The Most Abusive and Destructive

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz discuss the Iowa debacle, Mitt Romney’s impeachment vote, and Trump’s expanded immigration ban. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, and John discuss George Packer’s acceptance speech for the Hitchens Prize, published in the Atlantic: “The Enemies of Writing.” You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter or post it to our Facebook page. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for February 6, 2020.
0:10.5	The most abusive and destructive edition I am David Plott's about to obscure I'm in
0:15.8	Washington DC where I am sick as a dog.
0:18.8	So if I sound low energy, Jeb Bush like low energy, to attribute it to that.
0:25.2	Joining me from New York is John Degersend of CBS 60 Mets.
0:30.4	Hello John.
0:31.4	Well, hello, hello, hello.
0:34.1	And from the campus of Yale University, Emily Bowslont of the New York Times magazine.
0:40.1	Hi Emily.
0:41.1	Hey.
0:42.1	On today's Gap Fest, the debacle of the Iowa caucuses and what that debacle means for the
0:48.0	democratic presidential race and for the general election even, then the president is
0:53.9	acquitted in an extraordinary vote in the Senate, Mitt Romney casts an unprecedented
1:00.9	vote to convict him on one of the counts that he was impeached for.
1:05.5	Plus we'll talk about that spectacle of the state of the union.
1:08.0	There was so much going on on Capitol Hill this week.
1:12.2	And then another despicable change to immigration policy brought to you by the Trump administration.
1:17.1	We'll talk about it.
1:18.1	Plus of course we will have a cocktail chatter.
1:21.8	So Iowa Monday night is generally true that anything in life you think you're going to
1:25.8	fix with technology, you are going to mess up with technology or going to make it worse
1:29.2	at least for a time.
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