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🗓️ 6 June 2014
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0:00.0 | The GABFEST is sponsored by GoToMeeting with HD Faces. |
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0:40.5 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GABFEST for June 6th, 2014 D-Day anniversary. |
0:45.5 | It's the Go ahead negotiate with terrorist addition, I'm David Planzi, I'd love to slate. |
0:49.5 | Today, Bob Bergdahl, the American soldier held by the Taliban, is coming home, having been swapped for five bad guys in Guantanamo. |
0:58.5 | Should the President have made this deal. |
1:01.5 | Then President Obama makes a late and feeble effort to control US CO2 emissions and just about everyone is furious about that. |
1:10.5 | Is it too little, too late or too much too soon? |
1:13.5 | And then the weird Senate race in Mississippi, which John Dickerson just observed at close hand. |
1:20.5 | John Dickerson, Slate's Chief Political correspondent, is back from the South, he's here with me in Washington. Hello John. |
1:26.5 | Hello David. |
1:27.5 | And from New Haven is Slate Senior Editor Emily Bazlon. Hello Emily. |
1:32.5 | Hey David. |
1:33.5 | I like the fact Emily that you were doing your hair for our podcast, even though knowing you can see you. |
1:39.5 | It was raining here and I walked in and turned on the video chat and looked at myself and there were all these pieces of hair sticking up in different directions. |
1:47.5 | But then I put my headphones on and you know, who cares? |
1:50.5 | But what did you think? Why did you, you just thought like I can't be seen by Dickerson and Plots in this state of the sort. |
1:57.5 | I kind of forgot that I was, well no, it was more than I was going to have to look at me than that you were going to have to. |
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