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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for July 26th, 2018. The pay with cash edition.

I'm David Plots of Atlas Obscura. I am secretly recording John Dickerson of CBS this morning

in New York. Hello John. I'm secretly recording you. Oh you are? Oh yes. Well,

it's a secret. Then do it in cash, but no wait, a check or no, a cash. No, no, no, no, no,

I'll take care of it. Pay with cash. Emily Vaslon of the near time is in New Haven. Hello,

Emily. Hello. Not secretly recording you because I think Connecticut's a two party consent state.

I think you're right. Although I'm not totally sure. You know, I just never turned on the tape recorder

without asking permission. I don't think it just seems like the wrong thing to do. Yes, it does.

On this week's Gap Fest, Michael Cohen's secret tape and what if anything it means,

and then a Trump endorsed conservative wins the GOP primary in Georgia and sets up the most

exciting governor's race of 2018, then a truly dismal standard ground case in Florida. Plus,

we will have cocktail chatter. Michael Cohen, president, lawyer, this week released a

seraptitious and cryptic recording of a conversation between him and then candidate Donald Trump from,

I think, September of 2016 in the audio recording, which was probably legal under New York law. Trump

appears to be going along with a plan to pay $150,000 to the national inquire, to buy from the national

inquire or rights that the national inquire had recently bought to a story, to the life story of

Karen McDougal, a woman who claimed to have had an affair with Trump shortly after Melania Trump

...