Political Gabfest - The Tom Hanks Went to Community College and So Should You Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the fallout from the French terrorist attack, whether Mitt Romney is really weighing a third presidential run, and Obama's ambition to make community college tuition free.Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 0:31.9 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:42.6 | Music contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for January 16th, 2015. |
| 0:46.8 | The Tom Hanks went to community college, and so should you, addition. |
| 0:51.8 | I'm David Flotz of Atlas Obscura in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:54.6 | On today's show, France, a week after Charlie Hebdo, has the world responded in the |
| 1:00.4 | right way to those killing. |
| 1:02.3 | Should President Obama have gone to Paris? |
| 1:04.6 | Why are we ignoring terrorism elsewhere? |
| 1:09.4 | Then Mitt Rami is contemplating running for president. |
| 1:13.5 | Wait, who wrote this nonsense? |
| 1:16.5 | Who wrote this? |
| 1:17.5 | We get it. |
| 1:17.9 | We change interns and we get nonsense like Mitt Romney is running for president. |
| 1:22.6 | He had me going there for a second, Emily. |
| 1:25.7 | I know, me too. |
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