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Hello and welcome to the Slate political gap as from March 3rd, 2022, the I Need Amunition

Edition. I'm David Plots, the city cast here in Washington, D.C. I'm joined by Emily

Bazelon at the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School from New Haven.

Hello, Emily. Hey, David. And back, thank goodness. We missed you, John. It's John Dickerson

of CBS' Sunday Morning from New York. Hello. I miss you guys a lot. It feels like

it was many years ago. Well, the world, the world has actually changed since last

time. Holy cano. That is literally true. This week, in fact, we're going to talk about

the Ukrainian invasion that has upended the world we thought we knew. Then we're going

to cogitate on, we'll puzzle over President Biden's State of the Union and, in fact, the

State of the Union. Then we'll talk about San Francisco district attorney, Chesa Budin,

who faces a recall, what's behind this move to dump a reform-minded prosecutor, plus

we'll have cocktail chatter. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is, I think, the fourth event

of this century that fundamentally will change how our world works, like 9-11, like the

Trump presidency, and its various metastases, and the pandemic, the Ukraine invasion, feels

like it could reshape the world practically overnight. And possibly, possibly, that's

with a huge asterisk in the long run for the good, but not obviously in the short run

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