Political Gabfest - The “Exploratory Committee” Edition
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🗓️ 3 January 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and guest David Leonhardt discuss the government shutdown, potential 2020 presidential candidates, and whether there are signs of hope that the climate crisis could be addressed.
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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 3rd, 2019. |
| 0:15.9 | Happy New Year. |
| 0:16.7 | It's the Exploratory Committee Edition. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C. Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. Happy New Year. Emily, you are in Brooklyn, I think. Not your usual. I am in Brooklyn. And happy 2019 to you. And we have a special guest, David Leonhardt, op-ed columnist, and of The Argument from the New York Times, joins us in Washington. Hello, David. |
| 0:42.1 | Hello, David and Emily. It is always fun to be on your show. |
| 0:45.4 | Well, now we have you on as a fellow podcaster. We're glad to induct you into that fraternity, secret handshakes and all. Have you been taught that? |
| 0:54.7 | I have not, but I have. You haven't. Michael Barbaro has not shown you all of that stuff. You guys will have to teach me today. Wow. Wait till you hear about the hazing rituals. But I do have the beard that you and Michael Barbaro both have. So apparently that's part of being a podcast. It is. It's also part of the podcast. You can't hear a beard. Face for radio. |
| 1:11.5 | So John, I don't know where John Dickerson is, but I'm sure he's, I hope he's |
| 1:15.5 | recuperating, resting recuperating from a hard New Year's Eve. On this week's show, we will talk about |
| 1:20.8 | the shutdown. How long is it going to last? How will it resolve? Why did it happen? |
| 1:26.6 | Then Elizabeth Warren kicked off the 2020 presidential |
| 1:31.0 | campaign. She launched her exploratory committee. We will rate her chances and talk about who |
| 1:37.0 | she's likely to face in the Democratic primary. And we will talk about David's year-ending column |
| 1:42.8 | about climate change, mostly depressing, partly cheering, mostly depressing. And we will talk about David's year-ending column about climate change, mostly depressing, |
| 1:45.6 | partly cheering, mostly depressing. |
| 1:47.7 | And we'll have cocktail chatter as well. |
| 1:50.8 | The partial government shutdown has crossed or is about to cross. |
| 1:54.4 | It's in the process of crossing the two-week barrier, and it's heading towards forever. |
| 1:59.1 | We are frozen over the president's demand for more than $5 billion for his southern border wall. |
| 2:06.8 | Money that Republicans, when they controlled Congress, which was up till yesterday, were unable to pass through the legislature. |
| 2:14.5 | And the Democrats, now that they control the House of Representatives starting this |
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