Political Gabfest - The “He is a Racist, He is a Con Man, He is a Cheat” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Michael Cohen’s testimony, Trump’s failed North Korea summit, and Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book Say Nothing.For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment John, David, and Emily discuss what should be on the test to become a U.S. citizen. Topic ideas for next week? You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello, and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 28th, 2019. |
| 0:14.7 | He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat edition. I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:21.8 | I was not describing the three of us. |
| 0:24.4 | Describing somebody else, you can guess. |
| 0:26.6 | Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine is in New York. |
| 0:30.0 | She is with John Dickerson of CBS this morning. |
| 0:33.1 | They are in the CBS studios. |
| 0:34.2 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:34.8 | Hello. |
| 0:35.5 | Hi. |
| 0:35.9 | Hey. |
| 0:36.8 | On this week's show, Michael Cohen testifies to the |
| 0:40.1 | House. What a day. What a day. Wow. Meanwhile, the president held a second summit with Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, |
| 0:48.5 | and it went awry. We'll talk about how it went off the rails. And then we'll talk to Patrick Keefe |
| 0:53.9 | about his extraordinary new book about Northern it went off the rails. And then we'll talk to Patrick Keefe about his |
| 0:54.5 | extraordinary new book about Northern Ireland and the IRA, say nothing. Plus, we'll have |
| 0:59.9 | cocktail chatter, of course. And remember, we have a GabFest live in D.C. at the Lincoln Theater on |
| 1:05.0 | Wednesday, March 27th. It will highlight Emily's forthcoming book charged. You'll get early access to it. We'll talk about it |
| 1:13.3 | before it's even out. You'll be the first people to know about the season's big new book. Go to slate.com |
| 1:18.6 | slash live to get information and tickets. And we'll, of course, do a regular show and talk about |
| 1:23.9 | Emily's book as well. And she'll sign her book for you. And we're going to do |
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