The “Infinity War” Edition
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🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the government shutdown, new Russia connections revealed in the Mueller investigation, and why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is getting so much attention.
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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 January 10th, 2018, the Infinity War edition. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C. John Dickerson of CBS this morning is back after a brief hiatus elsewhere. Hi, John Dickerson. Where are you? You're in New York. Hi, I'm in New York City. I'm in the CBS radio offices. Oh, you said that with a good sonorous CBS radio kind of voice. And Emily, the Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine, is in New Haven. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:40.8 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:42.1 | On this week's show, the government shutdown, week 47, how long will it continue? |
| 0:49.3 | Is there anything that could break the stalemate that we have on the government shutdown and the wall, |
| 0:57.2 | then the latest developments in the Mueller investigation. What do they portend for the overall |
| 1:03.5 | investigation? Is there now evidence of collusion? Plus, why is everybody, including us, |
| 1:09.9 | so obsessed with Alexandria Ocasia Cortez? |
| 1:13.3 | We will talk about her and the interest in her and then her ideas, which are really fascinating. |
| 1:18.6 | Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:20.3 | And before we get any further, got an exciting announcement. |
| 1:23.5 | John Emily, you didn't even know this was coming. |
| 1:25.0 | We have a live show coming up here in Washington, D.C., my hometown at the Lincoln Theater, on Wednesday, March 27th. |
| 1:32.6 | Wednesday, March 27th. |
| 1:34.4 | And this is not just a regular show because we're going to have a special Emily Bazelon book show. |
| 1:41.1 | Emily's new book, Charged. |
| 1:42.5 | Yes. |
| 1:43.2 | Charged. |
| 1:43.8 | The new movement to transform American prosecution and end mass incarceration, which is great. I know. book, Charged. Yes. Charged. The new movement to transform American prosecution |
| 1:45.8 | and end mass incarceration, which is great. I know. I've read it. It's going to be available for |
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