Political Gabfest - The “Oh My God. This is Terrible. This is the End of My Presidency.” Edition
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🗓️ 18 April 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the release of the Mueller Report, Trump’s refusal to respond to Congressional subpoenas, and the resurgence of measles.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for April 18th, 2019. |
| 0:14.0 | The Oh my God, this is terrible. |
| 0:15.8 | This is the end of my presidency edition. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm David Plotz of Outless Obscure. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm in Washington, D.C., where I didn't run into Bill Barr this morning. |
| 0:25.6 | John Dickerson of CBS this morning, you have probably been on the air since Barr started speaking since this report came out, so I'm glad you're here with us. |
| 0:34.4 | Hello, John. |
| 0:35.1 | Hello, and good morning, from one bar to the other at the end of the day. It is not the morning. That shows how discombobulated you are. It's already afternoon when we're taping. Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. You are also discombobulated. Probably you're in your birth city of Philadelphia on your book tour. I'm so happy to be in my birth city. |
| 0:55.1 | I love Philadelphia. |
| 0:56.9 | With your bestselling book. |
| 0:59.1 | That's right, friends. |
| 1:00.2 | Emily Bazelons-charge is a bestseller. |
| 1:02.0 | Thanks for getting it. |
| 1:02.8 | Yay. |
| 1:03.0 | You guys are the best. |
| 1:05.4 | On this week's GabFest, the Mueller report, |
| 1:08.2 | redacted edition drops. |
| 1:09.7 | We will have our lightning response to the most anticipated report since maybe the Star Report. Then the White House is adopting a policy of obstructing essentially all congressional records requests, congressional subpoenas, how will this showdown end? Then, who, what is responsible for the surge |
| 1:28.9 | in measles and the drop and vaccination rates? Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. What a day |
| 1:35.3 | began with Attorney General Bill Barr pre-spinning his version of the Mueller report as being |
| 1:41.8 | lightly redacted and showing no signs of presidential criminal behavior. |
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