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On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Ruth Marcus discuss Trumpcare, the budget, and the new Muslim ban.
Here are some of the links and references from this week’s show:
- Catherine Rampell writes in the Washington Post: “The Republican health-care plan isn’t about health care at all”
- Fox News has a new poll showing 34 percent of voters favor the GOP health care reform
- Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis write in the Washington Post: “How James Inhofe is upending the nation’s energy and environmental policies”
- Michael Shear writes in the New York Times: “Who Undercut President Trump’s Travel Ban? Candidate Trump.”
Ruth chatters about the recovery of a stolen Stradivarius.
John chatters about Justin Heckert’s piece in GQ about how the world’s heaviest man lost his weight.
David chatters about the documentary The Eagle Huntress, the open Politics Editor position at Slate, and Isaac Chotiner’s new Slate interview podcast I Have to Ask.
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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Links compiled by Kevin Townsend.
