The "Mean" Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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David Plotz, John Dickerson and Slate's Jamelle Bouie discuss the Virginia shooting, Senate health bill, Russia investigation, and Virginia gubernatorial primaries.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for June 15th, 2017. |
| 0:11.5 | The Mean Edition. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:15.1 | We have recovered John Dickerson. |
| 0:17.9 | We've recovered you, John. |
| 0:19.2 | We missed you in Denver. |
| 0:20.5 | Thanks for back. Yeah, I missed you in Denver. We missed you in Denver. Thanks for back. |
| 0:21.1 | Yeah, I missed you in Denver. I missed you because I wasn't in Denver. It was fun. Dick |
| 0:27.5 | crowd, they enjoyed your occasional messages. That is John Dickerson to face the nation. Of course, John is back, but now Emily has fled. But that's okay, because Jamel, Chief Political Correspondent of Slate is here in her place. |
| 0:40.6 | Hello, Jamel. |
| 0:41.8 | Hello. |
| 0:42.8 | On this week's GabFest, we have too much to fit into the usual three-topic format, so we're going to go rogue. |
| 0:49.7 | We're going to add a fourth topic. |
| 0:50.7 | First of all, the ghastly shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise |
| 0:55.2 | and others at a congressional baseball practice on Monday. Then the double secret hide the |
| 1:02.3 | birdie Senate health care bill, what health care bill process that Mitch McConnell is unfolding |
| 1:07.1 | on the hill. Then Jeff Sessions testifies about Russia, sort of, while President Trump |
| 1:14.1 | contemplates firing special counsel Bob Mueller, Bob Mueller, who now reportedly is investigating |
| 1:20.6 | the president himself for obstruction of justice. Also, these two gentlemen of Virginia, |
| 1:31.2 | John and Jamel, both native sons of the Commonwealth, |
| 1:36.2 | will ponder the significance of Virginia's gubernatorial primary plus will have cocktail chatter, |
| 1:41.9 | and in Slate Plus is Megan Kelly wrong to interview Alex Jones of Info Wars. |
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