Political Gabfest - Why Netanyahu Blinked
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🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week, David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon discuss Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to pause the legislation that will weaken Israel’s judiciary; the Congressional testimony of TikTok’s CEO Shou Chew; and the possibility of Chris Christie for President in 2024.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Emily Bazelon for The New York Times: “Behind Protests’ Fury in Israel, Fear of a Quiet Slide From Democracy”
Peter Baker for The New York Times: “A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election”
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: WBUR and The Marshall Project’s podcast Violation (Host Beth Schwartzapfel, Producer Quincy Walters)
John: Tweet from @george_mack: What is ignored by the media but will be studied by historians?; response from Matthew Yglesias, Slow Boring: The biggest problem in media is the audience: Not everything is a conspiracy
David: Greg Miller for The Washington Post: “He came to D.C. as a Brazilian student. The U.S. says he was a Russian spy.“
Listener chatter from Judy: Tablet Studio’s podcast Gatecrashers (Host Mark Oppenheimer, Executive Producers Josh Kross, Stephanie Butnick, and Liel Leibovitz)
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily discuss the new evidence of the “October Surprise” that delayed the release of the American hostages from Iran in 1980.
Email your questions and chatters to gabfest@slate.com or Tweet us @SlateGabfest. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabb Vest. |
| 0:16.1 | March 30th, 2023, the Why Netanyahu Blinked Edition. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm David Plotts of CityCast for the midst of technical difficulty after cascading technical |
| 0:23.8 | difficulty led by John Dickerson of CBS Primetime, Hello John. |
| 0:29.7 | I would like to say that I am not embracing the idea that I led anything happened to me. |
| 0:36.2 | Everything on my end is just fine, thank you very much. |
| 0:39.4 | The only person who has not had cascading technical difficulty this morning is Emily Bazelon |
| 0:43.4 | of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School, New Haven, hello Emily. |
| 0:47.8 | Hello hello. |
| 0:49.2 | And if John's audio sounds a little funky, it's because of some problems we're having that |
| 0:53.2 | we're trying to sort, but not to worry. |
| 0:56.0 | This week on the Gabb Vest, the political forces that are tearing Israel apart is Israeli |
| 1:01.1 | democracy in danger, then will TikTok be banned, be forced to sell, be tart and feathered, |
| 1:08.3 | be compelled to wear a dust cap and sit in the corner, what is behind the campaign against |
| 1:12.9 | the incredibly popular app. |
| 1:15.4 | Then we will talk about the question of whether Chris Christie is really running for |
| 1:18.6 | president and does he have a chance, yes, we will talk about that, plus we will have |
| 1:22.3 | cocktail chatter. |
| 1:25.0 | Israel has temporarily stepped back from its worst civil conflict in decades, Prime |
| 1:30.7 | Minister BB Netanyahu has delayed his plan to push through a bill in the Israeli Knesset |
| 1:37.2 | the parliament that would have weakened the power of the country's pretty independent |
| 1:41.3 | Supreme Court and given the legislative branch more power to appoint judges and possibly |
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