The “Pass Through” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the momentum of the Republican tax plans, Project Veritas's attempted take-down of the Washington Post, and the Supreme Court's consideration of the privacy of cell phone data.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for November 30th, 2017, the pass-through edition. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:18.7 | John Dickerson joins me in the D.C. |
| 0:21.7 | studio, Howdy, John Dickerson, to Face the Nation. |
| 0:24.1 | Howdy? |
| 0:25.3 | And you were back. |
| 0:26.4 | Where were you last week? |
| 0:27.5 | Both of you and Emily were gone. |
| 0:29.3 | John was officiating at a wedding, weren't you? |
| 0:31.9 | Or maybe you don't want to talk about that? |
| 0:34.0 | Too late. |
| 0:35.3 | Yes, I was officiating a wedding. |
| 0:36.9 | No, I don't mind talking about it. |
| 0:39.0 | Yes. |
| 0:39.5 | I just thought that was such a lovely idea. |
| 0:41.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:42.3 | No, it was actually a great, among other things, the wonder, joy of the wedding was it's a heck of a writing assignment to have to sit down and like be intentional about marriage and the ceremony and what marriage |
| 0:55.5 | is about and all that. So it was a nice, and what better time to do that than now? |
| 1:01.5 | That, of course, that other voice not officiating a wedding ceremony, although she'd be great. |
| 1:06.2 | And also with her legal degree, she probably is entitled to do it. Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. |
| 1:11.8 | I am not entitled to officiate at anyone's wedding without one of those insta licenses. |
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