Political Gabfest - The “Keep America... Oh Forget it” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Trump’s latest campaign relaunch, Elizabeth Warren’s rise, and Harvard’s decision to rescind Kyle Kashuv’s acceptance.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.5 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for June 20th, 2019, the Keep America. |
| 0:17.6 | Oh, forget it, edition. I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:22.6 | That was John Dickerson, kindly snuffling chuckling of 60 Minutes in New York. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello, John. |
| 0:30.8 | Hi, snuffle chuckle. |
| 0:32.7 | That's my street name. |
| 0:36.3 | That's your screen name. |
| 0:38.3 | Snuffle chuckle. |
| 0:41.3 | You could go far with that name. |
| 0:43.3 | You frequent. |
| 0:44.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.3 | Snoop snuffle chuckle was a limited pressing of a 12-inch album, but it was very popular in certain circles. |
| 0:55.4 | On the other speaker there is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale. Hello. Emily. |
| 1:02.6 | Hello. |
| 1:03.3 | And you're in New Haven, I guess. I'm in New Haven. So true. |
| 1:06.7 | On today's GabFest, I always thought President Trump would be like James K. Polk. He would just have |
| 1:11.9 | four years and be like, I've accomplished everything I want to accomplish and step aside |
| 1:16.1 | gently from office. But apparently I was wrong. He has launched his reelection campaign. What a |
| 1:20.4 | surprise. How did that launch go? And was it really his launch, truly? Then Emily has just written the definitive profile of Senator Elizabeth Warren, the surging, |
| 1:32.9 | the rising Democratic presidential candidate. |
| 1:35.0 | We will assess her campaign and the state of the Democratic race. |
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