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Hello and welcome to this late political gap fest for January 25th, 2013, The Live in Washington, D.C.

Edition, I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate, flanked by Emily Bazelon to my right, although not politically.

And John Diggerson, Slate's chief political correspondence to my left, also not politically.

Especially not this week.

In front of us, bundled against the Arctic chill or the rosy, rosy faces, as beautiful as they are

intelligent of our listeners, we are live at historic sixth and I I synagogue in front of a sold-out or nearly sold-out house.

We are thrilled to be here.

We can see you.

The folks at home cannot see you.

Can you let yourself be known to them?

Thank you. So we launched our live shows, as some of you know, four years ago this week in this very room,

and this is the sixth show we've done at sixth and I.

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