Political Gabfest - The “I'm From the Government and I'm Here to Help” Edition
Slate News
Slate Podcasts
4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Emily Bazelon, Jamelle Bouie and John Dickerson discuss the state of the Republican Party with less than a month to go before the first primary, President Obama's latest effort to improve gun control and gabfest hosts talk with author Jacob
Weisberg about his new book, Ronald Reagan.
Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/gabfestplus.
Twitter: @SlateGabfest
Facebook: facebook.com/Gabfest
Email: gabfest@slate.com
Show notes at slate.com/gabfest
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.2 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 8th, the I'm from the government |
| 0:16.5 | and I'm here to help edition. I'm Emily Bazelon, staff writer for the New York Times Magazine. |
| 0:22.7 | Happy New Year, everybody. |
| 0:24.2 | Joining me in Washington is John Dickerson, host of Face the Nation. |
| 0:28.1 | Hey, John. |
| 0:28.7 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:29.7 | David is out. |
| 0:30.9 | Still gallivanting. |
| 0:32.5 | Weeks of vacation apparently weren't enough for him. |
| 0:35.2 | No, actually, I think he is working. |
| 0:36.5 | But in any case, |
| 0:37.7 | it doesn't matter because we are in the excellent company of Jamel Bowie Slate's chief |
| 0:42.5 | political correspondent. Hey, Jamel. Hello. Hello. Okay, so on this week's show, |
| 0:49.0 | I'm hosting. Watch out everyone. We will talk about the state of the Republican presidential race. I happily lost track of it over the vacation, but it is with us. And it is actually less than a month, John informs me from an actual voter casting an actual ballot, if that's something you can say about the Iowa caucuses. Our second topic will be Obama's new effort to curb gun sales, what it says about his flexing |
| 1:16.1 | of executive muscle and the ways in which gun control has really beset his presidency. |
| 1:23.0 | And for our third topic, we have an extra special guest, our boss, or at least Slate's boss, Jacob Weisberg, |
| 1:29.8 | who is chair of the Slate Group and the author of a new book on Ronald Reagan, which is what we're |
| 1:34.4 | going to talk about. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter, and on Slate Plus, we'll talk about |
| 1:39.3 | the armed resistors who have declared the federal government to be a tyranny and occupied some federal |
| 1:45.1 | buildings in Oregon. Jamal has been writing about that. Okay, before we start, I have an |
| 1:50.5 | announcement. For the past year, Slate's podcast The Gist has been coaching one of its listeners, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.