The Gab Fest gets new digs.

This is the Slate political Gab Fest.

For Friday, October 12th, I'm June Thomas.

Slate moved into swank new DC offices this week,

and naturally, the Gabfest participants had something to say about their surroundings. They also found time to

discuss presidential politics, the Israeli air attack on Syrian territory, and the House vote on

Armenian genocide. To introduce the discussion, here's John. Hello and welcome to the

Slate Political GabFest. I'm John Dickerson with David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. We have made it to our new office. Emily was doubtful last week, but here we are in our new office. Actually, we're in a room that if there was a broom and a dustpan in here. This would be probably a broom cupboard.

I just can't believe you are saying that. This is a huge room. It's like bigger than a walking closet, and you are calling it a broom closet. I just, how big is your broom closet at home?

Well, I mean, I'd like a boom closet. This is like, if we were in a New York apartment, this would be like a great whole room. It would be like the kitchen and the bathroom combined.

We clearly have different views on the size of the room. But it's a gorgeous, wonderful windowless room. Wait, what's your complaint about? I don't know if I didn't even pay attention. Sorry, you guys were talking about the thing. But he thinks this room is like a room closet. No, no, no. Because it's small. Well, it's quiet. I'm trying to give our listeners a sense of our new space. working at't have a piece. We don't have a conference table next to us.

That's true.

I'm just trying to give them.

It's not a complaint.

Just us alone here in the room.

With the rolled up carpet.

Okay, enough about the room.

We're starting on politics.

Hillary Clinton voted to declare the Iranian Republican Guard a terrorist organization, which she said would give the

president or the administration a leverage against Iran. She's been pilloried for this,

including at a campaign event in Iowa in which a man named Randall Rolf challenged her on this,

and she got into a little testy exchange with him over it. And basically,

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