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0:00.0	This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language.
0:11.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for June 3rd, 2021, the Murder Mystery Edition.
0:16.8	I'm David Plotz of CityCast.
0:18.3	I'm in Washington, D.C.
0:20.0	I've made everyone else late today.
0:42.2	I'm sorry. Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine in Yale University Law School. I'm sorry for being late. It's good to see you. Hello, Emily. No worries at all. And John Dickerson of CBS. How do we describe you? Oh, I don't know. I'm a man of all a thousand hats in a world of increasingly disrupted and uncertainty.
0:44.8	You can just say of CBS News.
0:48.9	John Dickerson of CBS News, who is in fact not wearing a hat is in New York.
0:49.6	Hello, John.
0:50.2	Sorry, I am late.
0:50.7	Good morning.
0:51.7	Oh, it's fine.
0:55.9	This week, the showdown over restrictive voting laws in Texas and just about everywhere else, and are the Democrats doomed when all these laws do get passed? Then, what happened
1:02.1	to the Biden agenda anyway? Why is nothing passing? Why are there no new laws? No new policies.
1:08.7	No new nothing. Then violent crime is surging in American cities.
1:13.1	We'll talk to sociologist Patrick Sharkey about why that is. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter.
1:18.0	You know how at any gym there's an old guy who never seems to work out, but he's always in the
1:22.7	sauna or steam room when you go there and he's holding forth to three other guys about his boat or
1:26.8	capital gains taxes.
1:28.7	Now that I am back of the gym, I've realized that at my gym, that guy is former Justice Breyer.
1:34.0	He really, really likes to talk about his boat, like a lot.
1:43.6	I like that one, actually.
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