Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for the 9th of April.

I'm John Dickerson here with David Plotz in Washington.

Emily Bazelon is up in the planetarium in New Haven.

We're going to start today with the Iraqi –

Did you mean plantarium or planetarium?

Well, actually, I meant arboretum because of the plant behind you, but then I thought a planetarium would be a cooler place for you to be. That would be cool. But now the tapestry of magic that I've woven for our listeners has been totally shredded by you. You can just do the whole show today. You're already on a roll. I know.

It's not drinking.

That's the thing.

My brain is much more supple than it used to be.

So anyway, the first topic is going to be the WikiLeaks video of the 2007 shooting in Iraq that killed two Reuters' employees, along with several other Iraqi civilians.

The second will be the Confederacy and the battle over the role of slavery in the civil

war that took place in Virginia when the governor there declared April the month to celebrate

Confederate history.

And then the third topic will be an FCC ruling about net neutrality

that Emily will help us understand. Let's start first, though, with this extraordinary

video that was put together, that by itself was amazing, this bootlegged, pirated, secret

video that was encoded or encrypted that WikiLeaks broke the encryption and aired the video.

Emily, what was your reaction?

Well, it's quite upsetting to watch, although at the same time, kind of hard to see what's

actually happening.

I started wondering right away what the context was for it.

So I looked it up, and it's about this part of a city called Alameen, I believe, in which

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