The Gab Fest Verdict is in. This is the daily podcast from Slate.com for Friday, May 26th.

I'm June Thomas covering for a vacationing Andy Bowers.

Slate's chief political correspondent John Dickerson has gathered his DC bureau colleagues,

David Plotz, and Emily

Bazelon, around the famed conference table to discuss this week's news. In today's GabFest, they chat

about the Enron verdict, the FBI's search of Representative William Jefferson's house office,

and the ABC Anchor Go-Round.

And in cocktail chatter, we'll hear what David Plots really thinks about American Idol.

We'll get underway right after this.

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Hello and welcome to another Slate Political Gab Fest.

We're back in the conference room.

The three of us, I'm John Dickerson with David Plotz, deputy editor of Slate and Emily

Bazelon, senior editor at Slate.

And we're going to talk this week about the Enron verdict, which came down yesterday, Thursday.

David, tell us what happened.

Well, after six days of deliberations, the jurors in the Enron verdict sent Skilling and Lay to prison.

Well, they haven't sent them to prison, but they sent them the message

that they're going to prison. They convicted them on most of the counts, skilling, I think 19 counts

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