Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for July 19, 2018, the Double Negative

Edition.

We are live in front of a rowdy crowd at the Peswick Theatre in Glenside, Pennsylvania,

just north of the city of Philadelphia.

I'm David Plotton.

You know what I make noise in Philadelphia.

You do, you sure do.

That's the kind of enthusiasm that wins you Super Bulls.

A lot of pandering already that I'm David Plotton's Vatel Subscrier, too.

My left is favorite daughter of the state of Pennsylvania, city of Philadelphia, Emily

Bazelon, a vineyard kind of family.

And to Emily's left is John Degersen of CBS this morning.

I said I would hate to do a show in Pennsylvania I meant I would not hate to do a show in

Pennsylvania.

So this is, we're in the city of brother love, but in fact it's sisterly love here because

we have both a Bazelon sister and a Dickerson sister in the house tonight.

It's just great.

This is like family night, live show family night.

On this week's Gap Fest, the bizarre and catastrophic spectacle of the American President,

Dow Towing and Todean to Vladimir Putin and Helsinki and disavowing his own country's

intelligence work will it have any consequence?

Then the indictment of 12 Russian agents plus a curious gun loving Russian spy has put

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