The “A Correction, Not a Crash” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the value of the Nunes memo and accusations of White House aide Rob Porter’s domestic abuse.
David Leonhardt joins the gang to discuss whether an increase in wages caused the stock market drop and a Slate Plus segment on emotional support animals.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 8th, 2018, the Correction, Not a Crash edition. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C. joining me together, a matched pair from the CBS studio in Manhattan. |
| 0:25.2 | John Dickerson of CBS is this morning. |
| 0:26.7 | Howdy, John? |
| 0:27.7 | Hello, David. |
| 0:28.9 | We're in the CBS studio, thanks to the great work and for which we're grateful of Dustin Jervais. |
| 0:35.2 | Thank you, Dustin. |
| 0:36.4 | And Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine at John Sy, hello, Emily. |
| 0:41.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:41.7 | I have no one to thank. |
| 0:42.6 | On this week's GabFest, the president's lawyers are setting him up to refuse an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller. |
| 0:50.5 | Even as the newness memo fallout continues, we'll talk about the latest twists and turns in |
| 0:56.4 | the Russia investigation. Then stocks were down, then down, then back up. Why is the stock market, |
| 1:02.6 | which has been so boring, suddenly so interesting? Then the very disturbing Rob Porter domestic |
| 1:09.9 | abuse scandal that's transfixing White House world. |
| 1:13.1 | Plus we will have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:15.8 | And we have a live show coming up. |
| 1:19.2 | Well, we have a couple of live shows coming up. |
| 1:20.5 | Our Portland show, as we mentioned last week, is sold out. |
| 1:23.3 | That's okay. |
| 1:24.3 | We are going to be in St. Louis. |
| 1:26.0 | Well, it's not okay if you live in Portland. |
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