Political Gabfest - The “Should You Work for President Trump” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and John Dickerson discuss the potential influence of Trump's cabinet picks, how to decide whether to serve or not to serve and the seriousness of fake news.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for November 17th, 2016, the should-you-work-for-President-Trump edition. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:20.3 | Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine |
| 0:22.3 | joins us from yonder and beyond. I don't know where you are, Emily, but hello. |
| 0:27.0 | New York. I'm in New York. Hello. And then John Dickerson, host of Face the Nation, |
| 0:31.6 | joins us from Project Elsewhere. Where are you here? I'm at the Lowe's Hotel in Philadelphia. The three of us have not, |
| 0:39.4 | we barely even had the two of us in a room together in a while, much less the three of us. |
| 0:44.2 | Yeah, I know that's why I'm looking forward to our conundrum show on the 30th because, |
| 0:48.8 | me too. Just, you know, have the band back together. And speaking of which, send us conundrums. |
| 0:54.8 | What a good segue. |
| 0:55.7 | At Gabfest at slate.com or tweet us at SlateGabfest and hashtag them conundrum. |
| 1:01.3 | So we can get some of your rate conundrums on our show. |
| 1:04.8 | On this week's Gabfest, Bannon or Prebus, or Bannon, Bannon and Prebus. |
| 1:10.0 | What do Trump's early appointments tell us |
| 1:12.5 | about how he might govern? Then we're going to have an ethics symposium on whether it is moral |
| 1:18.7 | to take a job with President Trump. Then Facebook and Google were swamped with fake news during this |
| 1:25.1 | campaign. Are they obliged to do something about that? Did |
| 1:28.1 | that have any role in the Trump victory? Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And in Slate Plus, I don't know what we're going to talk about in Slate Plus. It's going to be amazing. We're going to leave that. It's going to be an open question. We're going to open a Faberjay Easter egg of Slate Plus at the end of the show, and it's going to be magic, and you're just going to have to wait Slate Plus. |
| 1:47.3 | If you were not yet a Slate Plus member, maybe you should join now to get that Easter egg. Go to slate.com slash GabFest Plus. |
| 1:53.6 | Amid reports that his transition is in disarray, Donald Trump this week appointed Reince Prebus as his chief of staff, |
| 2:01.4 | and Steve Bannon, the white nationalist supremacist Breitbart guru, as his, as Prebis's co-equal, |
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