Political Gabfest - The “Playing Sofball with Neil” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. Presidential campaign, Neil Gorsuch's smooth talking and the moves of an accused cop-killer, state prosecutor and governor of Florida.
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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 March 23rd, 2017, the Plain Softball with Neil edition. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:18.8 | With me in the Slate DC studio is, of course, Face the Nation's John Dixon. |
| 0:23.6 | Howdy John? |
| 0:24.1 | Hello, David. |
| 0:25.0 | And Emily Beaselbob is with us from New Haven. |
| 0:29.9 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:30.8 | Hi, you forgot my name. |
| 0:32.5 | I went to Cuba for a week and my name flitted out of your brain. |
| 0:36.8 | And a strange one appeared. How was it in Cuba? Oh, so interesting. But if you get me started, we won't be able to do our show. I told Emily, we couldn't talk about it because it would fill me with jealousy and I couldn't talk about it. So we can't talk about it. And also, we have to do a show. Before we get started with the show, we have a special treat this week. |
| 0:55.1 | We're taping on Thursday and we're expecting a House vote on ACA or Achu, as Emily likes to call it, the health care, Trump care, Ryan Care bill on Thursday. |
| 1:09.0 | And the bill is going to happen after we tape. |
| 1:13.5 | So we're not going to talk about that bill today on the show. |
| 1:15.8 | Just a heads up on that. |
| 1:18.5 | But we're going to tape a special show tomorrow. |
| 1:21.5 | So we'll have a second show tomorrow, Friday for you. |
| 1:23.8 | That'll just be about ACA. |
| 1:26.8 | Two Gab Fest for the price of one this week. And that price is $0. So great. On this week's show, |
| 1:31.7 | or today's show, I should say, we have Jim Comey's double whammy. He says that his FBI is investigating |
| 1:38.5 | Russian interference in the election and connections to the Trump campaign with that interference |
| 1:44.7 | potentially. |
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