The “Open Hostility” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss the state of U.S.-North Korea relations, Stacey Abrams’ Georgia primary win, and Trump’s call for an investigation of his investigators.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this late political gap test for May 24th, 2018, the open hostility edition of the Gab Fest. |
| 0:14.5 | I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:17.6 | I never have open hostility. |
| 0:19.2 | I try to keep my hostility covert. That's not true. |
| 0:23.6 | That's like an unself-aware |
| 0:26.2 | I was just making a joke |
| 0:28.3 | for the sake of the show. |
| 0:30.6 | Man, talk about who's Kim Jong Unning here. |
| 0:35.5 | Me. I'll play Kim Jong-Ongue. |
| 0:37.4 | Emily Baz, John. I think he has the upper hand right now. I'll play Kim Jong-O. Emily Baz, John. |
| 0:38.9 | I think he has the upper hand right now. |
| 0:40.0 | I'll be him. |
| 0:40.9 | Unning for you. |
| 0:42.2 | That, of course, was Emily Bazelan, un of New York Times Magazine. |
| 0:48.4 | And then that other voice, who is maybe the Xi Jinping of this showdown is John Dickerson of CBS this morning. |
| 0:56.6 | Hello, John. |
| 0:57.8 | Hi. |
| 0:58.6 | On this week's gap, as President Trump on Thursday morning this morning canceled his planned, much, much brooded, much anticipated summit with Kim Jong-un of North Korea. |
| 1:10.4 | What will happen next? |
| 1:12.7 | Then, who knew that the Russia investigation could get more toxic, more dangerous, and more confusing? |
| 1:19.0 | We all knew. We all did. But still, there are a lot of new developments. |
| 1:23.7 | Then Stacey Abrams dominated the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Georgia and could become the first African-American woman elected governor in American history is her base first strategy the way for Democrats to win. |
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