The "Stormy Weather" Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Trump’s tariffs and fledgling trade war, the Stormy Daniels lawsuit, and the relationships between sanctuary cities and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for March 8th, 2018, the Stormy Weather Edition. |
| 0:15.6 | I am David Plots of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:18.5 | And lo and behold, we are all sharing the same space. |
| 0:23.1 | We're at CBS News Radio headquarters and a CBS radio studio with our host John Dickerson of this morning. |
| 0:31.7 | Hello, John. |
| 0:32.7 | Hi, I have CBS this morning. |
| 0:34.5 | How many fucking times do I have to say CBS in this introduction? A lot, A lot. Keep going. Many times. That, of course, is Emily Bazelon of CBS's New York Times. It's so great to be with you guys altogether. A delight. It's so nice of you to come all this way just to be with me. Oh, we're very pleased. |
| 0:54.7 | I got a chance to watch John at his real job this morning on the set of CBS this morning. |
| 1:01.5 | And it was so great. He's such a pro. He's so elegant and smart and quick. There's so many people |
| 1:07.4 | buzzing about doing excellent work all over it. It was really fun. On this week's |
| 1:12.5 | Gap Fest, the first war of the Trump era. But it's not a real war. It's a trade war. And it's |
| 1:17.7 | about aluminum foil. We will talk about Trump's tariffs. Then the weekly legal morass of the |
| 1:24.0 | Trump right, White House. We will talk about the crazy stormy Daniels saga and maybe a |
| 1:29.3 | little bit of Sam Nunberg and maybe there's probably some other legal thing that will appear as we're |
| 1:33.5 | taping that Emily will have to opine on dangerous dangerous invitation and opening don't you think |
| 1:40.4 | that probably there is literally right as we speak there's some other legal shenanigan going on. |
| 1:45.5 | Entirely possible. |
| 1:46.3 | Oh, yeah, like the witness tampering thing. |
| 1:47.8 | Right. |
| 1:48.0 | That's a whole other one. |
| 1:48.9 | Exactly. |
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