Political Gabfest - The "Live From Washington DC" Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss William Barr’s puzzling description of the Mueller report; Emily’s new book Charged; and House Democrats’ legislative agenda with guest Congresswoman Lauren Underwood.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for March 28th, 2019, the live from Washington, D.C. edition. |
| 0:19.9 | I am |
| 0:20.9 | David Plotz |
| 0:22.7 | of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:25.9 | To my far left, |
| 0:28.9 | the man who puts the BS |
| 0:30.4 | in CBS. |
| 0:32.4 | CBS this morning, John Dickerson. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello, John. |
| 0:39.3 | And to John's right, but only on this stage, is the writer that every lawyer wants to be, |
| 0:47.3 | and the lawyer that every writer wants to be. |
| 0:49.3 | New York Times Magazine, Emily Bazelon, and Yale Law School, Emily Bazelon. |
| 0:55.1 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:58.3 | So we're gathered before a crowd in mourning here at the Lincoln Theater on historic U.S. |
| 1:04.5 | Street in my hometown of Washington, D.C. I noticed that many of you are clad in black. |
| 1:09.1 | There are none of the Mueller time t-shirts that |
| 1:12.4 | everyone was wearing just a week ago. People are mourning the Barr report on the Mueller report, |
| 1:18.4 | mourning the latest attack on the Affordable Care Act, mourning the latest idea from Betsy DeVos |
| 1:23.6 | in the Trump Department of Education to completely defund the Special Olympics, federal funding for |
| 1:29.9 | the Special Olympics. But we are here not to depress you, but to cheer you. And so tonight's |
| 1:36.5 | Gab Fest, we will be talking about, first of all, the lessons of the Mueller investigation and how |
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