Political Gabfest - The “Cloudy with 100 Percent Chance of Showers” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Hosts David Plotz and Emily Bazelon are joined by Slate's chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie to discuss Donald Trump's press conference, the confirmation hearings and the legacy President Obama leaves behind.
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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 12th, 2017, the cloudy with a 100% chance of showers edition. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:20.3 | Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine is here |
| 0:22.7 | with us from New Haven, but I can see her because we're on video chat for the first time in months. |
| 0:27.8 | Hello, Emily. It's making me feel all cheery. Hello. Emily's wearing a very, very, very, very cute hat. |
| 0:34.9 | Smirk-like hat. It's very cute. |
| 0:43.7 | John Dickerson, host of Face the Nation, cannot be with us in this most busy of weeks. |
| 0:46.5 | He had an unavoidable conflict. |
| 1:14.1 | But that doesn't matter because Jamel Bowie Slate's chief political correspondent successor to John Dickerson in that role, in fact. That's, that's correct. Is, uh, is here. Hello, Jim L. Improved for a pot, that role. How about that? That's like a very David Placian. Well, they're both, they're both extremely natty University of Virginia graduates. Who, extremely natty, very, um, very polite gentlemanly University of Virginia. Debenair. Debenair. Gentlemen. So they have so much in common. On this week's Gab Fest, one of the most preposterously busy political weeks in memory, probably there's enough for a dozen shows, but we can only do one. |
| 1:30.4 | So we're going to end up sort of shoehorning topic into topic into topic. |
| 1:34.6 | So our first topic, the salacious and highly unconfirmed allegations about Donald Trump and Russia. |
| 1:43.0 | And we'll fold into that first topic, Trump's insane press conference and his really |
| 1:49.0 | absurd claim that he has now resolved all the ethics issues regarding his business. |
| 1:54.2 | Then we will shoehorn Jeff Sessions and Rex Tillerson, our would-be attorney general and |
| 2:00.5 | our would-be secretary of state and their confirmation hearings into a topic, then we will shoehorn Obama's farewell speech and our kind of ongoing assessment of the Obama, Obama's political legacy. This week in our second of three Obama retrospective discussions, how did he change American politics, if at all? |
| 2:19.0 | Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter, including an update on that exciting cocktail chatter we had |
| 2:23.3 | last week. |
| 2:24.3 | And for Slate Plus, Trump's dalliance with anti-vaxxers. |
| 2:29.5 | Ugh. |
| 2:30.0 | If you were not yet a Slate Plus member, go to slate.com slash GabFest Plus. |
| 2:35.8 | Plus, we have an announcement. |
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