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Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for Friday. May 7th, I'm John Dickerson

here with David Plotz. Emily Bazelon is in New Haven. Today we're going to talk about three

things. First, the attempted bombing in Times Square, second, the oil spill in the Gulf,

and third, the echo chamber

that we all live in or don't live in.

But before we get to our first subject, David has a quick announcement.

A quick announcement, a great announcement.

Those of you who got to listen last week know that we are coming to Philadelphia, May 27th, 7 p.m. at Emily Friends, the Friends Center, the Friends Meeting House downtown.

And you can buy tickets for the Philly Gab Fest. So many of you said you wanted to come. Now it's your chance to put your money where your Facebook posting is.

It's PhillyGabFest.

Dot Eventbrite.com.

Eventbrite is spelled like B-R-I-T-E because it's very bright.

And it's going to be a great evening.

We'll have special bonus tracks and John will do something crazy. And it's going to be a wonderful evening.

May 27th, please come and please sign up for tickets at phillygabfest.

Eventbright.com or follow the link off our Facebook page.

And there's, Emily, hasn't even a bonus on top of that bonus.

Okay.

We are going to try something we've never tried before, which is that we rented a small room at a bar near the friend's center for five o'clock on the night of the live Gab Fest.

And we're going to sell tickets about a dozen of them for $30 to anyone who would like to have drinks with us.

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