Political Gabfest - The “Red Court, Red Dem, and Red Hen” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Justice Kennedy’s retirement, the New York primary upset, and the meaning of civility.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for June 28th, 2018, the Red Court, Red Dem, and Red Hen edition. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:20.4 | Can I just give a golf clap for that? |
| 0:23.5 | You liked that? |
| 0:24.6 | Oh, thank you. |
| 0:25.1 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:26.3 | That was really that rewarded meditating on what you just said. |
| 0:31.6 | Thanks, John. |
| 0:32.3 | Sorry. |
| 0:32.8 | That's John Dickerson of CBS this morning, my favorite co-host of the Gab Fest. |
| 0:38.6 | Oh, my. That's so mean. I laughed for two weeks. That's Emily Bazelon of the New York Times |
| 0:43.3 | magazine. My second favorite co-host of the Gab Fest. Second favorite. Second favorite is not a |
| 0:50.6 | compliment, David Plotz. Anyway, Emily, you're back. |
| 0:54.5 | It's nice to see you. |
| 0:56.2 | It's not taking it back. It's nice to see you. |
| 0:57.4 | You guys are both in Aspen at the Aspen Ideas Festival. |
| 1:01.2 | On this week's Gab Fest, whof, what news. |
| 1:04.1 | What a week of news. |
| 1:05.1 | Justice Kennedy retires and the Supreme Court delivers sweeping victories to conservatives on every legal battlefield. |
| 1:13.5 | And probably a bunch of others we even forgot, but especially on the travel ban. |
| 1:18.2 | Then a Democratic socialist stomps a top ranking and still quite liberal Democrat in a primary. |
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