Political Gabfest - The “I Love It” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and John Dickerson discuss what can be done to protect American democracy, the state of the GOP healthcare bill, and Mark Leibovich joins in to assess Trump's draining of the swamp.
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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 July 13th, 2017, the I Love It Edition. |
| 0:15.8 | I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:18.2 | We are all together again. |
| 0:20.1 | That means a lineup, a diet of John Dickerson, |
| 0:24.0 | of Face the Nation. Howdy, John? Hello, David. And Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. |
| 0:29.8 | Hello. Emily, still in Washington. How is it being in the swamp? You know, it got hot this |
| 0:35.7 | week, but I'm really happy to be here. |
| 0:37.6 | I've been having a great time. |
| 0:38.8 | That's great. Yeah. I'm so glad. How's my parents' house? Your parents' house is lovely. It's cool. It's peaceful. The backyard is nice. We've been having a lovely time in your parents' house. That's great. Thank you to your parents. Yeah. on this week's gab fest |
| 0:54.2 | Donald Trump Jr. |
| 0:56.0 | A chip off the old block. |
| 0:58.1 | And he's That's great. Thank you, dear parents. Yay. On this week's Gab Fest, Donald Trump Jr., a chip off the old block and the snowballing story of his mysterious Russian meetings. |
| 1:02.2 | Then is this finally the final chapter in the Obamacare repeal drama as a Senate? |
| 1:08.1 | The Senate gets to its last moments with this bill. This are deathly |
| 1:12.1 | hallows, our return of the Jedi with health care. I don't know. Probably not. No doubt we'll be |
| 1:16.6 | talking about it forever. Then the New York Times is Mark Leibovic drops by for a visit to talk |
| 1:22.1 | about the state of Washington, of the state of this town in the age of Trump. |
| 1:27.7 | Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:30.4 | It is about 10 o'clock in the morning as we're taping on Thursday. |
| 1:34.6 | So whatever stunning revelation is coming today about Trump family ties to Russia or collusion or desirous collusion or what was your collusion curate? |
| 1:48.0 | Collusion curious. |
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