What We Get Wrong About Mass Incarceration, Pt. II

The Gist

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🗓️ 8 June 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Wednesday on The Gist, John Pfaff refuted the conventional wisdom about mass incarceration. Thursday, Pfaff explains some of the obstacles to reform. Pfaff's book is Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform. In the Spiel, a loyally honest review of James Comey's testimony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.4	It's Thursday June 8th, 2017 from Slate It's the GIST I'm Mike Pasca.
0:12.4	Today James Comey testified before Congress, and in A sentence I will tell you what he said
0:18.4	that matters most.
0:19.8	Then I will do an entire show telling you what else he said, what other people said,
0:23.8	what some senators said, maybe some guy on the media, maybe a relative of Trump.
0:27.2	That's all good fun.
0:28.0	I love that part.
0:29.0	It's in the spiel.
0:29.8	But let us take away one bold, unrefuted piece of evidence.
0:33.8	Here it is.
0:34.8	The president of the United States floated a request to James Comey that he quashed the investigation
0:41.8	into Russian meddling in US elections.
0:43.8	And then James Comey was fired for not following through on that request.
0:47.8	You may say two things of me.
0:49.8	One, how is that a revelation?
0:51.8	And two, wait, you said evidence.
0:53.8	How's that evidence?
0:54.8	Those two questions are related.
0:55.8	One, is that really a revelation?
0:57.8	We know it from Comey's memo and press reports about the incident.
1:01.8	Impriviest reports about Comey's mindset that Comey was fired over Russia is not a revelation
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