The “Darkness at Nunes” Edition
Slate News
Slate Podcasts
4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2017
⏱️ 63 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Gabfest hosts discuss Devin Nunes and the investigation into Russian interference in the Presidential election, what follows failure of the new health care bill and how to define President Trump's plan for energy independence.
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
Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for March 30th, 2017, The Darkness at Nunes edition. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas of Secura. |
| 0:19.0 | Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine is New Haven. |
| 0:22.8 | Hi, Emily. |
| 0:24.3 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:24.9 | New Haven. New Haven. |
| 0:27.6 | Any one of those, all three of those places. |
| 0:30.5 | John Dickerson is, I don't know where he is. |
| 0:34.5 | I think it's spring break or something. |
| 0:36.4 | He gets it. |
| 0:36.7 | He's gotten a day off. |
| 0:38.4 | They've released him on work release. He's probably working somewhere. So we don't have John today, but that's okay because we have Jamel Bowie Slate's chief political correspondent here in D.C. with me. Hello, Jamel. Hello. On this week's Gab Fest, Devin Nunes, is he a useful idiot, an American patriot, an actual villain? |
| 0:57.2 | We'll talk about the... Oh. On this week's Gab Fest, Devin Nunes, is he a useful idiot, an American patriot, an actual |
| 0:56.0 | villain? |
| 0:57.0 | We'll talk about the bizarre collapse of the House Intelligence Committee and the investigation |
| 1:03.0 | into Donald Trump's campaign ties to Russia. |
| 1:08.0 | Then will Democrats overplay their hand after the abject collapse of Trump care? |
| 1:14.5 | And then why are so many people on the right so obsessed with coal? |
| 1:19.8 | And we'll talk about Donald Trump's new climate plan, such as it is, his plan to make the climate worse. |
| 1:27.0 | Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:28.3 | And for Slate Plus, we're going back and forth, but I'm making a game time decision. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.