The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for May 2nd, 2019, the A Bit Snitty Edition.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C., in New York at CBS worldwide headquarters.

CBS this morning is John Dickerson. Hello, John.

Hi, good morning. How are you? Good afternoon and good evening.

And good night.

Gracious. That was a lot all at once.

It was a very Truman show.

There is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and the best-selling book charged. Emily, where are you? I don't even know what city you're in. I'm in Vermont. You're in Vermont. I'm in Hartland, Vermont. In which part of Vermont? Heartland. It's near White River Junction. Not the part where David goes to all the time. The part that I like to come to. Dang. So jealous. Oh, wish I was in Vermont. Say hi to Vermont for me.

I will. On this week's show, did Attorney General Bill Barr lie about the Mueller report? And will anything happen if he did? And what will be the upshot of his hearing before the Senate and his no-show before the House?

Then it's infrastructure week.

The president and the Democrats have a $2 trillion agreement to revamp America's infrastructure.

We should expect bridges and tunnels and roads to be getting built probably starting tomorrow morning.

Or will there be a roadblock?

Or will there be?

Or a derailment.

Oh, my God.

Don, are you going to be like this the whole show?

This could be really difficult and painful.

What do you mean like this?

I'm in my full flower. I don't know. Exactly. That's my point. Then should Joe Biden, presidential candidate Joe Biden be haunted, still punished for his treatment of Anita Hill back in 1991 during the Thomas Hill hearings.

Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter.

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