Political Gabfest - The “A House is Not a Hole” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss if Republicans and Democrats should keep the government open, Trump's opinions on immigration and what positive outcomes can result from public dissection of Grace's Aziz Ansari story.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 18, 2018. |
| 0:14.7 | The House is Not a Whole edition. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm in Washington, D.C. and Slate's D.C. Studios. |
| 0:23.2 | Joining me from a studio in Manhattan, New York State is John Dickerson of CBS this morning. Howdy, John? |
| 0:31.5 | Hey, David. |
| 0:32.7 | And from Heidi Hole in New Haven is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:40.5 | Hello, David. Hello, John. Hi, Emily. |
| 0:43.0 | On this week's scabfest, tomorrow is the deadline for passing a spending bill to avert a government shutdown. There are so many moving pieces as we are taping here on Thursday morning. |
| 0:55.4 | Can Republicans find a compromise that keeps their hardliner satisfied, yet wins enough Senate Democrats to prevent shutdown and that President Trump will sign? |
| 1:05.4 | Then what do we do about the fact that President Trump is a racist? We will talk about the shithole, |
| 1:14.0 | shithouse controversy. Then we'll try to make sense of the Aziz Ansari mess. And we're not even |
| 1:20.7 | going to discuss. We're not even going to talk about the various porn stars who were paid hush money |
| 1:25.7 | by the president before the election. Plus, we will have |
| 1:29.1 | cocktail chatter. And before we get to the show, I have a very exciting announcement. We have a |
| 1:36.0 | live Gab Fest coming up in Portland, Oregon on March 21st. We're going to be at Revolution |
| 1:43.0 | Hall in Portland. Tickets are going on sale today for |
| 1:47.6 | Slate Plus members this afternoon, Thursday. They'll be available to the general public on Friday. |
| 1:53.9 | You can go to slate.com slash live for details and tickets. Portland, Oregon, March 21st, Revolution |
| 2:00.7 | Hall. That is going to be our first show |
| 2:02.4 | in Portland. Love Portland. Can't wait to get back there and do a show there. We will see you |
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