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Political Gabfest

The “All County Building Supply and Maintenance” Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss the Kavanaugh controversy, Trump’s apparent tax evasion, and whether the new North American trade deal is better than the old one.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.1

Hi.

0:03.3

How good?

0:04.3

How are you?

0:04.8

I'm good.

0:07.0

Okay.

0:09.6

Here we go.

0:10.6

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for October 4th, 2018, the All-County

0:14.6

Building Supply and Maintenance Edition.

0:16.6

I am David Ploss of Atlas Obscura.

0:19.2

That was a chuckling John Dickerson of CBS this morning.

0:23.8

Thanks for the chuckle, John.

0:24.8

Oh, you brighten my day, David.

0:27.6

It sounded so forced and sad.

0:30.7

No.

0:31.8

Oh, my God.

0:32.8

What a negative interpretation.

0:35.2

So obligatory.

0:38.2

Oh, my God.

0:39.6

It was, it did feel, also, it did feel for it.

0:41.6

Did it?

0:42.3

Oh, my God.

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