sugar cereal or something, you know. |
| 0:49.6 | Right. |
| 0:50.0 | You have to rate on a scale of one to ten, but you can't use seven. |
| 0:53.0 | I've so subscribed to that, by the way, now. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm totally into that. |
| 0:57.0 | On this week's Gab Fest, the impossibly complicated FBI, Russia, collusion, scandal, investigation, Mueller, Komi, struck 50,000 texts. |
| 1:07.4 | McCabe, never fear we are here to make sense of it for you. |
| 1:11.1 | Well, not really. |
| 1:11.8 | I don't think we should. |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah, let's, don't set the bar that high. |
| 1:15.0 | Okay, fear. |
| 1:15.9 | We're not here to make sense. |
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