The "Witch Hunt" Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz and Emily Bazelon are joined by Jacob Weisberg to discuss the maelstrom around Trump’s presidency, Roger Ailes impact on the conservative movement and Attorney General Sessions’s war on drugs.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for May 18, 2017, the Witch Hunt edition. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas. |
| 0:17.9 | Sarah, Emily Bazelon, the New York Times Magazine, joins me from New Haven. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:23.7 | Hello. John Dickerson seems to have been the first person jailed under Trump's new policy of jailing journalists. And that's why he's not with us today. I don't know where he is, but I hope he hasn't been jail. He's not in jail. |
| 0:33.1 | He's not in jail. |
| 0:33.9 | Okay. |
| 0:34.0 | I feel sure. |
| 0:34.9 | If we said that he was in jail, would you believe it? |
| 0:36.5 | I might believe it. |
| 0:37.5 | I might believe it. |
| 0:38.8 | But that's okay, because visiting from Trumpcast, we have Jacob Weissberg, the chairman of the Slate group. Hello, Jacob. Hey, David. John picked a nice quiet week to take off. Yeah, it's crazy. So you're chairman until the majority of Slate senior staff invoked the 25th Amendment. |
| 0:55.2 | We don't have written policies around that. |
| 0:57.0 | And decide you're unable to carry out the duties of office? |
| 0:59.1 | Internet crimes and misdemeanors. I'm not sure what that would be. |
| 1:02.2 | So you feel like you you feel like you're pretty much protected from any form of constitutional removal? |
| 1:07.9 | Well, I can always fire my attorney general. |
| 1:10.1 | On this week's GabFed, |
| 1:11.5 | we will condense years, what could have been years of political drama into a single show, |
| 1:17.1 | one incredibly exhausting week. Our first topic will be the huge grab bag that is Donald Trump's |
| 1:25.5 | scandals, namely the possibility of impeachment or other form of removal, the appointment of Robert Mueller as a special counsel in the Russia leak investigation, Trump's own leaks to Russians, the news of Jim Comey's memo that he recorded a conversation, he wrote down news of a conversation where Donald Trump asked him to |
| 1:44.4 | stop investigating Michael Flynn. That will be a massive first topic. Then the sudden and surprising |
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