Political Gabfest - The “Adult Day Care” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Trump Administration infighting, Harvey Weinstein’s history of alleged gross misconduct, and the repeal of the Clean Power Plan
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for October 12th, 2017, the Adult Daycare Edition. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm David Plotz of a hatless of scura. |
| 0:19.1 | Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine is in New Haven. |
| 0:22.2 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:23.5 | Hello, David. |
| 0:25.0 | And John Dickerson of CBS's Face the Nation is in New York. |
| 0:30.2 | Not with me. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello, John. |
| 0:31.7 | Hello, David. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm not with you, but I'm glad I'm with you, at least in this form. |
| 0:42.3 | Are you in corporeal form or are you now a gas? |
| 0:44.2 | A ghost. |
| 0:46.8 | Mostly I'm hot air. |
| 0:50.3 | That's, aren't we all, aren't we all? You least of all, John, I think, truthfully. |
| 0:54.0 | On this week's Gab Fest, a senior Republican senator turns on the president, does this portend some kind of larger revolt against him from within his own party? Then the disgusting and possibly criminal behavior of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Why was it tolerated for so long? |
| 1:14.0 | Is this a turning point? People love to see turning points. Is this a turning point? |
| 1:19.3 | Then EPA administrator Scott Pruitt's plan to scrap the clean power plan and whether that matters. |
| 1:25.9 | And is the Trump administration finally getting itself together |
| 1:29.2 | on policy. Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. And of course, we have two live shows coming up. |
| 1:36.3 | Hello, Chicago. Hello, greater Chicago metropolitan area. All the way from Indiana to Wisconsin. |
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