Slate: The "Can Anyone Stop This Darn Immigration Bill?" Gabfest

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 21 June 2013

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Senate debates immigration, the NSA doubles down on surveillance, and Obama takes a hit in the polls. Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Slate Political Gab Fest is brought to you by the University of California. For almost 150 years,
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0:26.8	when you visit stamps.com and use the promo code GabFest. The following podcast contains explicit
0:34.1	language.
0:44.9	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for June 21st, 2013.
0:47.8	The Can Anyone Stop This Darn Immigration Bill Edition?
0:52.8	I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate, here in Washington with John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent.
0:53.8	Hello.
0:54.4	Hello, David. And in New York today, not New Haven, is Emily Bazelon fresh off her debut on This American
1:01.8	Life. Hello, Emily. Hello, David. Did you enjoy your This American Life appearance? I did.
1:08.0	Oh, you were on This American Life? That's great. I was, and they had me drink
1:11.7	vodka before taping. I asked if they did this for all their uptight guests. They said, well,
1:17.2	it's been tried before. You're not uptight? That's not fair. What was the topic? It was the death
1:21.4	penalty. The topic was like executions. It was very serious topic about a terrible law that passed in
1:27.4	Florida speeding up executions.
1:29.0	I recommend it to you.
1:30.2	Eight minutes of your life.
1:31.1	I saw your slate piece about it.
1:33.6	Yes, it had a slate life as well.
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