The “Contempt of Congress” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Trump’s showdown with Congress, the trade war with China, and what “socialism” means to Democrats.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.2 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for May 9th, 2019, The Contempt of Congress Edition. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:18.6 | I am in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:26.8 | And Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School is where? |
| 0:27.6 | Are you, Emily? |
| 0:29.6 | What city do we find you in? |
| 0:31.9 | I am on Liberty Street in San Francisco. |
| 0:36.6 | On your book tour, on the Endless Rolling Thunder book tour of Charged. |
| 0:41.4 | Some day will end, but in the meantime, I like the idea that I'm on Liberty Street. |
| 0:43.3 | That didn't get any reaction. |
| 0:44.3 | I was disappointed. |
| 0:46.7 | Not on Liberty Street. |
| 0:53.5 | On West 57th Street is John Dickerson of CBS, kind of CBS this morning. |
| 0:56.1 | He wish he is on Liberty Street now. |
| 0:59.1 | He's liberated his new job, which we'll hear about later today. |
| 0:59.8 | Hello, John. |
| 1:00.9 | Hi, David. |
| 1:02.3 | This week's scabfest. |
| 1:08.7 | First, the most dangerous moment, quite possibly, in American governmental history, I would argue. |
| 1:09.5 | Really? |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah, we'll talk about it. An executive branch that refused to submit... American governmental history, I would argue. Really? Really? Yeah. |
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