Political Gabfest | What Happens When Government Breaks

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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This week, John Dickerson and David Plotz are joined by Juliette Kayyem to discuss how Elon Musk and DOGE are endangering Americans; the Trump administration’s attacks on universities and the arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil; and the politics of the measles outbreak centered on West Texas. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, John and David are joined by Juliette Kayyem to discuss taking your kids to work: great, weird, terrible, or all of the above? In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with author Rich Benjamin about his new book, Talk to Me: Lessons From a Family Forged by History. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Research by Emily Ditto Want more Political Gabfest? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Political Gabfest show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or visit slate.com/gabfestplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest.
0:08.0	It's the DEI, the woe, the climate change BS.
0:12.0	That's not core to our mission.
0:14.0	And we're going to get rid of it all.
0:16.0	March 13th, 2025, the What Happens When Government Breaks Edition.
0:21.4	I'm David Plotz of Citycast here in Washington, D.C.
0:25.4	From New York City, John Dickerson, co-anchor of the CBS Evening News and CBS Evening News Plus,
0:34.2	and the anchor of CBS Evening News Plus.
0:36.5	Hello, John.
0:37.6	Hello, David.
0:38.6	Nice to see you.
0:39.6	It's good to see you.
0:41.1	Emily is on vacation, probably thanking God she's not at her embattled law school this week.
0:47.2	We are joined instead by a woman who is only embattled because she is always fighting the good fight from Harvard's Kennedy School.
0:53.4	What a transition. And CNN's national, CNN, where she is always fighting the good fight from Harvard's Kennedy School. What a transition.
0:54.8	And CNN's national, CNN, where she is the senior national security analyst, beloved GabFest,
1:02.0	substitute host, Juliet Kiam. Hello, Juliet.
1:04.1	Hello, and good morning. I come to you from another embattled institution, too. So it is great to be here again.
1:12.3	From Harvard? Yes. Because they won't dare touch Harvard. Surely not. Surely they'll be too
1:18.7	afraid to touch Harvard. This week on the Gab Fest, will the Trump-Musk assault on government
1:23.6	break critical services for citizens? If so, how might that happen? Then the McCarthyite
1:30.5	effort to silence pro-Palestinian student protesters by deporting them and to punish universities
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