Political Gabfest - The "Cut, Cut, Cut" Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the initial indictments from the Mueller investigation and the House’s tax cut bill. Civil War historian David Blightjoins in to dig in to John Kelly’s comments on the Civil War and Robert E. Lee.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.9 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 2, 2017, |
| 0:14.6 | The Cut, Cut, Cut, Edition. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm David Plotz of Outl of Obscura in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:20.6 | With me in the D.C. studio is CBS's John Dickerson, host of Face the Nation. Hello, John. Hi. And from New Haven on the campus of Yale University is the New York Times Magazine's Emily Bazelon. Hi, Emily. Hi, you're You're like punching out your nouns today. You're going to keep |
| 0:38.3 | doing that. Should I? I keep, I'm going to, what did I punch? I punched magazine? I don't know. |
| 0:44.4 | I'm pretty punchy. On this week's Gab Fest. This could become unbearable. This could be |
| 0:53.1 | really quickly. It just could, though. |
| 0:56.7 | We're not there yet. |
| 0:58.0 | On this week's GabFest, the Mueller investigation draws first blood. |
| 1:01.4 | What do the indictments of Gates and Manafort and the guilty plea of George Papadopoulos portend? |
| 1:07.5 | Then will the GOP's enormous tax cut plan get anywhere and what's in it or what will be in it? |
| 1:14.6 | We'll find out. |
| 1:16.0 | Then can you believe that we have to discuss whether Robert E. Lee is a great American hero or a traitor and whether a failure of both sides to compromise causes of a war? |
| 1:26.5 | Yes, we do have to discuss that. |
| 1:28.7 | But fortunately, we will have America's greatest civil war historian David Blight in to help us |
| 1:33.9 | figure that out. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And before we get going, reminder, we have a |
| 1:40.9 | political GabFest live show in Boston on December 6th. |
| 1:44.3 | You can get tickets to that at slate.com slash live. |
| 1:46.9 | And of course, they might be giants are going to be accompanying us for that and opening and joining the show. |
| 1:52.0 | And we are now starting to collect your conundrums, which will be the basis of the show. |
| 1:57.5 | That will be the foundation of the show. |
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