The "One Year and One Day" Edition

Political Gabfest

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News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Tuesday’s victories for Democrats, Trump’s first year, and the role of technology companies in Russian meddling. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at 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.
0:11.3	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for November 9th, 2017, the one year and one day
0:17.0	edition. I'm David Plots of Atlas Obscura. I'm alone in a Washington DC studio. That's because
0:24.0	John Dickerson of CBS's Face the Nation is where are you John? I'm in Cambridge where there's a
0:31.6	school called Harvard University. I am near the green pastures of Harvard University, but I did not
0:36.9	go there. Let's just establish that clearly from the start. And that other voice is of course
0:44.6	the New York Times is Emily, New York Times magazines, excuse me, Emily Bazzle and hello Emily.
0:49.0	Where are you? Are you near the campus of an Ivy League University?
0:53.6	Well, no. I'm in Brooklyn, which I loved yearly, but it's non-N Ivy League University.
0:59.0	Last night I was at NYU for a very nice event put on by the Bren Center. So that's like kind of
1:04.0	counts. I guess it does. On this week's Gap Fest, the Democrats, Wallop Republicans, in Virginia,
1:12.0	New Jersey, even Georgia on Tuesday night. What does this herald for 2018? Then it's been 366 days
1:21.6	since the 2016 election. What is worse or better in the country than you expected or we expected
1:29.0	how remarkable has the Trump administration been? What kind of shape are we in politically? We'll
1:36.4	try to answer all those questions in just 14 minutes. Then Congress has put the biggest tech
1:41.8	companies Facebook, Google, and Twitter in particular on the spot over Russian meddling in the 2016
1:46.7	election. What should be done about regulating or not regulating? Big tech when it comes to politics
1:53.3	and propaganda. Plus we'll have cocktail chatter. And we are starting to collect conundrums for our
2:00.8	upcoming live show and Boston, our annual conundrum show. You can email us at gapfestit'slate.com
2:08.4	with a conundrum. You can write us at Facebook.com slash gapfest on our Facebook page. You can
2:14.6	tweet at us at at slate gapfest. Send us your great conundrums. You've already sent us a whole
2:18.7	bunch of good ones, but send us more. And even better yet, comment to the live show on December 6th
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