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Political Gabfest

Special: The "Kavanaugh in Crisis" Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this special bonus episode, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz discuss the sexual misconduct allegations facing Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:06.0

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabfet,

0:08.2

a special edition of the Slate Political Gabfet

0:10.4

for September 17th, 2018, the Kavanaugh

0:13.2

and Crisis Edition.

0:15.1

I am David Plots of Atlas Obscura.

0:17.0

I am in Washington, D.C.

0:19.2

Emily Bazlon of The New York Times Magazine

0:22.0

joins me from New Haven.

0:24.6

How are you, Emily?

0:25.8

I am fine.

0:26.6

I'm so glad to talk to you about this,

0:28.6

because we already were tweeting about it to each other.

0:32.2

I know.

0:32.7

It's very exciting.

0:33.5

So we do not have John Dickerson with us,

0:35.2

but that's OK.

0:36.0

You will provide calm, refereeing at a distance,

0:40.2

and we'll just feel we'll channel him.

0:41.8

But we are coming to you, of course, on this Monday,

0:44.8

because there's so much news around the Brett Kavanaugh

0:48.2

nomination, which is put perhaps in peril

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