Hello and welcome.

Come on.

That was intentional.

Why can't we go for that?

Don't make him feel unconfident.

That's not nice.

Go.

Hello. But then that's not nice. I know. Let's go. Let's go. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, March 25th, 2011. I'm David Plotz here in Washington with Slate's chief political correspondent John Dickerson,

wearing a tie.

Emily Bazelon, Slate Senior Editor, joins us as always from New Haven. She iserson wearing a tie. Emily Bazelon, Slate Senior Editor,

joins us, as always, from New Haven. She is not wearing a tie. We can't really tell what

she's wearing because the video chat is so blurry. Emily is anything could be happening there.

We're going to talk about three topics today, as always. We're going to talk about Libya. We're going to talk about three topics today, as always. We're going to talk about

Libya. We're going to talk about the movement in the Republican presidential campaign that's just

really getting started this week. And we're going to talk about the new abortion law in South

Dakota, which Emily is going to have passionate things to say about, and maybe we can get that law

overturned during the course of the show.

Good goal.

Do you think that's going to happen?

I don't think so.

Not during the show, maybe later.

First, we're going to talk about what's been going on in Libya where there was extraordinary events since we last talked about it.

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