Political Gabfest - The “I Beg My Pardon” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the President’s pardon power, the decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, and Bill Clinton’s bumbling book tour.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.8 | It's going to be a heavy Bazwan episode. |
| 0:05.6 | Yeah, Bazet. |
| 0:06.7 | Let's all buckle our seatbelts and see if we make it through it. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello, and welcome to this late political gab fest for May 31st. |
| 0:15.9 | No, it's not. |
| 0:16.6 | It's June something else. |
| 0:19.4 | What is it, June 7th? |
| 0:20.5 | Sixth, seven. The drinking in the morning episode. The I beg my pardon edition. I'm David Fons of Atlas of Sturro. We're weirdly giddy. I don't know why. I'm not even in a good mood. We weren't, like, two minutes ago, we were not this way. That's the smiling Emily Bazelon in New Haven. |
| 0:37.8 | And then there was John Dickerson in New York of CBS this morning. |
| 0:42.4 | Hello, John. |
| 0:42.8 | Hello, David. |
| 0:44.0 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:45.1 | On this week's gap, as President Trump's latest extraordinary claim that he can pardon himself and other legal shenanigans of the week. Then how big a deal is the masterpiece cake shop |
| 0:56.9 | ruling from the Supreme Court? Then could former president Bill Clinton please shut up? Plus, |
| 1:04.2 | we will have cocktail chatter. And before we get started, a reminder that we have a live show |
| 1:10.5 | coming up in Philadelphia on July 18th on a Wednesday at 730 p.m. |
| 1:14.9 | It's slate.com slash live to get tickets to the Keswick Theater in Glenside. |
| 1:19.3 | We're hoping to have a really great guest, which I thought we could announce today, but we don't have that guest ready to announce, but hopefully next week. |
| 1:27.4 | So, but hopefully next week. |
| 1:30.4 | So, but I guarantee you there'll be a great guest. |
| 1:33.5 | So come and join us in Philly on July 18th. |
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