The "Freaks and Leaks" Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 19 February 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and John Dickerson are joined by Julia Ioffe of The Atlantic to discuss the Russia scandal and ouster of Michael Flynn. They also examine the populist revolt to save Obamacare, and American-Israeli relations.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:10.5	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 16th, 2017.
0:14.5	The Freaks and Leaks Edition.
0:16.3	I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura.
0:18.3	I'm here in Slate's DC Studio with John Dickerson, host of Face the Nation. Hello.
0:24.1	Mary Day. Mary Day. And be of good cheer. Thank you. You too. Right back at you. And from New Haven is, of course, Emily Bazelon, host of the Slate Political Gapest. No, of the New York Times Magazine. I'm not the host of the New York Times Magazine. Gab Fest. No, of the New York Times Magazine.
0:39.2	I'm not the host of the New York Times Magazine, although I sort of like that idea. I could just, like, stand there with a glass of wine instead of actually working.
0:47.9	On this week's Gab Fest, holy moly, it's ridiculous. An assassin wearing an LOL-shirt poisons North Korea's air apparent in broad daylight in an airport. The Labor Secretary nominee withdraws amid allegations of espousal abuse and other things. Trump gets a shady trademark. Trump spreads dangerous lies about autism. Ice starts deportation proceedings against a woman who is turned in by her abusive boyfriend after she sought a protective order against him. A California dam is terrifyingly unstable. North Korea tested a new missile, yet none of these stories will even rate a mention on the show that we are about to do. And yet you just mention them. Well, yes, it is a cycle.
1:28.7	It is eating its own tail.
1:30.2	I thought that trademark was actually awarded a year ago and just went into effect this week.
1:35.1	Maybe.
1:35.6	Maybe so.
1:36.1	We're not talking about it.
1:38.0	That's because the four-week-old Trump presidency is so chaotic, dangerous, and incompetent that we need to talk about the major ways it's
1:46.1	chaotic, dangerous, and incompetent. First, the Russia scandal, the ouster of national security
1:51.3	advisor Michael Flynn, and reports that Trump campaign officials were in frequent contact
1:56.6	with Russian intelligence officials throughout the campaign. Then the populist revolt to save
2:01.7	Obamacare and the Republican paralysis about how, whether to repeal it, or is it paralysis? Maybe it's
2:08.2	not paralysis. And then Trump abandons the two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians. What does
2:14.5	that mean? Plus, we will have cocktail chatter and for Slate Plus, a new take on the Amalgamance Clause
2:21.0	from Emily Bazelon.
2:23.1	If you are not yet a Slate Plus member, go to slate.com slash Gap Fest Plus.
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