Political Gabfest - The “How Bad Could 2017 Be Anyway?” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson are joined by NPR's International Desk Editor William Dobson to discuss the attacks in Berlin and assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey. Gabfest hosts go on to take a look at the domestic and international world that Donald Trump will inherit as President.
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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 December 22nd, 2016, the How Bad Could |
| 0:16.7 | 2017 Be Anyway Edition? I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:21.6 | John Dickerson of Face the Nation. |
| 0:23.9 | You're here in the studio with me. |
| 0:25.5 | John, hello. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm here. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello. |
| 0:27.9 | John is prepping to head out, so he's less formal today than he might be. |
| 0:32.9 | He's very casually dressed. |
| 0:34.7 | I'm wearing just a hospital gown. |
| 0:37.1 | A cardigan. In front of a fire. A very Mr. Rogers. That chime like voice in the distance. That was Emily Bazelon, of course, of the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily. Hello, David. Hello, John. You stayed at my house this week, but I was not there. Did you have a nice time? I know. I had such a nice night. You know, there were girls baking in your house. And I have no girls in my house. And nobody would me bakes. It was very charming. I really enjoyed it. Yeah, Hannah said you guys had a good time. But I was meanwhile in New York. On this week's Gab Fest, it is our last regular episode of 2016. Next week, |
| 1:11.9 | you'll have our special conundrum show with a surprise guest. There's a surprise guest on the |
| 1:16.9 | conundrum show. So listen for that. But we're going to use today's episode to look forward |
| 1:21.7 | mostly to a very uncertain year ahead. First, just when you thought, oh, the world can't get really any worse. It got |
| 1:29.3 | worse this week. The attack in Berlin, the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey. |
| 1:34.0 | What is the world that Donald Trump is about to step into as our president? Then we'll look at |
| 1:41.0 | the domestic situation. What is it that Trump faces and is likely to do on the |
| 1:47.9 | domestic side? What is the three-sided conflict between Trump, the congressional GOP, and the |
| 1:53.0 | congressional Democrats going to look like? How is it going to play out? What issues are going to be |
| 1:57.1 | top of mind and top of the agenda? Then we will look at what the hell is going on |
| 2:03.7 | in North Carolina. What is happening in that state? That's not really a look forward to 2017. |
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