Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for the 21st of January.

I'm John Dickerson in Washington.

David Plotz is here with me and Emily Bazelon is up in New York.

Before we start on our list of topics, David, you have an announcement.

I have an amazingly special announcement.

We need your help.

We need your help, Hoosiers. The Slate Political Gab Fest, we are coming live to Purdue University very soon in a couple of months. And we're going to do a live show at Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana. If you are at Purdue, you're a student, you're a professor, you live in the area, you live nearby, you're a Purdue graduate, you have some connection there, you once said the word

Purdue, you like Purdue chicken.

Can you get in touch with us?

Gabfest at slate.com.

Gabfest at slate.com or go on the Facebook page and give us a shout out. We would really like to hear from you. We have some help and we want to get in touch with you. So if you're connected with Purdue, you're at Purdue or near Purdue, please get in touch with us, GabFest at slate.com.

And we will soon announce the date of our live show once we figure out when it is.

We're going to start.

Our first topic will be about China and the President of China's visit to Washington.

Our second topic will be politics and the repeal of health care and a few other political things happening in Washington.

And then our third topic will be the announced retirement of Joe Lieberman,

the senior senator from Connecticut, Emily's favorite public figure.

And she's going to tell us why.

You guys have to like hold.

Everyone has to just keep listening to the whole show just to get a chance to hear Emily

Griff on Joe Lee Wilson. That is what I'm, that's what's going to carry me through the first two

topics. Not to oversell it. Right. Exactly. All right. So David, the president of China came to

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