Political Gabfest - What Is Herschel Walker Lying About Today?
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🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the new Supreme Court term; Herschel Walker’s abortion lies; and the legal mess Dobbs created for doctors providing abortion via telemedicine.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Emily Bazelon for The New York Times Magazine: “The Doctors Risking Everything to Offer Abortions Across State Lines”
The New York Times: “Is Elon Musk’s Deal to Buy Twitter Back On? Here’s What We Know.”
Here are this week’s chatters:
John: Brian Hutton for The Irish Times: “Irishman Nears Galway After 112 Days of Rowing Across Atlantic From New York”; Damian Browne on Instagram: auld_stock
Emily: CNN: “‘We've Got Weights In Fish!': See The Moment Cheaters Are Caught During Fishing Tournament’”
David: Adam Dalva, The New Yorker: “Letters to Jeb Bush”
Listener chatter from Jamaica Popejoy: Staged
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss the latest in the saga of Elon Musk and Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabb Vest. |
| 0:16.0 | October 6, 2022, the What's Herschel Walker line about today edition? |
| 0:21.7 | I am David Plotts of CityCast, I'm in Washington, D.C., I'm joined from New Haven, Connecticut |
| 0:29.0 | by Emily Bazzlon of the New York Times Magazine, author of an amazing New York Times magazine |
| 0:32.8 | story that we will discuss and Yale University Law School Hello, Emily. |
| 0:35.8 | Hey David, thank you. |
| 0:37.6 | And by John Dickerson of CBS Primetime with John Dickerson from New York City, hello John. |
| 0:44.3 | Hello David, hello Emily. |
| 0:45.9 | This week on the Gabb Vest, the Supreme Court begins at what promises to be a radical |
| 0:50.6 | term with huge shifts in American law and legal standards. We'll preview it. |
| 0:55.9 | Then Herschel Walker allegedly paid for an abortion but will apparently pay no political price |
| 1:02.8 | for his brazen hypocrisy. Why is that? Then Emily has written a really interesting piece |
| 1:10.0 | also about abortion and about the fight over medication abortion and the legal consequences |
| 1:15.6 | for doctors and other medical professionals as abortion becomes a differentially legal |
| 1:22.9 | in different parts of the country and how those folks who want to support abortion rights are |
| 1:28.3 | preparing for what will be a huge legal battle. We will talk about that great story. |
| 1:33.2 | Plus, of course, we'll have cocktail chatter and remind our listeners that we're coming |
| 1:36.4 | to Atlanta on Wednesday, November 2nd. We will be live at Georgia Tech's first center for |
| 1:43.2 | the arts at 7 p.m. Go to slate.com slash Gabb Vest Live. There are still tickets. We would love to |
| 1:48.4 | see you there. Last time we were in Atlanta, we had an amazing show at Georgia Tech and I can't |
| 1:54.0 | imagine a better time to be in Atlanta in Georgia talking about politics in November 2nd |
| 1:59.2 | in a couple of weeks and several weeks. So slate.com slash Gabb Vest Live, please join us. |
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