The “Underhanded Undercount” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss the new revelations in the census case, Trump’s threatened tariffs, and the criminal charges against the school safety officer who failed to confront the Parkland shooter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for June 6th, 2019, the underhanded, undercount edition. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C. in New Haven at Yale, where she is associated with the Yale Law School, is the New York Times Magazine's Emily Bazelon. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello, David. |
| 0:28.5 | And in New York City, his new office at 60 Minutes, CBS is 60 Minutes. It's John Dickerson. How are you? |
| 0:35.7 | Hi, David. Actually, I'm in the same recording booth, but I'm... |
| 0:40.6 | Oh. |
| 0:41.1 | I've just come across the street from my new office. |
| 0:44.2 | Exactly. Yeah, I have to dodge cars on 57th Street. It's harrowing. |
| 0:49.3 | Foof. Yeah. |
| 0:50.3 | That is harrowing. |
| 0:51.8 | On this week's Gab Fest, the Supreme Court gets ready to rule on the big census citizenship case, |
| 0:58.2 | even as new evidence comes to light of the sneaky racist scheming behind how that citizenship question on the census was born. |
| 1:08.4 | Then will the president fall through in his plan to impose new tariffs on |
| 1:11.5 | Mexico in an effort to get Mexico to change its migration policies? And then should the |
| 1:19.2 | parkland security officer go to prison for his failure to help stop the school massacre |
| 1:24.5 | at that school in 2018? Plus, of course, we're going to have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:29.9 | And a reminder that we have two live shows coming up this Saturday. |
| 1:33.9 | So tomorrow, if you're listening to this on Friday, today, if you're listening to on Saturday, |
| 1:39.0 | if you're in New York, there's going to be Slate Day. |
| 1:41.1 | It's an all-day extravaganza of podcasting in Manhattan on the high line in all sorts of different wonderful forms. |
| 1:50.1 | There's a mom and dad are fighting play date. |
| 1:52.5 | There's a trivia. |
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