Political Gabfest - Trump’s Cabinet Keeps Getting Weirder
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🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
(Note: The episode was recorded prior to the withdrawal of Matt Gaetz from consideration for Attorney General.) This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Donald Trump’s Cabinet selections and their involvement with sexual-assault allegations; the Texas elementary school curriculum that incorporates the Bible; and coming changes to health care with The Washington Post’s Dan Diamond. Political Gabfest Live in Brooklyn on December 4 is sold out, but you can still submit your Conundrums at slate.com/conundrum.
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Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Cheyna Roth
Research by Julie Huygen
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest. |
| 0:06.8 | November 21st, 2024, the Trump's Cabinet, |
| 0:19.3 | KATHLEEN, I'm David Plotz of |
| 0:23.7 | Citycast in Washington, D.C., from New Haven, Connecticut, where she continues to represent |
| 0:30.3 | the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. Emily Bazelon, hello, Emily. |
| 0:35.2 | Hey, David. Hey, John. And from New York City, where he continues to represent CBS News, |
| 0:40.4 | where he's prepping for his big transition to be co-anchor of the CBS Evening News. |
| 0:45.3 | John Diggerson. Hello, John. |
| 0:47.2 | Hello, David. And Emily. I'm really uncomfortable that my camera is not working right now, |
| 0:51.3 | but I'm smiling at you both. |
| 0:53.4 | John is a black rectangle. |
| 0:55.8 | This week on the GabFest, Trump is assembling a made-for-TV cabinet. |
| 1:01.1 | Who will make the decisions that matter? |
| 1:03.2 | Is it a cabinet that makes sense? |
| 1:05.2 | Is it going to carry out what he wants to carry out? |
| 1:08.3 | How many of them will be indicted? |
| 1:10.6 | Then the Texas Board of Education approves a Christian and Bible-infused public school curriculum. |
| 1:16.9 | Is it legal? |
| 1:18.1 | Is it okay? |
| 1:19.2 | Then we'll be joined by the Washington Post, Dan Diamond, to talk through how a Trump administration |
| 1:24.0 | and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as as HHS secretary could change public health and |
| 1:29.8 | endanger public health, I suppose. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And I'm sorry to say for |
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