Political Gabfest - The “Pay With Cash” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Michael Cohen’s release of secret recordings with Trump, the gubernatorial race in Georgia, and justice for the death of Markeis McGlockton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for July 26th, 2018, The Pay with Cash edition. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:16.0 | I am secretly recording John Dickerson of CBS this morning in New York. Hello, John. I'm secretly recording you. Oh, you are? Oh, yes. It's a secret. Then do it in cash. But no, wait, a check. Or no, no, a cash. No, no, no, no. I'll take care of it. Pay with cash. Emily Bazelon of the New York Times is in New Haven. |
| 0:39.2 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:40.3 | Hello. |
| 0:41.2 | Not secretly recording you because I think Connecticut's a two-party consent state. |
| 0:44.7 | I think you're right, although I'm not totally sure. |
| 0:47.2 | You know, I just never turn on the tape recorder without asking permission, I don't think. |
| 0:52.3 | It just seems like the wrong thing to do. |
| 0:55.4 | Yes, it does. On this week's GabFest, Michael Cohen's secret tape and what, if anything, it means. |
| 1:02.1 | And then a Trump endorsed conservative wins the GOP primary in Georgia and sets up the most exciting governor's race of 2018. |
| 1:13.9 | Then a truly dismal stand-your-ground case in Florida, plus we will have cocktail chatter. Michael Cohen, president's lawyer, this |
| 1:20.7 | week released a surreptitious and cryptic recording of a conversation between him and then |
| 1:27.0 | candidate Donald Trump from, think September of 2016. |
| 1:30.1 | In the audio recording, which was probably legal under New York law, |
| 1:35.9 | Trump appears to be going along with a plan to pay $150,000 to the National Enquirer, |
| 1:43.4 | to buy from the National Enquirer rights that the National Enquirer, to buy from the National Enquirer rights that the |
| 1:45.9 | National Enquirer had recently bought to a story, to the life story of Karen McDougal, a woman |
| 1:51.5 | who claimed to have had an affair with Trump shortly after Melania Trump gave birth to their son |
| 1:56.0 | in 2006. Hoof, that is, it's very soap opera. It does not appear that Trump ever paid this $150,000. |
| 2:02.9 | It is also not clear, to me, at least, what Cohen is trying to accomplish by leaking the tape. |
| 2:09.3 | John, based on what you've heard and you've read, is it clear what is happening on the tape, or is it not clear? |
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