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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for May 17th, 2013.

The Barack Obama is Richard Nixon edition.

I'm David Plotz, the Eddorf Slate.

I've relocated for the afternoon to St. Paul, Minnesota.

Standing guard over Fort Gabfest in Washington, D.C. is John Dickerson. Hello, Colonel Dickerson.

Hello, David. Hey, David. Hello, Emily. That's Emily Bazelon, Slate Senior Editor, Stixen Stone's author. You're in New Haven, Emily? I am. Hello. Hello. Do you think the FBI is

monitoring our phones right now? I don't think we say anything interesting enough for the FBI to monitor.

But, I mean, lately it seems like they monitor everyone.

I was going to say, that's not the criteria.

Just speaking is the criteria and then they figure it out later.

Yes, agreed.

So this week, we have an episode to delight our conservative listeners.

President Obama deciding that he's tired of his second term, wants it all to go down in flames early. We will talk about the IRS and Benghazi scandals that are dogging him. We will also talk about the perhaps alarming, perhaps appalling, perhaps awful snooping on the Associated Press by the Obama Justice Department.

And we will discuss the murder conviction of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell.

Plus, we will have cocktail chatter, of course.

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