Political Gabfest - The “Packing and Cracking” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss lawyer Don McGahns’s departure from the White House team, North Carolina’s political gerrymandering and John McCain’s legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 30th, 2018, the packing and cracking edition. |
| 0:12.0 | I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscure. I'm in Washington, D.C. Alone, solo, by myself, just me. |
| 0:19.4 | But Emily and John are together. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm not sure about starting this show off with a sigh. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm full of August. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm full of sigh. |
| 0:28.3 | That's Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. |
| 0:30.4 | John Dickerson of CBS this morning is next to her in New York studio. |
| 0:33.3 | Hello, guys. |
| 0:34.2 | You guys don't have to have sighs. |
| 0:36.2 | No, we are the bridge of size, which is we will bridge from your size to the greater public with our effervescent happiness, which was materially increased for me when Emily was just walking down the hallway. |
| 0:48.1 | I wasn't expected. I thought I'd be alone here, and here I am with Emily, which I realize is exacerbating your feeling of solitude, but nevertheless, we're a chipper and happy together. |
| 0:57.2 | We're just like hummingbirds in here. Well, I'm self-abnegating enough that your happiness brings me happiness, even though it adds to my sadness. |
| 1:08.9 | On this week's Gab Fest, Don McGahn, White House Counsel, discovers by tweet that he is losing his job. |
| 1:16.3 | Then what on earth is going on in North Carolina politics as its gerrymandered congressional districts are once more declared illegal for the 37th time in the last year, then the death of John McCain and the |
| 1:30.2 | president's expectedly classless reaction to it and the political implications of it. Plus, we |
| 1:35.9 | will have cocktail chatter. Remember, we're going to Texas, Austin, Texas, the Capitol Factory |
| 1:41.7 | on Saturday, September 29th, there's going to be a full |
| 1:44.6 | day of Slate podcast as part of the Texas Tribune Festival. We're going to be there, Trumpcast, |
| 1:51.0 | Amicus, El Gab Fest, The Gist, and you can go to slate.com slash live to get more information. |
| 1:57.0 | There's still some passes to the party where you can mingle with podcast hosts, and there are still some all-day passes. |
| 2:05.8 | I think our show, individual tickets to our show are sold out, but you can get an all-access pass that will allow you to see our show as well as all the other great Slate podcasts that are going to be there. |
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