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Political Gabfest

The Political Gabfest: The Maybe the NSA Should Run Healthcare.gov Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.58.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2013

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The fallout from healthcare.gov, revelations regarding foreign snooping by the NSA, and racial profiling in department stores. Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for November 1st, 2013. The Maybe the NSA should run

1:06.4

health care.gov edition. I'm David Plotz, the Edd of Slate. John Dickerson, Slate's chief political

1:11.6

correspondent, always on time, always his best self is here in the DC studio with me. Hello,

1:18.2

John. Hello, David. Joining us from New Haven is Slate Senior Editor Emily Bazelon. Hello, Emily.

1:24.6

Hello. Am I always my best self? No, definitely not.

1:28.0

You're often your best self.

1:29.0

You were your best self in the thing that we saw this week about you, which GabFest listener

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