Political Gabfest - The “Eventually We Will Get Something Done” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon discuss what will follow the Senate health care collapse, the influence of Steve Bannon and the future approach to prosecution of sexual assaults on college campuses.
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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 for July 20th, 2017. |
| 0:14.4 | Eventually, we will get something done. |
| 0:16.7 | Edition on David's thoughts of Atlas, Obscura. |
| 0:20.8 | To my right in the DC studio, John Dickerson of CBS' Face the Nation. |
| 0:25.1 | Hello, John. |
| 0:26.3 | Hello, David. |
| 0:27.5 | And to John's right, also in the DC studio, the New York Times Magazine's Emily Bazelon. |
| 0:32.5 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:33.2 | Hey, David. |
| 0:34.0 | We're all together once more so delightfully. |
| 0:38.3 | Just if you were worried, we're all friends after last week's fracas. |
| 0:42.3 | We had a nice dinner, kiss and made up at the Dickerson household. |
| 0:45.7 | You didn't even have to make up. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm just trying to create some false drama. |
| 0:49.1 | Okay. |
| 0:52.5 | We hugged it out. |
| 0:54.1 | It was a great dinner. It was a great dinner. |
| 0:55.6 | It was a delicious dinner. |
| 1:10.3 | Pointing out, it is July 20th, which means we're exactly six months into Donald Trump's first term as president, which means we're as little as one 16th of the way through the Trump presidency, if that's not depressing enough. But so it goes. On this week's Gab Fest, |
| 1:14.5 | the Senate health care bill collapses with no reasonable alternative looming on the horizon. |
| 1:20.1 | Is Obamacare finally engraved acid etched in stone, or is there some other effort to come that |
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