Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Thursday, August 10th, 2017, the Like the World

Has Never Seen edition. I'm Emily Bazelon. I'm a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine,

and I am hosting today because David is,

I don't know where. I am here, however, with John Dickerson, host of Face the Nation in Washington,

D.C. Hey, John. Hi. And also joining us happily is Jamel Bowie, who is, I believe, the chief

political correspondent for Slate. Hey, Jamel.

Hello, and that is my correct. And a contributor to CBS News. Let's not, uh, yes. Oh, I see.

Let's get. Okay. We have three topics for you today as usual on this week's GabFest.

We are first going to talk about the

escalating threat making between the Trump administration, the president himself and North Korea.

Then we're going to talk about the fight over sanctuary cities, which is ramping up,

particularly between Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

And then the notorious, to my mind, obnoxious Google memo.

What does James Daymore's manifesto say about tech culture, about the work culture of Google,

and did he, its author, deserve to be fired.

Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And in Slate Plus, we're going to talk about this super interesting

article in the Atlantic about how smartphones have altered the lives of teenagers. It's by

Gene Twangy. If you're not yet a Slate Plus member, please go to slate.com slash GabFest Plus to sign up.

So for our first topic, North Korea, the president told reporters at his golf club where he is not on vacation this week that, quote, North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States.

They will be met with

fire and fury like the world has never seen if they do continue to threaten. So immediately,

as far as I can tell, North Korea did issue another threat, warning that it is considering a

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