Political Gabfest - The “Is Every Attorney in New York a Crook?” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss news of multiple shady payments to Michael Cohen’s business and the downfall of Eric Schneiderman. Max Fisher, writer of The Interpreter at the New York Times, joins the gang to discuss Trump’s announced abandonment of the Iran nuclear deal.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gapas from May the 10th, 2018. |
| 0:13.8 | The Is Every Lawyer in New York Crook Edition. |
| 0:17.5 | I am David Plotz of Atlas of Scura. |
| 0:20.6 | I am joined from New Haven by Emily Bazlon of the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello, David. |
| 0:28.3 | And by John Dickerson of CBS this morning from New York City. Hello, John. |
| 0:33.8 | Salutations. |
| 0:36.0 | On this week's Gab Fest, the president trashes the Iran nuclear deal. |
| 0:40.7 | Are we going to war with Tehran? |
| 0:43.2 | Then the weird new charges enveloping, engulfing Michael Cohen, the president's lawyer, |
| 0:50.0 | involving incredibly suspicious-looking payoff from a Russian oligarch and a bunch of other |
| 0:54.3 | payoffs as well. |
| 0:55.8 | And then yet another sleazeball New York lawyer, the spectacular fall of New York Attorney General, |
| 1:01.3 | Eric Schneiderman exposed as a domestic abuser. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm not sure if that's the right term. |
| 1:05.7 | Is that the right term? |
| 1:06.3 | I think that's fun. |
| 1:07.8 | An abuser. |
| 1:08.7 | He's sure an abuser. |
| 1:09.7 | Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:27.7 | And we had a live show last week in St. Louis. It was really fun. And I'm glad to say we were going to have another live show coming up. At the Keswick Theater in Glenside, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia on July 18th, which is a, what night is that? Probably a Wednesday. A Wednesday, July 18th. |
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