This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest from May 20th, 2021, the Hot Button

Issue edition. I'm David Foss of Citicast in Washington, D.C. I'm joined, of course, by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University

Law School from New Haven.

Hello, Emily.

Hey, David.

And by John Dickerson of CBS's, I'm going to say CBS's Face the Nation, since that's what

you're doing mostly now, but also other things from New York. Hello, John.

Hello, David. Yeah, 81 more days.

Fresh off his very scorching interview with B.B. Netanyahu, which we'll talk about in a minute.

This week, it is all hot button issues all the time. First, the conflict in Israel and the Gaza Strip is this time any different.

Has the Democratic Party changed on Israel? Will that make a difference to the outcome of this

conflict? Then the Supreme Court takes a case about a Mississippi abortion law that could be the

first big step to ditching Roe v. Wade. We will talk about that case. Then we're going to talk to

the linguist John McWhorter about language taboos, slurs, and his amazing new book, Nine

Nasty Words. Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. And one thing I learned this week,

you know who's a great, great, great barista? Former Justice Breyer. He made me the best

oat latte I have ever had. Who knew?

He had that talent. The situation in Israel, Gaza and the occupied territories, remains just

terrible. It's terrible. As we're taping on Thursday morning, Israel continues to fire missiles into Gaza

to weekend Hamas, where I haven't seen

the last count, but more than 200 Palestinians are dead, many of them children. Hamas continues to

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