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Political Gabfest

The “Al Franken and Charlie Rose and Bill Clinton and Roy Moore and John Conyers Should All Resign” Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

David Plotz, Zoe Chace of This American Life, and Chairman of The Slate Group, Jacob Weisberg discuss the state of the GOP tax bills, the case for resignation by perpetrators of sexual harassment and the health of the magazine industry.  Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/gabfestplus. Twitter: @SlateGabfest Facebook: facebook.com/Gabfest Email: gabfest@slate.com Show notes at slate.com/gabfest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.2

[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪

0:10.7

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for November 23rd, 2017.

0:14.6

The Al Franken and Charlie Rose and Bill Clinton and Roy Moore and John Connure

0:18.1

should all resign.

0:19.3

Edition.

0:20.4

I am David Plotsett with Spasgera.

0:22.0

I'm in Slate's New York studio and I'm surrounded by goodness.

0:27.0

John and Emily are getting early start to their Thanksgiving, but that doesn't matter because

0:32.1

we have two great guests to my right Slate Chairman and Trump Castos Jacob Weisberg.

0:37.5

Hello Jacob.

0:38.3

Hello David, happy Thanksgiving right back at you.

0:40.9

And making her Gap Fest debut producer of this American life Zoe Chase.

0:45.5

Hello Zoe.

0:46.3

Hello.

0:46.8

Thank you.

0:47.1

Welcome to the Al Franken Fest.

0:48.2

Zoe and I were just discussing him met only once before, which is that we met on the night of

0:53.7

the 2016 election.

0:54.8

We were both performing in a Slate live show at the Bell House.

0:59.6

It was a surreal evening.

1:00.6

It was a surreal evening.

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