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Hello, and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for July 8th, 2011.

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate. I'm here in our very crowded and warm Washington

studio with Slate political, senior political something, chief political correspondent John Dickerson.

And we have a special guest this week.

Slate is fortunate.

We're blessed, bestowed with bountiful gifts by God in the form of Emmylies.

We have one Emily Bazelon, who is normally with us.

She can't be with us today because she is off doing something wonderful elsewhere.

But that's okay because we have Slate's second, not second, but other.

I won't say you first or say you were maybe our first Emily.

There are three Emmlies at Slate.

Well, that's true, Emily Calderon.

But we have Slates Emily Yoffie, who is our human guinea pig columnist, writer on all sorts of wonderful things, digital manners, podcaster.

Dear Prudence.

Dear Prudence.

And is a woman of many talents and gifts, including a stunning knowledge of macroeconomics, which she's going to display shortly.

We're going to talk about three topics today.

We will talk about the debt ceiling negotiations. We're going to talk about three topics today. We will talk about the debt ceiling negotiations. We're going to talk about the amazing journalism scandal unfolding in the

UK. And we'll talk about the DSK case as it collapses or the collapsed DSK case. First, before that,

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