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Hello and welcome to the Slate political gapfett for January 26th, 2017.

The... has it really only been a week addition?

I am David Plott of Atlas Obscura and here in the Slate DC studio with John Dickerson

of Face the Nation. Hello John.

Hello David.

And joining us by teleconference from parts unknown but not new Haven is the New York Times

magazine's Emily Bazelon. Where are you Emily Bazelon?

I am in Memphis, Tennessee. A lovely town. Hey guys.

Hi. Hello. On this week's show, it's a pretty busy week. It was a funny week because

we started to discuss what topics we were going to do on Tuesday as we always do and we

had a topic and then like there would be this email chain and John would just add, oh

and we also have to do that one and that part and that part and that part. And so by

the time we get to today, the topics have spread so much because of what has been happening

in politics notably. Our first topic will be what has Donald Trump been doing? How is

that working out? All the various substantive things that the new president has proposed

to do or has actually done. Our second topic will be about infrastructure which is something

which he is almost certainly going to propose to do. There's still openness about what an

infrastructure bill might be and how Democrats might endorse or not endorse or counter such

a proposal. So we'll talk about infrastructure which we all love. We love things, built

things. And then our third topic will be lying. Why is the Trump administration lying so

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