So Europe is Our Enemy Now?

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the future of the transatlantic alliance and Ukraine in the wake of the UN resolution votes with Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The Economist; the House GOP’s budget resolution and the reconciliation process; and the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive moves against the press. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss recent legal developments around two death penalty cases in Texas. 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.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Research by Emily Ditto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest.
0:07.0	The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States.
0:11.0	That's the purpose of it.
0:13.0	And they've done a good job of it, but now I'm president.
0:16.0	February 27th, 2025, so Europe is our Enemy Now edition. I'm David Plotz of Citycast in Washington, D.C.
0:25.0	I'm joined from New Haven, Connecticut, in the New York Times Magazine, and Yale University Law School by Emily Bazlon. Hello, Emily Bazelon. She's lost. You've lost a lot of your overhead budget in the last year. Indirect costs.
0:40.4	Squeezing a squeezing the Bazlon household there. L-O-L. Good morning.
0:46.2	She didn't really lean into that. It is a great economy of response. Her sweater is a little
0:52.0	ratier. Oh, you're going to mock my sweater.
1:00.2	You know. She's lost 40% of her sweater, apparently. Then from New York City, John Dickerson, the co-anchor of the CBS Evening News and the host or slash anchor of CBS Even News Plus.
1:08.0	Hello, John. Hi, good morning. Good, and good evening to all the ships at sea.
1:12.6	This week on the Gavest, the Transatlantic Alliance that has protected the free world for the last 80 years seems to be over.
1:21.4	We are going to talk to the economist, Eddor, and Chief Zenneman Beddows about what is happening to Europe, what is happening to Europe, and what the
1:28.5	consequences for the world are going to be. Then the House passed a budget framework. Can a
1:34.8	real budget come out of it? Does it make sense? What kind of damage to the poor and help for the
1:41.3	rich will come out of this budget if it does pass. Then the showdown
1:45.6	between Donald Trump and the media, Donald Trump seems to be winning. He's certainly causing
1:51.5	a crisis of confidence and of activity in the press in Washington, D.C. What does it mean for the future of the First Amendment and for the future of the media in the United States for our business?
2:06.4	Plus, of course, we'll have cocktail chatter.
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