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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for Friday, April 3rd.

I'm John Dickerson here with David Plotz in Washington, and Emily is in New Haven.

I thought you were in New York.

We're going to talk today about all the different policy matters in Washington,

including the president's decision on the car companies and the budget battle.

And then we're going to talk about the president who was in Europe this week for an eight-day six-city or five-city tour of Europe, meeting with the G20 to figure out how they're going to fix the global economy.

And then our third topic is going to be Emily in monologue.

No, I'm totally, I've read in on this subject. David, it's going to be David in monologue

about the slow and the opposition to Obama's judicial appointments.

No, not judicial appointments. Big lawyers, lawyers who are important in the administration.

It's like the warm up for the fight over judicial appointments.

All lawyers over six feet tall and why they are being opposed by Republicans. These are lawyers at the Justice Department. And then that'll be it. So, David, is it a good idea that the president gets to fire the head of the team? No, we're going to do something right now. Yeah, that's right. Before we go any further, we mentioned last week we're going to do another live Gab Fest, and we are looking forward to seeing many, many, many of you there. And we're going to do that on May 13th, which is a Wednesday, I think it is. Wednesday at 7 p.m. May 13th at 6th and I Synagogue in Washington, D.C. Great space.

It's where we did our other live GabFest.

Tickets, this time, we are going to sort of require ticketing.

So please go to the GabFest homepage at slate.com slash GabFest,

and you can see a link to the Sixth and I site where you can get tickets, order tickets.

There's also a link up on the GabFest Facebook page where there's also just like a very nice, lovely, friendly discussion going on.

Which you're participating in the GabFest.

Yeah.

So you're participating in that one but not Twitter.

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