The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 3rd, 2017, the Kelly and the Mooch edition.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura.

The Denver gang is back together. John Dickerson is off this week, but you know what that means? It means that Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post is

here in his stead. Hello. Hello. Hello. I do doing my Emily Bazelon imitation. Do I do that?

You're right. I do like to repeat words for no reason.

And then Emily Bazelon joins us from an undisclosed location in New England, not her usual

New Haven haunt.

I'm in Maine.

She's in hiding in Maine, fleeing, as we'll discuss from prosecutors in Tennessee who are seeking

her extradition to Tennessee.

That's not true.

Don't worry about that.

Emily is under no threat of indictment.

There's no bounty hunters after her, as far as I know.

On this week's Gab Fest, chaos in the Trump White House. What else is new? Prebis out, mooch in and out. General Kelly leaping over fences from Homeland Security to try to save the presidency as the new chief of staff. Plus Don Jr., of course, getting good advice from his dad.

Then is the Jeff Sessions Justice Department preparing to bring lawsuits to vindicate the rights of white college students being discriminated against in their applications?

And then Emily's fascinating story of prosecutorial misbehavior in Tennessee.

Plus, we will have cocktail chatter.

So amazingly, we don't have to talk about Obamacare this week, Bruce.

Well, it wouldn't matter because it would change, you know, like by the minute.

While we were acting.

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