This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Special Counsel Robert Hur’s description of President Joe Biden; House Republicans’ impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and refusal on Ukraine aid; and Democrat Tom Suozzi’s win in the New York congressional special election. And in Slate Plus, Emily, John, and David talk local news with reporter <a href="https://tucson.com/users/profile/ellie%20wolfe/">Ellie Wolfe</a>.  Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Matt Viser and Tyler Pager for The Washington Post: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/08/biden-hur-response/">Biden responds angrily to special counsel report questioning his memory</a> and Marianne LeVine: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/10/trump-nato-allies-russia/">Trump says he’d disregard NATO treaty, urge Russian attacks on U.S. allies</a>Politico Magazine: <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/11/biden-age-strategy-00140777">What Biden Needs to Do to Reassure the Public</a>Elena Moore for NPR: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/1230922010/biden-tiktok-young-voters">Biden’s campaign gives in and joins TikTok. Blame the youngs</a>Mike Lillis and Mychael Schnell for The Hill: <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4469012-lawmakers-scramble-for-plan-b-on-ukraine/">Lawmakers scramble for Plan B on Ukraine</a>Jake Tapper for CNN: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1Od6LKZ3ig">Marco Rubio reacts to Trump threatening NATO country to ‘pay up’</a>Zack Beauchamp for Vox: <a href="https://www.vox.com/24070998/ukraine-war-russia-us-foreign-aid-trump-congress">The moral and strategic case for arming Ukraine</a>Joshua Matz, Michael J. Gerhardt, Amit Jain, and Laurence H. Tribe for Just Security: <a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/92292/the-senate-should-swiftly-dismiss-the-impeachment-charges-against-mayorkas/">Why and How the Senate Should Swiftly Dismiss the Impeachment Charges Against Mayorkas</a>Nate Cohn for The New York Times: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/upshot/special-election-democrats-new-york.html">Not an Ordinary Special Election, and Yet a Typical Result</a> and Carl Hulse: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/us/border-senate-schumer.html">How Senate Democrats Flipped the Border Issue on Republicans</a>Here are this week’s chatters:Emily: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0MbLCpYJPA">American Fiction</a>; Sam Sanders, Nadira Goffe, and Stephen Metcalf for the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast: <a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/culture-gabfest/2024/01/how-american-fiction-earned-five-oscar-nominations">American Fiction, Oscar Contender?</a>; and Sam Sanders, Saeed Jones, and Zach Stafford for the Stitcher Vibe Check podcast: <a href="https://www.stitcherstudios.com/shows/vibe-check">A Special Conversation with Cord Jefferson</a> John: <a href="https://timeguessr.com/">Timeguessr</a> and Matt Levine for Matt Levin’s Money Stuff: <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-acquisitions/matt-levines-money-stuff-lyft-had-an-earnings-typo">Lyft Had an Earnings Typo</a>David: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD3oU1gowu4">The Greatest Night in Pop</a> on Netflix and USA for Africa: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AjkUyX0rVw">We Are the World</a> Listener chatter from J.T. Horn in Strafford, Vermont: Peter Frick Wright for the Outside Podcast: <a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/podcast/e-jean-carroll-conversation/">A Wild Conversation with E. Jean Carroll</a> For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily discuss with <a href="https://tucson.com/users/profile/ellie%20wolfe/">Ellie Wolfe</a> her local-news reporting as Education Reporter for the Arizona Daily Star. See <a href="https://tucson.com/news/local/education/college/university-arizona-legislature-shared-governance-faculty-senate/article_46f3f0c0-ca9a-11ee-a654-1b08fbe70e3c.html">Proposed law would limit shared governance at Arizona’s universities</a>; <a href="https://tucson.com/news/local/education/college/university-arizona-financials-budget-deficit-board-regents-govkatiehobbs-job-cuts/article_39a5b272-c780-11ee-9f81-b39b2f0f5b1f.html">U of A to ‘permanently eliminate’ $27 million worth of jobs in academic units</a>; <a href="https://tucson.com/news/local/education/college/university-arizona-financial-crisis-budget-cuts-layoffs-mission/article_4e0ff04e-c215-11ee-aec0-4f0a55a8b10c.html">U of A’s Robbins talks about his pay, layoffs, athletics debt, more</a>; and <a href="https://tucson.com/news/local/university-arizona-faculty-financial-plan-regents-deficit-layoffs/article_e059e6b6-bf05-11ee-ab18-eb7271ba6324.html">CFO: U of A must cut $200M in spending, rethink mission, accept layoffs</a>. Thanks to listeners Alison, Anna, and David for the recommendation!  In the latest <a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/political-gabfest/2024/01/books-author-brad-stulberg-identity-mindset-master-of-change-how-to-excel-when-everything-is-changing-including-you">Gabfest Reads</a>, John talks with Brad Stulberg about his book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Master-Change-Everything-Changing-Including-ebook/dp/B0BQMY2PT5/tag=slatmaga-20">Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You</a>. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to <a href="mailto:gabfest@slate.com">gabfest@slate.com</a>. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

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