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Political Gabfest

Political Gabfest - The “Special Place in Hell” Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Dahlia Lithwick discuss the U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore, Husted v. A. Philip Randolph at the Supreme Court, and the impact of Trump on Tuesday’s primaries. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:09.8

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gapest for June 14th, 2018, the special Place in Hell edition.

0:16.5

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura.

0:18.0

I'm in Washington, D.C.

0:19.9

Joining me is John Dickerson from New York City of CBS this morning.

0:24.1

Hello, John.

0:25.3

Hi.

0:26.3

And John has been attempting to remove a very gummy sticker from his phone that has occupied us.

0:31.5

That's why we're late taping.

0:32.7

If the show gets up late, it's because of the stupid gummy sticker, but we'll probably be okay.

0:39.0

Also, in New York,

0:46.7

we have a special guest. Emily is out, and that does not matter because Dahlia Lithwick of Slate,

0:56.6

the host of the Amicus podcast and writer of so much wisdom about legal and other things is with us. I, for one, I'm pretty excited to get a Canadian to come to the table and participate, that our historic enemy, that we've

1:01.2

managed to sit down with our historic enemy this week. And an angry Canadian. And you know,

1:06.2

there's only one of those. So it's good to have the one angry Canadian on the show, I think.

1:10.3

Thanks for having me.

1:11.6

Constantly talking about softwood lumber.

1:14.2

Do not, don't give her any milk or cheese.

1:17.7

John, I will not subsidize her vicious dairy war against American cows anymore.

1:23.1

I'm sick of it.

1:23.7

I'm sick of Dahlia doing that.

1:25.4

I agree.

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