Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by Declan Garvey and David Drucker

We're gonna tick through a lot of topics today

We're going to start with the train derailment in East Palestine and the political fallout the Biden administration and the political opportunity

potentially for former president Donald Trump as well as president Biden's trip to Ukraine

Then we will talk a bit about the Fox News versus dominion lawsuit that has been getting so much attention of late

We'll do some 2024 and we'll end with a not worth your time about editing books

Let's dive right in so Declan this train derailed now three weeks ago today, which is Thursday

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited

The administration has been getting a lot of criticism from the right at least about not taking this more seriously

Not putting it sort of at the fore and specifically the attacks have been focused a lot on

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and sort of the

Increasing list of things that folks are saying that he hasn't particularly handled well as transportation secretary the FAA

Computers going down is sort of the key example, but Declan

Is this politics or is this an actual problem?

It's both I think I think it's both and I think that the political

ramifications are played up

Because Pete Buttigieg has widely seen as somebody who has aspirations for higher office whether that be

Senate moving to where he moved his family to Michigan earlier in his term or running for president again

He's in his I believe late 30s or early 40s long political career ahead of him

Typically the Department of Transportation Secretary is not a a political lightning rod when administrations used to

Put somebody from the opposite party in their cabinet. That was usually a place where they could slot somebody in that said

I mean obviously this is a very important subject trained derailments are down from where they were decades ago

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