The “Trump Economy” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss who deserves credit for the economy, the state of the midterm campaigns, and the Trump administration's attempt to indefinitely detain migrant children.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this late political gap fest for September 13th, 2018, the Trump |
| 0:11.6 | Economy Edition. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:14.7 | I am in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:17.0 | Joining me through the magic of copper wire is John Dickerson of CBS this morning. |
| 0:24.3 | Hello, John. |
| 0:25.7 | Hi. |
| 0:27.2 | And from also the magic of copper wire, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine, who is in New Haven. |
| 0:35.5 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:36.4 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:37.9 | On this week's Gab Fest, the fight about who is responsible for the thriving economy and why that matters. |
| 0:45.3 | Then the state of the race, I said that in all caps, the state of the race. Could the Democrats take the Senate? |
| 0:52.8 | Will they take the House? Can they do both? |
| 0:56.6 | Can they do neither? Then the Trump administration announces a plan to change how it detains families, |
| 1:03.8 | or migrant families, not all families. I don't know if they're going to detain regular families. |
| 1:08.1 | God knows, perhaps. That's probably coming. Who knows? Emily will explain, |
| 1:11.8 | plus we will have cocktail chatter. And just one final reminder that Slate Day is coming up. That is |
| 1:18.0 | going to be the live podcast experience in partnership with the Texas Tribune Festival. |
| 1:23.4 | That's going to be on Saturday, September 29th at the Capitol Factory in downtown Austin, |
| 1:28.3 | Texas. We're going to be there with the Trumpcast and Amicus and El Gab Fest and The Gist. |
| 1:34.1 | And you can go to slate.com slash live to learn more. The individual tickets to our show are sold out. |
| 1:40.0 | However, you can still, I think, get an all-access pass to the whole day, which will allow you to see us as well as all those other wonderful shows. |
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