The “Enough Thoughts and Prayers” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
John Dickerson and David Plotz are joined by Annie Lowrey, of The Atlantic, to discuss the power of students organizing against gun violence, the Mueller indictments, and Mitt Romney’s newest campaign.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for February 22nd, 2018, the Enough Thoughts and Prayers Edition. |
| 0:13.6 | I am David Plotz. |
| 0:15.1 | For that, I'm Obscura. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:18.3 | John Dickerson of CBS this morning is back. Hello, John. I'm very happy to be back. I'm sorry I wasn't with you last week. And John, you are in New York. We're in CBS studios in New York. Emily, however, is gone. Did she take the midnight train to Georgia? Is she visiting the Anne of Green Gables House in Prince Edward Island? I don't know. I don't know where Emily is. Maybe she went to Carolina in her mind. I don't know. But it doesn't matter because Annie Lowry of the Atlantic Gab Fest veteran, you've been on a show. Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Of course. Annie Lowry of the Atlantic joins us. Hello, Annie, in Washington with me. Hi. It's |
| 0:58.4 | nice to be here again. I was touched that you went back to the old Slate office where you used to work. Yeah. |
| 1:03.0 | Because you didn't know that Slate had moved. It was, I knew some part of my brain knew that Slate had moved and some other more lizard-like part of my brain just was |
| 1:12.1 | drawn back there. |
| 1:12.8 | It drew you back there? |
| 1:14.4 | Now we know how Lowrys navigate. |
| 1:16.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.7 | It's like three blocks away too, so it was all fine. |
| 1:20.6 | On this week's Gab Fest, the students of Parkland, Florida, and then students across the country |
| 1:26.3 | rise up for gun control. Will they succeed where so many others before them have failed? Then Robert Mueller indicts 13 Russians and three Russian companies for messing with the 2016 election. How damaging was that Russian assault on the election and what is Donald Trump thinking? |
| 1:46.3 | Why is he responding? |
| 1:47.4 | So oddly to Mueller's latest indictment. |
| 1:50.9 | Then Mitt Romney is back. |
| 1:52.8 | We will contemplate the late in life Senate run of the on again, off again, Trump bashing, |
| 1:58.7 | former presidential candidate. |
| 2:00.7 | I'm so excited for Mitt Romney to return to |
| 2:03.3 | Washington or to come to Washington. Actually, you've been to Washington. I'm excited to have him here. |
| 2:08.3 | He can come stay with me. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And we also have a live show coming up. |
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