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On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the FBI’s findings on Hillary’s emails, Trump tweeting a star of David, and Obama’s nighttime routine.
Here are some of the links and references from this week’s show:
- FBI Director James Comey’s remarks on Hillary Clinton’s email server
- Fred Kaplan’s story in Slate: “The Hillary Clinton Email Scandal Was Totally Overblown”
- Glenn Greenwald’s column in the Intercept: “Washington Has Been Obsessed With Punishing Secrecy Violations — until Hillary Clinton”
- Anthony Smith in Mic: “Donald Trump’s Star of David Hillary Clinton Meme Was Created by White Supremacists”
- Josh Marshall in Talking Points Memo: “Understanding the Trump/Star of David Blow Up”
- Michael D. Shear in the New York Times: “Obama After Dark: The Precious Hours Alone”
- Todd Purdum in Vanity Fair in 2013: “Obama the Loner: The Trouble With the President’s Self-Reliant, Closed-Off Attitude”
John chatters about the AMC miniseries The Night Manager and his new book Whistlestop, which he’s doing a live reading for on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at City Winery in New York.
Emily chatters about Jessica Winter’s novel, Break in Case of Emergency.
David chatters about the new Atlas Obscura book, Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders.
Topic ideas for next week? You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest (#heygabfest). (Tweets may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Links compiled by Kevin Townsend.