Political Gabfest - The “All About the Benjamins” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the deal to avoid a second shutdown, Jeff Bezos claims of sextortion, and Ilhan Omar’s tweets about Israel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the slate political gap fest for Valentine's Day, February 14th, 2019, |
| 0:11.8 | the All About the Benjamin's edition. I'm David Flots of Atlas Obscura. My Valentine John |
| 0:20.2 | Dickerson of CBS this morning is in New York. |
| 0:23.5 | Hello, John. |
| 0:24.5 | I send some beautiful red roses to you. |
| 0:27.9 | How are you? |
| 0:29.3 | Well, and I return them to you with whatever gift would make you most happy. |
| 0:34.5 | Emily Bazelon of the Newhouse magazine. |
| 0:36.7 | I send you some some candy hearts. |
| 0:39.3 | Mm, nice. I don't really like those, actually. I'll send you something else. But chocolate. |
| 0:44.0 | Some, some delicious chocolates. Hello, Emily. You are in New Haven, I guess. I am. On this week's |
| 0:50.4 | Gab Fest, we appear, as we tape on Thursday morning, to be averting a second |
| 0:55.4 | government shutdown. |
| 0:56.8 | Is the compromise budget deal a defeat for the president? |
| 1:00.0 | Is it a victory for America or none of the above? |
| 1:03.6 | Then the controversy over a Democratic member of Congress's tweets about APAC and can the issue of Israel support for Israel fracture |
| 1:13.6 | the Democratic Party? Then the Bezos extortion scandal. What will we make of it? Plus, |
| 1:20.3 | we will have cocktail chatter. And a reminder, we have two live shows coming up. We have a political |
| 1:25.1 | gab fest live at the Lincoln Theater on Wednesday, March 27th. |
| 1:29.1 | You get tickets to that at slate.com slash live. And that is a show where we will, of course, |
| 1:34.8 | be celebrating the forthcoming release of Emily's great new book charged. And you can get that book |
| 1:40.5 | if you come to the show. And we're going to have a great guest as well who will |
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