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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GAMFEST for September 11, 2015. The

completely authentic, totally spontaneous, fun-loving campaign reboot edition I'm David

Plotts about us obscure Emily Bazlon is away this week. She's just she's preparing for a live show

and she just want to take the week off just to fully prepare her own inner place. We have

the Estimable Julia Yafi of the New York Times magazine and many other places back.

Hello. Hello Julia. She's here with me in Washington and then that protesting voice was of course

John Degersen of CBS's Face the Nation and Slate Hello John.

Oh David. Hi Julia. Hi.

John Neowat you were doing triple double duty this week because you're you're podcasting.

You're you may even written but you were hosting CBS this morning. I didn't even maybe had written.

You mean it doesn't get immediately injected into your iPhone the minute the piece shows up.

Did you write a piece? I did write a piece. Yeah I wrote a piece about Donald Trump and Ross

God and your face the nation and this morning that's a lot. Yeah I co that was but there was

really fun co-hosts in CBS this morning that was like it's great you know with a network you

we turn it on and warm it up for for that that new guy doing his show at the end of the day on the

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