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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for October 18th, 2018, the Cheek Swab Edition.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas of Secura.

I'm in Washington, D.C., Slate Studio, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine, and John Dickerson of CBS this morning.

You are together somewhere else.

New York somewhere, right?

New York.

Hello.

Yeah, we're new at the CBS Studios.

Nice to see you, except I don't see you.

Nice to hear you.

On this week's show, the outrage over the

apparent murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudi government and what will come of that

outrage. Then Elizabeth Warren and the biggest DNA test since the OJ trial. Did she botch her moment?

Then is Georgia's Republican candidate for governor purging Democratic voters from the voting rolls?

And what does this episode in Georgia tell us about the crisis of legitimacy in American politics?

And we will have cocktail chatter. And before we go any further a reminder, that on December 12th in New York University

Skirbel Center in Manhattan, we are going to do our annual conundrum show. This is the time when we

gather to face such important questions as, would you rather be a fish or a tree?

You can still get tickets at slate.com slash live.

Please join us at the Skirbel Center on December 12th for our conundrum show.

It's going to be really fun.

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