Political Gabfest - The “Wicked, Even for Trump” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Ruth Marcus discuss the future for children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, DOJ findings on the FBI and 2016 presidential election, and elite schools' admissions policies.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap. |
| 0:12.1 | That's for June 21st, 2018. |
| 0:13.7 | The Wicked Even for Trump edition. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas of Scura. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm in Washington, D.C., with special guest, Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post, who was sitting in for Emily. |
| 0:25.7 | Hello, Ruth. |
| 0:26.2 | Hi, there. |
| 0:26.7 | I thought you were going to call it the I Prefer Strong Edition. |
| 0:32.1 | It's my title. |
| 0:33.2 | I get the title. |
| 0:34.2 | I get to title things, not you. |
| 0:36.4 | Oops, I'm never coming back. |
| 0:38.3 | Which is a sign that he prefers strong. |
| 0:42.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.4 | Yeah, I don't think some woman is coming in to attempt to retitle the show. |
| 0:51.0 | That also, you heard John Dickerson of CBS this morning from New York. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello, John. |
| 0:56.4 | Hi. |
| 0:57.8 | On this week's Gab Fest, the evil and stupid and cruel policy of separating migrant children from their parents seems to have been stopped or may have been stopped. |
| 1:10.6 | What will the long term impact impact be of this incredible Trump administration cruelty? |
| 1:19.0 | My God. |
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