About this episode
This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the final midterm sprint; the latest British Prime Minister; and Trump’s legal troubles. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Adrian Wooldridge for Bloomberg: “ Rishi Sunak Is a New and Old-Fashioned Tory ” Barton Gellman for The Atlantic: “ The Impeachment of Joe Biden ” The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump Nathaniel Rakich for FiveThirtyEight: “ The Most Important Elections Of 2022 Could Be In State Legislatures ” Brittany Bernstein for The National Review: “ Why Some Trump-Country Pennsylvanians Still Aren't Sold on Dr. Oz ” Anna Bower for Lawfare: “ Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Georgia Special Purpose Grand Juries But Were Afraid to Ask ” Emily Bazelon for The New York Times: “ I Write About the Law. But Could I Really Help Free a Prisoner? ” The Prison Letters Project Here are this week’s chatters: John: States United Democracy Center; Third Way Paul Revere Project Emily: Charlie Savage for the New York Times: “ Garland Formally Bars Justice Dept. From Seizing Reporters’ Records ” David: Dhruv Mehrotra for Wired: “ Hot on the Trail of a Mass-School-Shooting Hoaxer ”; Ben Collins’ Twitter thread collecting favorite tweets . Listener chatter from Brian DeGeer: Theresa Vargas for The Washington Post: “ Fiona Apple Uses Her Voice To Call Out Prince George’s Justice System ” For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily discusses The Prison Letters Project with John J. Lennon and Reginald Dwayne Betts. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Research by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices