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Political Gabfest

The “Farewell My Blue-Eyed Monster” Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss whether Donald Trump should be panicking about the raid on Michael Cohen’s office, what Paul Ryan’s retirement portends, and Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress.  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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:40.5

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for April 12, 2018.

0:44.2

The Farewell My Blue Eyed Monster Edition.

0:47.5

I am David Plotsvout.

0:48.8

Sculra John Dickerson of CBS This Morning is in New York City. Hello John.

0:54.7

Hello and good morning.

0:56.1

And in New Haven is Emily Bavlon of the New York Times Magazine Howdy Emily.

1:00.9

Hello to both of you.

1:02.4

I can see Emily. I cannot see you John on on G-Chat.

1:05.8

And Emily looks about 58 feet tall because of the camera angle.

1:08.9

It's it's actually quite daunting.

1:10.7

You can intimidate the hell out of me Emily even more than usual this week.

1:14.0

I'm now I'm like making myself is throwing my arms out to make myself as scary as I am.

1:18.8

I think I'm going to stand up and just make bear noises.

1:21.8

Okay on on this week's Gap Fest the raid on the office of

1:28.4

Michael Cohen the president's lawyer and fixer will it prompt the president to fire special

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