Political Gabfest - The "Why Close Guantanamo When You Can Open Havana?" Edition
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🗓️ 19 December 2014
⏱️ 58 minutes
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David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the thawing of relations between the U.S. and Cuba with guest Will Dobson. They also talk about Jeb Bush's possible presidential run and Julia Turner joins to explain Slate's Year of Outrage.Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 0:00.0 | The Slate Political GabFest is brought to you by Stamps.com. |
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| 0:25.9 | Music and use the promo code GabFest. Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for December 19th, 2014, the Y-close Guantanamo, |
| 0:32.5 | when you can open Havana edition. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura in D.C. |
| 0:36.9 | I have Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson again, again together in New York. Weird. Neither of them lives in New York. They're always together in New York. I don't know what you're going. We keep inviting you and you keep not coming. Maybe that's the weird part. You don't want to see us. I know. All right. On today's show. He knows. Oh, good. |
| 0:55.4 | I know. |
| 0:55.8 | He's got that down. |
| 0:58.4 | On today's show, Obama, the president, warms up U.S. relations with Cuba. |
| 1:03.1 | Will Republicans try to stymie him? |
| 1:05.5 | Then Jeb Bush announced this week that he's thinking of pondering whether he should consider |
| 1:11.4 | entertaining the vague notion that he could potentially float discussing with his wife |
| 1:16.3 | whether he could possibly suggest the proposition that he run for president. |
| 1:21.3 | Then you're offended, you're outraged. |
| 1:23.7 | Get in line. |
| 1:24.5 | It was a year when everyone was outraged about something all the time. We will discuss |
| 1:28.7 | the year in outrage. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter and in Slate Plus the decision not to |
| 1:34.0 | release the movie, The Interview. Before we get started, we are seeking an intern for the |
| 1:39.7 | GavFest Max is leaving very soon. We are almost closed our intern application process, but we still would like to hear from you. You have a few more days. If you get it to us by December 23rd, get us a resume and a cover letter and a pitch for a topic that we could discuss on the GabFest. Limit yourself to 200 words or less when you tell us what that topic should be. And you can email us at GabFest at Slate.com. It's a great job. It's a paid |
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