The “Pardon Me” Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Emily Bazelon, Jamelle Bouie, and Jack Hitt, co-host of Gimlet’s Uncivil, discuss the census citizenship question, Trump’s brewing legal trouble, and gerrymandering. 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

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest, the pardon me edition for March 29,
0:13.1	2018.
0:14.1	I'm Emily Baselon.
0:16.2	John and David are, I don't know where they are, off on vacation, but who needs them anyway?
0:22.4	Because I'm here with two excellent guests, Jamel Buley, who is the Chief Political
0:27.7	Correspondent for Slate, Hey Jamel.
0:29.7	Hello.
0:30.7	Hello.
0:31.7	And Jack Hit, who is a co-host of Uncivil, Gimlet's Amazing Podcast about the hidden history
0:38.1	of the Civil War, which you should all go and download as soon as you finish listening
0:41.8	to this show.
0:42.8	Hey, Jack, thanks for joining us.
0:44.3	Hey, Emily.
0:45.3	Hey, Jamel.
0:46.3	Okay, on this week's show, we are going to talk about three topics.
0:50.1	The Trump Administration has a plan to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census.
0:55.7	A bunch of states and civil rights groups are suing over this idea.
0:59.5	Why is this a very big deal?
1:02.2	Our second topic, the legal plot surrounding Donald Trump thickens.
1:06.0	I think maybe we could have that as like a tagline every week, but this week in particular,
1:11.4	the New York Times is reporting that Trump's erstwhile lawyer, John Dowd, dangled the possibility
1:16.4	of a presidential pardon in front of former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and National
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