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0:00.0	Hello, GabFest listeners. Help us make Slate even better by filling out our short survey.
0:04.6	It'll only take a few minutes, and you can find it at slate.com slash survey. Thank you.
0:09.4	Now on with the show.
0:18.4	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for February 25th, 2021, the shocked, shocked by her tweets edition.
0:26.1	I'm David Plotz of CityCast in Washington, D.C.
0:29.3	I'm joined as ever by John Dickerson of CBS is 16 Minutes from New York City.
0:35.9	Hello, John.
0:37.0	Hello, David. And by Emily Bazelon at the New York Times Magazine
0:40.6	and Yale University Law School from New Haven. Hello, Emily. Hey, David. Hey, John. Today, we're going to talk
0:47.1	about why Niro Tandon's nomination to be OMB director seems DOA, D-O-A at OMB.
0:55.0	Then Merrick Garland will be the next Attorney General.
0:58.7	Has he been confirmed?
0:59.4	He hasn't quite been confirmed, right?
1:00.8	But he will be the next Attorney General.
1:02.4	Can he root out domestic terrorism, white nationalism from his perch at the Department
1:07.9	of Justice?
1:09.1	And we'll be joined by new Slate podcast host, Jason Johnson, whose podcast Award starts this week.
1:16.7	We will revisit the issue of police violence against black people and the judicial system's response to it in the wake of news in the Daniel Prude and Elijah McLean cases.
1:27.0	Plus, the Supreme Court does not split four to four on a critical case as the Senate
1:31.0	delays confirmation of the nominee to succeed Justice Breyer because Justice Breyer mysteriously
1:37.2	has not yet stepped down.
1:40.0	Plus, we'll have Cocktail Chatter.
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