Political Gabfest - Trump Wore Pajamas
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🗓️ 11 May 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Stormy Daniels’s testimony in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial; marijuana rescheduling; and the media’s role and responsibility in defending democracy.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Josh Gerstein for Politico: Stormy spoke. Trump fumed. Jurors were captivated – but also cringed.
Ivana Saric for Axios: Status of Trump’s criminal cases
Li Zhou for Vox: Marijuana could be classified as a lower-risk drug. Here’s what that means.
Sam Tabachnik for The Denver Post: Black market marijuana grows are popping up faster than law enforcement can take them down. But is legalization the cause?
John Ingold for The Colorado Sun: What have we learned about the arguments for and against legalized marijuana in the past 10 years?
Nathaniel Meyersohn for CNN: The dark side of the sports betting boom
C-SPAN: President Biden Remarks at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Ben Smith for Semafor: Joe Kahn: ‘The newsroom is not a safe space’
Dan Pfeiffer for Message Box: Why Biden Won’t Do a New York Times Interview and A Response to the Editor of the New York Times
Matthew Yglesias and Brian Beutler for the Politix Podcast: The Times, They Aren’t A Changin’
Charles Homans for The New York Times Magazine: Donald Trump Has Never Sounded Like This
Eli Stokols for Politico: The Petty Feud Between the NYT and the White House
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice by David S. Tatel
John: Gina Kolata for The New York Times: Locks of Beethoven’s Hair Offer New Clues to the Mystery of His Deafness
David: Randy Yohe for West Virginia Public Broadcasting: W.Va. Gubernatorial Campaign Attack Ads Vilify Transgender Children and Kyndall Cunningham for Vox: The Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar feud, explained
Listener chatter from Justin and Katie in Columbus, Ohio: Keziah Weir for Vanity Fair: The Vatican’s Secret Role in the Science of IVF.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily talk with Emily Lawler, Detroit Free Press. See Emily Lawler for the Detroit Free Press: Voters’ voices in Saginaw County; John Wisely: Legal troubles don’t dampen Trump enthusiasm as he visits Michigan; and Paul Egan: As Trump visits, Michigan bellwether Saginaw County is feeling its political juice. See also Arpan Lobo: Michigan lawmaker says ‘illegal invaders’ landed at DTW. They were NCAA basketball teams.
In the latest Gabfest Reads, John talks with David E. Sanger about his new book, New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West.
Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth
Research by Julie Huygen
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Cabfest. May 9th, 2024, the Trump War Pyjamas edition. I'm David Platts of CityCast in Washington, D.C. I have no |
| 0:24.2 | Crow update this week. I'm sorry. From CBS Daily Report, in New York City, John Dickerson, |
| 0:30.5 | perhaps has pigeon or hawk or owl update since those are the popular birds of New York. |
| 0:35.4 | Any pigeon, hawk, or owl updates, John. |
| 0:38.0 | No, but the red-shouldered blackbird we were walking a couple of weeks ago by a field that had, they were having a |
| 0:46.4 | convention of some sort and they'd all had too much to drink. They were so loud and so happy |
| 0:52.3 | and so springtime. It was we just had to sit there |
| 0:55.8 | and be pelted by the cacophony. It was really great. From New Haven, the New York |
| 1:02.1 | Times magazine in Yale University Law School, |
| 1:04.4 | our very own Wise Owl, Emily Maslon. |
| 1:08.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:09.0 | That's what a great way to start the morning to be a Wise Owl. |
| 1:11.6 | I'll take it. You're a Wise Owl every week, Emily. This week on the Gap... the encounter with former President Trump in front of Trump. What does this testimony |
| 1:26.4 | matter from a legal and or political perspective? Then the Biden administration |
| 1:31.3 | moves to make marijuana slightly less illegal. |
| 1:35.0 | We are going to discuss the state of weed in America. |
| 1:38.2 | And then is the New York Times screwing up its coverage of the presidential campaign doesn't matter. |
| 1:43.2 | We're going to talk about the dust up over New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn's |
| 1:47.2 | interview about the role of the Times at a time of Democratic peril. |
| 1:51.4 | Plus we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:53.2 | And listeners, if you're in DC on May 14th, |
| 1:56.7 | you have to go to the Amicus live show, |
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