Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest from March 3rd, 2022, the I Need Ammunition Edition.

I'm David Plotz, a city cast here in Washington, D.C. I'm joined by Emily Bazelon at the New York Times Magazine

in 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's Sunday morning from New York.

Hello.

I miss you guys a lot.

It feels, yeah, it feels like it was many years ago.

Well, the world has actually changed since last week.

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 Boudin, 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 like 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 for

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