Political Gabfest - Two Stents
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🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss the fiery Democratic debate, Trump’s white-collar pardoning spree, and A Very Stable Genius with authors Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 20th, 2020, the two stents edition. |
| 0:17.2 | I am David Plotz, I'll subscribe. I have zero stents at the moment. I'm sure I'll get to some. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm in Washington, D.C. joining me from New Haven from the campus of Yale University is Emily |
| 0:28.3 | Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily. Not going to ask you how many stents you have. |
| 0:33.4 | I could use some stents. How about that? No. I hope not. No. No stents for Emily. |
| 0:40.2 | I feel like I sort of need life support this week. I'm just having a hard week at work. |
| 0:44.5 | But yes, no, I don't need any stents. It's true. Thank you for your concern, though. |
| 0:48.8 | Not stents, just caffeine and good wishes. People send good wishes at you. |
| 0:55.1 | That no, of course, was from John Dickerson of CBS' 60 Minutes from New York. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello, John. |
| 1:01.0 | Hi. |
| 1:01.9 | I'm not going to ask how many stints you have or how long ago you got them put in. |
| 1:07.6 | No, I don't have any, but I'm... |
| 1:10.2 | Anyway, we need to go down that road, yeah. On today's GabFest, the extreme... No, I don't have any, but I'm – anyway. |
| 1:11.2 | Anyway. |
| 1:22.5 | On today's GabFest, the extraordinary debate that livened up the Democratic primary, what is going on, and is Bernie Sanders about to run away with it? |
| 1:24.7 | And is Michael Bloomberg done so already? |
| 1:32.9 | Then the president's obscene pardons of rich white people and his general efforts to warp American justice. Then we are joined by the authors a very stable |
| 1:39.1 | genius to discuss their alarming book about the Trump presidency. Plus, of course, we'll have |
| 1:43.1 | cocktail chatter. Last night, what a debate. Plus, of course, we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:47.0 | Last night, what a debate. |
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