Political Gabfest - The “Hardest Job in the World” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Ronny Jackson’s will-he-won’t-he Cabinet nomination, arguments before SCOTUS in Hawaii v. Trump, and John’s new piece on the presidency.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for April 26th, 2018, the hardest job in the world edition. |
| 0:13.0 | I am David Plotz, of Atlas, Excura. I have kept my dear podcast co-host waiting. I'm sorry to them. I hope we're not keeping listeners waiting, but |
| 0:22.7 | sorry to John Dickerson of CBS this morning in New York. Sorry, John. And sorry to Emily Bazelon |
| 0:29.0 | of the New York Times Magazine. You're getting way to digging yourself. We're good. We're happy |
| 0:36.5 | you're back. Happy everything Everything's fine. No problem. |
| 0:40.4 | On this week's Gab Fest, the strange saga of Ronnie Jackson and his would-be won't-be nomination to be VA secretary and the other nomination issues and cabinet issues that President Trump's cabinet and would-be cabinet members are facing. |
| 0:57.6 | Then the Supreme Court seems set to uphold the Trump travel ban. |
| 1:03.9 | Why do the conservative justices seem so unimpressed by the president's anti-Muslim animus expressed during his campaign. |
| 1:12.3 | And then is the presidency impossible? |
| 1:15.2 | We will dig into the monumental Atlantic magazine cover story by some hack, some hack named John Dickinson. |
| 1:24.7 | Dickerson, Dickerson. |
| 1:29.2 | Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:31.5 | And, of course, one more quick announcement for the last time, we are announcing our St. Louis show is going to be next week on Wednesday, May 2nd, at the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis. |
| 1:41.3 | There are a few tickets available at slate.com slash live. |
| 1:44.9 | It's going to be a great show, Jason Kander. The exciting political leader in Missouri is going to |
| 1:51.6 | join us, the former Secretary of State, the Senate candidate. And we have, of course, the Missouri |
| 1:56.7 | gubernatorial scandal to talk about. It's going to be a great show. So go to slate.com slash live to pick up one of those last few remaining tickets. We really look forward to seeing you there and already planning. In fact, if you have great ideas for things that we can do during our day in St. Louis, tweet them at us. Let us know where to go, where to eat, what to visit, where we should hang out. We'll see you there. |
| 2:18.3 | On Thursday morning, Dr. Ronnie Jackson, presidential Dr. Ronnie Jackson, withdrew his nomination |
| 2:24.5 | as VA Secretary Jackson was, of course, nominated a few weeks ago in a rather impulsive, |
| 2:30.8 | quick action by our president, Donald Trump, who seemed to like Jackson, who'd |
| 2:36.5 | been his personal physician and given him a clean bill of health at his checkup not so long ago. |
| 2:41.7 | Jackson had no experience with the VA to speak of and no experience running a bureaucracy |
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