Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest.

For June 2nd, 2022, it's the Forgive Me Joe edition.

I'm David Plotz of Citycast in Washington, D. David Plotz of CityCast in Washington, D.C.

No, I'm not in Washington, D.C.C. That was a trick. Oh, my God. I'm in Chicago because I'm spending a week working with my dear Citicast colleagues in Chicago. And what a great city. So happy to be here.

That, oh my God, of course, came from John Dickerson of CBS Sunday morning, who's in New York City. Hello, John. Hello, David. And not, oh, my God. I'm not impressed with the fact that I'm in Chicago because she's been everywhere. Is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School in New Haven. Hello, Emily. You must be feeling very exuberant, since it's really John who does all the traveling of the three of us.

And really in COVID times, none of us go much of anywhere.

I've traveled a ton this year. I'm sort of ashamed to admit it because I've traveled a lot. It's all I'm making up for lost time. This week on the Gab Fest, the response to the Evaldi shootings, the catastrophic police mistakes that were made,

the lies that have been told, and the prospects for gun legislation. Then, does Biden's plan to

forgive $10,000 in student loans for millions of Americans make sense? And then Republican members

of Congress and a lot of other people are refusing to honor subpoenas from the January 6th committee.

Will they be forced to testify?

How bad and precedent setting is their refusal to show up?

Plus, of course, we'll have cocktail chatter.

The revelations about the Evaldi massacre have brought shame on local police and compounded the tragedy as though you could compound

something that was that terrible to begin with. And yet they've somehow made it worse.

Different police officials have now had to walk back almost everything that was originally

claimed about the police response to the shootings and a lot of what they claimed even

after that in the secondary claims. On Wednesday, Texas officials acknowledged that a teacher did not, in fact, leave a door open to let the shooter in, but that an automatic lock had failed.

They still have only barely explained how the incident commander made such a colossal mistake in abandoning active shooter protocols and waiting an hour before going in after

him.

It's a tragedy layered over with catastrophic incompetence, all soaked, marinated, drowning in

America's insane gun culture.

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