Political Gabfest - The “Ambien and Racism” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss #WhereAreTheChildren and new immigration policies, the death toll in Puerto Rico, and Roseanne’s racism.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest from May 31st, 2018, the Ambien and Racism Edition. |
| 0:16.7 | I am David Plas of Atlas Obscura, here together with my confreras in the CBS radio studio. |
| 0:24.6 | John Dickerson of CBS this morning. |
| 0:26.4 | Thanks for having us. |
| 0:28.2 | Sure. |
| 0:28.8 | It's great to be with you all. |
| 0:31.8 | I love when we're together. |
| 0:32.9 | I love when we're together too. |
| 0:34.8 | Did you say with you all if it's just the two of us and then with you both? |
| 0:38.1 | Or would you still say with you all? We're like all together, right? No, you know. Does the all encompass John as well? Because then it would be all. No, you're exactly right. I think it should be with you both. But I'm so overwhelmed by the all that it's just, I'm surprised I didn't start the sentence with it. It's as if we've been fruitful and multiplied in this very room. |
| 0:55.8 | Exactly. |
| 0:56.8 | That, of course, is Emily B. it's just, I'm surprised I didn't start the sentence with it. It's as if we've been fruitful and multiplied in this very room. |
| 0:55.9 | Exactly. |
| 0:56.9 | That, of course, is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. |
| 1:00.5 | Hello, Emily. |
| 1:01.6 | Hello, hello. |
| 1:02.4 | Emily's down from New Haven. |
| 1:03.3 | I'm up from Washington. |
| 1:04.3 | John is merely here. |
| 1:07.7 | Always. |
| 1:08.6 | And that's pretty much the way people feel about the show and my president merely here will be on the tombstone the dickerson tombstone on this week's gab fest did the trump administration lose 1500 children or did they do something much worse than the catastrophe in Puerto Rico was even more deadly than we |
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