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Podcast: The Gist
Episode: Iranian Would-Be Assassins and Shoe Would-Be Bombers
Description: An interview with Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Dawsey, co-author of 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, covers Biden’s decline, Trump’s courtroom rage, and the political strategy behind legal delays. Also , how potent are Iranian-directed assassination crews? And, as the TSA begins phasing out its decades-old shoe removal policy, a look back on how we were very very concerned with terrorism then, and weirdly blasé about terrorism now.  And finally a quiz sifts through the TSA’s baffling baggage rules, from tamales and chapstick to harry potter wands (non-operational). Produced by Corey Wara...