The “I'm From the Government and I'm Here to Help” Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Emily Bazelon, Jamelle Bouie and John Dickerson discuss the state of the Republican Party with less than a month to go before the first primary, President Obama's latest effort to improve gun control and gabfest hosts talk with author Jacob Weisberg about his new book, Ronald Reagan. 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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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.6	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 8th.
0:15.0	The I'm from the government and I'm here to help addition.
0:19.3	I'm Emily Bazlan, Staff Rider for the New York Times Magazine.
0:22.6	Happy New Year, everybody.
0:24.2	Joining me in Washington is John Dickerson, host of Face the Nation.
0:28.0	Hey, John.
0:28.7	Hello, Emily.
0:29.6	David is out, still galavanting.
0:32.4	Weeks of vacation apparently weren't enough for him.
0:35.1	No, actually, I think he is working.
0:36.8	But in any case, it doesn't matter because we are in the excellent company
0:40.6	of Jamal Buie Slate's Chief Political Correspondent.
0:44.0	Hey, Jamal.
0:45.2	Hello.
0:45.9	Hello.
0:46.7	OK, so on this week's show, I'm hosting.
0:50.0	Watch out, everyone.
0:51.4	We will talk about the state of the Republican presidential race.
0:55.6	I happily lost track of it over the vacation, but it is with us.
0:59.5	And it is actually less than a month, John informs me,
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