Political Gabfest - The “Hope Hicks’ Loose Lips Sinks Ships” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss criticism of the FBI by the White House and its allies, the State of the Union, and Hillary Clinton’s protection of an adviser accused of sexual assault.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.2 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 1st, 2018, the Hope Hicks, |
| 0:14.3 | Loose Lips, Sinks, Ships. |
| 0:16.9 | Edition, I am David Plots of Atlas of Secura. |
| 0:19.8 | Try saying that three times quickly. Try saying it once, Plots. I don't know. I am David Plotz of Atlas of Secura. Try saying that three times quickly. Try saying |
| 0:22.2 | it once plots. I don't know. I'm in Washington, D.C. It seems that hard to me, actually. |
| 0:26.5 | I know. I just stumbled over it because my tongue is lazy. I see. |
| 0:32.1 | That is Emily Bazelon of New York Times Magazine in New Haven, maybe. Are you in New Haven? |
| 0:37.6 | And also, I suspect, down the line across the copper wires is John Dickerson of CBS's this morning in New York. |
| 0:46.2 | Hello, John. |
| 0:47.1 | Hello. |
| 0:48.6 | That was a very CBS-e voice. |
| 0:52.6 | Okay. |
| 0:53.9 | It was very, it felt very authoritative. |
| 0:56.5 | On this week's GabFest, the increasingly fraught and complicated Russia investigation |
| 1:02.9 | and FBI investigation and Department of Justice investigation gets even more fraught and |
| 1:08.3 | even more complicated. |
| 1:10.7 | Then the president's first state of the union |
| 1:13.1 | address was on Tuesday. Have you already forgotten it? We will quiz you to see if you remember it. |
| 1:19.3 | Then Hillary Clinton runs headlong into Me Too as she tries to explain why she shielded a |
| 1:26.0 | harasser who worked for her 2008 presidential campaign. Plus, |
| 1:29.5 | we'll have cocktail chatter. And before we get started, a new announcement, well, two announcements. |
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