Political Gabfest - The “Is This the Worst Bill in History” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss the potential repeal and replacement of Obamacare, President Trump's accusation of wiretapping and the future for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:06.0 | Fraikis. |
| 0:08.1 | Freckor. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for March 9th, 2017. |
| 0:14.0 | The Is This the Worst Bill in History Edition? |
| 0:17.5 | I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm obviously putting some color on our title |
| 0:23.0 | today. Emily Bazelon. I'm talking the worst villain history. I know. I'm just setting it up. Emily Bazelon of the |
| 0:30.0 | New York Times Magazine is yawn is in yawn over there. Hello, Emily. Hello, hello. And John |
| 0:37.0 | Dickerson is with me here in D.C., host to Faith the Nation. Hello. |
| 0:40.5 | Hi. John's heading to Georgia this morning. He's going to Georgia. He has taking a midnight train to Georgia. |
| 0:49.8 | Also a mid-morning flight to Georgia. We had a ridiculously busy and pretty disheartening week. |
| 0:56.0 | The world is moving too fast for us, but we're going to try. We're going to try to stay current. |
| 1:02.4 | And we're going to do that by first talking on this week's Gab Fest about Ryan Care or possibly |
| 1:08.1 | Trump care or maybe it's just Obamacare light. |
| 1:12.2 | It's here. Does the GOPs repeal and replace Bill have a chance? |
| 1:18.1 | Then President Trump's outrageous wiretapping charges against President Obama and will anything come of them. |
| 1:25.4 | And then the assault on Planned Parenthood. Will Planned Parenthood? Federal funding |
| 1:30.2 | survive the Obamacare bill or will it survive the Trump presidency. Plus we'll have cocktail |
| 1:36.1 | chatter. And in Slate Plus, the fracas at Middlebury College involving controversial conservative |
| 1:41.9 | scholar Charles Murray and some incredibly ill-behaved Middlebury College students. |
| 1:46.8 | If you are not yet a Slate Plus member, go to slate.com slash gabfest plus. |
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