Political Gabfest - What’s in Trump’s Safe?
Political Gabfest
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4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and Juliette Kayyem discuss the Mar-a-Lago search; the Inflation Reduction Act; and Caitlin Dickerson’s article investigating how separating families at the border became U.S. policy.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Caitlin Dickerson for The Atlantic: “An American Catastrophe: The Secret History of Family Separation”
Juliette Kayyem for The Atlantic: “The Bad and Good News About Trump’s Violent Supporters”
Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving, by Caitlin DeSilvey
Serena Williams and Rob Haskell for Vogue: “Serena Williams Says Farewell to Tennis On Her Own Terms—And In Her Own Words”
Claudia Rankine for The New York Times Magazine: “The Meaning of Serena Williams”
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: “Downbad” by PJ Frantz
Juliette: Jim Farber for The New York Times: “Olivia Newton-John, Pop Singer and ‘Grease’ Star, Dies at 73”
David: Jack Fitzpatrick for Bloomberg Government: “Old Capitol Stones to Be Stored Away After Decades Piled in Park”
Listener chatter from Sebastian Cray: The Bingham Cup
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, Juliette, and David discuss Serena Williams’ retirement from tennis.
Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
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Research by Bridgette Dunlap.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the slight political gap fest. |
| 0:15.6 | For August 11th, 2022, it's the What's in Trump's Safe Edition. |
| 0:21.7 | I am David Plott's of CityCast here in Washington, DC, joining me from New Haven, Emily Bazelon, |
| 0:28.8 | the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. |
| 0:31.2 | Hello, Emily, how are you? |
| 0:33.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:34.4 | And John is still away somewhere, but that doesn't matter because we have our beloved regular |
| 0:43.3 | Juliet Kayam of Harvard's Hendy School and the author of the Devil Never Sleeps Hello |
| 0:47.9 | Juliet from wherever you are. |
| 0:50.2 | Also New England. |
| 0:51.2 | Good hello. |
| 0:52.2 | James Townward Island. |
| 0:53.9 | This week on the gap fest, why did the FBI search Mar-a-Lago and will it be politically |
| 0:59.5 | damaging for the Democrats that they did so? |
| 1:02.0 | Then how big a deal is the Inflation Reduction Act? |
| 1:05.2 | Has Joe Biden had the most successful presidential month since Lyndon Baines Johnson? |
| 1:12.5 | And then the full story of Trump's cruel and ineffective family separation policy has |
| 1:17.0 | finally been told. |
| 1:18.0 | We will talk to Atlantic reporter Caitlin Dickerson about her exhaustive and grueling account |
| 1:23.2 | of one of Trump's worst policies. |
| 1:25.8 | Plus we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:27.9 | Soar into a new age of adventure with World of Warcraft Dragonflight. |
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