The “ICBM” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the agenda of the Commission on Election Integrity, the Trump Euro tour, and the threat from a nuclear North Korea.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for July 6th, 2017, the ICBM edition. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm David Plotz at Alice Obscura. |
| 0:17.3 | And oh, Frabious Day, oh joy, oh rapture. Because for the first time, in a really long time, we all three are together in a room by all three. We're all three together on the show, number one. Yeah, that's even an accomplishment. And it's John's birthday. And it's super exciting and lovely. It's John's birthday. We're celebrating John's birthday on our birthday and our birthday and our togetherness. |
| 0:39.1 | Neither rain nor sleet nor dead of night. |
| 0:42.0 | I think it's so extremely John liked to have his birthday so close to the nation's birthday. |
| 0:47.5 | It seems really appropriate. |
| 0:48.8 | But not the same day. |
| 0:50.2 | No, that would be he doesn't want to shadow America. |
| 0:52.4 | Exactly. |
| 0:52.8 | Exactly. |
| 0:54.4 | Right, right. A sort of gesture of solidarity without taking any. day. No, that would be, he doesn't want to overshadow America. He doesn't want to overshadow America, but just be close to it. |
| 0:55.3 | Right, right. |
| 1:11.3 | A sort of gesture of solidarity without taking any of the, you know, shine away from the nation. So that, of course, is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily. Hello, hello. I'm so glad to be here with you guys. And that other voice was, of course, John Dickerson of CBS's Face Nation. Hello, John. Hello, David. It is. When was the last time it wasn't a live show that |
| 1:16.0 | we were together? It's a been a long time. It's like the Buchanan administration. Yes. That was |
| 1:22.2 | brief. It was a brief administration. We didn't do that many shows then. They were tough on that pre-Civil |
| 1:27.4 | war shows. |
| 1:29.4 | Those 1850s. |
| 1:30.5 | I was always giving credit to the Southerners for wanting to having integrity or something. |
| 1:36.5 | Totally trying to normalize Buchanan. |
| 1:39.0 | On this week's Gab Fest, the rage about the election integrity commissions grab for every single little bit of voter data in the United States. |
| 1:47.5 | Then what is going to happen when Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin sit down together on Friday in Germany? |
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