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Political Gabfest

The “Lost His Mind” Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the buzz around Trump's relationship with Steve Bannon, partisanship within the Russia investigation, and a new (real) study about fake news. 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

Transcript

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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, a political gap test for January 4, 2018.

0:14.4

The loss of his mind edition.

0:17.4

I am David Fawkes of Atlas.

0:19.0

I'm Scriur.

0:19.6

I am in Washington, DC.

0:21.3

Happy New Year to all.

0:23.2

We haven't been with you for two weeks.

0:24.6

Haven't been with John.

0:25.6

Dickerson for two weeks, but here he is.

0:27.1

Hello, John.

0:27.9

Hi.

0:28.4

I'm David.

0:28.9

David's face the nation.

0:29.6

Although I must say, people feel like they've been with us

0:33.4

maybe even more deeply than before, since the response to the conundrum show has been

0:38.9

really elemental.

0:40.9

Elemental.

0:41.5

What conundrum most spoke to people that you heard about?

0:44.9

I heard from somebody who, I guess you would plot on a different side of the ideological

0:50.4

spectrum from you, but who found themselves constantly agreeing with you.

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