Political Gabfest: Weaponization of Government

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🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the House GOP’s “Weaponization of Government” subcommittee; the insurrection in Brazil–with Marcos Nobre; and what Prince Harry’s book, Spare, means for the British Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Matthew Yglesias for Slow Boring: “A New Plan To Get Around The Debt Ceiling Hostage” Matt Levine for Bloomberg: “Financial Engineering the Debt Ceiling” Spare, by Prince Harry Here are this week’s chatters: John: David Wallace-Wells for The New York Times: “Electric Vehicles Keep Defying Almost Everyone’s Predictions” Emily: Josie Duffy Rice for iHeartPodcasts: Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children David: Julia Moskin for The New York Times: “Noma, Rated the World’s Best Restaurant, Is Closing Its Doors” Listener chatter from Erich Morgenbesser: AI illustrates countries as villains For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss the status of “return to office.” Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Research by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabb Vest.
0:16.6	January 12, 2023, the Weapon Eyes, the government edition.
0:21.3	I am David Plotts of CityCast.
0:23.2	I would like to weaponize the DC Metro system.
0:26.3	I'm joined by John Dickerson of CBS Primetime from New York City.
0:30.2	John, what part of the government would you like to weaponize?
0:33.2	I would like to weaponize the government that provides quick and immediate relief to lower back pain.
0:40.6	It's a small office, not often heard from.
0:43.6	Emily Vazlon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School in New Haven.
0:47.1	What part of the government are you going to weaponize, Emily?
0:51.2	Department of Justice, obviously, to do your bidding.
0:54.7	To do my bidding, how about to just do some justice?
0:58.0	I get to say what that is.
0:59.4	That sounds good.
1:00.4	This week on the Gabb Vest, House Republicans get off to a weird and alarming start under
1:07.4	Speaker Kevin McCarthy, even as Joe Biden discovers that he has been hiding a lot of old secret
1:12.7	documents.
1:13.7	Then we'll talk to Brazilian scholar Marcus Nobre about the protests and insurrections
1:18.3	in his country.
1:20.0	And the implications of Prince Harry's memoirs spare on the Anglo-American alliance, i.e.
1:27.0	House, sorry, should you feel for Prince Harry?
1:29.6	Or not even Prince Harry anymore.
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