Political Gabfest - The "Let's Get All Smug About That Kentucky Clerk" Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the continuing controversy over Hillary Clinton's emails, the European refugee crisis, and a Kentucky clerk's defiant stand against marriage equality. Slate's Political Gabfest is sponsored by CVS Health, working to save thousands of lives, one pill at a time, with industry leading programs that help people stay on their medication as prescribed. Visit CVSHEALTH.com to learn more. CVS Health, where Health is Everything. And by SAP. SAP HANA helps the world’s best companies get the answers they need to become more agile. Develop new streams of revenue. Predict the future. And reimagine the way they do business. Run SAP. And Run Simple. 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
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| 0:00.0 | The Slate Political Gab Fest is sponsored by CVS Health, working to save thousands of lives, one pill at a time, with industry-leading programs that help people stay on their medication as prescribed. |
| 0:11.4 | Visit CVShealth.com to learn more. CvS Health, where health is everything. |
| 0:16.6 | And by SAP, SAP HANA helps the world's best companies get the answers they need to become more agile. |
| 0:23.0 | Develop new streams of revenue, predict the future, and reimagine the way they do business. |
| 0:28.1 | Run SAP and run simple. |
| 0:30.3 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:47.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 4th, 2015, the Let's Get All Smug about that Kentucky clerk edition. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:52.8 | John Dickerson is with me from CBS's Face the Nation. |
| 0:57.4 | Hello, John. |
| 0:58.2 | Hello, David. |
| 0:59.2 | And via electronic methods from her home in New Haven is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. |
| 1:06.3 | Hi, Emily. |
| 1:07.1 | Hello. |
| 1:07.7 | We're a little challenged by those electronic methods today. |
| 1:10.4 | We'll see how it goes. |
| 1:11.8 | Especially when you turn your head. Especially when you get off mic. Get on mic. |
| 1:16.1 | You have no idea. I can't set this up in a way where I can actually talk into the mic and either stand or sit in the comfortable position. It's just a problem. |
| 1:26.6 | On this week's scabfest, the Chinese water torture |
| 1:30.2 | that is the Hillary Clinton email scandal continues. Can it get worse? Oh, yes, it can. Then the |
| 1:36.3 | refugees of Europe, what is the world moral obligation to them? What is your moral obligation to them? |
| 1:42.9 | And then Kim Davis, the ridiculous Kentucky |
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