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The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. The Pentagon's third-in-command is reportedly losing his job, and it's hardly making news. As the Defense Department's first-ever chief management officer, John Gibson is in charge of saving billions of dollars for reinvestment. He's to be fired because of a reported "lack of performance," but Defense News' Aaron Mehta says the task was nearly impossible in the first place. In the Spiel, who really wrote that New York Times op-ed? 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.
0:06.8	["Main Theme Song"]
0:10.7	It's Thursday, September 6, 2018.
0:13.5	From Slate, it's the gist.
0:14.7	I'm Mike Pasco.
0:15.4	You know, I watch a few Senate hearings in my time.
0:18.3	Yet nothing redies you for the moment.
0:20.6	When the junior senator from New Jersey
0:22.7	responds to the senior senator from Texas,
0:25.8	like a disgruntled, sigma new might address
0:27.7	one of those annoying fide-outs
0:29.2	who just spilled the beer on his good shirt.
0:32.1	Bring it, bring it.
0:33.3	What you got, bro, you want to throw down?
0:35.8	We'll throw.
0:37.2	Well, this showdown was about an issue that
0:40.3	was actually quite recondite and technical,
0:42.8	though, in the service of confirming
0:45.2	a Supreme Court justice whose decisions will be really easy
0:48.1	to understand and have a lot of impact.
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