The “Forgive Everything and Count Every One” Edition
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🗓️ 25 April 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Democrats’ impeachment dilemma, the Supreme Court case that could wreck the census, and Elizabeth Warren’s plan for college debt forgiveness.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for April 25th, 2019, the Forgive Everything and Count Everyone edition. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in CBS Radio Nirvana with John Dickerson of CBS |
| 0:24.6 | this morning. Hello, John. Hello, David. You and I are wearing somewhat similar shirts. |
| 0:31.4 | That's true. Although, as we are on brand, yours is tucked in and mine isn't. And I've |
| 0:37.1 | sweated through mine and you have not |
| 0:38.4 | sweated for yours that's true these by the way for the listening audience these are sort of what would |
| 0:43.3 | you call these checked shirts they're checked shirts yeah that laughter that riotous laughter you heard down |
| 0:49.4 | the line was from emily basil on of the near times and the book charged, the best-selling book charged. |
| 0:56.7 | Emily, where are you? You're not with us. I'm in Kansas City, Missouri. Thank you for asking. |
| 1:01.5 | Well, you're seeing getting outside the Beltway finally and seen. That's right. I'm in the heartland. |
| 1:06.9 | Heartland of the country. We are taping on Wednesday, so keep in mind, as you listen, |
| 1:13.1 | the world could be totally different tomorrow. The gardens could be blooming. There could be |
| 1:17.4 | full ripe fruit on the vine. A gentle rain could falleth from heaven and taste like ambrosia |
| 1:23.0 | tomorrow, not today. Probably not. Anyway, on this week's Gab Fest, should Democrats begin the process of impeaching President Trump over the extraordinary misbehavior described in the Mueller report? |
| 1:36.3 | Then the Supreme Court hears the big census citizenship case. |
| 1:41.7 | What's going to happen there? |
| 1:43.4 | And then Elizabeth Warren rolls out another mega public policy idea, a college loan |
| 1:48.6 | forgiveness scheme. |
| 1:50.3 | Wow. |
| 1:51.0 | She's on a roll that Elizabeth Warren. |
| 1:53.0 | And of course, we will have cocktail chatter. |
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