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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Test for October 18, 2018, the Cheek Swab

Edition. I'm David Plot, so that was a subscriber. I'm in Washington, D.C. Slate Studio, Emily

Baszlan of the New York Times Magazine and John Dickerson of CBS this morning. You are together

somewhere else. New York somewhere, right? New York. Hello. Yeah, we're in New

Woods. That's the CBS studios. Nice to see you, except I don't see you. Nice to hear you.

On this week's show, the outrage over the apparent murder of journalist Jamal Kashoggi by the

Saudi government and what will come of that outrage. Then Elizabeth Warren and the biggest DNA test

since the OJ trial. Did she botch her moment? Then is Georgia's Republican candidate for governor

purging Democratic voters from the voting roles? And what does this episode in Georgia tell us

about the crisis of legitimacy in American politics? And we will have cocktail chatter. And before we

go any further reminder, on December 12th in New York University's Skervil Center in Manhattan,

we are going to do our annual conundrum show. This is the time when we gather to face such important

questions as would you rather be a fish or a tree? You can still get tickets at Slate.com slash

live. Please join us at the Skervil Center on December 12th for our conundrum show. It's going to be

really fun. Slate.com slash live for tickets. The apparent torture and murder of

dissonant journalist Jamal Kashoggi by a team of Saudi hitmen inside the Saudi embassy in Istanbul

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