Political Gabfest - The “Tuesday Night Massacre” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Hosts David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson are joined by former CIA officer and former independent Presidential candidate Evan McMullin for this episode, recorded-live from Washington DC. The group talks about the firing of FBI Director James Comey, the state of conservatism in America and what DC and Utah can learn from each other.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.2 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for May 11th, 2017, the Tuesday night |
| 0:15.6 | Massacre Edition. |
| 0:18.9 | We are... |
| 0:20.0 | We're live at the Warner Theater in Washington, D.C., just three blocks away from FBI headquarters. |
| 0:31.2 | In front of an enormous crowd comprised entirely of fired FBI directors, cashiered acting attorneys general, |
| 0:41.3 | axed U.S. attorneys, booted EPA science advisors, and dumped directors of the U.S. |
| 0:47.5 | census. Oh, and defeated presidential candidates. And you know what? You are all maybe unemployed, |
| 0:53.9 | but you look really fired up and good. So, |
| 0:56.7 | welcome. I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. To my right is the very person I would most like to |
| 1:05.5 | talk to about James Comey is Emily Bazlon of the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily. |
| 1:09.6 | Hello. |
| 1:21.4 | And to Emily's right is the person I most want to talk to about whether what's happening in Washington is unprecedented, face the nation's John Dickerson. Howdy, John? |
| 1:23.2 | Hi, David. |
| 1:33.7 | On this week's Gab Fest, the defenestration of FBI director James Comey, who was tossed out the window of the FBI building on Tuesday night. |
| 1:35.2 | Actually, he was in L.A. |
| 1:36.5 | That was a metaphor. |
| 1:37.1 | Okay. |
| 1:43.1 | What will that mean for the Russia investigation? |
| 1:45.3 | What will that mean for the Republic?? What will that mean for the Republic? |
| 1:51.3 | Then we're going to discuss the state of conservatism in the Trump era. Does such a thing still exist? What does it mean? Then our third topic, for reasons that will become obvious in a moment, |
| 1:59.3 | will be what can Washington, D.C. learn from Utah, moment, will be what can Washington, D.C. |
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