The “Carpool Justice” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Kennedy, the U.S. relationship with NATO, and federal policies around breastfeeding.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gapest for July 12th, 2018, the Carpool Justice Edition. |
| 0:13.3 | I am David Plotz of Atlas, Obscura. I'm in D.C. in one part of New York and one borough of New York, the borough of Brooklyn, Kings County is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:26.1 | Hello, David. I'm so glad you added the little Kings County. I can never remember all the counties. For my book, I've been having to look at statistics that break the boroughs up by county. Richmond County is another county. |
| 0:38.1 | Is Richmond County Staten Island? |
| 0:39.6 | Yes. |
| 0:40.3 | And then not in Richmond County or the borough of Queens or Bronx, but in the borough of Manhattan, |
| 0:48.2 | or maybe it's the borough of New York City or the county of New York is John Dickerson of CBS this morning. |
| 0:53.5 | Hello, John. Hello. Welcome back from |
| 0:56.2 | vacation also. Thank you. Thank you. It's good to be back. On this week's Gab Fest, is there any chance Democrats can stop Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and should they even bother to try? |
| 1:09.2 | Then President Trump's strange campaign to sabotage NATO, even as he |
| 1:14.3 | primps for his date with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. And then why, why on earth is the Trump |
| 1:21.8 | administration trying to sabotage global health efforts that encourage breastfeeding? We will discuss that. Plus, we'll have |
| 1:29.5 | cocktail chatter. And a reminder, we have a live show next week at the Keswick Theater in |
| 1:35.2 | Glenside, PA, just outside of Philadelphia on Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. July 18th. There's still |
| 1:42.0 | tickets available. Go to slate.com slash live to get tickets to join us. |
| 1:46.6 | There is obviously going to be a boatload of news to discuss and it's going to be really fun. |
| 1:53.8 | So we would love to see you there. So please come to the Keswick Theater on Wednesday, |
| 1:59.8 | July 18th. Go to slate.com slash live to get tickets. |
| 2:03.7 | On Monday night, President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh, 53-year-old judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of |
| 2:10.8 | Appeals to succeed Anthony Kennedy on Supreme Court. Cavanaugh in one commentator's act phrase has been the zealig of Republican lawyers. |
| 2:21.0 | He was a clerk for Justice Kennedy himself. He was a Vince Foster suicide investigator. He was a Lewinsky |
| 2:26.1 | prober. He was a star report author. He was a right-hand man to President George W. Bush. And for the past |
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