The "President Pence" Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss presidential calls to grieving families, Vice President Pence’s core politics, and the opioid crisis.
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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 October 19th, 2017, the President Pence edition. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C. alone in a studio. John Dickerson is elsewhere. Where are you, John? |
| 0:24.4 | of CBS, this face the nation. I'm in Richmond. Hello, John. And Emily Bazelon of the New York Times |
| 0:29.3 | Magazine is in New York. Hello, Emily. Hello, hello. On this week's Gab Fest, the president |
| 0:36.8 | creates another nonsense, stupid controversy with his bizarre behavior around U.S. service members, the families of U.S. service members who've been killed in action and a strange slander of President Obama. |
| 0:53.3 | Then the mystery of Vice President Mike Pence, |
| 0:57.0 | can it be solved? Is he our next president? And then just when you thought the opioid |
| 1:03.2 | crisis couldn't get any more depressing, a story about gross behavior by Big Pharma and some |
| 1:10.6 | interesting journalistic investigation that may have |
| 1:14.7 | ferreted it out and changed some bad behavior. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter and a slate |
| 1:21.2 | plus segment about what Halloween costumes the people in Washington should wear this year. |
| 1:28.1 | Before we forget, we have a live show next week in Chicago at the Merle-Reskin |
| 1:33.2 | Theater on Wednesday, October 25th at 7.30 p.m. There's still some tickets left. |
| 1:38.6 | You can go to slate.com slash live to get tickets to that show. We're going to have Kim Fox, the chief prosecutor of Chicago, will be there as our guest. It's going to be a great show at the Rescun Theater on Wednesday, October 25th, Slate.com slash live. And also, there's still some tickets left for our conundrum show live in Boston on December 6 at the Wilber Theater and those tickets are also |
| 2:02.8 | at slate.com slash live. I'm not even going to say Wilbur. I'm not even going to like, |
| 2:08.0 | we're not even going to discuss that. But maybe we can get they might be giants who will be our |
| 2:12.1 | house band for the evening to play the to play the Charlotte's Web theme for that. Get tickets at slate.com slash live. |
| 2:21.0 | This is a grim spectacle even by the standards of 2017. The controversy over whether President |
| 2:28.1 | Trump slandered President Obama by accusing him of not calling the grieving families of dead soldiers. |
| 2:33.8 | The related controversy over whether President Trump then told the widow of a Green Beret killed in Nugier, he knew what he signed up for. |
| 2:43.2 | The invocation of the death of the son of General John Kelly and how President Obama may have treated that. |
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