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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 20, 2018, the What Happens at Georgetown Prep Edition.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas of Sura. I'm in Washington, D.C. And I'm joined, of course, by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine in New Haven. Hello, Emily.

Hello, David. I'm going to call you David Plotz today. You're going to call me David Plotz for reasons about to be made clear to our listeners.

John Dickerson is off to Britain to interview the prime Minister, apparently. That's his, that's his line.

That's his story. We'll find out whether it's going to be. What if there's no interview? We'll find, we will see.

Just he didn't feel like hanging out with us on a Thursday morning. In his place, we have new to the Gab Fest, David French, who is senior fellow at the National Review Institute, a writer for the National Review, lawyer, army veteran, and he joins us from his home outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Hello, David. Welcome to the Gab Fest. Hello, thanks for having me. I'm honored. Emily, you're going to have a David confusion. You can just call me plots. Yeah, I'm just going to call you plots because David French,

I don't know you well enough to just call you by your last name. That seems impolite.

Feel free, though. Feel free. All right. All right. On this week's Gab Fest, Dr. Blasey and Mr.

Kavanaugh, the extraordinary spectacle and chaos surrounding the Supreme Court Justice nomination,

will he and his accuser testify on Monday?

Will they not?

What are the politics of this really interesting story?

Then President Trump moves to declassify various materials related to the Russia investigation and to the FBI handling of it.

Why are national security folks so outraged by this? Or are they? Are they justifiably outraged by it? Then police shootings, David French has an interesting take on how to understand them and a

change in how he's been thinking about them. And we will talk about that. And Emily always has

good thoughts on this as well. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And before we get started, just a quick announcement. We will, as you know, be in Austin, Texas next week on Saturday, September 29th at the Capitol Factory. As part of the Texas Tribune Festival, there will be Slate Day, a day long extravaganza of Slate podcast featuring us and Trumpcast, Amicus, El GabFest, The Gist. And we hope to see you there. We are going to have DeRay McKesson as our guest for that show. So please go to slate.com slash live. There may still be all day passes available for that show.

Wait, can I also say come the day before Friday and you can see me interview Eric Holder, our former attorney general.

Whoa.

I've never met Eric Holder. It's going to be fun.

That's exciting. Make a weekend of it.

Yeah.

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