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The following podcast contains explicit language.

Music The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, April 5th, 2013.

The Give Us You're Tired, Your Poor, but not on the basketball court edition.

I'm John Dickerson, sitting in for David Plotz, who is out

this week on Panda Safari, but I'm joined by Emily Bazelon in New Haven. Hello, Emily. Hey, John.

And by Slate's Will Salatan. Hello, William. Hi, John. So if you're sitting in for David,

then I guess I'm sitting in for you. Right. Okay. Yeah. So confusing. We never call you William. No. Do you ever get to be Jonathan?

No, because I'm not an actual Jonathan. You can't be a, yeah, you can't be a Jonathan. Are you a William?

Yes, on my birth certificate. I believe that's what it says. Okay. Today, he'll have to be a John, which means you won't have to make any sense, but go on at some length about it. I've been a John. This week we're going to talk about immigration reform, and we'll also then talk about a raft

of new abortion rights restrictions that are popping up in a variety of different states.

And then finally, we will talk about the abusive, horrible Rutgers University basketball coach Mike Rice and his firing and why it took so long and who else should be perhaps bounced out of a job.

So our first topic is going to be immigration reform.

The so-called gang of eight senators seems to have put something together that staffers and even some of the members of the

gang of the eight, including New York Senator Chuck Schumer, say is basically it's all over but the

shouting. Emily, I want to go to you first, which is that we had this news over the weekend

that it was all over but the shouting. And then Marco Rubio, who's a key member of the gang of

...