Political Gabfest - The "Suspending My Campaign" Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and John Dickerson discuss Donald Trump's rise
to become the Republican Presidential nominee, and the future of
bribery in American government as the Supreme Court debates its
definition. They also talk about the decision of Yale University to
maintain the name John C. Calhoun on one of its buildings.
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| 0:00.0 | The Slate Political GabFest is brought to you by Stamps.com. |
| 0:03.1 | Buy and print official U.S. postage using your own computer and printer and save up to 50% compared to a postage meter. |
| 0:10.3 | Sign up for Stamps.com and get a four-week trial and a $110 bonus offer when you use the promo code GabFest. |
| 0:18.5 | And by Harries, the shaving company that offers German engineered blades, well-designed handles, and shipping right to your door. |
| 0:25.3 | Visit harries.com for $5 off your first purchase with promo code GabFest. |
| 0:31.0 | And by Tracker, a coin-sized device that locates misplaced keys, wallets, bags, computers, anything in seconds. |
| 0:39.2 | Make losing things a thing of the past. |
| 0:42.1 | Get 30% off your first tracker device by going to the tracker.com and using the promo code |
| 0:48.9 | GabFest. |
| 0:49.8 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 1:00.3 | Music The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for May 5th, 2016, the suspending my campaign edition of the Gavest. |
| 1:07.8 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm in Washington, D.C., back in our |
| 1:12.1 | studio, back from Atlanta, sadly. I enjoyed that trip a lot with me in Washington, also back from |
| 1:18.8 | Atlanta, is John Dickerson, host of Face the Nation. Hello, John. Hello, David. And even though |
| 1:26.2 | John sounded like he was calling across a chasm, he was just across a table. |
| 1:29.4 | He was not actually across the chasm. |
| 1:31.6 | And then actually across the chasm, the chasm of most of the Northeast is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times, who was in New Haven. |
| 1:38.4 | Indeed. |
| 1:39.3 | Hello. |
| 1:40.2 | I feel like we're all a little punchy today. |
| 1:41.6 | I feel a little punchy. |
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