Political Gabfest - The "I Expect Loyalty" Edition Live From Denver
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🗓️ 8 June 2017
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Live from Denver Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and the Washington Post's Ruth Marcus discuss the Comey testimony, the legal debate about cell phone data privacy and welcome Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper to the mic to weigh in about the state of the Democratic Party.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello, dear GabFest fans. James Comey has come between us. |
| 0:07.7 | He's testifying, and I have to cover it. I couldn't do that and be with you tonight. Whether you think |
| 0:13.8 | the former FBI director helped or hurt your candidate in the last election, we can all agree that this is an outrage, |
| 0:19.6 | that harms our nation and the tramples |
| 0:22.0 | cherished norms. These live shows and getting to meet you at them are one of the great |
| 0:26.7 | thrills of this little experiment we started so long ago. So I'm sorry that I can't be with you. |
| 0:32.3 | I'll get to feel what it's like to be at the dinner party without being able to chime in. |
| 0:36.6 | I was tempted to live tweet the show, |
| 0:38.8 | but I think we've all learned the lesson of restraint when it comes to Twitter. You're very |
| 0:43.9 | lucky, though, to have Ruth in the house. So you're in good hands. Have fun and be good to each other. |
| 0:51.3 | Now, with no more foolishness, here are Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, |
| 0:55.7 | and Ruth Marcus. |
| 1:02.7 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for June 8th, 2017, the I Expect Loyalty Edition. |
| 1:17.1 | Thank you. the I expect loyalty edition. See, if James Pomey had just given that response to Donald Trump, |
| 1:21.0 | like, just think where he'd be. |
| 1:23.5 | We are live on top of a solar-powered wall |
| 1:27.4 | at the Robert and Judy Newman Center for the Performing Arts in Denver, Colorado in front of a... |
| 1:36.3 | Proud of beautiful Air Force Academy graduates and frackers. |
| 1:41.3 | Cowboy poets. |
| 1:43.3 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. Emily Bazelon of the New York Times |
| 1:46.5 | Magazine is to my far left. Hello, Emily. |
| 1:51.1 | John Dickerson of Face the Nation is being held hostage by his bosses at CBS News for the |
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