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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for July 28th, 2016, The Bunch of Malarkey Edition.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura.

Emily Bazelon is, of course, of the New York Times Magazine, and she is, of course, in New Haven.

John Dickerson, host to Face the Nation, is, of course, in Philadelphia, the city of Emily's birth,

and the birth of the Hillary Clinton nomination, I suppose.

Hello, guys. How are you?

Good.

Hi.

On this week's Gab Fest, the Russians will hack into our servers and release all of our emails to each other, mostly mine praising pandas. But then we will talk about that later. But first, we will talk about the convention in segments one and two. We'll talk about Obama's and Biden and Tim Kane and Bill Clinton and Bernie or bust and much more in our first couple of segments.

I should note we're taping this before the big night on Thursday night with Hillary Clinton's nomination acceptance speech.

So we don't know what she's going to say.

Maybe we'll even anticipate a little bit what she's going to say. Our third segment will masticate on the Russian hack of

the DNC on Trump's strange response to it and what it means for American politics. We will have

cocktail chatter. And in Slate Plus, John is going to tell us about what it is like to interview

the president of the United States, which he did last week. He's not going to talk exactly about what the president said, but sort of more about how it goes. How do you do that? What's it like? If you were not yet a Slate Plus member, you can get it by going to slate.com slash GabFest Plus and another special announcement, which is that John's book Whistle Stop, which is, of course, grew out of the

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