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Political Gabfest

Political Gabfest - The "Rough Them Up" Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

David Plotz and John Dickerson are joined by The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus to discuss the state of the Republican Party and Donald Trump's response to violence. The three are joined by Slate's Supreme Court Reporter Dahlia Lithwick to

assess President Obama's Supreme Court nomination. 

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0:00.0

The Slate Political GabFest is brought to you by Stamps.com, buy and print official U.S.

0:04.1

postage using your own computer and printer and save up to 50% compared to a postage meter.

0:09.1

Sign up for Stamps.com and get a four-week trial and a $110 bonus offer when you use the

0:14.2

promo code GabFest.

0:16.8

And by Amazon, Detective Harry Bosch is back on the new season of Amazon's original series,

0:23.0

Bosch, based on the best-selling novels by Michael Connolly.

0:26.8

Stream the new season now on Amazon Prime video.

0:30.6

And by Harry's, the shaving company that offers German engineered blades,

0:34.6

well-designed handles, and shipping right to your door.

0:37.5

Visit harries.com for $5 off your first purchase with the promo code GabFest.

0:42.2

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:53.4

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabF for March 17th, 2016, the Rough Them Up edition.

0:59.2

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura.

1:01.8

John Dickerson of Face the Nation is across the table for me.

1:06.3

Hello, John Dickerson.

1:07.2

Good morning, David.

1:08.4

But Emily Bazelon chose a great week to take a vacation, so she's not with us, but instead, we have somebody even better. Ruth Marcus, columnist to The Washington Post. Not better, but former Supreme Court reporter. There you go. That's better. That's better. Emily never was like a Supreme Court reporter. You're going to just totally put her to shame. I'm not going to put Emily to shame.

1:28.1

Hello, Emily.

1:28.8

I love you.

1:30.3

Making a Gab Fest debut, I think, yes.

1:32.3

Gap Fest debut.

1:33.3

Very excited.

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