The Deep Doo-Doo of Dershowitz

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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On the Gist, Pam Bondi at the impeachment trial. In the interview, journalist Ezra Klein is here to discuss his new book Why We're Polarized. They debate if extremism and polarization are related, and talk about the increasing difficulty of compromise, and if there's a solution to this problem. In the spiel, Alan Dershowitz's terrible argument. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following recording may contain explicit language.
0:02.8	I can't get more explicit than May.
0:05.6	Let's just say it may.
0:07.0	["Minecraft Theme Song"]
0:11.0	It's Thursday, January 30th, 2020, from Slate,
0:14.0	it's the Gisdai Mike Pesca.
0:16.0	The dribs and drabs and threads and shreds
0:18.4	of impeachment contain interesting little nuggets.
0:21.2	But these are, of course, just the tiny pebbles,
0:24.4	compared to the small boulder, the size of a large boulder
0:27.4	that is the essential truth of the impeachment trial
0:30.2	and very likely acquittal of Donald J. Trump,
0:32.6	that truth being that he's likely to be acquitted,
0:35.4	very likely, in fact.
0:37.0	But indulge me as I share some stray observations.
0:39.9	I enjoyed yesterday, Trump lawyer Pat Filben,
0:42.4	answering a question from Louisiana Senator John Kennedy
0:45.4	about the blanket refusal of the White House
0:48.5	to allow witnesses to testify.
0:50.4	The idea that there was blanket defiance and no explanation
0:54.5	and no case law from the White House is simply incorrect.
0:59.6	I put up slides showing...
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