Political Gabfest - The “She Was Just 17, You Know What I Mean” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the downward spiral for Roy Moore, the tax plans of the House and Senate, and the latest with the Russia investigation and Wikileaks.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 16, 2017. |
| 0:15.3 | The She was Just 17, you know what I mean edition. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:20.4 | With me in the Slate DC podcast studio is Face the Nations John Dickerson. Howdy, John? |
| 0:26.3 | Hi. |
| 0:27.1 | And from Slate's Brooklyn studio is the New York Times Magazine's Emily Bazelon. |
| 0:32.9 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:33.8 | Hey, guys. Glad to be here with you on this early morning, which I dragged everyone to come early. |
| 0:39.5 | On this week's early morning gap fest, not early morning when you're listening, listeners, maybe it is. |
| 0:44.9 | The astonishing, disgusting, metastasizing Roy Moore scandal with a small side dish of Bill Clinton scandal. |
| 0:51.7 | Then the latest machinations on the GOP's tax bill will yoking the tax bill |
| 0:58.3 | to the repeal of the individual mandate prove a winning strategy. Then the Russia investigation |
| 1:04.6 | takes another new twist. As it turns out, Donald Trump Jr. was communicating vigorously |
| 1:10.6 | with WikiLeaks throughout the campaign. |
| 1:13.8 | John sort of shook his head and vigorously, but that's okay. |
| 1:18.2 | But did not shake his head vigorously. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, your sugar head, like an eh. |
| 1:22.0 | That was an eh. |
| 1:22.7 | That was a visual eh. |
| 1:24.4 | Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:26.3 | And remember, we're starting to collect your conundrums for our live conundrum show in Boston in just three weeks. |
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