Hello and welcome to this late political gamfest for Friday, December the 19th, 2008.

I'm John Dickerson here with David Plotz and Emily Bazelon.

We're going to talk about the Obama transition.

Then we're going to talk about Caroline Kennedy.

And then we will talk about the

made-off scandal and or torture. It depends how much time we have.

So many things to say. There's a lot to say. But let's start with Barack Obama.

Wait, no, we have to start with our special announcement.

Oh, first, let's start with our special announcement, David Plotz.

All right. So last week we... David Plotz isn't our special announcement. He's going start with our special announcement, David Plott. All right. So last week we...

David Plotz isn't our special announcement.

He's going to make our special announcement.

Last week we told you about our upcoming live inaugural Gab Fest on Monday, January 19th.

And we had an enormous response from listeners, which was fantastic.

It's incredibly gratifying. It's incredibly gratifying.

It's so gratifying that we actually changed to a venue that seats a lot more people.

So let me give you some details, which will also be –

Well, I'm going to give details, which will also be on the GabFest page,

which is we're now doing this at 5 o'clock, 5 p.m. on Monday, January 19th, at the 6th and I

Synagogue, which is a great event space in Washington, and that is at 600 I Street Northwest.

The 6th and I Synagogue at 600 I Street Northwest at 5 p.m. on the 19th. And we will get back to everybody who has emailed us, even with this larger venue, I'm

afraid we're still not going to be able to accommodate everybody who wants tickets.

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