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🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel went before Congress this week, and Sarah Isgur, Steve Hayes, Mike Warren, and David French consider whether confirmation hearings are a giant waste of time. Also, Donald Trump’s shaming of Colombia’s president made Sarah rediscover the allure of Great Men of History theory.The Agenda: —The hearings that weren’t worth your (and the nation’s) time —Gerrymandering isn’t the problem you think it is (or is it?) —Everything is broken and I didn’t break it —Trump bullies his way to foreign policy wins —The power of leadership over the human heart —Is DeepSeek our Sputnik moment? (And should we retire Sputnik comparisons?)Show Notes: —John McCormack on RFK's confirmation process —The Dispatch explainer on Trump's Colombian feud The Dispatch Podcast is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including members-only newsletters, bonus podcast episodes, and weekly livestreams—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Welcome to the Dispatch podcast. I'm Sarah Isgir. I've got Steve Hayes, Mike Warren, and David French in the House. I'm pretty pumped about this. We have some fun topics. Yeah, there were more
0:55.1	Senate confirmation hearings and these were the hard ones, if you will. I wanted to talk a little bit
1:00.4	about gerrymandering because I get, it's probably the number one topic that I get random emails
1:05.8	about, if that makes sense. Like not news of the day, just like someone emailing being like, so
1:09.5	gerrymandering. That's a problem.
1:11.4	And I want to ask these guys where it ranks for them.
1:14.2	A little bit on the effectiveness of Trump's foreign policy so far, looking at whether the
1:20.3	Colombian president is on Trump's payroll.
1:23.2	I mean, my God, I've never seen something so effective for Donald Trump.
1:29.8	And finally, we'll do a little not worth your time on Deep Seek and the Sputnik moment. All right, Steve, starting with you,
1:37.0	we had three major confirmations hearings in the Senate this week. Tulsi Gabbard, nominee for
1:42.0	Director of National Intelligence, Cash Patel, nominee for FBI
1:45.1	director, and RFK Jr. nominee for health secretary. All of them were tough in some ways,
1:52.1	and then arguably all of them went pretty well for the nominees, which again, to me at least,
1:59.1	is a failure of the Senate to be good at this.
2:03.2	I agree with that.
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