Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for April 19th, 2018, the slime ball edition.

I'm David Flots of Atlas Obscura.

We are here at CBS News Radio HQ with our host, who is also the host of CBS this morning,

who is so kindly letting us come and squat here. John Dickerson. Hello. How are you? I'm fine, thank you. And it's not just my generosity. It's the generosity of the entire CBS family. I love the CBS family. Emily Bazelon of New York Times Magazine. We feel warmly embraced by the CBS family. Do you think we're the black sheep of the CBS family?

We're like the adopted children.

I don't think they notice us.

I think we're like the third cousin stepchildren off in the corner.

Who showed up.

We showed up for Thanksgiving and no one's quite sure why we're here.

Okay, here's a plate.

Who are you?

Maybe we can marry someone important at CBS.

We could work on that, although we're both already married, which is a slight problem.

We could offer our children up to be married.

How about that?

That's good.

An alliance with CBS.

In any case, we have an actual Gab Fest this week on this week show the continuing fallout

from the raid on the president's

private lawyer, notably the news that Sean Hannity was also a client of Michael Cohen.

Then Jim Comey tours the universe and beyond pushing his new book, condemning the president.

Then the Starbucks arrest travesty. What can be done to eliminate the racism and mistreatment against African Americans who are customers at private businesses?

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