Political Gabfest - The “Paul Ryan Has Died and Gone to Heaven” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the final tax bill, government agency leadership, and are joined by Linda Greenhouse to talk about her new book about covering the Supreme Court.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for December 21st, 2017. |
| 0:15.3 | The Paul Ryan has died and gone to have an edition. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura here on the winter solstice. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm a little sick, so please excuse any froginess or hoarseness in my voice. |
| 0:29.3 | John Dickerson of CBS's Face the Nation is right here. |
| 0:34.1 | Ah, my right? |
| 0:36.8 | How are you, Jean? And yet verily i am goche uh you are goche you're the least |
| 0:42.9 | gauche among us three that's for sure in so many ways emily basil on i'm obviously the gocheest |
| 0:49.5 | of the three of us emily basilon hello hello that's emily That's Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine in New Haven. |
| 0:57.5 | Indeed. On this week's Gab Fest, Congress and the president get their win. A Republican tax bill has |
| 1:06.9 | become law. Republicans are gleeful. Should they be gleeful? Then strange goings on at the EPA, |
| 1:15.6 | the IRS, the CDC. What are we learning about how the Trump administration governs and what |
| 1:22.1 | will the long-term impact of its governing style be on government? |
| 1:33.5 | Then Linda Greenhouse, legend of legal journalism will join us to talk about the state of journalism, the law and the courts. |
| 1:42.8 | And she and Emily will say lots of things like tort and habeas corpus and ipso facto to each other. |
| 1:44.1 | Really? Wow. |
| 1:44.5 | What are the other legal terms? |
| 1:47.8 | The Latin. |
| 1:48.2 | The Latin one. |
| 1:49.4 | Motion and limine was the one that got one of the Trump nominees in trouble. |
| 1:53.8 | Oh, that's right. |
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