Political Gabfest - The Political Gabfest: The "I Don't Have a Title for This Show" Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2014
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, Will Dobson, and John Dickerson. This week: Will Iraq break apart? Who is Abu Khattala? And are violent threats protected speech?Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 0:33.5 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:43.5 | Music The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to Slate Political Gab Fest for June 20, 2014, the I don't have a title for this show edition. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm John Dickerson here in Slate in Washington. |
| 0:53.3 | On this week's show, Iraq falls into further chaos. |
| 0:56.3 | Will it collapse and what, if anything, should the U.S. do about it? Alleged Benghazi ringleader |
| 1:01.3 | Ahmed Katala has been seized. We'll talk about his arrest and his trial in the United States. |
| 1:06.7 | And finally, the Supreme Court considers online threats. Are they protected speech or something that merits jail time? And, of course, we'll also have cocktail chatter at the end. And hopefully by then I will have come up with them. I'm joined in Washington by Will Dobson, senior editor of Slate. Hello, Will. Hi, John. And Emily Bazelon, are you in New Haven or are you in Vermont? |
| 1:28.5 | I am in New Haven. |
| 1:29.5 | Oh, you're in your back. |
| 1:48.4 | Camping in Vermont. Yes. I feel like you were. And was it a successful camping trip? It was. We roasted marshmallows. What else do you need to do to make it a successful camping trip? That's all my children need is smores. Right. But you could do that in the backyard. No, somehow you can't. Or at least if you did, you would do it all the time and they would die of overdose of marshmallows. |
| 1:48.7 | Right. |
| 1:49.6 | And they taste better in Vermont. |
| 1:50.5 | Exactly. |
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