The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 9th, 2017, the one-year

and one-day edition. I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm alone in a Washington, D.C. studio. That's because

John Dickerson of CBS's Face the Nation is, where are you, John? I'm in Cambridge where there's a

school called Harvard University. I am near the green pastures of Harvard University, but I did not go there.

Let's just establish that clearly from the start.

And that other voice is, of course, the New York Times is Emily, New York Times magazines, excuse me, Emily Bazelon.

Hello, Emily.

Where are you?

Are you near the campus of an Ivy League University?

Well, no.

I'm in Brooklyn, which I love dearly, but is not an Ivy League university.

Last night, I was at NYU for a very nice event put on by the Brennan Center.

So that's like kind of counts.

I guess it does.

On this week's Gab Fest, the Democrats, Wallop Republicans in Virginia, New Jersey, even Georgia on Tuesday night.

What does this herald for 2018?

Then it's been 366 days since the 2016 election.

What is worse or better in the country than you expected or we expected? How remarkable has the Trump

administration been? What kind of shape are we in politically? We'll try to answer all those

questions in just 14 minutes. Then Congress has put the biggest tech companies, Facebook, Google,

and Twitter, in particular on the spot over Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

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