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Political Gabfest

The “Safe and Special Place” Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson examine what President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet appointments could portend, if Mike Pence was mistreated at a recent Hamilton performance and if Trump could cause real harm to the free press. 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.2

[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪

0:10.8

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Test for November 24th, 2016,

0:14.5

the Safe and Special Place edition.

0:17.1

I'm David Plott's of Atlas Obscura.

0:20.3

John Dickerson of Face the Nation is here with me in the Slate DC studio.

0:26.3

Hello, John.

0:27.2

Hello, David.

0:28.1

John is resplendent in an orange tie.

0:30.9

It is very beautiful.

0:33.2

There's not a yellow America or red America.

0:35.7

There's just an orange America.

0:39.1

And from the New York Times magazine is Emily Bazzlon, who was in New Haven, probably.

0:45.3

Hello, Emily.

0:46.2

Yeah.

0:47.2

Hello.

0:47.8

I'm wearing purple.

0:48.8

That's across the color wheel.

0:50.1

Yeah.

0:50.6

Have orange, isn't it?

0:51.8

Is it?

0:52.7

Really?

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