Political Gabfest - True Crime
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss what it will take to save the Biden agenda, the abortion doctor's defiance of the Texas ban; and true crime mania.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Josh Marshall for Talking Points Memo: “Policy vs Positioning Has Dems in a Stalemate”
Michael Dorf for Dorf on Law: “Texas Could Not Get Away With This Absent SCOTUS-Created Limits On Constitutional Adjudication”
Emily Bazelon for The New York Times: “The Dawn of the Post-Clinic Abortion”
Impeachment: American Crime Story
The Clinton Impeachment - Slow Burn: Season 2
Here’s this week’s chatter:
Emily: Susan Dominus for The New York Times Magazine: “He Was the ‘Perfect Villain’ for Voting Conspiracists”
John: Elizabeth Elkin for Bloomberg: “Food Prices Poised to Surge With Fertilizer at Highest in Years
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David: CityCast: “City Cast Houston Launches Oct. 5”; “Evidence That A Cosmic Impact Destroyed Ancient City In The Jordan Valley”; Ted E. Bunch et al, for Scientific Reports: “A Tunguska Sized Airburst Destroyed Tall El-hammam A Middle Bronze Age City In The Jordan Valley Near The Dead Sea”
Listener chatter from Jeffrey Itell: You Tube: “15 Unfinished Buildings in Kunming Were Demolished by Blasting”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for September 23rd, 2021, the True Crime Edition. |
| 0:13.4 | I am David Plotz of CityCast in Washington, D.C., a rainy Washington, D.C. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm joined by John Dickerson of CBS's Sunday morning. Hello, John Dickerson. |
| 0:25.9 | John is very concerned with the shape of his cap, his ball cap. Yeah, it's the cap and the camera |
| 0:33.0 | angle makes me look like one of those middle-aged men who don't know how to wear a hat. |
| 0:41.8 | So this is the greatest concern this morning. I also noticed you paused a little there, David, as you tried to remember which job I'm doing at the moment. |
| 0:48.3 | I literally, that is literally what happened. |
| 0:50.0 | I never, you have a lot of, they're always CBS news, but I just don't know what the affiliation. |
| 0:56.3 | No, exactly. |
| 0:56.9 | Was I correct? |
| 0:57.4 | You were correct, yes. |
| 0:58.7 | You were correct. |
| 1:01.4 | Then don't have to ask myself what her affiliations are, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. |
| 1:09.0 | Hello, Emily, from New Haven. |
| 1:10.5 | Hey, hey, yeah, I went to New York to the New York Times building and Yale University Law School. Hello, Emily, from New Haven. Hey, hey. Yeah, |
| 1:11.9 | I went to New York to the New York Times building for the first time since pandemic, and I do really |
| 1:17.2 | still work there. My ID still worked, although I had to change all my passwords. It was like my laptop |
| 1:22.3 | encountered some force field, as did my phone, and everything had to be changed. Did you find |
| 1:27.4 | any rotten food or anything at your desk? No, well, first of all, I have no desk. Mince that you left? I have a flex desk, which is actually in itself a great improvement from pre-pandemic times when I had no desk. So, yeah, no, that wasn't a problem. If you don't have any stuff, then nothing, there's nothing that are rot. |
| 1:49.8 | When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose, as John might say. Yes. This week, on the gap. |
| 1:51.6 | Chris Christofferson's Bobby McGee, for those who are wanting a citation. |
| 1:55.6 | This week, can Democrats rally and coalesce and manage to pass a debt-sealing increase, an infrastructure bill, |
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