The Flood Trap That Houston Built

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Slate's Henry Grabar explains how rampant building in the Houston suburbs have made the area worse for wear during Tropical Storm Harvey. And in the Spiel, guest-host Osita Nwanevu breaks his self-imposed moratorium against criticizing columnist David Brooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Maltesers, Salutes, Ben.
0:03.5	He's a rage in mother love.
0:06.9	When it comes to working mums, he'd rather lend a hand.
0:10.4	Than point of finger.
0:12.1	Join the mother lovers at maltesers.co.uk.
0:16.4	Maltesers.
0:17.9	Let's lighten the load for working mums.
0:20.1	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:23.5	Maltesers.
0:27.9	It's Tuesday, August 29, 2017.
0:30.7	From Slate, it's the gist with Ossido and Nevoo filling in for Mike Pesca.
0:34.4	It's been a very long and depressing August for just about anyone following the news.
0:37.7	Obviously, Hurricane Harvey, as I'll speak to Slate's Henry Gabbara about in just a bit,
0:42.4	is freighted the month even further with tragedy.
0:44.9	August though has been relatively light on further developments in the Intermittable Russia scandal.
0:49.4	When we last left off earlier this month, it seemed like special counsel Robert Miller's investigation
0:54.4	was heating up as well as speculation that Trump might fire Miller,
0:57.9	should he finally lose his patience with the whole thing.
1:00.9	Now yesterday a new story broke.
1:02.9	In New York Times reported that in 2015, Trump associate Felix Seder,
1:07.4	told Trump lawyer Michael Cohen that he was working to have Russian President Vladimir Putin,
1:11.4	pushed through a deal for a Trump tower in Moscow,
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