The “She Was Just 17, You Know What I Mean” Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the downward spiral for Roy Moore, the tax plans of the House and Senate, and the latest with the Russia investigation and Wikileaks. 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	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.6	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for November 16, 2017.
0:15.1	The issue was just 17. You know what I mean, addition. I'm David Plott,
0:18.8	the fatless of scurra.
0:20.4	With me in the Slate DC podcast studio is
0:23.8	face the nation's John Dickerson, happy John. Hi.
0:27.2	And from Slate's Brooklyn studio is the New York Times magazine's Emily Baselon.
0:32.8	Hello, Emily. Hey guys. Glad to be here with you on this early morning,
0:37.6	which I dragged everyone to come early.
0:39.7	On this week's early morning Gap Fest, not early morning when you're listening, listeners,
0:43.9	maybe is the astonishing, disgusting, metastasizing Roy Moore scandal
0:48.7	with a small side dish of Bill Clinton's scandal. Then the latest machinations on the GOP's
0:55.2	Tax Bill will yoking the tax bill to the repeal of the individual mandate prove a winning strategy.
1:03.2	Then the Russia investigation takes another new twist as it turns out Donald Trump Jr.
1:09.0	was communicating vigorously with WikiLeaks throughout the campaign. John sort of shook his head
1:15.2	and vigorously. But that's okay. Plus, well, I did not shake his head vigorously.
1:19.9	Yeah, you should go ahead. Yeah, like an A. That was an A. That was a visual A.
1:24.3	Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And remember, we're starting to collect your conundrums for our
1:29.2	live conundrum show in Boston in just three weeks. You can email us Facebook, Twitter, tweet at us
1:36.7	with a conundrum, which we could do on the show. So for example, one that we got sent was,
1:41.1	is it okay to use your sick leave to take care of your sick pet? Interesting question.
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