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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 26th, 2017.

Has it really only been a week edition?

I am David Plotz of Atlas ofcura and here in the Slate,

D.C. Studio with John Dickerson of Face the Nation. Hello, John. Hello, David. And joining us

by teleconference from Parts Unknown, but not New Haven is the New York Times Magazine's

Emily Bazelon. Where are Magazine's Emily Bazelon.

Where are you, Emily Bazelon?

I am in Memphis, Tennessee, a lovely town.

Hey, guys.

Hi.

Hello.

On this week's show, it's a pretty busy week.

It was a funny week because we started to discuss what topics we were going to do on Tuesday, as we always do.

And we had a topic.

And then, like, there would be this email chain and John would just add, oh, and we also have to do that one and that part, and that part, and that part.

And so by the time we get to today, the topics have have spread so much because of what has been happening in politics, notably. Our first topic will be

what has Donald Trump been doing? How is that working out? All the various substantive things

that the new president has proposed to do or has actually done. Our second topic will be about

infrastructure, which is something which he is almost certainly going to propose to do.

There's still openness about what an infrastructure bill might be and how Democrats might endorse or not endorse or counter such a proposal.

So we'll talk about infrastructure, which we all love.

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