The “Eight Count” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2018
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Tuesday’s conviction of Manafort, Cohen’s guilty plea and McGahn’s cooperation with the special counsel as well as the Kavanaugh nomination.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 23rd, 2018, the 8-count edition. |
| 0:13.5 | We got the gang back together for one of the craziest weeks we've had, even in this crazy Trump presidency. Oh, my goodness gracious. I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:25.1 | Emily Bazelon of New York Times Magazine is in New Haven. She was just showing us her spork, which was covered with her own hair, which was so gross. |
| 0:31.6 | Wait a minute. We did not need to convey that to people in the populace. |
| 0:38.3 | And it was in my bag, my purse. |
| 0:41.6 | I have hair that comes out. |
| 0:44.3 | Okay. |
| 0:45.1 | All right. |
| 0:45.6 | That was John Dickerson of CBS this morning, rising to Emily Bazelon's defense. |
| 0:50.2 | John's in New York. |
| 0:50.7 | Hello, John. |
| 0:51.3 | Hey. |
| 0:52.4 | It's just, I feel like we haven't done a show together in so long. |
| 0:54.8 | No, you know what is? The space time continuum has been rendered by the rapidity of the news cycle. |
| 1:02.7 | That is, that is well said. So on this week's GabFest, such momentous news, we are going to devote two topics worth of time and discussion to the |
| 1:11.9 | massive Tuesday convictions of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, as well as the news that White |
| 1:17.4 | House counsel Don McGahn has been talking lengthily with Robert Mueller's team. |
| 1:22.1 | What is going to happen in the Mueller investigation? |
| 1:24.9 | What is the political response to the convictions guilty plea is going to be? |
| 1:29.6 | And so much more. |
| 1:31.4 | Then the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination gets spicy. |
| 1:35.8 | We'll talk about that. |
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