Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 15th, 2018, the House Speaker John Lewis Edition.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C., and you know who's with me? Guess who? It's John Dickerson. John of CBS this morning. Why are you down here? It's so

nice. I'm so happy to be with you. I'm down here to interview Cindy McCain. That's the first time

she's been interviewed since Senator McCain died. So I'm going to rush off after I'm with you

too and go talk to her. That is great. Well, it's lovely to see you. You look good.

You've seen in the pink. I'm glad to see all those months away in New York. You haven't lost weight. You have good color. That's good. I'm glad. No wasting diseases. Your teeth are straight. It's good. Emily Bazelon is in New Haven, the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily.

Hello, hello.

I'm enjoying your reunion even though I'm not there for it. On this week's show, it was a blue wave. We will talk about why the last week of election results have cheered Democrats and also how the recounts in Florida are turning into a referendum on democratic elections, trust in democratic elections, faith in democracy.

Then will Nancy Pelosi be speaker of the House?

Will House Democrats impeach President Trump?

The two big questions facing the new Democratic majority in the House, we will grapple with both of them.

And then the crazy saga of Matt Whitaker, the sort of maybe, possibly attorney

general of the United States. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And before we go any further

reminder on December 12th at NYU's Skirbel Center in Manhattan, we will have our annual

conundrum show. Simon Dunin will be our guest for some of the show, and we are going to grapple with amazing conundrums. You should please send us some more. We've gotten some great ones from you. But please tweet at us at Slate Gab Fest with your great ideas. Here are a couple that I like that we've gotten in so far. If you could move the holidays on the calendar, how would you rearrange them? For example, would you move Thanksgiving to March? There's less of a pile up.

Another one from another listener was if you could only eat one color of food for the rest of your

life, what color would you choose? That's a tough one. Anyway, those and even deeper, deeper

issues, please send them to us at SlateGabFest or email us at

Gapfest at slate.com if you don't want to do it publicly. And please come to the show. You can

still get tickets at slate.com slash live. It's a joyful, delightful, fun evening. Please join us

December 12th. We're nine days past the midterm elections.

Not everything is settled.

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